Chapter 742 It’s You
A person suddenly appeared in the previously empty place, startling Zou Yiluan and the others. After realizing what was happening, they instinctively cried out, "Watch out!"
This time, the Ghost King's hand still failed to touch Ye Wanxi.
Jiang Lin's natal sword appeared out of thin air the moment the Ghost King appeared, and a killing move was launched, which frightened the Ghost King into hurriedly controlling his body and dodging to the side.
With a bang, the bubble-like ghost realm barrier trembled a few times after being pierced by Jiang Lin's sword, and the ghost king's soul also became unstable.
Only then did Zou Yiluan and the others see the true face of the mastermind behind the scenes. This Ghost King looked much the same as she did in life, appearing to be no more than twenty years old.
But at this moment, her face had turned an inhuman pale white, while her lips were a frightening red.
That was bad enough, but due to the turbulence of the barrier, her appearance began to change. Sometimes she became a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes a young person, sometimes a middle-aged person, and even a few times she suddenly became a weathered old man or woman.
Zou Yiluan stared in utter shock at her sudden change of expression: "This..."
“The aftereffects of devouring.” Ye Wanxi narrowed her eyes. “She was too greedy. After discovering that she was more powerful and able to control the life and death of others when she was dead than when she was alive, she began to harm people recklessly and devour their souls, but she didn’t know how to consolidate or digest them. Over time, this accumulated and affected her own soul.”
Zou Yiluan suddenly realized: "So all those faces that just appeared were people she killed?"
"Um."
"If this continues, what will happen to her...?"
"Either we digest them, or they tear us to pieces."
"If they tear it to pieces, will this place cease to exist?"
Ye Wanxi knew what Zou Yiluan wanted to ask: "If the Ghost King is torn to pieces, the Ghost Realm will indeed shatter and dissipate, but..."
"but?"
"But this ghost realm is just a vessel to trap these unclaimed souls. Once it breaks, these souls will escape from here. They have been devoured by the Ghost King and have long lost their human reason. Once they escape from here, they will harm people based on their instincts."
Zou Yiluan's face turned pale. The Ghost King was devouring these wandering souls and expanding his ghost domain, which would kill even more people.
Conversely, if she cannot devour these wandering souls, she will be torn apart by them, which will also cause demons to roam the human world.
Neither of these scenarios is something they would want to see, and the latter might even have greater consequences than the former.
After all, now that they know the location of the Ghost Realm, all they need to do is seal it off and cut off the way the Ghost Realm can harm people, thus preventing them from being harmed.
But if these wandering spirits scatter and harm people everywhere, not to mention whether they have enough manpower, just confirming their whereabouts is already a headache.
During the short time Ye Wanxi was talking to them, the Ghost King had temporarily suppressed the restless wandering souls, bared his teeth, and then pounced on Jiang Lin.
Jiang Lin's sword strike had thoroughly enraged her, shifting the hatred that Ye Wanxi had been drawing for so long onto herself.
Seeing her charging towards him, Jiang Lin remained calm and raised his hand to meet her.
The sharp black fingernails were broken as soon as they touched Jiang Lin's sword. In just a few rounds, Jiang Lin ruthlessly pierced a large hole in the Ghost King's heart.
This action drove the already unstable Ghost King into a complete madness.
Within her soul, several vicious and malevolent ghosts separated out, their eyes turning bloodshot, their fingernails growing more than twice their previous length, and their malevolent aura surging dramatically, almost tangible.
Even ordinary people like Zou Yiluan could see the danger she posed.
"Miss Ye, why don't you go and help Mr. Jiang?" Seeing that Jiang Lin seemed to be surrounded, Zou Yiluan and the others couldn't help but look worried.
They wanted to help, but they were really bad at dealing with this kind of unscientific thing.
Rushing in rashly might end up helping someone else entirely.
“If Miss Ye is worried about us, there’s no need to. We are capable of protecting ourselves, and we still have the amulets Miss Ye gave us before. Even if something happens, we will have a chance to react. Miss Ye, you should hurry up and help Mr. Jiang.”
Ye Wanxi remained silent. Was she really staying behind to protect these people because she was worried about their safety and was too busy to do so?
Of course not, the reason she didn't join the battle was purely because...
"Got you?"
Just as Jiang Lin's sword pierced the Ghost King's heart, and several sword energies flew out, completely trapping the vengeful spirits that were trying to escape from the Ghost King's body, causing them to vanish into nothingness along with the Ghost King's remaining consciousness, a pitch-black scepter suddenly emerged from the shattered Ghost King's barrier, stabbing straight at Jiang Lin's back.
It was at this moment that Ye Wanxi made her move, grabbing the scepter and pulling it backward.
The person hidden at the edge of the barrier was pulled out by her without any warning; the familiar black cloak, the familiar mask.
Ye Wanxi recognized the other person almost immediately, and he seemed to realize what was happening as well, raising his hand to grab Ye Wanxi's face.
Ye Wanxi subconsciously moved to the side, but did not let go of the scepter in her hand.
Seeing that Ye Wanxi wouldn't let go, and seeing that Jiang Lin had dealt with the Ghost King and was now free to attack him, the man panicked and grabbed Ye Wanxi's hand, pulling it back.
The next second, Ye Wanxi was pulled out of the Ghost Realm and into another space.
"Junior Sister!"
In the final moment of escape, accompanied by Jiang Lin's shout, a sword light slashed down in his face.
The spatial gap closed a little too late, failing to completely block Jiang Lin's sword energy. The remaining one or two strands of sword energy struck the black-clad man's mask.
Therefore, when Ye Wanxi was pulled into the space, she was met with that familiar face.
“It’s you!”
Upon hearing her words, the man narrowed his eyes, and taking advantage of Ye Wanxi's momentary daze, he pulled back the scepter and took two steps back.
Ye Wanxi didn't approach any closer. Standing just a few steps away, she looked at the face that bore a striking resemblance to her Uncle Wu and asked in a cold voice, "Who exactly are you? The boutique jade shop on the commercial street, and this doll—how many ways have you come up with to harm people? Why are you doing this? What are you plotting?"
The man stared at her intently, his face expressionless, his eyes blank, looking like an emotionless sculpture.
Ye Wanxi could sense that he was conscious, and her face grew increasingly gloomy as she shouted sharply, "Speak!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Wanxi finally heard the man's voice for the first time: "We simply cultivate different paths, why must we be so ruthless?"
(End of this chapter)
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