Chapter 321: 【haunted House】 Opens The 【gate】
[Haunted House] In front of the Door, Yuan Zhu pushed the door and entered. In the First Floor Hall, aside from fifty or sixty curled-up ‘Eggplant Essence Sacs’, it was empty with no other living creatures.
Sensing the master’s arrival, four Eggplant Head Ghosts chittered and emerged from the ceiling, dropping to one knee before him, excitedly shouting: “Buddha Buddha Buddha!”
Yuan Zhu looked at them and fell into memory.
These four little garbage were the first batch of small Ghost Companions he refined in his life. After leaving the Tiger Demon’s shadow incubator, they settled in the [Haunted House], guarding the Garden. In terms of strength, they had long grown to their limit. On the contrary, in terms of intelligence, they slowly improved over time, becoming more spiritual.
In the past several months, they had coexisted with the [Haunted House], controlling the growth of Shadow Eggplants indoors.
Equivalent to the ‘Array Spirit + Administrator’ of the Tiger Demon’s [First Generation. Shadow Eggplant Magic Array]. Especially after the Tiger Demon developed the [Brain Eggplant CPU], each of the four Eggplant Head Ghosts got one, quickly awakening intelligence with the Goblin’s wisdom, executing numerous missions, not only maintaining the [Haunted House] operations but also continuously developing and excavating the [Disease Garden].
Their individual strength was utterly lacking, even unable to beat a random [Shadow Magic Worm]; but the value of ‘Eggplant Head Ghosts’ remained high, because they were the origin of the Shadow Eggplant (Shadow Tomato) plant.
Whether stimulating Shadow Eggplant plants to bear Fruit; or feeding Shadow Tomatoes to Goblins causing brain alienation to refine [Brain Eggplant CPU]; or manipulating Eggplant Seedlings to invade and parasitize Goblins, forming [Eggplant Goblin. Symbiont]… all this was thanks to the Eggplant Head Ghosts.
As the saying goes, the truly skilled warrior has no famous feats.
Who could imagine these four unremarkable little garbage supported Yuan Zhu’s current ‘cattle and horses system’, and were still continuously creating value.
Therefore, after the [Shadow Domain] was fully developed, the first thing he thought of was returning to the [Haunted House] to pick up the Eggplant Head Ghosts and bring them home!
“Snake, what do you think: should I transfer them to the [Domain] or send them to the [Frog Factory]?”
Snake Snake thought for a moment and replied: “Still better to send them to the [Domain]! It’s safer, and the territory is large enough. The entire [Domain] has a naturally superior shadow environment, far exceeding the [Haunted House]. How many Shadow Eggplants can be planted? The [Frog Factory] is instead unsuitable for Eggplant Head Ghosts’ survival and development.”
Yuan Zhu at this time lifted his tiptoe and lightly tapped his own shadow, signaling the Eggplant Head Ghosts to drill in.
The Eggplant Head Ghosts, who once lived in the Tiger Demon’s shadow, immediately teared up with excitement, shouting passionately: “Buddha! Buddha Lord!”
Like children left behind, they had been abandoned and fostered in the unfamiliar and not close [Haunted House]. They could only draw energy from the [Shadow Layer] to irrigate and nourish Shadow Eggplant Seedlings for some comfort. And they transformed the [Haunted House] as much as possible to suit the Tiger Demon King and themselves.
Unexpectedly, after their diligent work for so long, they finally moved the ‘Buddha Lord’, allowing them to return to his shadow. Some memory fragments remaining in the Ghost Companion consciousness surfaced, and they enlightened: Is this cultivation? In the days ahead, they must plant Shadow Eggplants even more diligently!
In the second before taking the Eggplant Head Ghosts into his shadow, Yuan Zhu suddenly thought of something and chose to step back.
The Eggplant Head Ghost attempting to dive headfirst into his shadow ‘bang!’ collided its huge black Tomato Head fiercely on the Wooden Floor. Due to excessive force, its scalp scraped open a wound, and from the black fruit skin that was both like flesh and fruit pulp, Tomato Juice Plasma flowed out.
This Eggplant Head Ghost pitifully looked up, innocently staring at its master, sobbing out a grievance question: “Eggplant eggplant eggplant, Buddha?!”
Yuan Zhu did not answer, instead switching to Tiger Demon Stance. Then he closed his eyes, trying to perceive the signal of the Mountain Lord’s Domain far away in the Misty Mountains.
Since the entire Running City was under the protection and constraint of the ‘Law’, after entering the urban area, his perception of the [Domain]’s signal not only continued to decline due to increasing distance; but was also severely weakened by the interference of the Pale Great Law.
After trying for a long time, the Tiger Demon still couldn’t capture the Mountain Lord’s Domain’s WiFi signal, not even half a bar.
“Is Running City’s shielding field this strong?”
The Tiger Demon was not discouraged, instead turning his mind and beginning to frantically strengthen his connection with the [Haunted House]. Through the [Haunted House]’s shadow pollution blessing and protection, he no longer attempted to perceive and capture the [Haunted House] signal through real-world spatial distance.
Instead, using the [Haunted House] as this ‘shadow barrier’, through the different-dimensional connection of the [Shadow Layer], to search for, capture, and perceive the Mountain Lord’s Domain’s signal in the [Shadow Layer].
Sure enough!
After changing approach, relying on the mysterious connection between the two as products of the Tiger Demon Shadow System transformation. The Tiger Demon didn’t waste much energy before successfully routing through the [Shadow Layer], bypassing Running City’s Pale Great Law constraint, searching for the Shadow Domain’s WiFi signal! Completed the connection.
It could be confirmed that real-world coordinates were basically proportionally projected in the Shadow Dimension. At least the real distance from [Haunted House] to [Domain] would not be farther than the distance between these two in the Shadow Dimension.
Thus the Tiger Demon seized this fleeting connection, fully drawing the ‘Shadow Power’ accumulated in the [Haunted House], while summoning his own Door, pressing a tiger claw on the Lock Plate, continuously infusing Shadow Power, forcibly pushing the door.
The farther from the [Domain], the greater the difficulty and cost of opening the Door.
Fortunately, it had an entire [Haunted House] as backup + Battery behind it. The Tiger Demon lavishly wasted Shadow Power without regard for cost, arduously pushing the lock scaled at [-1].
Ultimately succeeding in pushing open a dark passage to unknown space in the First Floor Living Room.
“Eggplant eggplant eggplant!”
From the pitch-black circular large Door, sensing the familiar aura rushing towards them, the four Eggplant Head Ghosts went excited to madness—this was the smell of home!
“What are you standing around for? Move all these [Eggplant Goblins] in!”
The Eggplant Head Ghosts excitedly responded: “Eggplant eggplant eggplant!”
Immediately after, the [Haunted House] Living Room erupted in a frenzy of demons dancing, countless shadow vines rooted and embedded in the Floor and Wall interiors came back to life. Under the blessing of Shadow Power, they moved flexibly like Tentacles, wrapping around one Eggplant Essence Sac after another, dragging them into the Grotto-Heaven Space behind the Door.
These ‘Shadow Vines’ not only sent the [Eggplant Goblins] into the Door Space, but didn’t spare themselves. They uprooted entirely, drilling into the Door Space like swimming snakes, never to emerge again.
In the [Haunted House] Hall, an earthquake shook, countless wall plaster peeled off, Floor cracked, ceiling collapsed… large amounts of Shadow Eggplants fused as one with the Building went mad detaching from the building body, drilling into the Door Space, and under the Eggplant Head Ghosts’ command, began immigrating.
