#838 - Chapter 838: Alerting the Snake

Seeing Ji Changsheng like this, Xiaobai and Wang Xuan each placed a hand on his shoulder, and the three of them moved forward silently.

The night was silent, but the path ahead no longer felt terrifying.

After walking for a while, Xiaobai keenly felt the yin energy intensifying, so he raised his hand, signaling everyone to stop.

“We might need to make some preparations,” Xiaobai suddenly blurted out.

Ji Changsheng stared at Xiaobai with suspicion, the corners of his mouth frozen and slightly blue, making it difficult for him to speak fluently.

“What... what preparations?”

“I’m going to kill a fox, you guys wait here!” Xiaobai said decisively, and then sped off alone into the depths of the forest.

“What’s wrong with Senior Brother Xiaobai?” Ji Changsheng asked.

“I’m not sure, but we can just wait here,” Wang Xuan said calmly.

Xiaobai continued to walk into the depths of the forest, his figure gradually changing as he walked, the demonic energy around him becoming increasingly dense.

A dozen breaths later, a tall and slender black figure stood in the darkness, demonic energy surging, its aura powerful, and the Eight Directions Demon Halberd in its hand was even more filled with murderous intent.

The surrounding beasts felt the aura of this powerful being and scattered in all directions, not daring to approach.

Suddenly, the black figure seemed to have found its target, taking a few quick steps, moving as fast as the wind, the air cracking under the pressure.

Gently raising its hand, black energy floated out, and a fox that had been cultivating for a thousand years was running and bumping around in the forest.

After being hit by the black energy, it was as if it had suddenly been frozen in place, one front paw suspended in the air, unable to move.

The black figure gently opened its hand, and the thousand-year-old fox floated into the black figure’s hand like a gust of wind, its fingers pressing on its neck, ready to crush it with the slightest movement.

In just twenty or thirty breaths, on the way back, the black figure slowly shrank, turning back into a chubby teenager.

“Junior brothers, I’m back!” Ten minutes later, Xiaobai, holding a white thousand-year-old fox in his hand, appeared in front of Wang Xuan and Ji Changsheng.

The two were both taken aback when they saw the fox in Xiaobai’s hand, “This... this is a thousand-year spirit fox? It is said to be extremely intelligent and rarely caught.”

“That’s right, even the Beast Taming Peak may not be able to raise one. Senior Brother Xiaobai, you actually caught one back so quickly. If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I definitely wouldn’t have believed it.”

The usually calm Wang Xuan couldn’t help but say a few more words.

“Can it deal with the ghost race?”

“No, its blood is bewitching, the ghost race likes it very much, so it is the best bait.”

Xiaobai said unhurriedly.

The thousand-year spirit fox was snow-white all over, its white fur having a translucent feel even in the dark night, and its pair of eyes were dark and bright, causing people to exclaim in amazement when they saw it.

Ji Changsheng stretched out his hand to touch its fur, but the thousand-year spirit fox’s four claws instantly extended, sharp and pointed, scaring Ji Changsheng into quickly retracting his hand.

But when Xiaobai reached out and touched its head, the sharp claws slowly retracted.

Looking at Wang Xuan and Ji Changsheng’s envious and amazed gazes, Xiaobai’s pride was completely filled.

As the night deepened, in front of them, in a place densely covered with forests and overgrown with vines, a mist suddenly began to boil.

After a while, the mist condensed into a large door, from which came the sound of “ding-ling~ ding-ling” bells.

Ghosts wearing black robes from head to toe, with two strange pointed horns on their heads, appeared one by one. Their eyes could not be seen, and they were like puppets. They seemed to have no feet and floated as they walked.

After coming out of the door, the leader turned his head around, then extended a skeletal five-fingered hand, signaling to move forward.

“That mist door will last for two hours, let’s get rid of these little ghosts first,” Xiaobai whispered in his ear.

So the three exchanged glances, Wang Xuan’s sharp sword came out, spiritual power gathered in his hand, and the sharp sword energy was deepened with murderous intent by the spiritual power, piercing through several ghosts with one strike.

The ghost formation instantly disintegrated, and the ghost race people scattered, while under their black robes, ghostly withered hands stretched out, sharp and pointed, as if they could directly pierce through the human body with one grab.

At the same time, from under the hollow black robes, came the mournful cries of “whoo-hoo ha-ha,” and terrifying ghosts with miserable faces ran out, rampaging in the air, and rushing towards Xiaobai and the others.

The three stood with their swords, forming shields with their own spiritual power to protect their bodies, and waving their spiritual swords, several sword energies spread out like ripples.

“Ah~ Ah~ Ah~” Cries of misery came out, and the rampaging ghosts in the air were immediately turned into black smoke and dissipated after being injured by the sword energy.

In just a few minutes, before Xiaobai’s Demon Halberd could even get warm, all the ghost race people who had run out were killed, leaving only one gasping for breath.

“This bunch of trash, they really can’t take a beating.” Xiaobai muttered a few words, reluctantly taking back the Demon Halberd.

“I... what other world? You... people from the cultivation world?” The old tree bark was so frightened that he lost his soul, his mouth trembling and talking nonsense.

Without saying a word, Wang Xuan directly stabbed his sword into the black robe, and a cracking sound of bone breaking came.

“Ah~” The old tree bark let out a miserable ghost cry.

“The leader, it was the leader who sent us, saying that the undead race is only lingering on its last breath, and told us to take the opportunity to destroy their territory.”

“I’m asking you what’s going on with going to the other world?” Xiaobai roared fiercely.

“Go... go to them for help, they will give the ghost race power, cough cough...” After the old tree bark finished speaking, he coughed, panting heavily.

“Truly, greedy people never have enough!” Xiaobai spat.

“Ahead, lead the way!” Wang Xuan said coldly. He pulled out his long sword, but the sword body did not turn red.

Ghosts have no blood; they only have dry bodies. Ten thousand years ago, they were just ordinary people with ugly appearances.

Because they could not accept the many negative comments from the outside world, they willingly degenerated, until they could only live in the eighteenth-level underground space.

Slowly, they evolved into the ghost race, which is rarely seen on weekdays.

They never see the sunlight all day long, raising fierce ghosts and associating with lonely wild ghosts, living like a corpse buried alive in advance.

The old tree bark led Xiaobai and the others into the mist door. After passing through, it was as if they had entered another world.

Outside the mist door was a dark and cold primeval forest, but inside the mist door, they went straight to the entrance of a palace.

Two terrifying stone lions stood at the entrance of the palace, as if they were about to swallow the visitors.

The pillars and eaves of the palace were all black, and the black lacquer on the open black iron door gave off a hint of metallic light in the dimness, devoid of any vitality.

The four walked into the palace, and what came into view was a staircase leading directly to the underground. The staircase was also made of black iron, and it made a “clang clang” sound as they walked on it.

Xiaobai suddenly reacted, “Not good, we’ve stirred up the snake!”