Chapter 37: The Ghost Sect and Blood Sec (1/2)
500 kilometers south of Mystic Mist Palace…
A poisonous miasma of various colors floated in mid-air like a layer of thick clouds.
Dried bones had been piled up into an eccentric altar. In front of it could be seen a ghastly woman, as ugly and horrifying as a ghost, waving her sharp, black fingernails through the air, and simultaneously mumbling something under her breath.
Five tunic-clad young boys and girls, all of whom had relatively dark skin, were listening silently.
Eyes emanating green light, the woman said coldly, “The Spiritual Treasure sect, Cloudsoaring sect, Grayvale sect, and Mystic Mist sect ruined our major plan several days ago. We have to do something about it. There is only one goal during your journey into the Green Illusion dimension, and that is to kill all the junior disciples from the four sects. They are all in the same stage as you are, so not a single one must be left alive!”
A skinny young man licked his upper lip like a blood-thirsty beast. “Lady Night Ghost,” he said, “please rest assured. By the time we leave the Green Illusion dimension, all those juniors from the four sects will be dead.”
The young man’s name was Mo Xi, a disciple of the Ghost sect, who was in the ninth level of Qi Refining.
On his neck hung a necklace made of human thumb bones, which came from the numerous enemies he had slaughtered.
Whenever a Ghost sect disciple killed an enemy who was at the same level of cultivation, they would chop off the enemy’s thumb, and string them together.
As for the rest of the four Ghost sect disciples, they had only collected enough thumb bones to make bracelets.
Mo Xi had killed so many more opponents that he was the only one who was able to craft a necklace.
Clearly, he was the most powerful and dreadful of the five.
“Yes, with you as the leader, I can rest assured.” The old woman they referred to as Night Ghost laughed in an evil, ghost-like manner before continuing. “The people from the Blood sect have also arrived.”
As of this very moment, a burly man with disheveled red hair arrived at the altar of bones, followed by five teenagers from the Blood sect.
His hair was as red as blood, and the loose strands which dangled down his wide forehead initially seemed like streams of blood.
Every one of the five boys and girls behind him reeked of a strong smell of blood, as if they had just attended a feast of gore in which they drank their fill of fresh blood.
Their leader was a properly dressed girl, who was so beautiful that it seemed as if she had come from a painting. However, she had an extremely cold look on her face, as if she was trying to scare off anyone who dared to get near.
The instant Mo Xi caught sight of her, he exclaimed, “Yu Tong!? You’re going to lead the team from the Blood sect?! Aren’t you supposed to be working on your breakthrough into the Lesser Heaven stage?”
“I will,” Yu Tong said, snorting coldly.“In the Green Illusion dimension.”
The old woman from the Ghost sect gave a low-pitched, terrifying chuckle. With a nod, she continued, “It seems the four sects really angered your Blood sect. Otherwise, you wouldn’t appoint Yu Tong to enter the Green Illusion dimension. This is wonderful. With only Mo Xi in a leadership position, I wasn’t completely sure, but with Yu Tong there too, there won’t be any problem.”
The burly man from the Blood sect looked at the disciples from his sect and chuckled. “The mission for those trial takers from the four sects is to slaughter the four second grade spirit beasts. Yours is to slaughter all of the trial takers, not the spirit beasts!
“You are the real hunters!
“The four main targets are An Ying from the Spiritual Treasure sect, Jiang Lingzhu from the Cloudsoaring sect, Yuan Feng from the Grayvale sect, and Zheng Bin from the Mystic Mist sect!
“They are viewed as core disciples of the four sects. Kill them and bring me their heads, then you’ll receive a handsome reward!
“A debt of blood must be paid in blood.” The burly man from the Blood sect harrumphed coldly. “The four sects dared to ruin our major event, so they should not blame us for destroying the foundation of their future!”
The old woman from the Ghost sect took out a piece of bone and threw it into the bone altar. “It’s about time.”
A moment later, a portal of dark-green light gradually formed in the center of the bone altar.
As she opened the portal, the old woman warned, “Remember, the Green Illusion dimension is not ours; we’ve gone through a lot to create this access point to the Secret Dimension Gate. Remember, you must finish the job and return in six months. Those who can’t return in time, or who get caught by the four sects, can simply wait for death to meet them in the Green Illusion dimension.”
The responses from the disciples were immediate.
“Got it.”
“We only need three months to finish the job. Those who can’t return in time deserve to die inside!”
“The gate is open!”
The ghastly old woman glanced over all of the eleven trial takers from the Ghost sect and the Blood sect, and then said, “Go!”
…
In the Green Illusion dimension…
Since Nie Tian wasn’t from the clans that clung to the Spiritual Treasure sect, no one talked to him the entire time.