Eternal Life Starts as a Hunter-Chapter 359 - 138: Paradise Garden’s Corpse-Puppets Slay a Fifth Grade—The Enemy Is Right Beside You!

Chapter 359: Chapter 138: Paradise Garden’s Corpse-Puppets Slay a Fifth Grade—The Enemy Is Right Beside You!

A chilling aura crawled up his body.

Mu Chen was momentarily stunned as he recalled the way those two chased him, seemingly driving him toward somewhere.

"Is this the trap?"

"What the hell is this?"

Mu Chen focused his gaze and saw a translucent spider web, with its threads brimming with a chilling aura that seeped into his bones.

Without saying much, seeing the two from the sky chasing after him again, he propelled himself with Shadow Blood.

"Tricks of the weak."

Mu Chen sneered.

No doubt, this was another artifact of Xinghai, but so what? Like a mantis trying to stop a car!

The web shriveled back with a hiss after being burned by the Shadow Blood.

Mu Chen was about to flee when he suddenly noticed something amiss.

The two pursuing from the sky seemed to have frozen in place, just staring at him from afar with peculiar expressions.

Mu Chen felt a hint of suspicion, but he suppressed it and turned to fly away. As he moved, he sensed something was very wrong.

His body was once again stuck!

He released more Shadow Blood, trying to burn away whatever was sticking to him.

But this time, the burning had no effect.

Mu Chen had lived for over a century, experiencing countless events but never encountered such a bizarre situation.

He suddenly turned around, only to see that the space behind him had darkened, and he was stuck to a grim and eerie white spider web.

This web was far more terrifying than the translucent one from before.

The web was densely packed, extending inward to form a Netherworld passage, like a pathway to a kingdom ruled by ghosts.

Mu Chen broke free from the original spider web, only to attract a larger one.

From the passage formed by the web behind him, a black shadow emerged swiftly.

It was a bizarre "spider"!

No.

Not a spider.

The spider’s center was the body of a child stripped of limbs, surrounded by assembled limbs forming the "legs" of a spider.

But those limbs weren’t just arms; there were legs, and even spines with human heads. Each head was gnawing at the web, quickly approaching him.

Mu Chen’s mind wavered, but he forced down his dread, quickly spitting out a mouthful of Shadow Blood.

It was known that every drop of his Shadow Blood contained the power of the Ancestral Talisman, potent enough to repel an evil ghost.

However...

The Shadow Blood landed on the ghost spider, rapidly "withering," congealing into scabs, and sliding off from both sides.

Mu Chen’s pupils shrank, and he could no longer respond.

The ghost spider dragged him straight into the depths of the web. Mu Chen, a Fifth Grade Powerhouse, struggled helplessly and howled in despair, vanishing in mere seconds.

"He’s dead..."

Liu Wenlou and Peng Ming landed, looking at the disappeared Mu Chen, silent.

On the other side, a slender man walked out, the same "Chang Qi" who had appeared in Beijiang Prefecture before.

He moved his hands, and two transparent wave traces in the air returned to his hands.

Liu Wenlou looked at this frail man before him, a man he could crush with one finger, and couldn’t help but ask, "How did you kill Mu Chen?"

Chang Qi rasped, with a cold laugh, "How I killed him is my business, none of your concern.

But... since we’re teammates, I’ll reluctantly tell you that the ghost spider just now came from Paradise Garden.

This place is near Paradise Garden."

Liu Wenlou was momentarily stunned.

Near Paradise?

What a joke!

This place was still nearly a prefecture away from the large Ghost Realm!

From such a distance, near?

Liu Wenlou took a deep look at this frail man...

Xinghai, truly mysterious and unpredictable...

If it weren’t for this, his Liu Family would indeed have no reason to defect from the Divine Wood Hall.

Having witnessed some bizarre methods, Liu Wenlou knew that the Five Elements Forces, including the Divine Wood Hall, were certain to lose.

Because this was a power the Five Elements Forces had never seen, never studied.

He was sure that Mu Chen was not destined to die, merely something he did led to his death.

One could say, Mu Chen did not die from power but due to... a lack of information.

If he had known how this thing kills, he might still be trapped but wouldn’t have died so quickly.

...

...

"Elder Mu Chen is dead..."

"In just half a year’s time since the great battle began, three Fifth Grades have died...

The Patriarch of the Guo Family and the Ancestor of the Guo Family were killed by Peng Mi.

And Peng Mi used a Residual Array forged by Zhu Ban.

But Elder Mu Chen’s cause of death is unknown..."

"Wasn’t Elder Liu said to be acting with him?"

In the Cui Family, clansmen were discussing heatedly.

Although they were discussing, the fear among them was evident.

At the start, when the two from the Guo Family died, the Cui Family was pleased, but now that a strong Elder like Mu Chen was also dead, they began to feel something was amiss with the turn of events.

Quickly, someone else said, "Elder Liu said that he and Elder Mu Chen fell into a trap, and Elder Mu Chen was dragged away by a ghost spider."

"Ghost spider? What ghost spider? Did they enter the Ghost Realm?"

"But even if they did enter the Ghost Realm, Elder Mu Chen should have been able to escape, right?"

Many in the Cui Family displayed bewildered looks.

Li Yuan was silently listening in the crowd.

Indeed, his worst fears had been realized.

The traditionally powerful Divine Wood Hall had not adapted to the new mode of combat at all.

Every Ghost Realm has its rules and coverage area, just like near the original Hua Mo County, where you might enter a Carpenter’s Shop...

But that Carpenter’s Shop only covered Hua Mo County, the wild, outer armor, and half of Shanbao County’s size. Beyond that, you won’t trigger its rules.

Therefore, when fighting within Hua Mo County, you need to be particularly aware of the "doors."

While in other places, there are other things to beware of.

Hence, in future battles, understanding the battlefield’s Ghost Realm in advance is vitally important, which constitutes the "geographical advantage."

And Xinghai had a deep understanding of these "geographical advantages."

Though they can’t face High Grade Martial Artists outright, if used as support, in coordination with High Grade Martial Artists, their impact would be terrifying.

Li Yuan quietly withdrew, leaving the Cui Family, intending to take a carriage home.

However, as he got to the Imperial Hand Seat, his expression shifted.

Because...

At that moment, the carriage driver sitting at the Imperial Hand Seat, whose strength was initially between "175~198," had suddenly changed to "190~210."

The difference wasn’t vast, but it was completely two different sets of data.

Yet the appearance, height, and build of the driver were unchanged; he was indeed the driver arranged by the Cui Family for him.

Had Li Yuan not known that his [Rouge Box] could alter appearance, change physique, and even gender, he might have thought otherwise...

No doubt, some Xinghai had used his Rouge Box and infiltrated the Divine Wood Hall Inner City.

Li Yuan didn’t expose him but quietly boarded the carriage.

Inside the carriage was a letter.

Li Yuan deliberately asked, "Xiaocui, why is there a letter in the carriage?"

From the front, the Xinghai was surprised, "Master Li, I... I don’t know either, my carriage was parked inside the Cui Family the whole time, no one even came close."

Li Yuan thought briefly and tossed it to the Xinghai, "Open it for me."

The Xinghai compliantly opened it, then handed it back to Li Yuan.

Li Yuan glanced at it, the letter read, "Yuan’er, the old man’s longing for you and Huayin grows daily. How about you come over here, and we reunite as a family?

If you feel the same, someone will meet you at Hengwu Restaurant at midnight tonight."

The signature was: Zhu Ban.

But Li Yuan knew, Zhu Ban couldn’t have written this letter.

And Hengwu Restaurant...

Clearly, it had also been infiltrated by Xinghai.

It made sense; by now those Xinghai could be quite affluent, possibly having bought back their curses long ago, no longer afraid to linger outside.

Sister Yan, oh Sister Yan, the things you sell at your general store are indeed useful, not just me, even those Lotus Sect folks are using them.

Li Yuan set down the letter.

Both the letter placed in the carriage and the meeting at Hengwu Restaurant were threats.

This threat told him: I can approach you anytime without you knowing.

Li Yuan glanced at the carriage driver at the Imperial Carriage, feeling a bit like snapping his head off but held back.