Chapter 813 - 233: Blood-Red Long Night, Unleashing Divine Techniques, Nine-Headed Ghost Gate Shattered!

Chapter 813: Chapter 233: Blood-Red Long Night, Unleashing Divine Techniques, Nine-Headed Ghost Gate Shattered!

Rumble!

Rumble rumble————

Mortals may not yet be aware, but Ghost Street is in utter upheaval.

Every ghost house is trembling, and the bricks laid on every street rise like gray butterflies, fluttering and then extinguished in mid-air, like burning paper money blown skyward by a fierce wind.

The origin of this tremor comes from the depths of Ghost Street.

Even standing at the entrance, one can see the magnificent yet eerie spectacle at the end.

It is the towering, mottled bronze gate that reaches the clouds and lurks amid the gray mist.

The gate’s beast ring has long been decrepit and beyond repair, and the beast itself is in ruins and fuzzy, like an ancient dwelling newly excavated, neglected over time.

All of a sudden, those beasts of the ring seem to come alive, their ghastly white pupils glaring open, even the decayed beast ring transforms into mouths filled with sharp fangs.

The entire Ghost Street seems to spring to life.

The nine gates, like nine dragon heads.

Dragon heads open, fierce and vicious, baring claws and teeth.

This scene never occurred when Lianyi House and Miracle Beast Garden merged before.

But now, it has appeared!

This can only mean one thing: the situation is even more severe than when the Lotus Sect entered Jade Capital years ago!

This world does not revolve around Li Yuan.

During the quiet years Li Yuan spent cultivating, various dark tides have sidestepped him and brewed a terrifying wave.

He might have sensed these waves, but only as incidental glimpses from the corners.

Now, as the situation fully erupted.

He sees it, but yet to see clearly.

He’s not omniscient or all-powerful, major events won’t always pull him in.

At this moment...

Li Yuan quietly stands on the mountain side near the Ghost Prison.

Perched on his shoulder is a Wu Ya, leaning against Tree Granny.

And below him in the black-and-white Yin Realm lined with iron cages, Lady Yama, clad in a black dress, embroidered all over with a hundred ghosts, hands clasped, is quietly gazing at a point in the distance.

Behind her...a Pig, a frozen woman ghost, two flower-selling little girls, a stone-bearing fat ghost, a gaunt ghost with iron tongs, a white-clad woman ghost bearing an iron cage stand in a row.

Li Yuan and Lady Yan naturally never lacked communication, so he understood one thing...maintaining "humanity" for evil ghosts is an exceedingly difficult thing.

Perhaps it starts well, but as she grows stronger, it becomes harder to sustain.

It’s much like ordinary people unable to withstand evil ghost’s power; likewise, evil ghosts cannot bear humanity, especially Lady Yama.

This point is true not just for Lady Yama, but for all intelligent evil ghosts.

The difference lies in consuming too much; Lady Yama loses humanity, while other evil ghosts lose their original intelligence.

Therefore...all evil ghosts considerably restrain themselves, trying not to absorb "miscellaneous ghosts", instead maintaining their integrity and independence systematically.

But if they wish to advance further, they can only devour their kind.

That is mutual devouring between taboos.

After consuming the flower shop, Lady Yama restrained herself, striving to digest it. Now she’s wholly digested it, establishing more and more connections with the human world through the peculiar function of incense.

But face to face with the mad battle and devouring between taboos, her humanity might vanish, which is her concern.

These matters, Li Yuan surely knows too.

Therefore, as the ghost gate shook, he hastened to the vicinity of the Ghost Prison.

He will undoubtedly not let Lady Yan vanish.

At this moment, he quietly gazes at the distant wilderness.

The wilderness appears empty now.

But soon, Lady Yama seems drawn by some force; though she hasn’t moved yet, the hungry ghosts behind her advance uncontrollably.

The Pig, snorting and spraying white breath, leads the way; the hunched, emaciated hungry ghosts shuffle forward, clustering around...

Like a ghostly passage, the Pig and hungry ghosts disappear into thin air.

Li Yuan’s pupils constrict.

He knows, the Pig hasn’t vanished but headed to Ghost Street.

Just now, someone crazily attacked Lady Yama using another evil ghost tool of taboo!

His gaze swiftly shifts, aiming to identify the target.

But for a moment, he finds no one.

An inconceivable thought flashes into his mind.

For Lady Yama also hasn’t moved.

This implies...the one using the evil ghost tool is far, far away.

Lady Yan cannot terminate the opponent, thus she must directly seek the ghost realm behind the evil ghost tool.

No matter how much humanity Lady Yama harbors, ultimately she remains an evil ghost.

As an evil ghost, she cannot escape the fundamental traits of evil ghosts.

She might suppress the rules with humanity once or twice, but cannot suppress rules continuing to explode hundreds or thousands of times.

Following the Pig and hungry ghosts is the frozen cyan-robed woman ghost.

The woman ghost bears a strange smile, her body creakingly moving, like countless frost compressing.

Where she steps, snow and ice trail, beneath which faint corpses emerge.

Those corpses seem alive, each with pallid pupils, crawling painfully on the ground.

The frozen woman ghost, carrying these ice corpses, vanishes momentarily.

Next come the white-scarf girl pushing a cart, red-scarf girl carrying a basket, the former swaying her body, the latter hopping along, both disappearing...

Lately, the fat ghost, the gaunt ghost, vanish as well.

Only the white-clad woman ghost with the large iron cage remains by Lady Yama’s side.

Lady Yama stays unmoved, and perhaps due to the reduction of evil ghosts, Li Yuan now sees clearly.