After a person dies, will they become a ghost?

Why would Senior Sister Ye ask this?

Perhaps…

Mo Hua’s expression sank, and after thinking for a moment, he said to Hua Qianqian, “Senior Sister Qianqian, are Senior Sister Ye Jin’s relics still around?”

Hua Qianqian thought for a bit and shook her head, saying, “It’s hard to say. Sister Jin died by self-immolation. The entire house was burned down, nothing was left. Even if something was left, it was collected by the sect and handed over to the Ye family.”

“None…”

Mo Hua furrowed his brow, pondered for a moment, then a thought suddenly flashed. “Books? Or jade slips?”

“All burned…”

“No,” Mo Hua said, “Not her own, but books and jade slips she borrowed from within the sect.”

Hua Qianqian was startled and understood.

Mo Hua said, “Find a way to check the Library Pavilion and see what books and jade slips Senior Sister Ye Jin borrowed before. It’s very possible there are some clues within these books and jade slips.”

Hua Qianqian looked at Mo Hua in surprise, praising him in her heart.

Junior Brother Mo is indeed incredibly clever.

Hua Qianqian said, “The records in the Library Pavilion are confidential, but I have a great-aunt who is an elder in the Library Pavilion. I can go beg her for a little help. By this time tomorrow, I will bring the books and jade slips to you. If I can’t get them, I will also come tell you.”

Mo Hua nodded. “Good.”

The next day, after Mo Hua finished class, he came to squat at the foot of the mountain early again.

After a while, Hua Qianqian, dressed in brocade and with a beautiful appearance, also came over.

The two sat side-by-side under a large tree.

Hua Qianqian handed Mo Hua a storage bag embroidered with a hundred flowers and let out a long sigh. “It was a bit troublesome… No matter how much I said, my great-aunt just wouldn’t agree. I soft-pedaled and hard-pressed for a long time, and also promised her that I would definitely get an ‘A’ grade in the sect assessment for refining pills this time. Only then did she give a little leeway and help me look up the records.”

Hua Qianqian pointed at the storage bag. “All the cultivation books Sister Jin borrowed in the Library Pavilion within this month, I have borrowed out and put them in this storage bag.”

After that, she warned again, “These originals cannot be shown to outsiders. Junior Brother Mo, you must absolutely not lose them, otherwise I won’t be able to explain to my great-aunt…”

“Mm mm, Senior Sister, rest assured!” Mo Hua guaranteed.

Hua Qianqian felt relieved, but still had some doubts. “But… will there really be clues in here?”

“Hope so…”

Mo Hua’s eyes brightened slightly.

Inside Tai Xu Sect.

After returning to his disciple residence, Mo Hua then opened the storage bag Hua Qianqian gave him.

This was a storage bag from Bai Hua Gu.

On the storage bag, gorgeous purple-red flowers were embroidered.

Inside the storage bag, there were a total of four cultivation classics and one jade slip.

Mo Hua flipped through them one by one.

The jade slip recorded a flower cultivation method, explaining how to cultivate various famous jade orchids.

Bai Hua Gu, with “flower” as its name, also included flower arrangement as one of its cultivation courses. Female disciples in Bai Hua Gu were more or less proficient in some flower arrangement.

And Mo Hua remembered Senior Sister Qianqian saying that Senior Sister Ye Jin was very fond of jade orchids in her previous life, so she learned flower arrangement, also focusing on “jade orchids”.

But he himself knew nothing about flower arrangement.

Anything that couldn’t be eaten, he didn’t like to plant too much.

Mo Hua flipped through the jade slip a bit, didn’t find anything, then temporarily put it down.

Afterward, there were several cultivation classics.

There was one about refining pills, one about cultivation, and one book that taught women how to apply powder and wear rouge, but the last book was very strange.

The book’s name was: “Cultivation Hundred Taboos”.

This was a book that listed nearly a hundred taboo matters that should not be involved during cultivation, to help disciples avoid taking wrong steps and falling into the wrong path of cultivation.

Mo Hua flipped through the book once, then his gaze suddenly stopped on one page.

This page had a slight fold mark.

Above it, there was a little water stain, which looked like a tear mark.

Near the tear mark, there was a line of words:

“…If a person dies tragically, containing a mouth of deep resentment, they can turn into the most ferocious ghostly being…”

Die tragically, heavy resentment, turn into a ghostly being…

Mo Hua’s heart gradually sank.

He thought for a moment, put away the storage bag, took out the Bai Gu Broken Sword, undid a small seal, and asked:

“Sword Bone Head, I ask you a question.”

“Master,” Sword Bone Head said halfway, immediately realized that Mo Hua didn’t like these two words, then changed his tone and said, “Young master, please ask.”

“How did you become an ‘evil being’?” Mo Hua asked.

“This…” Sword Bone Head chuckled dryly and said, “Don’t you already know? I was killed by you, my flesh and blood gone, my soul attached to the broken sword, turning into a sword demon…”

Mo Hua furrowed his brow. “Is your situation… not more special?”

Sword Bone Head’s heart trembled slightly, feeling a little timid. “Young master, you mean…”

Mo Hua said, “I have also killed others and seen quite a few people die, but there are very few who can turn into ‘evil beings’ after death.”

Among the people Mo Hua had seen, besides Sword Bone Head, the only one who turned into an evil being after death was Zhang Quan, the Foundation Establishment cultivator in the pile of corpses in Nan Shan City, who collaborated with Lu Yuanchen to refine corpses.

But Zhang Quan’s situation was special.

His entire family was “corpse ghosts”.

He also had an ancestor’s passed-down “zombie painting”. After his family died, they would all enter the painting neatly.

There must be some inheritance here.

However, Mo Hua was after all not a person of the corpse path, so he couldn’t distinguish exactly what evil method Zhang Quan’s clan inherited.

But besides Zhang Quan, other cultivators just died after they died.

They would not easily turn into evil being ghosts.

Sword Bone Head was another special case.

It seemed to have made preparations early on, either refining itself into a life magic treasure and achieving Gold Core demon cultivation, or after its body died, its flesh and blood gone, turning into a sword demon.

At that time in Wan Yao Valley, the situation was urgent, and Mo Hua didn’t have time to think more.

At this moment, upon careful consideration, he felt there was a big problem here.

A “sword demon”, even in his eyes, was like an ant, an evil being that could be crushed whenever he wanted, but in a sense, it also transitioned from the human path to the “ghostly being” path, avoiding the complete destruction of its true body after death.

If they could choose this, a large number of cultivators would be willing to become “sword demons” after death.

But obviously, there was no such good thing.

Most cultivators would meet their end after death.

This Sword Bone Head has a problem…

Inside the Bai Gu Broken Sword, Sword Bone Head’s bones trembled slightly.

Serving a ruler is like serving a tiger.

Especially, this tiger was not only powerful and ferocious, but its mind was also almost demonic.

Sword Bone Head’s voice was hoarse, trying to remain calm, and said:

“Replying to young master’s words, without seeing the light of day in Wan Yao Valley, I also only had a lucky mentality in a desperate situation, thinking that if something happened, turning into a sword demon would also be a way to survive.”

“By chance, I was killed by young master, my soul entered the Bai Gu Broken Sword, and I successfully turned into a sword demon. Thinking about it, I still benefited from young master’s fortune.”

“If it weren’t for young master, thinking about it, I might not have been able to take this path. Perhaps when breaking through to the Gold Core stage, I would have just turned to dust, my corpse and bones gone…”

Sword Bone Head flattered Mo Hua without revealing anything.

Mo Hua’s gaze was meaningful, but he didn’t ask further, but said:

“Do you know… how a person can turn into a ‘ghost’?”

Sword Bone Head didn’t want to answer.

It didn’t know how much Mo Hua understood about this ghostly being path, and it was afraid that if it said the wrong thing, Mo Hua would detect something.

But it obviously couldn’t say nothing.

Sword Bone Head paused slightly, then slowly said:

“Cultivators, due to special circumstances, without a physical body, but their divine consciousness remains. Over time, they will turn into ghostly beings.”

“Ghostly beings crave physical bodies, especially the physical bodies of the people closest to them.”

“If there are no closest people, then teachers, fellow disciples, Dao friends, etc., all things related to it, people who exist in its memory, will all become its food.”

“It will parasitize these people’s bodies, devour their divine thoughts, and after finishing, find the next host and continue to devour.”

“And the person parasitized by the ghost will also undergo a great change in nature, their divine intelligence will go mad. Once the ghost finishes devouring their divine consciousness, the parasitized person will also die…”

Sword Bone Head finished saying this somewhat uneasily.

Mo Hua nodded slightly.

Sword Bone Head’s words were almost the same as what Lord Huang Shan said.

“Are there any special circumstances?” Mo Hua asked again.

“Special circumstances?”

“For example…” Mo Hua thought of that sentence in “Cultivation Hundred Taboos”. “If a person dies tragically, containing a mouth of deep resentment, they can turn into the most ferocious ghostly being…”

Die tragically…

Sword Bone Head’s expression was alert, and he nodded and said, “Yes.”

He thought for a bit, then said as if it were true: “Everything has exceptions, and so does the ghostly being path. Some people cultivate the ghost path and are willing to become ghost cultivators; some people’s physical bodies vanish and they have no choice but to become ghostly beings; some people have bad luck and are parasitized by evil beings, becoming ghostly beings…”

“But these are all general situations.”

“An extreme situation is ‘dying tragically’. If a cultivator suffers great torment and pain in their previous life, and there is great resentment and hatred in their heart, after such a tragic death, they will turn into evil ghosts, fierce ghosts, ferocious ghosts, and other most ferocious ghostly monsters.”

“This kind of fierce ghost is far stronger than general evil beings, and the resentment is also extremely deep and heavy. They are even more terrifying when they kill people.”

Mo Hua frowned.

Lord Huang Shan seemed to have never mentioned these matters.

He turned his head and silently looked at the Bai Gu Broken Sword in his hand.

This Sword Bone Head seems to know quite a lot…

“Alright, that’s enough about you.”

Mo Hua said, then added a divine lock array and re-sealed Sword Bone Head.

Inside the Bai Gu Sword, Sword Bone Head let out a long sigh.

And between Mo Hua’s brows and eyes, there was a layer of worry.

“Not good…”

If it was really like this, Senior Sister Ye Jin planned to die tragically, contain resentment, and turn into a ghostly being, so she set fire to burn herself alive.

She endured such pain just to turn herself into a fierce ghost.

But turning into a ghost is not that simple.

It’s fine if she doesn’t turn into a fierce ghost, but if she truly turns into a fierce ghost, she will likely “eat” people.

And she didn’t die in the Ye family, but in Bai Hua Gu.

Inside Bai Hua Gu, they are all fellow disciples who have a relationship with her.

Even if she doesn’t want to in her heart, driven by the fierce ghost’s instinct, she will start to parasitize physical bodies and seek to devour divine consciousness.

It’s even very possible that she is already “parasitizing” now.

Mo Hua’s expression was solemn.

The next day was the ten-day break.

Mo Hua asked to see Hua Qianqian and roughly told her about the matter.

He didn’t talk about ghostly beings, only saying:

“Senior Sister Ye Jin’s death was a bit strange, and the remaining resentment is extremely deep. It’s feared that evil thoughts will breed, and some terrible things may happen inside Bai Hua Gu…”

Originally, Mo Hua thought he would need to explain a little more.

Unexpectedly, upon hearing his words, Hua Qianqian’s face turned pale immediately, and she said with a trembling voice:

“Yes, Junior Brother, you are right!”

Mo Hua’s heart sank.

Hua Qianqian continued, “These days, the sisters who were closer to Sister Jin always feel uneasy. Occasionally in the evening, they will have nightmares, dreaming of a pale, bloodless Senior Sister Ye Jin, her eyes without divine consciousness, just quietly looking at them, saying words like ‘so dirty’, ‘can’t live on’, and so on.”

“After a while, in the nightmare, a karmic fire burned up.”

“Sister Jin just stood in the sea of fire, burned until her face completely changed, like a monster…”

Hua Qianqian’s expression was filled with both fear and heartache.

Mo Hua’s mood was heavy, and he said in his heart, indeed, the situation was already somewhat serious.

This kind of sign might already be an omen of turning into a fierce ghost.

Hua Qianqian looked at Mo Hua and couldn’t help but ask:

“Junior Brother Mo, did something happen to Sister Jin’s body?”

“It’s still hard to say now…”

Mo Hua sighed.

There were still relatively few clues, and he could only guess.

The truth was exactly what, without seeing it with his own eyes, he couldn’t be too sure for a while.

Mo Hua hesitated for a long time, finally sighed deeply, and reluctantly sent a message to Hua Qianqian:

“Senior Sister, can you really mix into Bai Hua Gu if you wear a Bai Hua Gu Dao robe?”