"There is true love in the world! Tsk tsk, the love between you two, a pair of bitter lovers, really moved me deeply."
The dark ghost leader, wearing a golden mask and never daring to show his true face, looked at Ouyang Duanhai, who looked like a ghost. He waved his hand to signal his subordinates to intercept him, while not forgetting to tease him.
Ouyang Duanhai's current ugly appearance made him feel happy.
The reason why he wears a mask all year round is not only because he is still hiding within the seven major families and cannot reveal his identity for the time being, but also because his scarred face under the mask cannot be seen by others.
However, this loser from the Ouyang family is a recognized handsome man among the seven major families, and is admired by countless women.
Ouyang Duanhai and Shangguan Qin, the man is tall and handsome, and the woman is pretty and charming. They have long been regarded as a match made in heaven.
The Ouyang family, like the Shangguan family, is also related to the blood moon in the upper realm. The two of them are childhood sweethearts and have a good impression of each other. They almost got married when they were young.
Unfortunately, when the people who came down during the blood moon checked their cultivation talents, everything was rewritten.
Xueyue concluded that the two of them were not worth the family's resources to help them undergo a transformation and enter the marrow cleansing realm.
This also means that the Blood Moon will not accept them.
The two people who thought they would be able to get married naturally after they became adults were forcibly separated by family forces.
In this world where strength is paramount, a man's handsome appearance is not an advantage, but a woman's beauty... can be exchanged for some resources.
Therefore, the beautiful Shangguan Qin was forced by her family to marry a member of the Dong family who had great potential for spiritual practice.
Apart from his high talent, that person had no other good qualities and was extremely ugly.
No matter how Shangguan Qin tried to commit suicide, she was eventually sent by the Shangguan family to the Dong family, the strongest family in the fourth realm, and she was just a small benefit given by the Dong family to that clan member.
A few years later, that man died during an exploration of a secret place, and Shangguan Qin was arranged by the Dong family to be a concubine of another member of the clan.
Her second man also died from inadvertent possession when he was advancing to the Marrow Cleansing Stage.
Afterwards, the Dong family regarded her as an unlucky person and simply sent her back to the Shangguan family.
When she returned to her family, she was not welcomed by her clan members, and some of the tasks assigned to her were often dangerous, such as this exploration of the Ceji Mountains.
"A pair of star-crossed lovers."
The leader, who kept retreating, hinted to his subordinates to spare Shangguan Qin's life.
His subordinates knew what he meant, and they all smiled meaningfully and surrounded Shangguan Qin and the strange Ouyang Duanhai.
"This Ouyang Duanhai is not worth mentioning, you don't have to..."
The masked leader, Ouyang Duanhai, who looked neither human nor ghost, was very aggressive. Some of his subordinates were a little timid, so they wanted to tell them that Ouyang Duanhai was a famous show-off among the seven major families.
But before he could explain clearly, his brows suddenly frowned, his expression changed slightly and he fell silent.
He saw Ouyang Duanhai, with a distorted face, performing the Blood Moon's lowest level "Blood Handprint". A blood-red handprint on his palm strangely turned into a blood-red feather the moment it flew out.
The blood-colored feather, which radiated an evil look, seemed to weigh more than ten thousand pounds, and it hit one of his subordinates so hard that the bones all over his body burst.
A blood-red feather condensed from spiritual power also disappeared into the body of that subordinate, as if gnawing at his flesh and bones.
"Be careful, he's not the same as before."
The masked ghost leader stared cautiously at the phoenix totem on Ouyang Duanhai's chest.
“Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!”
Ouyang Duanhai exerted force again, and slapped his hands wildly in the air. Then pieces of blood-red feathers flew out one by one, killing the approaching dark ghost attackers one by one.
In the blink of an eye, seven or eight corpses with tragic deaths were scattered on the grass beside him.
Pieces of blood-red feathers, filled with evil and bloodthirstiness, were still drilling into the corpses, and the flesh of the corpses that were penetrated by the feathers was drying up at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Each body became more and more like Ouyang Duanhai, so skinny that it seemed as if all the flesh and blood had been lost.
At this time, the light representing spiritual wisdom in Ouyang Duanhai's eyes was also dissipating little by little.
It seemed that every time he performed the "Blood Hand Seal" and refined a blood-colored feather to devour people, his ego would be annihilated a little, and the demon in his heart would grow stronger.
“Xiao, Xiaoqin, hurry… hurry up!” He growled like a trapped animal, his pupils seemed to be bleeding, “I can’t hold on for too long!”
Shangguan Qin, shocked by his bloody method, stared at him in a daze, feeling extremely unfamiliar.
Shangguan Qin, whose bright clothes were tattered and looked a little disheveled, had never expected that her usually timid lover would have such a brutal and fierce side.
Although she and Ouyang Duanhai conspired to cause the deaths of the two men before her, she was the one who actually did it.
Ouyang Duanhai is cowardly by nature, an elegant and gentle man at heart. He is extremely fond of cleanliness and never dares to be stained with blood.
She couldn't imagine that Ouyang Duanhai would one day become so violent and bloodthirsty!
"quick!"
Ouyang Duanhai screamed madly and rushed towards the man with the golden mask. Then blood-colored feathers flew out from the body of the dark ghost corpse lying in a pool of blood.
The blood-colored feathers flew out and stuck to the divine phoenix pattern on his chest, as if they had become a part of the tattoo.
Every time a blood-colored feather returned, the intelligence in Ouyang Duanhai's eyes faded a little, and it seemed that it would soon collapse.
Shangguan Qin looked at him, and the phoenix pattern on his chest that looked like a living thing, and listened to his repeated urging and shouting. Finally, she gritted her teeth and stomped her feet and ran towards the distance: "Duan Hai, I'll wait for you at the agreed place!"
"Chase!"
As soon as she moved, there were other dark ghosts lurking in the forest who tried to chase her.
“Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!”
Ouyang Duanhai clapped his hands in the air, and suddenly a new "blood handprint" transformed into feathers, which killed those who dared to chase him on the spot.
Ouyang Duanhai, who was crazy about killing, stood among the corpses on the ground. With a pair of devilish dark red eyes, he watched his lover go away and murmured, "It's good that you are alive. I haven't been able to do much for you in my life. This time, being possessed by the evil spirit has given me strength and courage."
A sense of relief gradually appeared in the depths of his bloodthirsty eyes, and he was no longer afraid of that moment.
Han Duping, who was not far away, wanted to take advantage of Ouyang Duanhai's great power and escape with Shangguan Qin.
But seeing the Dark Ghost's men dying in the blink of an eye, he had no idea of Ouyang Duanhai's situation and was afraid that this guy would misunderstand that he was going to hunt down Shangguan Qin, so he stayed where he was and dared not move.
“Boom!”
The earth was still shaking, and the underground cracks centered on the Black Water Pond were getting bigger and bigger.
Han Duping was extremely anxious at the moment. He was afraid that something strange would rush out from the ground, and he did not dare to provoke Ouyang Duanhai who had turned into some unknown monster. He could only look around helplessly.
Ning Yao, who had been calling out to the dark ghost to let her go, failed to escape and was caught by a giant net woven with silver threads.
The other dark ghost leader who caught her grabbed the hemp rope with one hand, avoided the underground cracks, and dragged her and the giant net on the ground, heading towards the black water pool.
Han Duping, who was watching the surrounding scene, suddenly found that the roar of the earth seemed to slowly stop.
He was horrified and guessed that when the shaking subsided, terror would burst out from the cracks in the ground.
“Buzz buzz buzz!”
Suddenly, he heard the urgent sound of swords coming from the direction of the black water pond behind him.
He quickly turned his head to look, and saw seven "Cicada Wing Swords" controlled by Jinyang whistling around the phoenix bone protruding from the water, but Pang Jian's figure never appeared.
"That boy, is he still alive?"
Han Duping was stunned.
…
Underwater.
Pang Jian, whose face turned red from holding his breath, could see part of the scene around him through the bright divine light released by the phoenix bone, and naturally he also saw the "Cicada Wing Sword" above his head.
At this moment, if he didn't stick his head out to breathe, he would suffocate to death sooner or later.
But once he emerged to breathe, he would be attacked by the "Cicada Wing Sword" again. He was in torment, silently waiting for something strange to happen in the cracks in the ground.
He expected that from the deep cracks in the ground centered on the black water pool, there would surge out terror that would be enough to annihilate all the dark ghosts!
However, he waited and waited, but the possible terrifying alien creature never appeared.
Pang Jian, who regarded the black water pool and the phoenix bone as his life-saving straw, gradually felt despair and powerlessness.
“I see you.”
Jinyang, who had been flying the sword, was illuminated by the bright divine light and saw a figure huddled under the water next to the phoenix bone, with the figure holding the phoenix bone with his hand.
"Now that I've seen you, do you think you can continue to hide?"
Jinyang narrowed his eyes and sneered.
A "cicada wing sword" moved at will and immediately stabbed towards Pang Jian's shoulder underwater. He wanted to force Pang Jian out so that he could interrogate him in detail.
Seeing the magic sword coming, Pang Jian quickly moved his body underwater, trying to avoid the sword's attack.
"puff!"
The moment the "Cicada Wing Sword" pierced into the water, it suddenly encountered a thousand times greater buoyancy resistance, and the stabbing momentum suddenly slowed down a thousand times.
Moreover, this spiritual sword, which was originally shining brightly, suddenly lost its luster.
The next moment, this "Cicada Wing Sword" refined by a master slowly sank to the bottom of the pool like scrap iron.
Pang Jian, who was originally unable to dodge, watched the magic sword slip from his left shoulder with a strange and confused look in his eyes.
He pondered for a moment, then suddenly stuck his head out and took deep breaths.
Without waiting for Jinyang to react, he retreated back into the Black Water Pool and continued to hide around the Phoenix Bone.
"My Cicada Wing Sword!"
Jinyang was shocked by the strangeness of the Black Water Pond. When he wanted to attack Pang Jian, he saw Pang Jian sinking into the water again.
He frowned, moved to the edge of the pond, squatted down and looked at the inky black water.
When the magic sword sank into the pool of water, the spiritual power he poured into it was corroded, and the connection between him and the magic sword was instantly severed.
He was not sure whether it was because of the water or the influence of the white light released from the phoenix bone, so he wanted to try it himself.
"I have checked it clearly. There is nothing strange about this dark pool of water except that it is cold and dark and I can't see the scenery clearly. And there is no mystery about the phoenix bone. This shouldn't be the case..."
Jinyang, who had explored this place earlier than Pang Jian and Zhou Qingchen, muttered to himself, and suddenly stretched out his left hand by the pond to feel the black water in the pond again.
He put his left palm into the water, and suddenly pulled it back in an instant, as if his hair stood on end. He was in so much pain that he broke out in a cold sweat.
His left hand, which was as slender as a bamboo joint, was no longer covered with flesh after just stretching and pulling it out.
Jinyang's left hand had become a piece of bones, without any blood or flesh left. The skin, flesh, tendons and blood wrapped around his left hand were all corroded away by the pool water in an instant.
Looking at the white bones in his hands, Jinyang bared his teeth and breathed in the cold air tremblingly.
Suddenly, he looked at Pang Jian with a cold gaze.
At this moment, Pang Jian submerged his entire body in the water, still holding on to the phoenix bone.
But Pang Jian is clearly alive and well.
"Jinyang, that coward from the Ouyang family is already heading towards you!"
The dark ghost leader wearing a golden mask suddenly shouted. After he realized that Ouyang Duanhai had completely lost his mind, he was no longer Ouyang Duanhai's opponent.
Ouyang Duanhai completely abandoned him and no longer remembered who Shangguan Qin was. He just ran towards the Black Water Pond.
Somewhere in the Black Water Pond, there seemed to be something attracting Ouyang Duanhai, making this ghost-like guy only want to reach the Black Water Pond as soon as possible.
The shaking of the earth had long since subsided, and no terror had emerged from the depths of the cracks in the ground.
"Intercept and kill Ouyang Duanhai!"
Dragging a giant silver net that held Ning Yao, and followed by several dark ghost attackers, another leader was afraid that Jin Yang would be lost, so he dropped the giant net and shouted, "Bring this girl here!"
The leader of the dark ghosts and the leader wearing a golden mask were both running towards the black water pool.
The two of them did not notice that Jinyang, who had his back to them, had his left hand turned into bones.
No one noticed that Jinyang was staring at Pang Jian under the phoenix bone with a distorted expression.
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