Multiverse Skill System

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Yi Shuihan appeared alone at the gate of the Qian residence, not dressed as a Taoist priest or carrying a lot of tools; he was still dressed in his usual ordinary attire.

"There really is a ghost, and it's not an ordinary ghost!" From Yi Shuihan's perspective, the entire house was surrounded by a layer of black mist, and the soaring resentment was almost tangible.

“It’s at least a hundred-year-old ghost, but I don’t know how many hundred years old it is.” Yi Shuihan pushed open the door without hesitation and went inside.

Just as he stepped through the gate, before he had taken more than a few steps, he saw a scene before him: several headless corpses were staggering from a distance. Upon seeing Yi Shuihan, they suddenly sped up and rushed towards him at a speed faster than a normal person could run.

If an ordinary person saw such a terrifying scene, they would have been scared out of their wits. Even those with some spiritual power would feel as if they were facing a formidable enemy.

Yi Shuihan, however, made no move whatsoever, as if he hadn't seen anything at all, and continued walking in one direction.

"A boring illusion." A white light flashed in Yi Shuihan's eyes, and the scenery in front of him instantly returned to normal. Yi Shuihan was heading towards the backyard of the house.

"A well? Why do I have such a strong sense of déjà vu? Could it be that a long-haired person will climb out of the well?" Just as Yi Shuihan had this thought, he actually saw a figure slowly rise from the well, with long hair covering its face.

"I died so tragically, so tragically."

"Come stay with me, stay with me."

"Go to hell! Can't you use your brain a little more? This kind of pattern is so old!" Yi Shuihan complained, showing no sign of being scared at all.

Seemingly knowing that this wouldn't have any effect on Yi Shuihan, the figure simply disappeared, and silence returned.

"Hey, is there a ghost? Come out and play! It's such a beautiful night, why are you still sleeping at home? Come out and play!" After a long silence, Yi Shuihan couldn't help but shout loudly.

His eyes kept scanning the surroundings. He thought that his words would make the other person unable to resist coming out, but to Yi Shuihan's surprise, there was no response after he called for a long time.

“Fine, you win.” Yi Shuihan said helplessly, but his eyes became serious. “Since you won’t come out, then I’ll force you to come out.”

With a flick of his wrist, a talisman appeared in his hand. It was something he had practiced with these past few days, and now it was finally coming in handy.

The talisman in his hand seemed to be drawn by something and flew rapidly into the air, forming a circle in the blink of an eye. The red runes on the talisman began to glow red and became brighter and brighter.

"go with!"

With a soft shout, all the talismans shot out in all directions like bullets.

"bang bang bang"

After flying more than ten meters away, the talisman began to burn, bursting with intense light, and one of them seemed to have hit something and exploded.

"what!"

A scream rang out, and a woman dressed in red, pale-faced and filled with hatred in her eyes, appeared from the void. On her body was the talisman that had exploded.

"She's out now!" Looking at the woman in red, a hint of surprise flashed in Yi Shuihan's eyes. It wasn't that the woman in red was too beautiful; on the contrary, she was extremely ugly, so ugly that even Yi Shuihan couldn't bear to look at her.

Yi Shuihan could tell that this was its true face, or rather, its true face in life, and not a transformation intended to disgust people.

"Taoist, you'd better not meddle in my affairs. I'll give you a chance to leave now, or you won't be leaving at all."

The red-clad female ghost's voice was extremely rough, almost like a man's. It gave Yi Shuihan goosebumps. Not only was she ugly, but she was also incredibly ugly. Was this her first time being human and she had no experience?

“I’m not a Taoist priest, but you must die today.”

"Death? You think you can do that? The people who said that before you are all dead. Do you want to see what they are like?"

As soon as the female ghost finished speaking, several voices appeared out of thin air behind her. They were all dressed in Taoist robes and monk robes. Yi Shuihan had never seen their faces before, but he could guess that they were the predecessors who had come to exorcise demons and monsters in the previous times.

"To be able to control the souls of the dead, that's impressive!" The so-called control here is not about having great strength to make these dead people obey, but about true manipulation, like manipulating a puppet.

These Taoist priests and Buddhist monks had eyes that looked exactly the same, and seemed to have no self-awareness whatsoever. Clearly, all their actions were controlled by the red-clothed female ghost.

The souls of Taoist priests and Buddhist monks are generally more powerful than those of ordinary people and are extremely difficult to control, but the red-clothed female ghost was able to do so, which undoubtedly shows that she is very powerful.

"Ding, mission issued: Rescue fellow cultivators. Mission description: Seeing fellow cultivators being toyed with by a female ghost, aren't you angry? This is trampling on the dignity of cultivators. Kill the female ghost and rescue the Taoist priest controlled by her. Mission reward: 100 cultivation points. Mission failure penalty: Reduce the host's cultivation level by 1 month."

There was actually a mission! After hearing the mission requirements, Yi Shuihan took it seriously. Not to mention cultivation points, which were exactly what he needed, there would be a penalty for failure: a month's worth of cultivation. You have to know that it didn't take him that long to reach the late stage of Qi Refining. If he failed, it would be equivalent to having to start cultivating and immortality all over again.

His cultivation, belonging to the late stage of Qi Refining, erupted without hesitation. The powerful fluctuations of his magic power caused ripples in the surrounding Yin energy, as if it had encountered its nemesis, and the Yin energy and resentment subsided considerably.

"How brave!"

The female ghost shouted and waved her hand, and the monks and Taoists behind her rushed towards Yi Shuihan.

"We need to save the Taoist priests, not the Buddhist monks!"

With that in mind, Yi Shuihan didn't hold back much when he attacked the monk.

At this moment, he was facing 4 Taoist priests and 3 Buddhist monks, plus the female ghost who was eyeing him menacingly, making a total of 8 opponents.

Facing a spirit, ordinary physical attacks were ineffective. Yi Shuihan concentrated his magic power into his hands, creating a magic gauntlet.

The monk easily dodged the Taoist's attack, punched the Taoist away, and broke through the encirclement in a few breaths, rushing towards the female ghost's true form.

Upon seeing Yi Shuihan unleashing his full power, the female ghost's expression changed, and she tried to flee. However, Yi Shuihan would not let her go. He increased his speed again, arrived in front of the female ghost, and threw a punch.

"Behold my Plastic Surgery Fist!"

"Fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight..."

Every punch landed squarely on the female ghost's face, causing black smoke to continuously billow from her face, rendering her unable to even scream.

Chapter 230, Eliminating the Female Ghost

Looking at the female ghost's face, which was now completely unrecognizable, Yi Shuihan said with some satisfaction, "Not bad. This is much better than before. It has gone from being disgustingly ugly to being 'ugly'."

"Taoist priest, I want you dead!!"

The female ghost suddenly exploded, her entire body turning into a cloud of black mist that formed the shape of a skull, and roared towards Yi Shuihan.

"This is the time to test whether I have real skills," Yi Shuihan muttered, watching the approaching black skull without changing his expression, before bending down and narrowly dodging it.

As he passed the black skull, Yi Shuihan's hands glowed with golden light. Two exorcism talismans were attached to his palms. He sprang up like a spring from his bent waist and pushed with both hands, sending the exorcism talismans into the black skull.

The runes that entered the black skull ignited fiercely like dry tinder meeting a raging fire, and the black mist became the fuel for the fire.

"What huge fireworks!"

The exorcism talisman was clearly several levels higher than the talismans he had taken out at the beginning. Even with his current late-stage Qi Refining cultivation level, he would exhaust his mana after drawing three of these talismans in a row. He only had 10 talismans left, having used two of them earlier, leaving him with eight.

Of course, something made with such great effort is naturally quite powerful, and it's quite useful in dealing with these centuries-old ghosts.

By the time the effects of the two talismans wore off, the black skull had been burned away by a third and shrunk considerably.

Having learned his lesson, Black Skull hesitated this time and didn't directly cause trouble for Yi Shuihan.

"Again! I'm not done yet!" As Yi Shuihan spoke, two more exorcising talismans appeared in his hand.

Upon seeing the talisman in Yi Shuihan's hand, the black skeleton trembled and turned to run away.

"Trying to run? Dream on." Yi Shuihan threw the two talismans in his hand, and they flew towards the black skull as if they were equipped with navigation systems. No matter how the black skull changed direction, it followed closely.

Fireworks lit up the night again, but only Yi Shuihan was there to watch.

The black skull was burned halfway again, and it could no longer even maintain its skull shape, turning into a pure black mist.

Two more talismans, and the black mist formed by the female ghost will be completely annihilated. Just as Yi Shuihan took out the exorcism talisman again, intending to finish off the female ghost completely.

The black mist that the female ghost transformed into flew at an extremely fast speed into the soul of a Taoist priest and disappeared.

"Possession by a ghost, or a ghost possessing another ghost? Either way is fine." Although it's unclear whether the female ghost discovered something from his previous behavior of not attacking the Taoist priest, she undoubtedly succeeded by accident this time.

The Taoist priest, possessed by the female ghost, gradually changed his face until he finally resembled the female ghost.

"Taoist, I haven't provoked you, why are you provoking me? As long as you leave, we'll keep to ourselves." The female ghost paused, then smiled. Her already ugly face, combined with this smile, almost made Yi Shuihan vomit.

"So this is your signature move? Is it the legendary disgusting smile, which makes people feel disgusted and then launches a sneak attack when the opponent is distracted? It's really powerful. I almost fell for it." Yi Shuihan pretended to be startled.

The female ghost was taken aback, but suppressed her anger and said, "I know you don't want to hurt these Taoists. Now that I'm fused with him, if you kill me, his soul will also dissipate. You can't do anything to me."

"You really believe I won't hurt him? Before, it was because we're both Taoists, but now! Even if he knew I could die with you, I think he'd be happy to." Yi Shuihan said nonchalantly.

"Could I have guessed wrong?" The female ghost also began to doubt Yi Shuihan's appearance. After all, Yi Shuihan's words made sense. She didn't know that Yi Shuihan had a system and had accepted a mission to rescue a Taoist priest.

The female ghost controlled the Taoist's soul and began to slowly retreat, while Yi Shuihan pressed closer step by step, not allowing the female ghost to distance herself from him.

Yi Shuihan wore a strange smile, as if he were toying with the female ghost.

The female ghost once again controlled the other Taoist priests and monks to rush towards Yi Shuihan, trying to hold him back while she escaped.

"I'm too lazy to play with you anymore." Yi Shuihan appeared in front of the female ghost in a flash, his right hand forming a hand seal, and his left hand pressing down on the female ghost's head.

"Come out!" With a swift movement of his left hand, he pulled the female ghost's soul out of the Taoist's body.

Once the female ghost's soul emerged, the prepared right hand made its move. When the hand seal touched the female ghost, she quickly shrank and finally disappeared into the world.

"It's finally over."

The female ghost was completely finished, and the Taoist priests and monks she had controlled also woken up.

"What am I?"

"I remember now, I was invited to solve the ghost problem, but I never expected to be defeated by the ghost in the end."

"Me too!"

The mission was successfully completed, and Yi Shuihan was in an exceptionally good mood. She chuckled, which was noticed by several people.

The Taoist priests and monks were not stupid. When they saw Yi Shuihan, they realized that he had saved them, and they thanked him.

"Thank you, fellow Daoist. If it weren't for you, we would probably still be living in a daze, controlled by the female ghost, and never be able to turn our lives around."

"Young friend, you have such cultivation at such a young age, and you can even eliminate a century-old ghost. Your future is limitless!"

"It's really a terrible life."

"We can only repay your kindness in the next life."

"..."

Hearing the flattery, Yi Shuihan was very pleased. He cupped his hands and said righteously, "It is our duty to slay demons and eliminate evil. Since we have encountered this, we cannot leave it alone. Even if it costs us our lives, we cannot let her harm the common people. It is a pity that you masters have been harmed by this beast."

Yi Shuihan's words made the Taoist priest and the monk nod repeatedly, and they looked at Yi Shuihan with great agreement.

"Another righteous master-level figure will soon appear in the world, but unfortunately, I will not have the chance to see it."

"Amitabha! What a blessing for the world and a fortune for the people!"

Amidst sighs of emotion, the Taoist priests and monks gradually transformed into light, departing from the mortal realm and heading to the underworld.

Chapter 231, Unexpected Benefits

"Why didn't a gate to hell appear or anything? They just went to the underworld like that?" Ordinary ghosts need a Taoist priest to guide them or the Black and White Impermanence to take them to the underworld. These people who were Taoist priests and monks in life are different from ordinary ghosts even after they die. They can go to the underworld directly on their own. It's like they have opened a VIP account for the underworld!

Upon suddenly witnessing the scene of souls going to the underworld, Yi Shuihan realized that the underworld truly existed in this world, but he didn't know if there was a Heavenly Court.

Since the underworld exists, then the gods and spirits must also exist. I wonder what their cultivation level is? If they are all at least immortal level, as in the legends, then that would be truly terrifying. Even Yi Shuihan would have to kneel before them now.

"And where should this underworld be? An independent world?" Lost in thought, Yi Shuihan completely forgot where he was until a cold wind blew past, bringing him back to reality.

"Forget it, the underworld is still too far away from me, it's not something I can think about right now. I'll wait until my cultivation is higher before thinking about it. Now I should just go do what I need to do."

Although the female ghost was eliminated, some of the evil energy and yin energy in the house still remained. This didn't matter to him, but it would have some impact on ordinary people. At least if they moved in immediately, they would get sick and be bedridden for ten days or half a month. In severe cases, they might even die. After all, modern medicine is not as advanced as it will be in the future.

"If I'm going to do something good, I'll do my part a little more."

Yi Shuihan began walking around the house, channeling his magic power to dispel the remaining evil and yin energy. He also left behind several talismans so that ordinary ghosts would no longer visit the place.

"Speaking of which, what exactly is this female ghost's identity? I was so focused on the mission that I didn't have time to ask! She's so ugly, and dressed in such retro clothes. Could she have been a concubine of an ancestor of the Qian family several generations ago, and then murdered in her home?" Yi Shuihan made a wicked guess, little did he know that his guess was actually quite close to the truth. However, the female ghost's identity was not that of a concubine but that of the legal wife, and she was murdered by her husband and his concubine.

Actually, this female ghost was quite kind. She didn't attack Master Qian's family as soon as she was born, but only drove them out and killed a few insignificant servants.

"After being busy for so long, it's finally over." Looking at the house, which was now free of any yin or evil aura, Yi Shuihan was somewhat envious of Master Qian, who could now order him around.

However, since I've handled things so well, if he doesn't handle the rest properly, he'll be in big trouble.

The next day,

"Young Master Yi, are you really alright?" Master Qian couldn't help but ask at the gate.

"Don't worry, when I say it's resolved, I really mean it. Or should I go in first?"

As Yi Shuihan spoke, he walked through the gate first. Seeing that Yi Shuihan was completely unharmed, Master Qian followed him in with peace of mind.

"Is it really different from before?"

"How are they different?"

“In the past, I always felt a kind of eerie feeling, but now that feeling is gone.”

At this moment, Master Qian finally believed that Yi Shuihan had solved the problem, and his gaze towards Yi Shuihan became much more respectful. In any case, Yi Shuihan's ability to solve such a matter no longer needed further verification.

With plenty of money paving the way, the Qian residence quickly regained its former popularity, even becoming more lively than before.

At this moment, Master Qian was in the living room, nodding repeatedly, and the object of his nodding was naturally Yi Shuihan.

"...That's all in general. Take these things and exchange them for money to get this charity running smoothly. I don't care about the process, I only care about the result. If I find anything wrong, you'd better watch your life. Dealing with a person is much easier than dealing with a ghost."