Chapter 324: 50 Years of Death

Qin Ye smiled faintly without saying another word.

But now, he knew.

The child licked his lips avariciously. The female ghost also narrowed her eyes as a murderous intent surged from the depths of her heart.

Fast…

Unimaginably fast!

Sss!!! The child cried out miserably as its small frame suddenly swelled like a balloon to two meters in size. It desperately used its expanding body to fight and attempt to unravel the chains binding it, but to no avail at all. The chains emerging from Qin Ye’s sleeves appeared to be endless, and as the child expanded, so did the length of chain emerging from Qin Ye’s sleeves, thereby rendering the child’s efforts futile.

Whoosh… Yin energy scattered everywhere like grim, fluttering butterflies. As the Yin energy slowly receded, it soon revealed the dumbfounded expressions on the female ghost’s face.

She gasped and turned her head sharply, staring in disbelief at where the child’s Yin energy was promptly dissipating from. Her bloodshot eyes widened, while her jaws hung agape. There wasn’t a single trace of terror. Instead, she was completely swamped with an overwhelming sensation of astonishment.

How is something like that even possible?

Three long seconds later, she turned her head around stiffly and stared blankly at Qin Ye as she asked, “How… did you do that?”

Then, as soon as the fluttering talismans landed on the ground, they immediately flared up with a deep black luster, and they… promptly began to swirl around, forming a wall of talismans that blocked off all escape routes.

She shook her head stiffly.

“Because he’s afraid.” The tip of the spear drew out sparks along the ground. Qin Ye continued to plod forward slowly, but surely, “Didn’t your beloved daolord tell you that all Emissaries of Hell have an absolute advantage over Yin spirits of an equal or lower cultivation level?”

Qin Ye took another step forward. The female ghost’s teeth began to chatter uncontrollably. How terrifying… The fear in her heart was no different from that of a rat staring at a cat, or that of a mosquito staring down a spider in its web. It was a primal sense of fear that had spread from her heart.

Dong… A third step. Qin Ye was now no more than three meters away from the female ghost, and the anxiety in her heart came to a head. With a shrill shriek, the hair on her head suddenly lashed out and weaved themselves into a massive net, while she scrambled away to the corner of the roof, leaning back heavily against the wall of talismans behind her.

Ignoring her cries, Qin Ye continued to plod towards her. Step by step, his pace quickened. Three meters… two meters… and just as he closed the two meter gap, something in the female ghost’s heart snapped! With another loud shriek, her web of hair suddenly rushed straight for Qin Ye like the rising tide of the sea.

Kkkkrrrr… It sounded just like a tightening bowstring. Her eyes appeared completely bloodshot. Her hair had evidently been reinforced through the soaking of decades’ worth of corpse fluid. It was incredibly thick, and even carried the plague of corpse poison with it. Anyone who was trapped in her binding of hair like that was bound to die - or so she thought. But somehow… her heart continued to be plagued by an unending sense of fear and terror.

BOOM!

Whoosh…

She was completely flabbergasted.

Completely unharmed.

No response.

Evil ghost…

There were no longer any trump cards hidden up her sleeves, and this was clearly not a situation she would be able to get out of with sheer dumb luck. Their earlier exchange had taught her a simple yet profound truth - they were entities that were on completely different planes of existence.

Qin Ye didn’t even attempt to obstruct her.

And then, she knew nothing more.

Approximately two seconds later, she roused from her stupor, only to be electrified with an excruciating pain that surged throughout her body. She sought to scream, to cry out for help, but she soon discovered that… a long spear had at some point run straight through her body and pinned her to the ground. The slightest of movements would send a mind-numbing pain throughout her body.

Her head turned around mechanically, and she glanced at Qin Ye in a pious and humble manner, almost prayerfully, as she fervently suppressed the intense pain coming from her chest, “Please… have mercy on me… my… my cultivation journey wasn’t easy… I hope my lord can show me some mercy…”

“I’ve still got many, many questions that need answers. It’s not everyday that I come across a Hellguard after all… and an Assassin of the Underworld to boot. I refuse to believe that you’re not a trusted aide of the daolord.”

“T-thank you my lord…” The female ghost gritted her teeth and ignored the excruciating pain emanating from her chest as she transformed into a nethergale and rushed into the soul sphere. The talismans around the soul sphere immediately lit up in a series of flaring lights, before shrinking back tightly together and growing dull once more.

“But it looks like there are still some loose ends to tie up…” He stretched out his hand and clenched his fist, and all of the talismans swirling around him promptly flew back and adhered onto the spear, promptly transforming into a mourning staff. Meanwhile, his gaze had already turned to the outskirts of the neighbourhood.

Everything was still dark, and yet the entire neighbourhood spanning over a thousand meters in circumference had already been cordoned off with tape. As soon as the swirling talismans vanished, he instantly heard the clattering sounds of military men disembarking and unloading equipment. Military vehicles of all shapes and sizes were already pulled over in the neighbourhood, while the spotlights above the vehicles were all shining straight towards the rooftop.

There were a total of at least three hundred cultivators gathered below right now… He silently lit an Incense of Paramnesia. Following that, the Yin energy around him transformed into illusory crows, and he stepped onto their backs and began to drift down to the ground.

He needed to find a suitable excuse to explain how Qin Ye got here, and how Li Jixi and Wang Chenghao perished in the call of duty.

…………………………………………………

Exactly one hour ago, the eruption of Yin energy was first detected in the vicinity.

And yet, the clash lasted no more than ten seconds - from the initial terrifying shockwaves of clashing Yin energy, to the domineering declaration of victory of one of the entities.

Just like that?

What’s going on? Someone like Li Jixi… He couldn’t bring himself to condemn Li Jixi’s actions. He didn’t agree with the course of action undertaken, but he had always attributed it to the difference in their worldviews. Someone like that… bears the weight of the world on his shoulders. So what exactly is it over here that had caused him to deprioritize all of his other missions and come to this god forsaken place? Did he already know that there was going to be a clash between two Hellguard-class Yin spirits?

“On alert!!!” Everyone jolted back to their sense and raised their vigilance to the extreme. The Special Investigations Department was clothed with the authority to temporarily take command of all military forces. Thus, with a single wave of his hand… Click, click, click... Thousands of black muzzles immediately pointed towards the sky, locked and loaded.