Zhao Mankun

Zhao Mankun was the patriarch of the Evil Spirit Sect. He had a Dual cultivation relationship with one of his female disciples for years. When he went to the Underworld to attack Netherpassage realm, Zhao got cucked as his disciple began sleeping with the new sect leader.
As soon as Zhao entered the underworld, Long Chen was being chased by a huge hand from the Gates of Hell. Zhao Mankun gets thrown by Long Chen and crushed by that huge hand, while Long Chen escaped the Underworld through Zhao's gate. Long Chen then reappears in the Mortal World in Zhao's body.
== Summary ==
Long Chen now had the title of the old patriarch of the Evil Spirit Sect. Looking through the memories of the sect leader he had just slain, Long Chen couldn't help but sigh.
This Zhao Mankun was really unlucky. Just as his longevity was running out, he had managed to comprehend life and death, reaching half-step Netherpassage. After a year of preparing himself, he had made his determination to attack the Netherpassage realm. However, he had only just stepped into the Netherworld when he was killed by Long Chen, and his body was taken over by Long Chen's Yuan Spirit.
However, this was not technically a possession since he was unable to use Zhao Mankun's energy. He was only able to use his own energy within this body. He couldn't activate the Corrupt path's techniques.
Possession required a long time to stabilize, and doing so would cause his Yuan Spirit to adapt to this body. Then when he returned to his real body, it would feel unnatural.
Although possessing Zhan Mankun's body would allow Long Chen to use this old fellow's status to do many things, for example personally taking a trip to Pill Valley, the ancient races, the ancient family alliance, the Xuan Beasts, making some money, killing some people, and venting some rage, it wasn't worth it in the long run.
That was why Long Chen was just controlling the physical body. If a real fight started, he would be exposed.
However, even if he couldn't personally fight, just this husk was enough for him to do many things. For example... getting this Grand Elder of Pill Valley killed.
== Story ==
=== Underworld ===
Just as he was preparing to randomly pick a gate to go through, a fluctuation came from the surrounding space. A new gate opened, and an elder walked out.
When Long Chen saw that elder's robes, he almost wept tears of joy. This old fellow really had come at the right time.
"Old fellow, I'm going to borrow your gate. Many thanks!"
That elder had just entered the Netherworld and didn't even know what was going on when he was grabbed by Long Chen and thrown into the distance. At the same time, Long Chen charged into his gate.
"Long Chen!"
The elder was wearing robes of the Corrupt path. He only recognized Long Chen once he was tossed aside.
He had just recognized Long Chen when he was blown to pieces by the hand. The hand slammed into his gate, destroying it. However, Long Chen had vanished.
=== Long Chen ===
Long Chen opened his eyes. He found himself to be in a sealed-off room. At this moment, he was a white-haired skinny elder.
The moment the Netherworld's laws had been about to kill him, an expert from the Corrupt path had attacked the Netherpassage realm. Long Chen had instantly recognized his robes. At that moment, he had been so moved that he had almost cried. This was his first time feeling that the Corrupt path's experts also had a lovable side to them.
Now that Long Chen had gone through the expert's gate, he had entered his body. That expert's Yuan Spirit had been destroyed, and this body had become a masterless object, allowing Long Chen to control it.
Long Chen opened the door. The sight that entered his eyes was a naked man and woman sweating and plowing the fields.
Both the man and woman were Life Star experts. In the midst of their plowing, they saw Long Chen walk in. They immediately knelt on the ground, quivering with terror. The woman was especially terrified.
"Greetings, patriarch!"
Long Chen directly pressed a finger against the man's head. A lightning arrow pierced his head, killing him.
A rush of information poured through his mind. Long Chen learned that the owner of the body he was in was called Zhao Manchu. He was the old patriarch of the Evil Spirit Sect, while the man he had just killed was the Evil Spirit Sect's new sect leader.
As for the woman, that was a bit interesting. She was Zhao Manchu's disciple and his dual cultivation cauldron. However, just the third day after he went into seclusion to attack the Netherpassage realm, she had ended up with the new sect leader.
Experts attacking the Netherpassage realm would take at least three months to succeed. Some would even take years. The two of them had never expected their old patriarch to return so quickly.
"Things are a bit messed up now..."
Long Chen clapped himself on the forehead. He hadn't expected this old ghost to still have such firepower at such an age. However, the old patriarch didn't know that someone else had already given him a green hat.戴绿帽 an idiom meaning to get cucked
"Patriarch, don't kill me! Please, think of the years I've attended you..."
Long Chen pointed another finger, killing her.
"If you knew life was so precious, why did you take other people's lives so easily?" sighed Long Chen.
If they weren't from the Corrupt path, he wouldn't have killed them. Whether or not they wanted to give a green hat to this old ghost had nothing to do with him.
However, the Corrupt path's hands were covered in the blood of the Righteous path. If it was just the blood of the Righteous path, he wouldn't care that much. After all, the Righteous path didn't have many good people either.
However, the Corrupt path's first step on their cultivation paths was to kill the innocent commoners and use their blood as proof of their conviction toward their Corrupt God.
That was something Long Chen couldn't accept. So he didn't feel any guilt about killing them.
=== Incineration ===
When Long Chen was close to the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect, he took out his Yuan Spirit and burned Zhao Mankun's body to ashes with the Heaven Incinerating Flame. He left behind no traces.
Later, the Corrupt path's higher-ups asked Heavenly Fate Island to calculate the fate of Zhao Mankun, only to find that he had long since died. After a careful analysis, they found that he had been dead even before he had come out of seclusion. The Corrupt path was shocked.
No matter how amazing Heavenly Fate Island was, they could only read the fates of living people. Dead people, especially matters relating to the Netherworld, couldn't possibly be calculated.
In the end, this matter was added to the ranks of the four mysteries of the Corrupt path. Even countless years later, no one managed to figure this mystery out.
However, due to the patriarch, one of Pill Valley's Grand Elders had been killed. As for how Pill Valley and the Corrupt path settled that bill, only they knew.
== Trivia ==
*Also called 'Zhao Manchu' in wuxiaworld
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