Chapter 0001 – Please Teleport to the Past – Absolute Return

Ghost Spirit Zi looked expressionlessly at the man who visited in the middle of the night. As the master of the Ghost Sect, he had been wandering through the Sword Mountain and Sword Forest for many years, what kind of intruder hadn’t he seen before?

Some were aggressive, some were thoughtful, some were highly skilled in martial arts, some were scheming, and there were even strong people who combined all the advantages. But without exception, none of them were able to walk out of this manor alive.

However, the man in front of him was very different from the previous intruders. Those weathered eyes seemed to harbor endless vicissitudes, causing Ghost Lingzi’s heart to sink.

“Hell, could it be that today is the anniversary of my death?” Ghost Spirit forced down the uneasiness in his heart and asked in a calm manner, “Have we met before?”

“Not ever.” The man’s voice was low and pleasant.

“And what is the purpose of your late night visit?” The ghost spirit prayed in his heart that he would not hear words like “take your life” from this beautiful voice.

“I came to ask a favor of the gentleman.”

Hearing these words, Ghost Spirit Zi felt as if he had walked through the ghost gate, and secretly sighed in relief, “Tell me.”

Next, the man uttered a request that shocked him beyond belief, a request he had never heard before in his life.

“Please sir, send me back in time.”

A silence fell over the room.

Ghost Lingzi surveyed the man with an unspeakable look and slowly asked, “Time reversal, is it not within the power of man?”

“Naturally, I don’t know, that’s why I came to beg you sir. In this world, you are the only one who is well versed in the Great Law of Retrospection, aren’t you?”

Ghost Spirit didn’t deny it, “How did you learn that I know the Backtracking Grand Technique?” The Backtracking Grand Technique was his family’s untold secret, and outsiders could never know about it.

“Seojin.”

Hearing this familiar name, Ghost Spirit’s heart shook, “You know my sister?”

“When I was wandering the world, I had a meeting with your sister.”

“Where is she now?”

“She has ……” the man paused, a hint of regret in his tone, “passed away.”

“Alas!” Ghost Spirit Son let out a long sigh. The Great Method of Retrospection was a secret technique that their family had painstakingly researched for hundreds of years, and it had been passed down to his father’s generation and still hadn’t been completed. He and his sister had followed their father’s studies since they were young, hoping to perfect the technique.

Ten years ago, her sister was overwhelmed and chose to leave home. Ghost Lingzi understood her sister’s choice, and for the sake of the family’s mission, she dedicated her entire youth to the study of the Retrospective Dhamma.

“How did Xiao Zhen her …… die?”

“I’ve already avenged her, you don’t have to be concerned.” The man said, “Before she died, she asked me to tell you that she has lived a life without regrets, and I hope that my brother will do the same, and that he will not waste all his time studying the Dhamma, but will live for himself.”

Ghost Spirit’s heart was full of mixed feelings and thoughts.

Seeing that he was depressed, the man waited patiently until he calmed down before asking the most important question of the day, “Has the dafa …… been completed?”

Ghost Spirit nodded slowly, “Not bad, in my hands, I have finally perfected the Retrospective Grand Law.”

A flicker of joy flashed across the man’s face, and the smile was unexpectedly endearing.

“And when can the gentleman take me back?”

“It’s impossible to say. Maybe ten years ago, maybe thirty years ago, maybe back to when you were a baby, maybe even back to yesterday, it all depends on you.”

“I’ve always had good luck, sir, no need to worry.”

“It seems like you think you’re ready to go at any time?” A bitter smile appeared on Ghost Spirit’s face, “The Backtracking Grand Technique, I can’t perform it at all. Otherwise, I would have gone back to the past a long time ago.”

“Didn’t Mister say he had perfected the Great Law?”

“I have yet to gather the materials needed for the Great Law.”

“I’ll figure out the materials.”

“It can’t be.”

“Mister might as well just say it.”

“Of the ninety-nine materials required for the Retrospective Grand Technique, I’m still missing five, and each of these five materials is as difficult as heaven. Have you heard of the ‘Sonic Thunder Bell’?”

“But the holy relic of the Wind and Sky Sect?”

“Precisely. If you want to perform the Retrospective Grand Technique, you must utilize the sound waves generated when the Sound Thunder Bell is struck. But this is the Wind Sky Sect’s greatest treasure, placed right behind the Sect Master’s throne, how can you take it?” Ghost Lingzi didn’t even dare to make a request to borrow the Sound Thunder Bell from the Windy Sky Sect, or else with that temperamental Sect Master’s personality, he was afraid that his family would be exterminated.

“I will fetch it.” The man’s tone was firm and he left without looking back.

“Crazy?” Looking at the man’s departing back, Ghost Spirit couldn’t help but mutter. He still had some regrets in his heart that he hadn’t been able to ask the man for more information about his sister.

This goodbye was for several years.

On a sleepless night, just as the ghost spirit was about to give up hope, the man reappeared before him like a nightmare.

On his back he carried a huge bronze bell with hideous evil spirits carved into it, as if angry at being taken away from his homeland.

“Sir, should we try ringing it?”

Ghost Spirit Zi’s eyes widened as he scrutinized the huge bell, and after repeatedly confirming it, he exclaimed, ”How is this …… this possible? This is really the Sonic Thunder Bell! And it’s the real deal!”

“How on earth did you …… you do that?”

“I, for one, am always true to my word.” The man smiled faintly, “What’s the next material?” The confident look in his eyes seemed to be telling Ghost Spirit that his previous feat was not a false statement.

“What a strange man ……,” Ghost Spirit Zi sighed in his heart, but soon, he sighed again, “Even if you fetch the Sonic Thunder Clock, the next material, it is absolutely impossible for you to get it.”

“What is it?”

“The New Dragon Family’s town treasure, the Divine Aeon Incense Burner. The Grand Method of Retrospection requires the use of the incense flame lit in the Divine Aura Incense Burner.”

The New Dragon Family, the newly risen leader of the righteous path after the sealing of the Martial Arts Alliance, whose strength is said to be above the Wind and Sky Sect.

“I know. I’ll listen to the next one when we fetch the incense burner.”

“You …… you just leave the Sonic Thunder Bell here with me? Aren’t you afraid I’ll run away with it?”

“I’ll tell the Wind and Sky Cult that you stole their holy relic.”

After leaving these words, the man once again hurried away.

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye it was several more years.

“Will …… he come this year?” At the end of every year, such a question would flood Ghost Lingzi’s mind. In this way, several springs and autumns were spent in apprehension.

On a crisp fall day, the man returned with the God-Only incense burner.