Seeing that there was no way to escape, Chu Chuyan gritted her teeth and said, "Manman, you go quickly, I'll hold it off!"

"Don't be foolish, how could I leave you alone?" Pei Mianman knew she had a move that would lead to mutual destruction, so naturally she was unwilling to leave.

"If we don't leave now, we're all going to die!" Chu Chuyan was anxious. If Manman hadn't arrived, she would have died just now. Manman saved her life, so it was only fair to return the favor.

Pei Mianman sighed: "Do you think I can live in peace for the rest of my life if I run away under these circumstances? What will Azu think of me?"

"Since we're best friends, we'll live together and die together!"

Chu Chuyan stared at her blankly, unsure how to respond.

At this moment, the black mist had already come within a meter of the two women: "What a deep sisterly bond! You don't need to refuse each other anymore, since neither of you can escape anyway."

The black mist surged up, threatening to engulf both women in the next second.

At that moment, a tremendous tremor shook the earth, and a sense of vastness and antiquity spread outwards. The world was instantly filled with a refreshing spiritual energy, many times richer than usual.

In the distance, cheers could be faintly heard. If they could travel that far, they could not have come from just one or two people; there must have been thousands upon thousands of cheers.

The black mist paused, its size shrinking slightly, clearly indicating that the sudden influx of spiritual energy in the world had some effect on it.

"The tomb has been opened!" All the skulls in the black mist looked towards the tomb, their faces filled with excitement.

At this moment, Chu Chuyan and Pei Mianman would not hesitate any longer. Taking advantage of the moment when the other party was distracted, they quickly jumped more than a hundred feet away.

A groan came from within the black mist, and a skull turned in the direction the two women had fled. Suddenly, its empty eye sockets lit up, followed by two gray-white rays shooting out.

No matter how fast a person is, they can't compare to light. The two women were hit almost instantly.

There seemed to be a hillside in front of them, and the two women stumbled and tumbled down it.

The black mist stopped chasing and instead turned towards the direction of the tomb entrance.

From within the black mist, the second-in-command's skeleton shrieked, "Ghost King, why did you let them go?"

"Let them go?" The other skeletons opened their mouths in disbelief. "They have been hit by my Eternal Slumber Gaze and will soon fall into a deep sleep. Until they are in eternal sleep, with their cultivation level, they cannot maintain their integrity without consuming energy. In a short time, the two of them will become more and more emaciated and eventually turn into skeletons."

"This is not our deal. I want them to suffer endless torment, to be unable to live or die. Letting them just fall asleep is too easy for them." The second-in-command shouted. Today, the entire mercenary group was wiped out, and decades of hard work went down the drain. He had also sacrificed himself to summon the Ghost King. How could he be satisfied with just letting the two women fall asleep?

"Now that the tomb has been opened, I have more important matters to attend to. I have no time to deal with your affairs." As the black mist spoke, it quickly drifted towards the main entrance of the tomb.

"No, this is not our deal. You have violated the ancient principles of summoning!" the second-in-command roared. He had already given everything and was no longer afraid of losing anything more.

"Summon? What right do you, an ant, have to summon me?" A ghostly claw suddenly emerged from the black mist and twisted off the skull of the second-in-command. "I only sent a wisp of my aura here to play around with out of boredom. Otherwise, could that mere flesh and blood really summon me?"

The second-in-command's skull immediately showed an expression of extreme pain, but soon a wisp of soul flew out from his eye socket and was absorbed by the black mist, and the skull also turned into one of the countless ordinary skulls in the black mist.