Chapter 861 (1/2)

Chapter 861

The Blood-Colored Ancient Castle was the largest comparatively preserved trial region in the Immemorial Path’s eastern region . It was different from the Ten Thousand Beast Forest . The Ten Thousand Beast Forest had just been a primordial forest .

The Blood-Colored Ancient Castle was millions of miles long . It was a shocking, practically endless construction . The entire castle was the exact same color as fresh blood .

Originally, this castle had been built so grandly that it soared into the clouds . But that majestic and towering scene was gone . It was now a pile of ruins filled with an air of decay and dejection .

There were two Righteous experts carefully advancing at the edge of the castle, searching the ruins .

Although countless years had pa.s.sed, although countless people had explored it, the number of people that had been able to reach its core region was pitifully low . Furthermore, the castle was so large that no one would dare to say that they had finished exploring the outer region .

Suddenly, a cracking sound rang out that caused the two of them to shoot back . But then they saw that a blood-colored rock had simply shattered . They sighed with relief .

This ancient castle was filled with a strange aura, one that made people’s hair stand on end . Whoever entered it would feel on edge .

“Senior apprentice-brother, maybe we should leave . This place is too bizarre . I always feel like there’s a chilling breeze behind me and like my heart is about to leap out of my chest,” said the younger expert . He didn’t want to go any deeper .

“f.u.c.k, it really is bizarre . When we entered, it was still so sunny outside . But now it’s so gloomy and sinister . Tch, you’re right, this place is too evil and unnatural . Let’s go somewhere else to test our luck…” The slightly older one had just finished speaking when he looked back at his fellow disciple . When he saw him, his face instantly turned pale with terror .

“What is it, senior-?”

PFFT!

A black figure suddenly pierced through his back . The disciple was horrified and was just about to struggle when his whole body withered, becoming a desiccated corpse . He didn’t even have a chance to resist .

A black figure merged back with the earth, as if it had never existed at all . The only sign of its existence was that withered corpse .

The slightly older disciple was terrified . Without even thinking about it, he slashed his sword behind him and then turned to flee .

His sword didn’t strike anything . Or perhaps it could be said that it struck something, but that something was nothing more than a shadow .

His sword went through the shadow without affecting it at all . The shadow grew out of the ground like a tree root, and it suddenly released a thorn that shot toward him .

He tried to dodge, but he suddenly found that his legs were both bound by the shadow .

“NO-!”

His miserable scream was cut short as all his Blood Qi flowed into the shadow and was absorbed .

In just a single breath, he was turned into a withered corpse . He collapsed on the ground, looking like a block of dried up wood .

Once that shadow had absorbed his Blood Qi, it returned to the ground . But suddenly, a ray of light shot over and directly cut it in two .

Blood surprisingly splashed out of it . The shadow was cut in two and disappeared as if it had returned to the ground .

Two new figures appeared in the ruins . One looked like he was heroic and bold, while one was a veiled woman . They were Long Chen and Yue Xiaoqian .

“Xiaoqian, what do you think?” Long Chen looked at the blood and corpses on the ground . He frowned as he had never seen such a thing before today . On the way, they had also seen quite a few withered corpses .

“They should be shadow ghouls,” said Yue Xiaoqian . Seeing his blank stare, she explained, “Shadow ghouls are a member of the ghost race . They form when a person dies, but their soul doesn’t completely dissipate . It forms a special kind of lifeform . ”

“There really are ghosts in this world?” Long Chen was startled . He had always thought they were just stories to frighten people .

“The ghosts you’re talking about are just some things that people made up . The ghosts that I’m talking about are a kind of life energy . In truth, there are many lifeforms in this world that we can’t come into contact with . To put it another way, they should be in a parallel s.p.a.ce next to ours, making it so we can never come into contact with them .

“But there are always people who like to break conventions and do a few heretical things . When dimensional walls are broken, a few things from other worlds will flow into ours . Originally, such things shouldn’t be able to exist within our world . Special conditions need to be met in order for them to survive . For example, these shadow ghosts shouldn’t exist in our world . But they are here . That means someone intentionally drew them here and intentionally set up the environment so they could survive . Drawing over existences from other worlds is no different than playing with fire . If it has no natural predators in its new environment, it would have the potential to destroy the entire world .