Chapter 202. Death Row Prisoners
Arc 7 : Last Nightmare
The process of entering the ghost domain was not pleasant, especially since the Tianshi Sect entered through a forced passage, which made the experience even worse.
The passage is where the world of the living and the dead meet. The strong yang energy and the dense yin energy repel and conflict with each other, forming a chilly and cold wind in the passage.
Du Yan walked silently at the end of the team. He didn’t feel that bad, but he could tell from the look on Wen Yicheng’s face beside him.
Wen Yicheng is very talented and is the son of the sect leader, so he can be considered a child of destiny. During the few days that Du Yan spent with him, he always had a bit of arrogance and confidence on his face.
However, Wen Yicheng’s face was pale, and his shoulders were shaking violently.
After a while, Wen Yicheng finally couldn’t stand the feeling of the yin energy penetrating his bones anymore, and directly ordered Du Yan to block the direction where the cold wind was the most severe.
Wen Yicheng whispered a spell, and then Du Yan felt a fiery power emerging from the shackles in his body, and surging yang energy emerged from Du Yan’s body.
Yin and yang are not compatible. In this situation, the yin in the passage regards the sudden emergence of the fierce yang as a mortal enemy.
The surrounding yin energy instantly rushed towards Du Yan, trying to suppress the yang energy.
The pressure on Wen Yicheng was greatly reduced, and he felt much better.
If it were an ordinary person, under this situation where the yang and yin energies intertwined and repelled each other, he would probably roll over in agony.
However, the young man in front of him was a corpse, and he had no consciousness and could not feel pain. Wen Yicheng thought so, and he did not feel any guilt for using Du Yan as a target to attract yin energy pelt.
Du Yan knew Wen Yicheng’s purpose, but he didn’t pay much attention to it for the time being. Some things made him feel very strange.
Now that he is conscious, he should feel the pain of being attacked by the yin and yang forces as if they were a battlefield. However, the situation is exactly the opposite. Du Yan did not feel any discomfort at all.
The yin energy that poured into his body from every part soon became part of his strength, loosening the shackles in his body.
However, before Du Yan could figure out the mystery of this yin energy, his eyes went dark, his body lightened, and he fell to the ground.
Everyone has entered the ghost space.
Du Yan has a magic spell on him, so he will naturally not be separated from Wen Yicheng.
In this narrow area, in addition to Wen Yicheng and Du Yan, there were two Taoist priests wearing Maoshan sect taoist robes standing. In addition, there were three ordinary people in modern clothes lying on the ground.
All the Tianshi sects have signed an agreement that in the ghost space, all celestial masters from all sects will become a team and cooperate with each other.
It seemed that this was not the first time for the Taoist priests of the Maoshan sect to enter the ghost domain. After they introduced themselves to Wen Yicheng, the Taoist priest named Zhuo Jie began to speak.
“Let’s pretend to be dizzy first so that these people won’t notice our abnormality.”
The celestial masters are much more resistant to yin energy than ordinary people, and they will not lose consciousness when entering the ghost domain.
But to avoid trouble, they usually pretend to be ordinary people.
Several people fell to the ground and closed their eyes, waiting for movement nearby before pretending to wake up and getting up.
The game plot in the ghost space has already started, and Du Yan finally has time to look around.
The space is narrow, the light is dim, and the wooden cell door indicates that this is in a dungeon, and it should not be in modern times.
Apart from the cell where Du Yan and his companions were, there were also several people in the cell opposite, totaling ten people in total.
After everyone woke up, they exchanged information with each other. The ordinary people judged that the celestial masters and the group were newcomers who entered for the first time, so they decisively ignored them.
The veterans formed a temporary team, and celestial masters and the group were completely abandoned.
In such a dangerous place, bringing in newbies who don’t know the situation is simply courting death.
The celestial masters deliberately pretended to be novices, and they were unwilling to act with ordinary people.
In their view, the death of these people in the ghost domain could not be considered as the ghost king killing people. Because these people had died once, the ghost king forced their souls to stay in this world. The celestial masters wanted to destroy the ghost king only because he messed yin and yang and disturbed the order.
Moreover, the ghost king once slaughtered all the members of a certain Tianshi sect, so naturally, everyone in the other sects was in danger. They were afraid that the ghost king would pull all the dying or dead people into the ghost domain in order to strengthen his own strength, which would cause uncontrollable consequences in the future.
The celestial masters came here for both training and information gathering, and bringing ordinary people along would only hinder them.
The two parties reached a strange tacit understanding, occupying each other’s corners, waiting for the plot to begin.
Zhuo Jie lowered his voice and said: “From the state of these ordinary people, it seems that this is not their first time entering the ghost domain.”
Wen Yicheng had no experience and did not understand what he meant for a moment.
Zhuo Jie’s junior fellow apprentice Jiang Yue nodded and said: “It seems that the survival rate in this space of the ghost domain is very low, everyone be careful.”
As soon as he finished speaking, a sound finally came from the dark and silent outside.
The faint flames danced and rolled into the dark corridor, and then several people dressed in different clothes appeared.
Judging from their clothes, the timeline of this ghost space is indeed hundreds of years ago, and all the characters in the plot are wearing ancient costumes.
The prison guard had no doubts about the strangely dressed people in the cell and started a conversation as if it were a routine.
The prison guard in the lead should be the jailer, and the people behind him were wearing official uniforms.
The jailer pointed to two cells, then nodded and said: “Daren, these are the prisoners who will be executed next month.”
The official nodded and said: “Take them out.”
Afterward, everyone in the cell was taken to the prisoner transport vehicle. On the way, Du Yan roughly understood the basic situation of the ghost space in front of him.
The place they were going to at this time was Shunping City, and it was Shunping City from a thousand years ago.
Shunping City, death row inmates, when these two keywords were combined, Du Yan quickly understood the background story of this ghost space.
These death row prisoners were sent to Shunping City, where they would fight as human Gu to determine the final winner.
The former ghost king Sun Jin was the ultimate winner who crawled out of Shunping City, and the prisoners who died in Shunping City were still full of resentment, which eventually led the city to become the world-famous Shunping Ghost City.
The two Maoshan sect taoist priests who were traveling with them were not aware of the past of the former Ghost King Sun Jin, but they were veterans who had entered the ghost domain several times and were very familiar with the information about the ghost domain.
The Maoshan sect’s taoist priests also deduced the background of this ghostly space from the situation before them.
Jiang Yue was younger and less sophisticated, so his face turned pale instantly.
He kept saying: “It’s over. It’s over. What kind of luck do we have? This is the place with the highest mortality rate. No, this is simply a ghost space where almost no one can escape.”
Wen Yicheng asked: “Since no one escaped, how did you know the relevant information?”
Jiang Yue said: “It’s just almost. It’s not that no one has come out. Only one person has come out alive from this space.”
Wen Yicheng asked again: “Since someone has come out, it means it is not a dead end. You don’t need to be so pessimistic.”
Jiang Yue said with a tearful face: “You don’t understand, we don’t have the conditions to get out!”
Seeing that his fellow apprentice was already incoherent, Zhuo Jie explained: “Priest Wen must have seen that picture. The eyes in the picture are the eyes of the survivor.”
At this point, Wen Yicheng also understood that the man was able to escape not because of his great strength but because he had special eyes and was treated favorably by the ghost king.
Jiang Yue’s shoulders slumped, and he said: “No one of us looks like the person in the picture, so the Ghost King will definitely not let us go.”
Wen Yicheng just frowned and said nothing more.
No matter how dangerous the situation ahead is, they have already entered this ghost space, so they must enter Shunping City.
If they tried to escape halfway, they would be trapped in this ghost space forever. No one made any rash moves, but just stayed quietly in the prison cart and headed towards Shunping City.
Three days later, the group entered Shunping City, and the escorting officials handed the group of people in the prison cart to the fully armed guards at the city gate.
The goal of the superior is to get the strongest death warriors, not to want everyone to die inexplicably.
They divided Shunping City into different areas, and the death row prisoners who had just arrived and were not familiar with the situation were placed in the same area.
The winner who survives the fight in this area will enter the next area, and the one who survives the fight will be the human Gu King.
In Shunping City, the entire system is extremely cruel. From weapons to basic needs such as food, they must be exchanged with Shunping City currency.
And this currency is the lives of other people. If they want to survive, they must kill others.
After settling down in the primary area, the escape game officially begins.
Du Yan stood quietly behind Wen Yicheng, listening to their discussion of future plans.
Entering the ghost space where the survival rate is almost zero, several celestial masters did not dare to be careless. Several people began to exchange information and make arrangements based on each person’s expertise.
The most dangerous thing about this ghost space is that the death row prisoners during the day are all human beings, and they must fight with these humans to survive.
At night, these people will turn into fierce ghosts in the Shunping Ghost City and try to escape from the siege of these fierce ghosts.
The survivor stayed inside for seven days and then entered the core area. He and his teammates encountered the final boss of Shunping Ghost City in the core area.
The death row prisoner named Sun Jin was extremely powerful. He appeared in human form during the day, but he made everyone unable to resist. In a very short time, Sun Jin killed everyone except the lucky ones.
Just when the lucky man was about to be killed, the ghost king appeared, praised his beautiful eyes, and then killed the prisoner named Sun Jin.
Then, the lucky guy somehow passed the level and returned to the real world. From his description, the condition for passing this ghost space is to kill the death row prisoner named Sun Jin.
The two taoist priests of the Maoshan sect were only thinking about how to escape safely.
Wen Yicheng secretly clenched his fists to hide his excitement. He thought of the corpse-guardian following behind him and felt that this was the best opportunity for him and his sect.
If the ghost king can be killed, the sect will be able to gain supreme status, and Wen Yicheng will be able to become the most outstanding priest among the younger generation.
Du Yan stood behind Wen Yicheng, watching all his little private movements.
He could easily guess what Wen Yicheng was thinking. He just wanted to take action against Xiao Lang through him.
Du Yan was not worried that the other party’s conspiracy would succeed. He knew that the shackles in his body could be easily broken free if he wanted to.
His focus was on the name Sun Jin. Sun Jin had long since vanished, so the person in this space of ghost domain would not be the former ghost king.
It seems that everything in the ghost domain spaces was created by Xiao Lang. Perhaps the character of Sun Jin was just created by Xiao Lang with his yin energy.
A few days later, Du Yan’s guess was confirmed.
The three taoist priests were very powerful and entered the core area smoothly, while the ordinary people who entered with them disappeared without a trace.
The strength of the final boss Sun Jin was indeed as strong as the rumors said, and the three taoist priests were almost forced into a desperate situation.
The two taoist priests of the Maoshan sect had already fallen to the ground and had completely lost their fighting ability. Wen Yicheng did not care about saving Du Yan’s strength and urgently ordered him to go forward and stop Sun Jin.
Du Yan followed his instructions and stepped forward, but after fighting, he felt something was wrong.
When Sun Jin made his move before, even if Du Yan was just watching, he could tell that he was extremely powerful.
Even if the reclusive ancestors of the Tianshi sect took action, they could probably only barely tie with Sun Jin.
However, after Du Yan made his move, Sun Jin’s momentum weakened. Even when he made his move, it was just a lot of noise but little action. He looked as if he was afraid of knocking off even a hair of Du Yan.
Du Yan is a corpse-guardian at this moment, somewhere between yin and yang, so he can harm ghosts without the help of magic tools.
The weakness of these ghosts, apart from their dead bodies, is their ghost cores. After crushing the ghost cores, the ghosts will temporarily disappear and will only reappear after recuperating for a period of time.
After Sun Jin and Du Yan exchanged a few moves, Sun Jin directly handed the ghost core to Du Yan.
Under this circumstance, although Du Yan was somewhat confused, he showed no mercy and crushed Sun Jin’s ghost core directly.
Sun Jin in front of him turned to ashes, and at the same time, thick white fog filled the streets.
The three taoist priests didn’t have time to be happy before they started to panic again due to the strange situation before them.
Jiang Yue said: “Didn’t they say that it would be over after Sun Jin was killed? What’s going on?”
Zhuo Jie shook his head: “I don’t know, there is very little information about this ghost space, be careful.”
A stronger sense of crisis suddenly surged in everyone’s hearts, as if a powerful existence had descended upon them that made them unable to muster the slightest desire to resist.
Several people retreated to a hidden place, set up a battle formation, and waited in a serious manner.
There were footsteps coming from the end of the street. The footsteps were regular, neither fast nor slow, and getting closer and closer.
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