Chapter 1124: The Female Ghost in the Shadow Ball

"Something like this exists?" Lu Yang took the recording orb. This was quite interesting.

"When I went to the black market, I heard about these recording orbs, so I bought one," said Jin Caiwei. As the leading industry in recording orbs, the Qiongqi tribe was very interested in all developments related to them.

"Will all female ghosts who see the recording orb suffer misfortune?" Qinghe closed her book and walked over.

"It sounds like a curse that can temporarily lower someone's luck," Qinghe said, as she was very knowledgeable about curses.

"The casting process for curses is very complex. The minimum requirement is to see the complete appearance of an item. It shouldn't be possible to cast a curse using a recording orb. It must be that Sister Caiwei is mass-producing recording orbs with projection effects, making the orb's images three-dimensional, which then meets the minimum standard," Qinghe analyzed thoughtfully.

Previous recording orbs displayed flat images, but now they project three-dimensional ones.

Ao Ling and the others also heard about this capability of the recording orb for the first time. They gathered around to watch, occasionally licking the sugar paintings made by Yun Mengmeng.

Lu Yang placed the recording orb directly in front of them and channeled spiritual energy into it. The women fanned out like peacocks displaying their feathers, watching the orb intently.

The recording orb projected a three-dimensional image. Accompanied by the eerie sound of an erhu, a dry well appeared before everyone. Immediately after, a disheveled female ghost crawled out of the well, soaking wet, with water dripping from her hair and clothes.

As the erhu music grew more terrifying, more and more of the female ghost emerged.

Finally, with a clang, as if an erhu string snapped, the female ghost suddenly lifted her head, revealing a ghastly pale face!

Then, a fierce wind howled, and the candles flickered, their flames brightening and dimming.

Everyone stared intently at the female ghost.

The female ghost was a bit bewildered. This reaction was wrong. Normally, anyone seeing her at this point should have been terrified and run away, or tried to turn off the recording orb but couldn't, perhaps even smashing it.

"Wooo—wooo—" The female ghost brandished her claws and bared her fangs, attempting to scare everyone.

"That's it?" Yun Mengmeng was still expecting more, but she realized the female ghost wasn't doing anything further; she was just flailing her limbs, not scary at all.

"Is that all? She's not even as scary as Xiao Zhi when she smiles."

Lu Yang and the Immortal Fairy, who hadn't found the female ghost scary, involuntarily shivered when they heard Yun Mengmeng's murmur.

There was only one situation where the Senior Sister laughed: when she was so exasperated that she chuckled, which was indeed terrifying.

"Senior Qinghe, are you sure this is a curse?" Lu Yang looked at Qinghe doubtfully. It didn't seem like one. Even if he now had an immortal body and was immune to curses, there should still be an immunity process. How was it that the female ghost was just flailing her limbs the entire time?

Qinghe felt a bit awkward. "It certainly doesn't look like a curse," she admitted. "Perhaps the female ghost knows how to cast curses but didn't, seeing that we weren't scared?" The female ghost flailed her limbs for a while. Seeing that no one paid attention to her, she prepared to quietly retreat into the recording orb, but Lu Yang directly pulled her out.

"Spill it. What's going on with you?"

The female ghost was inexplicably hiding inside the recording orb; something was clearly amiss.

The female ghost dropped to her knees with a thud, sobbing: "P-please spare my life! I haven't done anything bad! My master ordered me to hide inside the recording orb!"

"Who is your master?"

"It's Lord Shi! I-I don't know my master's true identity; he only told me to call him Lord Shi!"

"Where is he?"

"Jinan City."

"Take us there."

The female ghost was initially hesitant, but when she saw Lu Yang narrow his eyes, she dared not refuse. Trembling, she returned to the recording orb and used an arrow that appeared on it to guide the way.

"Are you all going to Jinan City too?" Lu Yang asked, then immediately felt he'd asked in vain. None of these people were honest; they all wore expressions of eager spectators.

"You won't be able to enter Jinan City with your disguises," Lu Yang kindly reminded them. After his disguise, he looked unremarkable, easily blending into a crowd.

The women were different. They claimed they could disguise themselves, but even in disguise, they remained stunning beauties. On the street, anyone who saw them would likely turn for a second glance, potentially attracting scoundrels or other troubles.

"That's simple," Ao Ling said, having already thought of a solution. "Just have Sister Caiwei turn us into flat images."

With that, Ao Ling transformed into her true dragon form. Jin Caiwei activated the embryonic form of her planar dao fruit, turning the true dragon Ao Ling into a flat image, which then imprinted onto Lu Yang's clothes. Jiang Lianyi did the same.

Qinghe also transformed, becoming a lotus flower imprinted on Lu Yang's clothes.

In a blink, Lu Yang's white robe was covered in patterns: a dragon, a phoenix, a Qiongqi, a lotus, and Yun Mengmeng. "Wait, why is Senior Qinghe a lotus?" Lu Yang asked in surprise.

"Hmm, haven't I mentioned it? Little He's true form is a lotus," the Immortal Fairy said. She told Lu Yang about ancient matters daily and couldn't remember if she had mentioned this specifically. "Alright then."

Lu Yang altered his appearance, put on the patterned white robe, and entered Jinan City, holding the recording orb.

Jinan City was a small, inconspicuous city in the Buddhist Kingdom, with fewer than five Core Formation stage cultivators. Otherwise, Daoist Yu wouldn't have dared to set up the "life-buying money" scheme there. However, it was still full of life. As Lu Yang walked through the streets, he often heard people discussing the fleeting desert city.

Even as flat images, the women were restless, moving around on his clothes. However, since Lu Yang himself was unremarkable, his clothes also seemed unremarkable, and no one noticed the changing patterns. "I heard there's a temple at the center of the desert city, and a Buddha resides within it! As long as you can enter the desert city and find the temple, you can make a wish!"

"What? Something like that exists?"

"But it's just talk. So many people have searched for the desert city; have you seen anyone find it?"

Hearing the chatter, the female ghost broke out in a cold sweat, nearly dissipating. "This temple sounds more and more like where I came from," she thought. The arrow on the recording orb continuously changed direction, and Lu Yang turned left and right, eventually reaching a dark, narrow alley.

"This is it," came the female ghost's voice from the recording orb. Lu Yang pushed open the door to a small courtyard.

"Who dares trespass on my territory!"

The tall, burly cultivator, sensing Lu Yang's presence, instantly moved from his study to the courtyard and sternly challenged Lu Yang.

"Lord Shi!" the female ghost called from the recording orb.

"Mia'er!" Lord Shi's expression changed slightly. The other party had actually kidnapped Mia'er, putting him in a difficult position.

"Which faction are you from, daring to kidnap Mia'er? Are you trying to make an enemy of the Qiongqi tribe?!" Lord Shi's head transformed into that of a tiger, emitting Core Formation stage fluctuations. Lu Yang paused in surprise upon hearing this, his expression becoming peculiar.

The winged white tiger on his white robe shimmered, leaped from the clothing, transformed into human form, and coldly stared at Lord Shi.

"L-Little Ancestor!" A monumental wave surged in Lord Shi's heart. How could this be? How could the Little Ancestor be here? "Jin Cuoshi greets the Little Ancestor!" Lord Shi dropped to his knees with a thud and kowtowed vigorously.

"This female ghost said you told her to hide in the recording orb. What was your intention?!" Jin Caiwei hadn't expected that after all this trouble, it was one of her own tribesmen causing it. Lord Shi stammered, afraid to respond.

"Speak!"

"I-I wanted to boost our recording orb sales, so I arranged for Mia'er, Ke'er, An'er, and others to hide inside and scare people. The goal was to frighten them into smashing their orbs so they'd buy new ones."