Chapter 1419 - 1418: Rain Devil

Chapter 1419: Chapter 1418: Rain Devil

The stone hall’s depths.

Along the way, there were still many skeletal remains blocking the path, but Ling Chen shattered them with a single sword strike. Even if they wanted to regroup, it would take some time, and Ling Chen and Hong Ye had already headed deeper into the stone hall.

However, as Ling Chen gazed at the skeletal remains scattered throughout the path, he couldn’t help but furrow his brows. If they couldn’t find the source of these skeletal remains’ power inside the stone hall, it would likely be difficult for them to come out later.

But at this critical moment, he could only choose to trust the Bone Woman.

The speed at which the two moved was extremely fast, and they soon reached the deepest part of the stone hall. It was a rather vast hall, and although it appeared dilapidated, it still exuded grandeur.

"It should be around here."

The Bone Woman’s gaze swept around, "I can sense the presence of the Rain Devil."

Upon hearing the word "Rain Devil," Ling Chen’s eyes became solemn. He had already experienced the Bone Woman’s strength, and his swordsmanship had little effect on her. Even if he unleashed his killing moves, he was afraid he couldn’t do anything to the Bone Woman, and this was with the Bone Woman only having less than ten percent of her strength left. This Rain Devil, being a Ghost God like the Bone Woman, probably wouldn’t be much weaker.

"You needn’t be so tense, Little Rain is a very gentle Ghost God; she won’t harm anyone on her own."

Seeing Ling Chen’s wary expression, the Bone Woman spoke up.

"Is that so?"

Ling Chen relaxed a little, but still didn’t completely lower his guard. After all, if what the Bone Woman said was true, then why were there those skeletal remains roaming outside, killing people?

"There must be a reason behind this."

The Bone Woman couldn’t believe that the Rain Devil she knew would do such things. Her body floated about, moving throughout the stone hall as if she was trying to pinpoint the exact location of the power source.

Regarding this, Ling Chen could naturally offer no assistance. He merely held his Thunder Sound Sword and walked outside, facing the tide-like army of skeletal remains. He swung his sword abruptly, the rampaging Thunder Sword Light carving deep marks on the ground, smashing a large swarm of skeletal remains into pieces.

But after one wave of skeletal remains fell, more came surging up.

After a dozen minutes of this.

Even Ling Chen’s arm started to feel a little numb. Maintaining such an intense offensive was consuming a lot of True Qi, and at this rate, he really might be worn out here.

"Found it!"

Just when Ling Chen was feeling overwhelmed, the Bone Woman’s voice suddenly came over, causing Ling Chen’s heart to rejoice.

Following the voice, he saw the Bone Woman stop at a broken candlestick, and beneath that candlestick was a bizarre Array Pattern.

"Hong Ye."

The Bone Woman merely looked at Hong Ye, who then nodded in understanding and injected a wisp of True Qi into the small formation, and the next moment, the patterns lit up inch by inch. Immediately, with a rumbling sound, the area of the formation cracked open, revealing a hidden compartment.

Inside that compartment, there was a black soul altar, with two yellow talisman papers pasted on it, clearly used for sealing.

"This is it."

The Bone Woman nodded, "The power of those skeletal remains outside is all drawn from this soul altar."

At this moment, after casting a heavy sword strike towards the skeletal remains in front, Ling Chen retreated into the stone hall and came to Hong Ye’s side.

"Open it."

Ling Chen nodded. At this critical moment, there was no room to worry about much else.

With Ling Chen’s approval, Hong Ye then carefully removed the talisman paper and opened the soul altar.

At the moment of opening the soul altar, a dense black mist surged out from within, swiftly filling more than half of the stone hall.

The outer layer of the black mist gradually dispersed, gradually revealing the scene within.

However, when Ling Chen saw the situation inside the black mist clearly, his expression suddenly changed.

In his line of sight appeared the form of a Ghost God, but this Ghost God was vastly different from the Green-faced Ghost and Hundred-Eyed Demon he had seen before, and even very different from the Bone Woman, because this Ghost God’s form was actually no different from a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl.

Yet, at this moment, the girl’s body was dismembered into eight pieces: head, torso, arms, legs, and feet, all separated.

Moreover, each dismembered part had a black sharp sword inserted into it, and from the eight black swords emanated an extremely eerie energy fluctuation, which was precisely the force that suppressed this Ghost God’s power.

"Little Rain!"

The Bone Woman, seeing the pitiable sight before her, turned even paler, appearing as if she had been struck by lightning, with a look of utter disbelief.

Hong Ye’s delicate body was already trembling, too shocked to speak.

Ling Chen also felt a shiver run down his spine. It was clear that after defeating the Rain Devil, someone had designed such a cruel method to suppress her, extracting her power as the source of energy driving those skeletal remains outside.

Such an evil and brutal method was unheard of.

"To be able to dismember a Ghost God, who on earth could have bloodily washed Ise Shrine?"

Ling Chen took a deep breath, his eyes flickering. The Rain Devil, as the offering Ghost God of Ise Shrine, couldn’t have been a mere nobody. To be able to suppress her and end up in this miserable state, how terrifying must such power be?

As Ling Chen pondered, the Bone Woman had already moved forward, intending to pull out the black sharp sword embedded in the Rain Devil’s brow. But just as her hand contacted the black sword, there was a hissing sound, and blue smoke began to rise from the Bone Woman’s hand. However, despite this, she gritted her teeth and pulled out the black sword.

At the moment the black sword was extracted from the Rain Devil’s brow, it suddenly turned into black mist and dispersed.

After the sharp sword was pulled out and disappeared, the Rain Devil’s eyelids twitched, and then she slowly opened her eyes.

"Bone Woman... sister."

Seeing the Bone Woman’s pale face, a hint of joy unexpectedly appeared in the Rain Devil’s big eyes.

"Who, who exactly did this to you?"

The Bone Woman tightly embraced the Rain Devil’s head, her beautiful eyes emitting an astonishing coldness. Her entire body skeletonized in that instant but then returned to normal the next.

"I don’t know either."

The Rain Devil shook her head, "That day, several people in black broke into the Shrine, slaughtering wildly. I wanted to stop them, but I didn’t expect they came prepared, not only were each of them powerful, but they also knew how to deal with Ghost Gods. After only exchanging a few moves with them, I was suppressed and sealed."

Hearing this, Ling Chen couldn’t help but feel a bit disappointed. He originally thought he could glean the inside story of the Ise Shrine’s demise from the Rain Devil’s words. To his surprise, even she didn’t know who the enemies were, and ended up in such a state. The group that destroyed the Ise Shrine must have been frighteningly strong.