Ch 545: Aaaaaah, A Ghost!

Jiang Nanyu stopped, her expression bewildered: “Your owner isn’t Master Nuojia?”

“……”The wooden staff was silent for two seconds, then replied, “I don’t know the ‘Master Nuojia’ you mentioned.”

“Then who is he?” Jiang Nanyu couldn’t help but ask.

“My owner is low-key and instructed me not to reveal his Dharma Name to others.” The wooden staff said in a low voice, “I have been waiting for the Destined One since entering the Netherworld Barrier.”

“Have you waited for them?” Jiang Nanyu subconsciously asked.

However, after asking, she realized it was a stupid question. The little guys had said before that she was the first human they had seen enter the Netherworld Barrier. Obviously, the wooden staff was waiting for her.

Jiang Nanyu cleared her throat, continued walking, unable to hide her curiosity: “Since you’re waiting for me, you should tell me why you’re waiting for me! What task did your owner give you? We’re together now, you should tell me everything!”

The wooden staff fell silent again.

Jiang Nanyu gritted her teeth. If this were her Spiritual Artifact, she would definitely throw it into the stove and burn it as firewood!

Fortunately, this time was different. The wooden staff’s silence wasn’t long, more like it was organizing its words: “His task was to have me wait here for a girl. That girl would come here to look for a painting.”

Jiang Nanyu: ?

“There’s a painting hanging in my owner’s room. The girl in the painting is eight or nine points similar to you, but she is wearing a Red Bridal Gown. I’ve been here for a hundred years, lonely for too long, and my memory has become blurry. So when I first saw you, I didn’t realize you resembled the Lady in Red Dress in the painting…”

The wooden staff slowly told its past.

The Treasures, who had been chattering, quieted down. This was the first time they had heard the wooden staff tell its story.

No one noticed that Jiang Nanyu’s expression became strange when she heard “Red Bridal Gown.”

Red Bridal Gown, similar appearance.

Wasn’t that the Female Corpse in the Ancient Coffin she found in the mountain village?

That was also when she discovered the secret of the Karmic Flame Lotus.

She suddenly remembered that in that Mountain Cave, she had seen a Deceased Eminent Monk, and then obtained a Finger Relic and a strange Ring.

That ring…

“Did your owner have a Golden Ring, with a Monastic Buddhist Seal engraved inside?” Jiang Nanyu asked.

The wooden staff stopped, slowly turning to face Jiang Nanyu, its tone filled with shock and disbelief: “How did you know?”

Jiang Nanyu twitched the corner of her mouth: “Believe it or not, I’ve met your owner.”

“……”The wooden staff was silent.

Although it hadn’t been sentient for long, it had been cultivating with a high Daoist monk for a long time, so it knew many things. Jiang Nanyu looked like she was only in her early twenties, how could she have possibly met its owner?

Its owner was nearing his end before it entered the Netherworld Barrier.

“I met your owner in an underground Mountain Cave in a Village… his remains.” Jiang Nanyu briefly recounted what happened in Ghostly Gate Village, and also mentioned the Karmic Flame Lotus, but didn’t mention that she possessed the Demonic Flame Lotus Body, lest she frighten the little guys in her Backpack.

“So, you are the Destined One my owner was looking for.” The wooden staff murmured, “He even gave you the Sarira and the Ring.”

“The finger bone Sarira is now enshrined in Yonghe Palace. After I get out, I’ll take you to Yonghe Palace.” Jiang Nanyu emphasized, “I’m willing to return the Golden Ring to you, for you to find your next owner. Let me state clearly, I come from a Daoist background, and it is absolutely impossible for me to betray Daoism and become a Nun!”

After much silence, the wooden staff finally spoke: “Your Spiritual Roots are so strong, you could achieve better development by entering the Buddhist order.”

Jiang Nanyu’s face contorted for a moment, then she gritted her teeth and smiled: “I’m doing pretty well now, after all, I entered the Transcendent Realm at eighteen.”

At this moment, the wooden staff fell completely silent.

“Wow, Shushu is amazing!”

“Shushu is super amazing!”

A bunch of little flatterers in the Backpack, frantically blowing Rainbow Farts.

Jiang Nanyu chuckled dryly: “I will never be a Nun in this life, give up on that idea!”

The wooden staff stopped speaking and silently led the way.

Jiang Nanyu didn’t ask why the other party was so familiar with the surroundings. There might be traps hidden in their words, waiting for her to fall into them.

As they walked, the wooden staff suddenly stopped.

Jiang Nanyu was about to ask, but instinctively felt a danger slowly approaching.

She looked up and found that she seemed to be back where she started.

At this moment, she was standing in the pit where she had fallen from the tree, and even the pile of Tree Leaves around her was in the same order as before.

A timid voice appeared: “Little Sixteen?”

Then a grayish feather slowly emerged from a pile of dry leaves, far from Jiang Nanyu, carefully calling out to the feather in the Backpack.

All the Magical Artifacts flew out of the Backpack.

Little Sixteen exploded.

“Ahhhhhhh, there’s a ghost!”

“I-I am Little Ten, Little Sixteen, don’t believe it!” The gray feather, which had been with them along the way, anxiously explained.

“Who are you, why are you impersonating me!” The gray feather in the distance panicked, rushing to their side, “Little Sixteen, look at me, I am Little Ten, we are from the same fan!”

“You’re lying!”

“You’re lying!”

The Incense Burner and the other Treasures trembled and hid in Jiang Nanyu’s arms, whispering: “Shushu, what do we do now? We seem… we seem to have encountered a Ghost Boundary…”