Chapter 557: Faceless Ghosts (2/2)

“A faceless ghost! Yet another faceless ghost! Kill him immediately!”

All of a sudden, the immortals who’d come to investigate the situation blanched. Even though they were still two hundred and fifty meters away, they drew their swords and pointed them at Lu Yun.

Numerous rays of sword brilliance whistled through the air and slashed down in his direction.

“Faceless ghost? What are they talking about?” With a frown, he unsheathed Violetgrave and stabbed forward a hundred times, promptly shooting down the incoming flying swords.

“It’s Violetgrave!” someone shouted in shock. “That’s Lu Yun’s sword! So Lu Yun’s died and become a faceless ghost?!”

“How can that be? Lu Yun… dead?!” All of the immortals started panicking. That Lu Yun had died and become a faceless ghost was momentous news that would shake the whole world of immortals.

There were no dao immortals in the crowd. The strongest of the lot were peerless immortals, while immortals of various lower realms were also present.

“We can’t be certain it’s him. Maybe a faceless ghost grabbed his sword…”

……

“What the f...?” Lu Yun was thoroughly mystified by the chatter. “A faceless ghost? Are they talking about me?”

Acting on impulse, he vigorously waved his hand and condensed a curtain of water in front of him. He could see his appearance reflected in the water.

“What the fuck!!” he cried out subconsciously, almost every hair on his body standing on end.

In the curtain of water, he could see his tall figure, long hair floating behind him, as well as a violet sword in his hand. However—

His face! His face was blank and smooth without any facial features!

In other words, he was faceless!

He moved back several steps in succession. The immortals nearby didn’t follow up and instead, observed him in silence.

“Y-you’re Lu Yun. H-h-how did you die here? My elder sister said you were very strong…” The young girl clad in blue stared at him with sheer disbelief.

“I’m not dead and I didn’t turn into a faceless ghost or whatever that is.” Lu Yun found sudden calm.

I didn’t have eyes in the water curtain, but I can clearly see everything around me. I don’t have a mouth or a nose, but I can breathe and talk. An illusion, someone’s cast an illusion on me! What incredible skill!

He took a deep breath and stood motionless. It must’ve happened when I smelled the sweet fragrance and heard the water drops earlier… and in all that darkness. That was probably when I was hit by this technique.

“Faceless ghosts, faceless ghosts are coming again!” came another panicked yell somewhere far away in the ruined city.

Lu Yun lifted his head and spotted a large group of humanoid creatures, similarly without faces, swiftly floating through the air in their direction. His eyes could see them, but his consciousness told him the area around them was completely empty, that nothing was there.

“So there really are faceless ghosts?” With a shake of his hand, Violetgrave hummed gently in his grasp. “They’re ghosts indeed… ghosts whose soul-parts have been severed…”

Crackle!

Black fire rose around his figure with a vengeance and instantly incinerated the illusion-like thing affixed to his body.

“I…” His expression fell the next moment, because in the water curtain, he could see that his facial features had faded slightly, and he could sharply sense that his soul had also been injured. “I almost became a faceless ghost for real!”