Chapter 113: A Thousand Ghosts March by Day

“Thank you for saving me!”

Xu Lingqing, her heart still pounding with fear, retracted the violet-gold hairpin in her hand.

If the Centipede Daoist had been just half a step closer, the hairpin would have surely pierced his tongue.

Hui Liyi’s pale face nodded. At this moment, she didn’t even have the strength to speak.

The Centipede Daoist licked the tip of his tongue, his eyes like a tiger watching its prey. His countless pairs of tentacles shot out.

“Goodbye, my delicacies!”

As his voice fell, a huge axe appeared in the Centipede Daoist’s largest pair of tentacles.

The axe was the weapon used by the Divine Realm Dao Soldier, but after being picked up by the Centipede Daoist, its full power had been awakened.

This axe was named the Ghost Snake Axe. It was a divine object that had been passed down in the great world for ten thousand years, and no one knew its story.

The Centipede Daoist’s axe fell, and a huge black-red snake pattern was about to completely melt Hui Liyi.

“Even if my seven emotions have been severed, I can’t forget your shadow…”

“Lei Mingde… I still love you…”

Hui Liyi closed her eyes tightly. The moment she killed the Jialan Academy’s Divine Realm Dao Soldier, she had already cast her own life and death aside, all to satisfy the desire in her heart.

However, she had not expected retribution to come so quickly, so suddenly she was caught off guard.

The ancients said: “What does not belong to you, sooner or later, must be returned!”

What use was Hui Liyi’s awakening now?

In her current physical state, even if she tried to escape, she couldn’t get out of the Centipede Daoist’s grasp.

Her desolate heartbeat suddenly stopped. Deep in her mind, all she could see was that serious and handsome man.

Even Xu Lingqing, who had retreated to a distance, was deeply moved as she watched Hui Liyi’s expression. A single, moved tear fell.

If she hadn’t saved me, why would she be targeted by the Centipede Daoist?

“Liyi, don’t be afraid! Mingde is here!”

In a daze, Hui Liyi heard the voice from her dreams. A sweet smile curved her lips.

I must be in heaven. Heaven is so wonderful…

But soon, Hui Liyi felt a real, solid shoulder blocking in front of her, and even a hint of a man’s unique scent.

Smelling this scent, she felt that even death didn’t matter, as long as she had waited for her lover.

“Ah… Don’t you dare harm my beloved…”

At this moment, a hysterical roar came from Lei Mingde’s lips.

The sound was like a great bell, squeezed out from the depths of his lungs, carrying the fiery impulse of a man whose bottom line had been crossed.

The sound reached Hui Liyi’s ears. Overjoyed, she opened her eyes, and her heart warmed as she looked at that solid back.

Mingde…

You really came…

Lei Mingde’s hands and arms were as hard as black iron, and he actually blocked the blade of the Ghost Snake Axe.

He had used the Beast Taming Sect’s forbidden technique, forcibly merging himself with a ninth-level Pulse Unsealing Realm beast for a short time.

During this period, he could exert a combat power several times his own strength, but the side effects produced afterward were also irreversible.

For the rest of his life, his body would change, causing him to suffer tearing pain every moment.

Hui Liyi’s warm heart ached slightly, and she said softly in a sad voice.

“Mingde, is it worth it for you to do this?”

Lei Mingde pressed both his arms against the axe blade, gritting his teeth and roaring, “It’s worth it!”

“Don’t you know that I indirectly killed your wife?”

“Hehe! You think I don’t know? Xue’er was already seriously ill at that time. You just wanted to save her, and it led to a mistake!”

Hearing this, a long-lost smile appeared on Hui Liyi’s face. Lei Mingde was right.

She didn’t intentionally harm Xue’er. Even without her reckless attempt at medicine, Xue’er wouldn’t have lived long.

But a kill was a kill.

Although Hui Liyi’s heart was strong enough, the self-blame within it could not be forgotten.

The Centipede Daoist disdainfully flicked the long whiskers on his forehead, a sneer on his face.

“Eh? You’re all about to die, and you still dare to flirt here!”

…

At this moment, on the Firo Continent.

Starting from the cave in the Silent Ridge, a series of wailing ghost cries and wolf howls sounded, then began to spread from behind the cave, until the entire Silent Ridge was filled with the roars of wild beasts.

If one were to look closer, they would find that the monsters making these roars were not entirely beasts; mixed among them were the souls of many cultivators.

There were even several souls who were extremely famous figures on the Firo Continent.

Tang Haiyang, Wan Hongkuo, and the countless dissipated ancestral souls of Jialan Academy.

Hun Tian and Hun Mie Sheng from the Soul Tomb Hall who had sacrificed their souls, plus the countless wronged souls who had died in the Soul Tomb Hall.

They had all turned into soul states, their eyes dull and lifeless, their mouths letting out roars, floating in mid-air like walking corpses.

Even the souls of the Green Luan Sect’s Green Luan Bird, the Beast Taming Sect’s Lei Mingde’s mount the White Tiger, and the Qingyang Black Ape, among other beast souls, had joined the rioting procession.

They were awakened by the Centipede Daoist’s voice, and a trace of a residual Charm Soul within each living person or beast controlled their will.

This caused all the spiritual energy in any place these souls passed through to be depleted, the land to become barren, and a lingering demonic aura to remain.

Any plants or animals that stood in the way of this group of souls would instantly be turned into their kind and join the ranks.

A thousand ghosts march by day.

Only this phrase could describe the scene in the Silent Ridge at this moment. The vast wasteland was filled with ghosts, a dense mass of souls that made one’s scalp tingle.

Awooo, awooo…

The sound of ghostly howls resounded through the clouds, threatening to tear apart this world of the Silent Ridge.

Hun Mie Sheng had now become the leading soul, a red dot deep in his pupils controlling his soul consciousness.

Tang Haiyang, Hun Tian, and many other masters followed closely behind, their speed as fast as leopards.

With the momentum of devouring the world, they charged out of the Silent Ridge. Three hundred flying souls in the sky, seven hundred walking on the ground, spreading at an extremely fast speed.

From this moment on, wherever these souls passed, they left behind only Charm Souls, infecting the consciousness of all cultivators.

In just a few breaths, dozens more people’s eyes gradually became turbid, losing their souls and being possessed by Charm Souls.

One spread to ten, ten to a hundred, a hundred to a thousand.

The speed of the spread had already surpassed anyone’s imagination.

In another instant, a small city with a permanent population of a thousand became their slaves.

The spies of the Beast Taming Sect and the Green Luan Sect had already sent this news back to their sects.

It was just that their Sect Masters were now unable to protect even themselves!

…

“Master! This is bad!”

“I feel a large group of monsters approaching us!”

Zidian jumped out from a crack in the ground, its whole body trembling uncontrollably, as if it had sensed something terrifying.

Xu Lingqing’s expression grew solemn. There was the Centipede Daoist in the sky, and now the monsters Zidian spoke of were approaching.

The sky of the Firo Continent, at this moment, had been turned upside down.

[End of Chapter]