Translator: Tamon
Translation Checker: Silavin
Nine Province Continent, Ghost Province, Soaring Immortal Mountain.
“Damn fossil, hurry back already, or your prized pupil is going to starve.” Chen Changan rested his back on a statue, rubbing his empty stomach with his right hand, as he stared forlorn into the black abyss beyond the temple’s doors.
It had been three years since he changed from a simple earthling into an apostle of the Eternity Coven on this Nine Province Continent.
The fossil he was cursing at was the Pontiff of the Eternity Coven, his master.
A mere month ago, the Eternity Coven was obliterated in the flames of battle. While he, the possessor of the Eternal Body, was the prize of many monsters and demons scrambling to take.
His master rented space to take him to this shabby temple where, after setting up a quick barrier, he left him here in haste.
After all this time, he was wondering if the old coot hadn’t dropped dead by now.
Chen Changan sighed, “If only I didn’t have an Eternal Body.”
There was a legend roaming the continent. The Eternal Body held immortal flesh and any that gorged on such delicacy would become immortal.
The first time Chen Changan heard this myth, he was panicking and had a mental breakdown.
[I’m just like Tang Sanzang in Journey to the West!]
What was worse, the Eternal Body was nice and all, but to him was nothing but a burden.
[I have the Eternal Body, but I can’t cultivate. The geezer tried countless times but nothing seemed to work. I’ve been living these past three years on the Nine Province Continent as a normal person, a weak bug to be stomped at anyone’s whim.]
This put fear in Chen Changan’s bones, making him not risk stepping even a foot out of the temple this past month.
[The old coot set the barrier up, after all.]
The only way for the monsters, demons and evil to step inside was for the old guy to die.
Hu~
A wind whistled through the run-down temple, sending Chen Changan shivering as he struggled to tighten the worn clothes for a semblance of warmth.
“Another day as a wretched being comes to a close. I just hope that tomorrow I’ll get to see master again.”
Chen Changan yawned, drew closer to the statue and closed his eyes to sleep.
Just then, he felt an odd chill down his back, making his blood run cold. All sleep left him then and there.
Looking around, he noticed something white that wasn’t there before, in the far back.
She wore all white, hovering inches above the ground, her hair fluttering in the air, looking at him with eerie scarlet lights coming from her sunken eyes. What completed this horrifying image was her sickly-white face.
Peering through the strands of hair, those creepy eyes bore holes into him.
They widened then, beyond humanly possible.
“Let me eat you~” Her voice, eerie and drawn out, carried dread.
Chen Changan looked shellshocked. He felt a chill wreck his body, giving him goosebumps and soaking him in sweat.
Bang~!
Chen Changan’s heart thumped in his chest so fast it might explode.
[Shit! It’s a ghost! What about master’s barrier? How did she get in?]
Chen Changan’s mind was racing for answers, his body frozen on the spot, petrified. He lamented his fate, [I can’t move from terror and there’s no way I can run weak as I am even if I could.]
“Be a good snack and stay there~. Let me suck your soul and feast on your flesh~.”
The ghost opened her maw to reveal jagged white teeth, hovering closer and closer to her prey.
Chen Changan was pale, shivering and scared to death. His mind blanked out as he watched death come for him. He had just one thought. [Am I going to die?]
In Chen Changan’s moment of utter despair, a flat voice resounded in his mind.
<Detecting host under attack by a ghost. Activating Absolute Domain System.>
<Absolute Domain’s range: two meters around the stone statue.>
The sudden voice startled Chen Changan, then a strange sensation took him. He was right below the statue, in the domain’s range, and he felt linked to any and all things in this limited area. He felt unstoppable in this small area, absolute. He was god!
Chen Changan shed tears. He just knew it, how could he cross worlds without some kind of cheat?
Now, his cheat was here! Three years later and not a moment too late.
Silavin: Tang Sanzang – The monk in Monkey King. All the demons want to eat him while he traveled to India for the Buddhist Scripture.