Chapter 417: Chapter 413: Ghosts from the Underworld Chapter 417: Chapter 413: Ghosts from the Underworld Upon hearing the words, Shen Luo couldn’t help but feel curious about where they were heading. What place rited such repeated reminders from a ghost-catching Heavenly Master?
However, the others didn’t seem to dwell on it. It seed they either had their minds focused on the high compensation or had complete confidence in their task.
Eventually, Zhong Kui left the rest pavilion and walked toward a protruding rock not far away, where he stopped.
Shen Luo shifted his gaze and only then noticed that the rock had a dark red hue with a layer of black mist around it. The rock seed inconspicuous against the surroundings because of the mist.
Zhong Kui ford a seal with a single hand, chanted a few verses and abruptly pointed towards the rock.
An obvious red circular seal appeared on the dark red rock, and the black fog around it started to expand, transforming into a round arch standing in front of everyone.
When Shen Luo looked curiously into the arch, all he saw was pitch darkness, just like the night sky.
“Let’s go.”
Hu Yong called for everyone and took the lead by bowing to Zhong Kui and then stepping into the archway.
The mont he entered, the thick curtain of darkness began to ripple like water, swallowing him up until he completely disappeared.
The armored man nad Jin Dun followed right after him.
Lin Qing was slightly later, but he also fist-bumped Zhong Kui before entering the archway.
“Brother Shen, let’s go.”
Lu He saluted Shen Luo and walked towards the entrance. The woman dressed in red, Yun Niang, ca over, grabbed Shen Luo’s arm, and acting afraid, she said, “Brother Shen, may I go with you?”
Lu He reached the entrance, looked back, smirked playfully and secretly shook his head.
“Daoist Friend, you can follow, just not too closely,” Shen Luo shook her off subconsciously and replied.
After saying that, he took the lead and stepped into the foggy arch.
Seeing this, Yun Niang revealed an attractive smile on her face and followed closely without any concern.
After Shen Luo walked into the dark curtain, he initially saw nothing but darkness. However, as soon as he stepped out, everything returned to normal. He looked around and found himself standing in a lush forest.
What was eerie, though, was that the color of the trees and bushes was not the ordinary green, but a dark ink-green. The tree trunks and branches were covered in lumps, a layer of white cotton floating on top.
At this mont, Yun Niang also ca out from behind. Shen Luo turned to look and realized that the place where he had co from was an enormous, ancient tree, its trunk lit up with a soft green light.
It was also the only tree in the entire mountain forest that had a normal color.
“Old Hu, I have a weird feeling about this place. It seems filled with an evil aura,” Lu He voiced out.
“Without the evil, we wouldn’t get that much of a reward, and it wouldn’t be our turn to handle it.” Hu Yong uncapped the gourd on his waist, took a swig of wine, and chuckled with his eyes half-closed.
“Lu Da Ge, are you scared?” Yun Niang laughed under her breath.
“If a woman like you isn’t scared, why should I be?” Lu He grunted dismissively.
“Oh, they’re here so soon, I wasn’t ready yet…” At the mont, Hu Yong suddenly exclaid and fastened his gourd back onto his waist.
Witnessing this, Shen Luo strained his nerves imdiately, withdrew his palm back into his sleeve, hiding the Linlang Ring on his wrist. His palm turned, pretending to draw out the golden blade from his sleeve pocket, and held it in his hand.
The golden blade shimred, instantaneously increasing threefold in length, forming a gold-patterned long knife.
The other four reacted just as swiftly. Lin Qing pulled out the blue longsword from his back, surprisingly thinner than what Shen Luo anticipated, becoming narrower as it approached the sword tip, resembling an enlarged sewing needle.
Jin Dun also drew out the Golden Long Knife from his side. It was a Tang-style horizontal knife with complex charm patterns carved on its body which appeared even more exquisite and luxurious than the golden blade in Shen Luo’s hand.
Lu He, on the other hand, unhooked the bronze axe from his back, planted it on the ground with a thud, creating a dull sound.
Only Yun Niang did not pull out any weapon but posed her hands in a ‘flower-picking’ gesture, wove them before her body in a dancing pose, and cast an enchanting glance at Shen Luo.
Shen Luo’s attention was entirely focused on his surroundings and he completely ignored her flirtatious glance.
“Swish swish swish”
At this mont, the friction sounds began to echo from the surrounding bushes and beca denser and more urgent.
“Here it cos.”
Hu Yong shouted, his bent body seed to straighten up imdiately. Raising his palm, he struck out in front.
His sleeve rustled, and a golden light spurted out, transford into a golden palm seal tens of feet in size. It shot out into the void, aiming at the front.
A thunderous bang echoed out!
At the front, a row of seven or eight dark green ancient trees, as thick as a water bucket, burst forth in response. The wave of the explosion directly flattened the shrubs and grass beneath, revealing a large empty open area.
With a clear view of the forest ahead, waves of Yin wind and evil energy imdiately blew against his face. Shen Luo, concentrating his gaze, saw the woods filled with surging black qi, within which shrouded several blurry figures rushing towards them from inside the woods.
As the black qi ca closer, Shen Luo finally caught a clear glance. These blurry figures seed to be a mix of solid and illusory. Most of their upper bodies were solid while their lower bodies were illusory, floating above the ground and rising and falling like ghosts.
Many of these human figures had already turned into skeletons; on most of the remaining faces, one could still see the sagging wax-yellow skin; the putrid eyeballs left in the eye sockets were glowing with a blood-thirsty light.
“Such disgusting creatures.” Yun Niang grumbled with disgust beside them.
Having said that, she swiftly waved her ‘flower-picking’ hand forward. The warp and weft threads on the red gauze dress she was wearing extended out, transforming into several extrely delicate red threads and shot out straight.
They saw the red light shimring wherever her thread passed, which directly pierced the chests of seven or eight Yin ghosts, stringing them up like candied haws.
Imdiately after that, the red threads shot up, jerkily pulling these Yin ghosts into the mid-air, and “whoosh,” a blaze flared up and swallowed them in.
Just within the span of a few monts, those Yin ghosts emitted mournful shrieks, were burnt into ashes by the flas, and dispersed into the air.
“These Yin soul ghosts don’t seem very powerful…” Seeing this scene, Shen Luo was slightly relieved. He steadied his stance and decided not to act rashly.
Lin Qing and Jin Dun on the other side had also acted. On the one hand, Lin Qing was controlling his blue flying sword with one hand by forming a spell with his fingers, weaving it in and out of the ghost team, piercing through the chests of more than a dozen evil spirits.
On the other hand, Jin Dun, wielding his sword with both hands, plunged directly into the corps of evil spirits, slashing left and right like cutting veggies, slicing the Yin spirits one by one.
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