Chapter 117

Editor: meowmiao

The sky darkened. It was even darker than it was before, when they were breaking the array, and even seemed to carry an abnormal red hue. As the temperature unexpectedly dropped, the dark and gloomy forest carried a frightening feeling, as if the end of the world was here.

Those alive but trapped on Kun Yi Mountain looked towards the strange sky and shared a similar thought to what was mentioned above.

Before long, they would realise that it was not as if, but truly the end of the world…

The abnormality in the sky and the approaching danger caused the two fleeing Helun people to instinctively speed up. Humans had an acute sense of danger and with this, the two people could clearly feel something terrifying chasing after them.

Once caught, there was no way to survive.

Their escape was very smooth since this path didn’t have any explosives and the adversaries had been trapped and buried on the other side. There were a few hundred metres more before they were out of the mountain.

This was a remote area with many obstructions and the road wasn’t smooth, but it didn’t affect the escaping people.

“Once we return, you know where you should go to receive your punishment.” There were a few steps left. The middle-aged man could finally leave behind the fear in his heart as he told the junior behind him coldy.

Every year, the newcomers were full of vitality, not knowing the severity of failing a mission. Even if it was just once, they had to be punished.

While he reprimanded his junior, the middle-aged man did not stop running. One foot had already stepped off the mountain. “Don’t think that just because-”

An invisible blade seemed to descend. The middle-aged man still had a solemn expression while speaking but his head had already fallen to the ground. He had been decapitated in an instant. The fear that had just gathered in his eyes had yet to dissipate.

“Rosser…” The youth could only croak out a single word. The bloody sight before him caused his fear to reach its peak as his legs lost all ability to move. His four limbs were frozen as he stood rooted to the ground.

Although his appearance was different, the youth understood that the ghost before him was the one he had seen before at the spiritual convention. Meeting the pair of blood-red eyes, he only felt as if his throat had been completely seized.

This was the devil’s eyes. It was a beast who had completely lost all shreds of humanity it once possessed while alive. The left-half of his face had warped into a terrifying appearance while his right-half was as beautiful as ever. The distinction between the halves carried a strange sense of beauty.

Although his limbs were frozen, his brain was running several times faster. The youth hesitantly took a step back and retrieved two pieces of talisman. With great difficulty, he took aim at his target.

But in that moment, the youth let out an ear-splitting shriek. He looked at his missing right arm in disbelief.

His hand… had been cut off…

The youth took another step back and a similar pain came from his legs, causing him to fall to the ground.

“N-No… I didn’t…” His mind was nearing a breaking point and the pain from his legs made him unable to move. He watched as the figure crept closer and began to ramble incoherently, “I didn’t want to kill him, it was the higher ups…he- he’s dead, so you’re free. You don’t have to slave for some divination master, you should thank me-”

Words couldn’t stop that figure from approaching and the terror in the youth’s eyes continued to deepen. When his fear reached the peak once more, another wave of pain could be felt and his vision turned dark. Then, he could no longer see anything.

There were two methods spirit tamers could use to undo a spiritual pact. One was the honest way of resolving the control technique and the other was death.

Until his death, the youth never noticed that there was no sign of this ghost being controlled at all.

After killing the second human, the ghost king’s blood-red eyes moved slightly.

“Ah Yan.” The cold voice was hoarse, but even more evident was confusion. The ghost king’s slightly lowered head caused him to appear like a cat who was unable to find his beloved owner, confused by the disappearance of the familiar scent.

Gone… Why is it gone…

Because these people stole him away, so he couldn’t find him. These people need to die, they don’t deserve to live. Once he determined this, the ghost king’s blood-red eyes turned even darker, like two pieces of blood jade.

From losing his beloved treasure to personally witnessing the most cruel sight possible, the ghost king’s mental state was growing increasingly unstable.

Evil spirits were basically ghosts who’d completely lost their rationality. Any ghost and spirit could become an evil spirit and this was an irreversible process since the beginning of time. Once they become an evil spirit, the humanity they abandoned can never be recovered.

Xie Lan was now thinking. The 14th of July, the day the gates between the two realms would open, was approaching.

Two days later, the 14th of July. This became the most memorable day for anyone with relations to the spiritual world.

Ghosts that shouldn’t exist in the human realm constantly poured out of the gates from various regions of the ghost city. To ordinary people, their world would be still the same as usual, but for those with a divine eye, the world was about to be occupied by these ghosts. The sky was blood red.

It was the same everywhere since the amount of spirits was simply beyond comprehension. Even if they do not intentionally attack, the number of ghosts in the human world would continue to increase until there is an inevitable imbalance of Yin and Yang. At that time, natural disasters would happen: Earthquakes, tsunamis, etc. Any one of them was enough to wipe out humans.

“Not just ordinary ghosts, the report came back. They said that there is a huge wave of evil spirits coming from the ghost city.” A young divination master was speaking as he felt his scalp grow numb. He imagined the scene of a ‘wave of evil spirits coming’ and his limbs turned cold.

“What’s happening, why did the ghost city suddenly… The peace treaty has just been signed. Does the ghost city intend to go against the agreement?” He said these words out of nervousness, but the young divination master already had the answer to this question in his heart. It was obvious that the other side would go against their agreement.

He just couldn’t understand why the ghost city would suddenly revolt. If they didn’t want to co-exist peacefully, there was no need for the agreement. At that time, he could simply cause trouble for all the seniors and didn’t need to wait until now.

“…” Among the crowd, only Master Zhao and Master Luo, who knew the truth, remained silent. Master Zhao endured his anger and slapped the table. He took a few deep breaths before he recovered.

If it weren’t for this sensitive period where they needed to communicate with the rest of the world, they would have definitely declared war on Helun. The landslide on Kun Yi Mountain that day had many casualties. Afterwards, someone reported that the bodies of two Helun divination masters were found near a remote exit on Kun Yi Mountain. Moreover, a detonator was found on one of them.

By then, how could anyone not know the cause of the incident this time?

Say, even if Helun alone wanted to seek death, it’s their own problem. But why did they have to drag the entire world down too? From the moment he saw a person with the surname Gu on the fatalities list as well as the abnormality in the sky, Grandmaster Zhao knew that things would not be simple.

If the human realm couldn’t escape this calamity, he decided he would at least settle this bill with those bastards from Helun before he died.

Countless ghosts continue to pour into the human realm through the gates in various regions. July 14, today is the day that the gates between the two realms will open and there will be no limit on the number of ghosts passing through the two realms.

The spiritual organisation of the human realm was prepared and already deployed various defensive countermeasures. Seeing that a battle without much hope was about to break out—

At this moment, in a narrow and confined space. The dark-haired youth, who everyone had presumed was dead, suddenly opened his eyes.

“Cough, cough.” Gu Yan finally opened his eyes with great difficulty after being unconscious for many days. He raised a hand to cover his mouth as he coughed.

Ah, luckily he was too overpowered.

T/n: Yeah we all knew he aint dead

E/n: Cause the author told us in the last chapter?