Chapter 418: Relic at the Lake Bottom (1/2)

Chapter 418: Relic at the Lake Bottom

Up to this point, one third of the explorers from the five major forces in the Realm of a Hundred Battles had died.

The crowd of survivors fell silent as they gazed at the wall of cyan light and the Specters beyond it that used to be their companions.

They realized that returning through the valley was no longer an option.

They could only choke back their grief and turn around. Instead of dwelling on what was happening behind them, they needed to focus on the problems that awaited them.

“Let’s go find out who’s fighting over there!” With these words, Shen Zhong took the initiative to dash off towards the area where the sounds of fighting were coming from.

Seeing Shen Zhong leave, the others sped off after him, as if they were afraid that more mishaps would happen if they stayed.

Having escaped a calamity, Nie Tian didn’t dare to lag behind. Therefore, he rapidly caught up with Dong Mingxuan, who was alongside Dong Li.

Feeling the uncanniness of this place, he believed that the safest way out was to stay with the Worldly realm experts.

Before long, the team came to the area filled with huge rocks, where battles were taking place.

Being the first ones to arrive, Shen Zhong, Dong Mingxuan, and the other Worldly realm experts stood behind a huge rock, where they observed the fierce battle between two groups of human Qi warriors with grim expressions on their faces.

Dong Li approached her martial uncle Dong Mingxuan and asked, “What’s happening here?” Confusion filled her face as her gaze swept across the battlefield.

Nie Tian also seemed rather confused, not having a clue about what was going on.

From the way they were dressed, it seemed that those engaged in battle belonged to different Qi warrior sects.

They could tell that some of them were from the Flame God Sect, and some others were from the Spirit God Sect. The rest were most likely from other smaller, local sects in the Realm of Dark Underworld.

What confused Nie Tian was that the total of several dozen Qi warriors from different sects were currently engaged in indiscriminate battles with one another.

None of them seemed to have clear or fixed targets.

Some Qi warriors from the same sect were even madly attacking each other, seemingly lost in their killing instinct.

Nie Tian observed with rapt attention, and discovered that, for every single one of them, their pupils, which should have been pitch-black, were glittering with a mysterious, cyan light .

Their expressions had also grown twisted. Even though they had the appearances of humans, they seemed to have already lost their intelligence. Their bloodthirsty nature was all they had left now.

The look in their eyes seemed no different from the look in the Specters’ eyes.

Scattered in the vicinity were a number of dead Qi warriors, all of which were riddled with holes and had obviously died miserable deaths.

CRUNCH!

A powerful expert from the Flame God Sect severed a Spirit God Sect Qi warrior’s head with a sharp blade.

In the next moment, a wisp of misty, gray soul rose from the freshly-killed Spirit God Sect Qi warrior’s head. As it did, it absorbed the pure and rich phantasm Qi in the air, rapidly transforming.

Before it completely turned into a Specter, however, the discarnate soul seemed to be channeled by some mysterious power, and flew towards the area above the lake, where it joined countless other Specters.

Phantasm Qi rose continuously from the rippling, cyan lake water and converged in midair above the lake, where countless densely-packed, gray, misty Specters squirmed about and let out ear-piercing, scalp-numbing screeches.

“These people have been influenced by some sort of evil spell. They’re obsessed with killing, but they can’t distinguish between enemies and friends.” Shen Zhong felt a sense of coldness as he looked at the vague figures that were hiding among the numerous Specters above the lake. “I suppose those Phantasms are behind all this.”

The moment Shen Zhong said those words, a sharp screech, which seemed to carry a bewitching psychic power, rang out from within the crowd of Specters above the lake.

All of a sudden, the Qi warriors who were entangled with each other in fierce battles turned around and focused on the same target.

Dong Mingxuan’s expression flickered as he exclaimed, “They’re coming at us!!

“Those Qi warriors have already lost their senses. The only thing left in them now is their killing nature. They have been bewitched by the Phantasms, and they’re no longer the men they were. So don’t relent everyone! Leave none standing!”

The explorers from the Realm of a Hundred Battles might have been somewhat hesitant when they had faced Specters transformed from their friends.