The ghost king and his god

The mission

As a reminder this has nothing to do with actual canonical events and is purely for fun.

Thunder roared through the midnight sky like an enraged dragon, the forests shook from the shrieking of those who roamed the overgrown maze of trees.looming over the corpses frozen in shock,the trees stood, unable to forget the scene that had unfurled before them. Strewn over the uneven grass lay the deformed corpses of the humans brave enough to trek to ghost city, their killer had fled from the scene long ago whilst they stained the earth with their crimson blood. Throats slit and gashes littering their bodies, the now lifeless bodies lead a gruesome path to ghost cities enterence, the ghosts merely walked past as if they were just more blades of the lush grass; however, the humans who dared to venture to ghost city were scared away by the humans lay, now empty of blood, on the cold,hard forest floor.

Meanwhile,in the depths of ghost city, reacently gamblers den had been dealing with less and less clientele of the human variety. The ominous trail of bodies driving them away. The king of ghost city, hua cheng, had written this off as rowdy ghosts scaring the humans away from the cities enterence. It's not like it affected him in any way, humans gambled with their limbs, future, family members, their currency was useless in ghost city so the only money the gamblers den acquired was from the other ghosts. Humans provided entertaiment, some people to torture or kill; if hua cheng explicitly wanted that he could go out and kill some. He didn't care about the humans the only subjects hua cheng thought about were: killing his enemies, tourturing a few people who got on his nerves and... his mentor, his idol, his reason for living. One day he would find his Gege, earth was a large place but there's only so many places he could be.

Slowly more and more cases of murder were reported on the outskirts of ghost city, someone was trying to get the attention of heaven and the ghost realm and, in one case, it was working. The heavens had caught onto the slaughtering of humans and a few weaker officials that attempted to venture into ghost city. Hua cheng still payed no mind to the deaths so close to his borders, if someone wanted war they could have it, hua cheng would slay anyone who opposed him that, he was sure of; ghost, official,humans anyone who challenged him was sure to die. Heaven had decided it was time to act so had assigned 3rd time ascended xie lian to the mission to prove himself still strong enough to have the martial god status. Ling wen quickly informed xie lian about the urgent need for his attendance in the communications array, he swiftly complied and once stationed in the center of the room looked around to see nan feng, fu Yao,shi qingxuan and jun wu all refracted in the slightly waving material draped from the ceiling. Xie lian bowed deeply to the other gods facing the heavenly emperor and stood as straight as he possibly could.

"Emperor ling wen informed me that you have a mission for me, may i ask what it is?"

The emperor nodded before glancing to the other gods and speaking.

"Yes xie lian, recently there have been murders around the outskirts of ghost city, both of heavenly officials and humans. We suspect crimson rain sought flower to be the cause of these deaths."

Xie lian tilted his head in confusion, who's that? Was he really that out of touch with heavens buisness?

"Crimson rain sought flower? Who's that?"

A loud sigh was heard from nan feng which was only dignified by a glance from the emperor before he started to explain.

"The crimson rain sought flower, also known as hua cheng, is the king of ghost city, he's a devastation and the biggest pain to heaven you could imagine. He has stripped many gods of their places and killed many more, he burned thousands of temples and kills with no mercy. Hua cheng is not a man to mess around him so only talk to him if absolutely necessary, interacting with this nuisance is a last resort is that understood?"