Huh? Isn't this an adventure kingdom building game?!-Chapter 890 - 799: The Bizarre Incident in the Netherworld Cave (2)

After the accident, everyone discussed how there were no Ghost Messengers monitoring, and since the place was eerie, we might as well slack off a bit for safety.

Right at that moment, no more than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea since the Little Ghost Cultivator self-exploded, and we hadn't moved far, we suddenly heard a somewhat familiar voice shouting: 'Why did you leave me behind and go? What are you all gathering here for?'

I turned my head——it was the Little Ghost Cultivator who had exploded, long dead and disappeared, yet he returned!"

Jiang Yuan suddenly felt a chill down his back; listening to the Ghost Cultivator's "ghost stories" was really quite terrifying.

"What?!" Qu Luming almost crushed his teacup, not quite believing what he heard, and asked again: "Are you sure it's him? Could it be some sort of magic? Or a magical treasure... no that's not right, he self-exploded, impossible to save."

Yan Xuan finally heard something interesting and raised his head, saying: "It's possible that the Little Ghost Cultivator wasn't caught after all; maybe you all were experiencing illusions, his self-explosion was fake, and the one who caught up was the real one."

"No." Tang Qin shook her head and said, "I've never seen something so eerie; at the time, I also considered whether we were all unknowingly caught in a trap, actually stuck in an Illusion Realm without realizing it.

Otherwise, how could a dead and gone Ghost Cultivator reappear completely unharmed?

But quickly, I felt something amiss!

That Little Ghost Cultivator who chased us down was speaking and acting exactly as everyone had previously remembered, but I couldn't say why, I just felt something was off, absolutely not the original acquaintance!"

Taking advantage of her pause to sip tea, Jiang Yuan asked: "What about the corpse of the self-exploded Ghost Cultivator? Previously someone went to investigate the situation, right? If the corpse remains, but another Ghost Cultivator shows up, it must be fake, there's something fishy going on!"

"The situation with Ghost Cultivators is quite unique; some purely cultivate their soul; like myself, transforming into a ghost first then obtaining a corpse for refining and fusion, I'm relatively rare among Ghost Cultivators in the Netherworld, most Ghost Cultivators have a spirit but no body."

She patiently explained: "That Little Ghost Cultivator belongs to the latter; thus even if he self-exploded, it just meant his Divine Soul shattered. Initially, there were remnants, but as time passed, the fragments created by the self-explosion turned to fly ash.

When I discovered his reappearance and looked for those soul remnants, I found nothing.

Given my Realm, I'm not considered a senior among those Ghost Cultivators, naturally having no voice. Though I kept emphasizing something was off, I couldn't present evidence to convince the others.

Many Ghost Cultivators are more skilled and experienced than I am; they immediately listed all sorts of possibilities, leaving me unable to argue.

Ultimately, after discussing among the leading acquaintances, they decided whether true or false, we couldn't abandon him alone: If true, he'd struggle to survive in the Ghost Cave after being abandoned by the group; if false, we must keep him under our nose lest he operates in the shadows against us."

Qu Luming nodded and said: "Before knowing the details, such a plan was appropriate. What happened afterward?"

"Then, for several days, everything was calm." Tang Qin recalled carefully, "Except I consistently felt something was wrong without identifying why, that Little Ghost Cultivator's words and deeds were very normal; he did nothing out of the ordinary.

On that day, we just approached a majestic mountain, when suddenly two companions encountered an incident in succession!

The process was identical to what the Little Ghost Cultivator experienced before, as if witnessing an extremely terrifying scene, then starting to frenziedly attack. I reacted swiftly at the time and took out a Memory Stone to record it..."

She said as she took out a very small Memory Stone from her Storage Bag, "Actually, after being officially conscripted by Fengdu, we lost all contact with the outside world, even having our Storage Bags confiscated; the Memory Stones were certainly not allowed to be carried.

I was wary and thought, if participating in a significant event, in case I was silenced, I must leave some clues, can't just be at others' mercy. Plus, since I originally cultivated as a lady-corpse with a body, I hid this small Memory Stone inside to avoid checks."

As Tang Qin activated it, the scene at the time appeared in mid-air.

Two Ghost Cultivators with blue faces and pointed teeth had various exploding attack remnants around them; they seemed as if witnessing a scene of extreme terror, and their originally fairly frightening faces nearly distorted entirely.

One seemed to have exhausted all means with a frantic output and suddenly stopped, twitching facially making a helpless decision—self-explosion!

The other held out just a moment longer and ended with a self-explosion as well.

The Ghost Cultivators watching from afar were all silent with cold fear, no one daring to risk severe injury by rushing forward to rescue.

"Both of them cultivated the Calm Heart Technique and previously escorted us all the way, reasonably should not have fallen for an Illusion Technique, right?"

"Then it wasn't an Illusion Technique, or… their Realm is too low, completely unable to resist."

"Aren't we even more at risk then?"

"Don't panic! Everyone, listen to my command—spread out in tens, aim to cover everything nearby under control, observe whether they'll reappear, and where they'll appear again."

"Quick, see if they left any relics; we at least need to confirm the self-explosion actually occurred!"

"Leave what behind?! Our Storage Bags were collected by the Ghost Messenger, inspected thoroughly, who could still carry extra items?"

"Exactly, their Divine Soul's shattered remnants have vanished without a trace..."

......

Amid the widespread chaotic noise, the scene slowly shifted and then darkened.

"During the wait, I closed it to conserve the Memory Stone's energy. About another tea time later, we indeed heard the voices of those two—" Tang Qin operated to open the next section, showing in the scene those two blue-faced, fang-laden Ghost Cultivators, who had just self-exploded, standing together at a slight distance on the right side of a mountain, waving to them: "Hurry and catch up, what are you all dawdling here for?"