253 The Amazing Adventures of the Vengeful Spiri (1/2)

”Pretty much.” Lola seemed to see into Ye Qingxuan’s mind and chuckled. ”Then let’s get to the main event.”

Ye Qingxuan instantly felt dizzy as a strange auditory illusion sounded in his ears and faint numbness spread through his body. This was the phenomenon of an outside force controlling his body.

His vision went dark before it brightened again. There seemed to be moonlight before his eyes.

”How is it? Are my eyes nice to use?” Lola asked.

”They’re okay,” Ye Qingxuan said with mocking indifference. His brows furrowed as he looked around.

Under the gaze of those eyes, layers of distorted music notes appeared on the blood-covered walls, ground, and withered corpses. The notes wriggled like maggots. Having lost control and support, they were gradually fading. One could vaguely see the original large structure—countless black music notes pierced the poor slain men, stringing them together as if on a string, creating a vast ritual.

An extremely strange insignia was carved in the center of the ritual, at the heart of dozens of concentric circles. There seemed to be dozens of sub-eyes in the single giant eye. They wandered and swallowed with chilling eeriness. It was the Eyes Within the Eye.

”It’s true, Lola.” Ye Qingxuan squatted and studied the insignia of Hyakume. ”The parliament has gotten together with Hyakume’s believers, and they are starting to think of ways to open the path.”

Lola fell silent. After a long time, she sighed quietly. ”No, perhaps…it’s worse than this,” she said. ”They have a mark too and had just sent a group of people into Avalon’s Shadow through this ritual.”

”Mark?” At that moment, Ye Qingxuan felt heat in his arms. The blood-colored shell began trembling and shone dimly. A song sounded within the shell. This song seemed to come from thousands of miles away. It wrapped around one’s ears, faint but clear.

”The king and his helpers kidnapped the queen, imprisoning her in dreams…”

”Lola, did you hear the song?”

”What song?” Sensing something wrong, Lola was instantly shocked. ”There’s power remaining from the ritual. Be careful, don’t reply to Avalon’s calls.”

”Too late.” Ye Qingxuan looked down and chuckled dryly. ”I think this thing is automatic.” In his hands, the blood-colored shell grew hotter. A warped gleam of fire shone faintly, singing by its own accord. The song grew closer and closer, but Lola’s voice was quickly becoming distant. The connection was becoming blurry and broken until he could only hear static.

In the silence, thick fog surged like a tidal wave, swallowing him. He was surrounded in ghastly white. Something seemed to be hidden inside but he could not see clearly.

The fire within the mark grew brighter. It chased away the fog, allowing him to see clearly the river of blood under his feet.

The Blood Path.

Lola had given him the road mark so he could use the nightmares to practice the basics of the School of Mind. It was also an abnormally effective amplification tool. It could magnify the effects of music scores from various schools. But he had not expected to be pulled into this again.

”Huh? What do you mean by ‘again?’” Ye Qingxuan muttered to himself. He could not help his habit of talking sh*t. How unlucky was he to keep getting pulled into this place?!

The thing that the guys at the parliament dreamed of was just unavoidable to him. But there was no way out of this now. The only fortunate thing was that the connection between him and Lola was not completely broken. After all, she had sucked so much blood from him. She could use the mark as a fulcrum when needed to enter coherence, allowing Ye Qingxuan to use some of her strength.

Today was a full moon. Lola was at her strongest.

Someone prepared to enter the Scepter level and was above the Resonance, Interference, and Distortion level was behind him. He actually felt a little safe.

”I can’t hear what you’re saying but there aren’t any other ways. After all, I’m already here.” Ye Qingxuan sighed. ”I’ll go first and then we’ll see if there are any ways to leave. Maybe I can beat them. Just pay attention and help me when needed.” He repeated it four times and Lola seemed to have heard. The static faded gradually and a faint message traveled over.

”Uh, I’ll just take it that you told me to be careful.” Ye Qingxuan shrugged and activated Jiu Xiao Huan Pei. The long-awaited steel black hand snapped out and knocked against the stones under the Blood Path with a heavy and clanging echo.

”Now, let’s start the amazing adventures of the Vengeful Spirit. Uh, there’ll probably be at least eight books if this gets turned into a comic. People would love it.”

He raised the road mark of the Blood Path. Using the sliver of light, he walked down the road. His steps stopped abruptly as he walked. A bubble-shaped glow appeared when he snapped his finger. It illuminated the ruined wall beside him, as well as the extremely smooth crack on it. It looked like the claw mark of some beast, but also like the mark from the full-out effort of a terrifying weapon.

Ye Qingxuan walked forward emotionlessly. He reached out to touch the crack and could not feel any other cracks. It felt entirely natural, as if it had always existed on this wall, had been planned since the beginning, and had existed on the blueprint.