Chapter 160

Turbid looked down at his body.

To him, human bodies were all the same—two hands, two feet, one torso, differing only in fat, thin, black, or white. He had no concept of beauty or ugliness.

But Ke Xingzhou and the others' gazes made him feel that the body he had chosen seemed to be quite inadequate.

He couldn't help but frown.

Turbid himself was a collection of all rules opposite to the Heavenly Dao that remained after the creation of the world. Naturally, his temperament was poor. However, he looked like Ke Zhengye, and when he was angry, he resembled Ke Zhengye even more.

He shouted loudly, "I am as old as heaven and earth, born together with the Heavenly Dao! How dare you belittle and mock me like this!"

Ke Xingzhou was very impatient.

The real Ke Zhengye would be one thing, but a fake and inferior thing like this wanted to show off in front of him?

He scolded, "Lower your voice! After 9 PM, any sound over 50 decibels is considered disturbing the peace! You even claim to be on the same level as the Heavenly Dao, and you don't even know this?"

He looked at Turbid with disdain, as if looking at a poor student trying to pretend to be a top scholar.

Turbid: "?"

As an existence against order, why should he follow the rules governed by the Heavenly Dao?

Moreover, these rules were made by humans, and had nothing to do with the Heavenly Dao!

Ke Xingzhou, however, did not feel that anything he said was wrong. He looked around at the lights in the neighborhood, clicked his tongue, and disdainfully looked at Turbid. "You’ll be found out sooner or later. Then Ke Zhengye will get angry again. Why not come inside and talk?"

Turbid: "??"

He glanced at Ke Xingzhou and Nie Chen, who had their bows drawn to the full, and the light arrow still infused with merit. He felt that the words of the other side seemed insincere.

He assumed that the other side didn’t take him seriously, and his face darkened. "Do you take me for a fool? Bastard! I see you won’t cry until you see the coffin!"

He said that and raised his hand. Grey mist spread from his body, quickly breaking through endless space, entering the bodies of demons, ghosts, gods, and monsters from all directions.

The demons, ghosts, gods, and monsters, who had already been rushing towards this direction at full speed, showed visible excitement. They became even more reckless, charging toward this side.

Turbid revealed a smile of someone in control, as if everything were within his grasp. "Come on, release all the evil deep inside you, and let the Heavenly Dao see your true nature!"

He raised his hand again, and the gods, who had been thousands of meters away, appeared in the air above the villa area, glaring at Ke Xingzhou and the others below.

Ke Xingzhou furrowed his brows and looked up, keenly noticing that the Wind and Rain Lords, who had been out of contact earlier, had also appeared.The Wind and Rain Lords looked disheveled. The Wind Lord's hair was completely wet, drooping and sticking to his body, and the Rain Lord had several horrifying-looking bruises. It seemed that the two had endured quite a bit during their disappearance.

As he was observing the constellations, Turbid's voice, full of temptation, sounded: "Tell me, what is it that you most want to do right now?"

Upon hearing his words, the constellations became even more restless. Some of them even turned red-faced, their eyes burning with excitement as they answered: "I want... I want to work! I want to accumulate merit!!!"

Nie Chen: "..."

Turbid: "?"

Only Ke Xingzhou felt relieved. Before this batch of new recruits had joined, they all had a rebellious attitude, and he had been worried that they might develop ulterior motives after joining. He didn't expect that in just a few days, they had already become so passionate about their work.

He nodded in appreciation, noting the names of these constellations, planning to have Zhu Chu arrange more work for them later.

Satisfy their strong desires!

Turbid: "..."

Turbid's face darkened. He raised his hand and tossed the constellations aside, casually forming a barrier to trap them inside, rendering them immobile. Then, he called over the demon race.

He looked at the tall, handsome dog demons at the front and asked, "What about you? What do you want to do?"

Perhaps worried that these demons would say something as disappointing as the gods, Turbid gave them some hints: "Don't be afraid! Throw away those notions of public order and morality, those rules and regulations! You now have absolute freedom! Come on, tell me the deepest desires inside you, the things you crave the most!"

The dog demons looked dazed, and a flicker of shyness and awkwardness passed over their innocent, foolish faces. They gathered their courage and finally muttered a few words: "...I... I want to eat chocolate!"

"...I want to drink alcohol!"

"...I want to go on a date with a female dog demon!!!"

Nie Chen: "..."

Turbid: "..."

Ke Xingzhou frowned and immediately adjusted his management strategy with Nie Chen: "It seems like our demons are underworked. They still have energy to think about so much. Let’s have Zhu Chu arrange a few more announcements for them, to use up their extra energy."

Nie Chen: "...Hmm."

Turbid: "…………"

Turbid's previously eager expression instantly disappeared. This time, he couldn't even be bothered with these demons and slapped them away, sending them to join the gods in confinement.

Annoyed, when he summoned the ghost race, his expression was exceptionally fierce: "Don't tell me your desires are also just work, food, and finding a wife!!"

Thanks to the unrelenting efforts of the Xiaoyao Sect and the Taoist Association, combined with updates to the Underworld's work system, work efficiency had skyrocketed, and there were almost no evil spirits left in the capital.

The summoned benevolent ghosts were already somewhat slow-witted, and now, under control, they were completely brainless. They couldn't even understand what he was saying, only baring their teeth and claws, trying to strike their most terrifying poses, rushing forward one after another.

Seeing them so diligent, Turbid's anger subsided slightly.

Turning around, he struck a commanding pose, releasing the restrictions on the benevolent ghosts, and pointed at Ke Xingzhou and the others in the distance, directing the ghosts: "Go! Go find the ones who enslave you! With me here, the Heavenly Dao can't control you, no one can restrain you! Go do whatever you want! Overturn this boring human world!!"

Turbid stood outside the circle, laughing wildly at Ke Xingzhou and the others.

But for some reason, surrounded by so many benevolent ghosts, Ke Xingzhou and the person beside him, who was walking with merit reserves, showed only a hint of initial resistance but no fear whatsoever.Fortunately, at that moment, Duan Changsheng arrived.

Duan Changsheng, who had originally planned to come and find Lian Cheng, noticed the strange disturbance in the world. He hurriedly flew over with his sword and saw the scene of countless ghostly figures stretching across the sky, like a giant hand reaching down towards Ke Xingzhou and the others. His eyes nearly popped out in anger.

"Shit! The customers at the haunted house are already complaining! What are you guys doing here?! Don't you want your salary and performance bonuses?!"

The ghosts, who had been under Turbid's control and were about to unleash their true natures in front of Ke Xingzhou, suddenly snapped out of it. They forcefully broke free from Turbid's hold: "Huh? Wasn’t I supposed to be working? How did I end up here?"

"It's a new terrifying method I’ve been researching! Sect Master! Since you're here, help me out and give me some feedback on how to improve it! Look, like this, twist the arm off, then pretend to eat it! Then go chase them!"

"Ahhh! Sect Master! You didn't see me! Don't deduct my salary, please!"

The new ghost recruits, covering their faces, hurriedly fled in panic.

A few benevolent ghosts had not yet broken free and were staring at Ke Xingzhou with excited eyes, approaching him: "Hehe... Sect Master... Sect Master, please raise my salary, hehe... Sect Master... I have a big appetite, I want to eat another incense stick..."

Turbid: "…………"

Turbid's mind was still stuck on the image of the benevolent ghosts going into a collective riot, tearing Ke Xingzhou and Nie Chen to pieces without mercy, causing all the merits they had accumulated to dissipate, while he himself returned with the bow to challenge the Heavenly Dao. He could almost see the beautiful scene of him controlling all the beings of the three realms after defeating the Heavenly Dao.

Suddenly hearing the "simple" words of the benevolent ghosts, his brain became a mess.

He was silent for a long time, long enough for the demon race, led by their leader, to arrive at the scene, before he finally slowly turned his head and looked at them.

Turbid had actually already lost hope for these demons. The relationship between their Demon Ancestor and Ke Xingzhou had almost established the foundation that they could never be enemies with Ke Xingzhou.

But what he hadn't expected was that the demons immediately confronted Ke Xingzhou with drawn swords.

Yunmo, leading the group of demons who had come to the human world to assist with the disaster relief, stared at Ke Xingzhou with burning eyes. His expression seemed to suggest he wanted to swallow Ke Xingzhou whole.

His words were also full of hostility: "Ke Xingzhou! Finally, I've caught you!"

Ke Xingzhou: "?"

Turbid thought, finally, the demon race had arrived. As expected, they were the race most similar to him in terms of innate abilities, and now they were finally going to fight Ke Xingzhou!

Then Yunmo roared in righteous fury: "I knew it! From the very beginning, the Demon Ancestor should never have trusted you! Humans are despicable! Today, I will seek justice for the Demon Ancestor!"

Turbid's spirit suddenly lifted.

Now that they were already saying such things, there was no way anything else could go wrong, right?

Sure enough, even Ke Xingzhou himself was a little confused by the situation before him.

But at least as a Sect Master, Ke Xingzhou remained calm: "What are you talking about? Whatever it is, we can talk about it later. I have things to do right now."

He wouldn't have said anything, but once he did, Yunmo immediately exploded in rage.

Yunmo stared at Ke Xingzhou with fiery eyes: "Oh, so you have things to do! Dare to tell me what exactly you’re busy with? What exactly did our Demon Ancestor do to wrong you? Not only did you deceive him to come to the human world to suffer, but you didn’t even give him a decent position!!"

Turbid: "…?"

Ke Xingzhou: "??"Yunmo: "You think you can fool and deceive me! I've been asking the humans in the disaster area these days! Your Xiaoyao Sect has many positions, even that old ghost with no skills at all managed to become a manager! Yet our Demon Ancestor is still a nobody! Our demons don’t even have a fixed salary!"

Turbid: "…………"

Ke Xingzhou understood now. This was the problem of not completing the onboarding procedures properly.

He opened his mouth, intending to explain that the situation was urgent earlier, and he hadn’t had time to sign labor contracts with them. Moreover, they didn’t have any proper status, not even certification from the Heavenly Dao. To find a job in the human world, their identity information would have to be recorded in the public security system first, and only then could they get ID cards.

A hundred thousand people isn’t a small number, and printing so many ID cards at once would put a lot of pressure on the public security system.

Ke Xingzhou just wanted to tell them to stay calm, but Yunmo, with his short temper, couldn’t wait even a minute.

He raised his hand and commanded his subordinates: "Demons, follow my orders! Let's overthrow these evil capitalists!"

Ke Xingzhou: "…"

Nie Chen: "…"

Duan Changsheng: "…"

Good heavens, he actually saw a fresh revolutionary spirit in modern society.

Duan Changsheng didn’t think of helping Ke Xingzhou at all. He even sighed and gave Yunmo a thumbs-up: "Impressive."

"…………"