Two Realms Shuttle Gate: Don't Call Me a Demon!-Chapter 260 - 175: Lantern Ghost (Fourth Update)

Chapter 260: Chapter 175: Lantern Ghost (Fourth Update)

Three days passed in a flash.

In a densely populated residential area of East Victory City, flanked by high walls covered in moss, corpses lay strewn about—some dismembered, some with their innards hollowed out, some twisted into spirals by iron wire—showing various manners of death, all emitting waves of foul stench.

These were all ordinary civilians who had fallen victim to fierce ghosts, and now, the winding, dark, and damp alleys were almost entirely devoid of the living.

Only the smell of rot wafted to one’s nose, and all around was quiet, subdued, gloomy, and dangerous.

“Let me see you run now, let me see you scratch me.”

Suddenly, the silence of the alley was shattered by shouts.

A battle was erupting here.

Ning Xinyue wielded the Vajra Bracelet like a brick, riding atop a white-clothed female ghost and thumping it on the head, scattering the third-grade fierce ghost’s soul.

“Huff, huff, more and more fierce ghosts are showing up; it’s not safe to stay in this place,” Xinyue sat on the ground uncaring of her ladylike demeanor, fiddling with the Vajra Bracelet and complaining to Xiao Fengyuan, who was meditating with eyes closed nearby.

“It’s probably because many civilians have died; lacking the attraction of civilians, fierce ghosts have continuously attacked us,” Xiao Fengyuan opened his eyes, he and Ning Xinyue had been taking turns on watch these past few days, killing no small number of fierce ghosts.

But the number of fierce ghosts was seemingly endless and only increasing.

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“I wonder how much longer that guy will be in seclusion; he’s at ease while we can’t even get a good night’s sleep,” Ning Xinyue’s gaze drifted towards a civilian house where Su Jie was in seclusion.

She and Xiao Fengyuan stayed in this place, protectors for Su Jie.

“You go rest for a while, I’ll take over from here,” Xiao Fengyuan stood up, ready to relieve Xinyue of her duties when footsteps echoed from the alley.

Xiao Fengyuan immediately turned, only to see a lantern ghost with a tall figure and cold eyes, carrying a lantern, slowly approaching from around the corner.

As soon as this Lantern Ghost appeared, the white lantern he carried now bore the large character “mourn”.

Within the lantern, numerous blood-red eyes had appeared, staring intently through the lantern’s paper at Ning Xinyue and Xiao Fengyuan, exuding an aura that chilled them to the bone.

“Would you like to be my lamp oil?” the Lantern Ghost lifted its head, its gaze landing on Xiao Fengyuan, its voice as hoarse as a crow’s caw.

Xiao Fengyuan didn’t speak, silently raising the Blood Cang Spear and thrusting it towards the Lantern Ghost.

Days of battle had taught him that words and persuasion were useless against fierce ghosts; any contact or triggering of their killing mechanism would lead to an immediate attack.

The Blood Cang Spear pierced the Lantern Ghost’s body, pinning it against the wall.

Xiao Fengyuan walked up slowly, about to deliver the final blow. With the strength of the Blood Cang Spear and his robust spiritual power, not even a fourth-grade fierce ghost stood a chance against him.

But at that moment, something unexpected happened.

The Lantern Ghost, pinned to the wall, maintained a calm expression, merely lifting the lantern in its hand.

On the lantern, the hidden cluster of red eyes blinked intensively, like twinkling light bulbs, causing the white lantern to flicker with red light.

Crackle!

Xiao Fengyuan’s steps halted as a wick slowly grew from the top of his head, igniting a ghostly green flame, and his skin began to melt slowly as if it were candle wax.

“What…”

Xiao Fengyuan’s demeanor changed in an instant, his gaze fierce as he stared at the Lantern Ghost opposite him, his spiritual power surging in an attempt to rid himself of the sinister spectral influence.

But the action that had been effective in the past seemed somewhat ineffective this time; his skin was still melting, only at a significantly slower pace.

“Not good, this might be a fifth-grade fierce ghost.”

Ning Xinyue was also taken aback, as this was the first time they had encountered a fifth-grade fierce ghost over these three days.

Not daring to be negligent, Ning Xinyue threw the Vajra Bracelet and unleashed the Profound Ice Cold Flow to freeze the Lantern Ghost, while also taking out the Jade Scripture to protect Xiao Fengyuan.

The Lantern Ghost’s head was shattered by the Vajra Bracelet, and its body was frozen in place.

What was eerie, however, was that the Lantern Ghost did not die. Within the ice, the flickering lights in the white lantern intensified, and they were accompanied by creepy chuckling.

On the light screen protected by the Jade Scripture’s tadpole text, white candles were sticking out, lit with ghostly flames, and slowly piercing into the screen.

Ning Xinyue’s arm went numb, and looking down, she found her left hand sprouting numerous eyes, which were bizarrely rotating and staring straight at her face, the eerie influence seeping into the protection of the Scripture.

“So fierce, this ghost!”

Enduring the pain, Ning Xinyue used the Profound Ice Cold Flow to freeze her left hand.

“Difficult to deal with.”

Xiao Fengyuan’s expression was solemn too, as the strength of this Lantern Ghost was somewhat beyond expectations.

“Hehehe, to think there are still living humans here.”

Suddenly, another chilling laughter came from above.

They saw a pale-faced woman floating over, who although appeared female, emitted a male voice.

“Painting Woman, Zhong Shiguan.”

Ning Xinyue and Xiao Fengyuan both became truly nervous, as they had heard Su Jie speak of the Painting Woman before and recognized the background of this foe.

Dealing with one fifth-grade Lantern Ghost was already troublesome, but now there was also a Secret Realm Elder, which truly seemed like bad luck was upon them.

“This is bad!”

Ning Xinyue stepped back, internally regretting causing such a disturbance.

“Junior Sister Zhu, watch for the opportunity to take Brother Su and leave, I will hold them off.”

Xiao Fengyuan’s eyes were firm as if he had made a certain decision, and he resolutely stepped forward.

“Two cultivators, ah, this power, a Xuanyin Body, haha, it seems my luck is quite good today, just right for making into a ghost creature.”

Zhong Shiguan licked his lips, his eyes filled with insatiable greed as he ogled Ning Xinyue.

……………

Meanwhile, inside a civilian house.

Light streamed through the window, illuminating the entire room, a gentle glow casting over the bedhead.

A man dressed in a Black Robe was sitting cross-legged in silence, his eyes tightly closed, only his chest rising and falling with his breathing.

The light shone on the man’s cheeks, and suddenly his eyelashes trembled slightly, as his eyes slowly opened.

Time seemed to stand still here, and as his dark eyes opened, a brilliance a thousand times more intense than the sunlight bloomed radiantly.

A profound and transcendental power, like tender sprouts emerging from withered rotten wood, was reviving within his body, an invisible force coalescing and bursting forth, baptizing his entire sea of consciousness and body.

“Primordial Spirit, achieved!”

Su Jie could feel his Divine Soul rising like the early morning sun, and with the last pair of eyes transforming, the divine radiance rose like a pillar, shining to the extremes of the Sky Dome, truly completing the ascent from Divine Soul to Primordial Spirit.