Chapter 1612 (1/2)

Chapter 1612: Old Patriarch Long Chen

The darkness was familiar. By the time the gate was destroyed, Long Chen had already escaped through it.

“Stimulating.”

Long Chen sighed with relief. That really had been dangerous at the end. He had almost made a big mistake.

That huge hand had been a manifestation of the laws of the Netherworld. Now that he had left, it would also vanish. The old man’s gate would be fine.

“Long Chen, do you remember how you escaped from Purgatory at the end?” asked Evilmoon suddenly.

“Ah, you know what, I really can’t remember. I was caught by the chains when trying to take the purgatory evil dragon corpse. I remember struggling and not being able to escape the chains. And then… and then my head’s blank. My next memory is appearing outside the Gates of h.e.l.l. What happened in the middle?” asked Long Chen.

“h.e.l.lo? Why aren’t you saying anything?” asked Long Chen when Evilmoon didn’t reply.

Evilmoon was silent for a long time. Eventually, it said, “It’s nothing. You managed to forcibly escape from Purgatory. It makes sense that Purgatory would erase those memories. The only strange thing is that it only erased a portion of your memories. Curious.”

In the end, Evilmoon decided to conceal what had happened to Long Chen in the end. It had sensed something, and after considering it, it decided that Long Chen shouldn’t learn of this.

“That makes sense. Anyone who returns from the Netherworld has their memories erased. But I didn’t go through the Gates of h.e.l.l, so I only had a portion erased. It seems the Netherworld really is strange.” Long Chen nodded.

The majority of Netherpa.s.sage experts were not as amazing as Qu Jianying. Qu Jianying had managed to seal a portion of her memories and bring them out, but the majority of Netherpa.s.sage experts had all their memories erased by some mysterious energy.

It was said that the Netherworld existed on a Yin plane, while the world of the living existed on a Yang plane, which meant that memories of the other plane had to be erased. However, this was just a guess, and it was just what everyone said. There was no solid proof of the matter.

“Long Chen, have you ever felt yourself to be evil or very sinister?” asked Evilmoon suddenly.

“What? Did you take the wrong medicine this morning? Aren’t you an evil weapon that has slaughtered countless people? Don’t you feel embarra.s.sed calling me evil?” Long Chen was speechless.

“Alright, let’s not talk about that then.” Evilmoon shut its mouth. It felt that its own communication abilities were lacking. It couldn’t pull any useful information out of Long Chen without him sensing something.

“Evilmoon, why are you acting strange?” asked Long Chen curiously.

“It’s nothing. I’m going to absorb the purgatory evil dragon’s soul essence. I won’t be able to help you during this time, so try to act calm.” After that, Evilmoon fell silent.

Long Chen clearly felt that Evilmoon’s words were a bit strange and off from how it usually acted. He was about to ask it for more details when his body shook.

Long Chen opened his eyes. He found himself to be in a sealed-off room. At this moment, he was a white-haired skinny elder.

The moment the Netherworld’s laws had been about to kill him, an expert from the Corrupt path had attacked the Netherpa.s.sage realm. Long Chen had instantly recognized his robes. At that moment, he had been so moved that he had almost cried. This was his first time feeling that the Corrupt path’s experts also had a lovable side to them.

Now that Long Chen had gone through the expert’s gate, he had entered his body. That expert’s Yuan Spirit had been destroyed, and this body had become a masterless object, allowing Long Chen to control it.

Long Chen opened the door. The sight that entered his eyes was a naked man and woman sweating and plowing the fields.

Both the man and woman were Life Star experts. In the midst of their plowing, they saw Long Chen walk in. They immediately knelt on the ground, quivering with terror. The woman was especially terrified.

“Greetings, patriarch!”

Long Chen directly pressed a finger against the man’s head. A lightning arrow pierced his head, killing him.

A rush of information poured through his mind. Long Chen learned that the owner of the body he was in was called Zhao Manchu. He was the old patriarch of the Evil Spirit Sect, while the man he had just killed was the Evil Spirit Sect’s new sect leader.

As for the woman, that was a bit interesting. She was Zhao Manchu’s disciple and his dual cultivation cauldron. However, just the third day after he went into seclusion to attack the Netherpa.s.sage realm, she had ended up with the new sect leader.

Experts attacking the Netherpa.s.sage realm would take at least three months to succeed. Some would even take years. The two of them had never expected their old patriarch to return so quickly.

“Things are a bit messed up now…”

Long Chen clapped himself on the forehead. He hadn’t expected this old ghost to still have such firepower at such an age. However, the old patriarch didn’t know that someone else had already given him a green hat.

“Patriarch, don’t kill me! Please, think of the years I’ve attended you…”

Long Chen pointed another finger, killing her.

“If you knew life was so precious, why did you take other people’s lives so easily?” sighed Long Chen.

If they weren’t from the Corrupt path, he wouldn’t have killed them. Whether or not they wanted to give a green hat to this old ghost had nothing to do with him.