The darkness was like a flood and a beast, constantly infecting the space inside the mansion and slowly approaching the pool.
The newly born dark giant anaconda hid in the darkness in front and approached Pang Jian eagerly.
However, this giant dark anaconda, which should have belonged to the fifth realm, never dared to truly break out of the darkness.
It seemed to be afraid of the light in the mansion.
“Wow! Wow!”
The strange souls wrapped in the pool water disappeared one after another.
All the pool water that was moved by Yuan Shishan quickly flowed into the pool from all directions, like rust attracted by a magnet.
The water in the pool gradually filled up from shallow to deep.
"Pang Jian!"
Li Jie suddenly shouted loudly, with fear in his voice.
He sensed something abnormal about Bagua City. This change that was beyond his control made him feel uneasy.
His sight could not penetrate the darkness, and he had no idea who was lurking in it. He was afraid that this was a conspiracy against him.
His loud shout was a question to Pang Jian.
Pang Jian thought for a moment and said uncertainly: "The one in the darkness should not be your enemy."
He was reluctant to reveal to Li Jie either the girl named Li Yuqing or the dark giant anaconda that appeared because of him.
But his intuition was that neither Li Yuqing nor the dark anaconda considered Li Jie as a target of attack.
"I'll trust you for now."
Li Jie sighed softly and stared at the approaching darkness as if facing a formidable enemy, no longer caring about Yuan Shishan.
Faced with the darkness's early entrance, Yuan Shishan was clearly panicked, and exclaimed: "It shouldn't be like this! No, this is different from the past!"
He had been stuck in this for many years and had experienced several similar incidents, but none like this one.
—Darkness should never have flooded into the mansion so early!
"call!"
The darkness that was coming towards Pang Jian suddenly changed direction and went towards the city lord Yuan Shishan.
Like a long dark dragon sweeping towards Yuan Shishan!
Pang Jian saw at a glance the giant dark anaconda hidden in it and became excited as if he had discovered a new continent.
It has set its sights on Yuan Shishan!
"What the hell?"
Yuan Shishan screamed.
"Pang Jian, I can't bear the terrifying power in the darkness."
Seeing that the darkness in front had shifted its target, Luo Hongyan breathed a sigh of relief and shook her head bitterly.
"I've tried it before. Those filthy powers in the darkness can cause a strong infection to my soul."
After finally obtaining the "Crystal Snow Lotus", a rare core treasure that can rebuild flesh, blood, and bones, he did not expect to be infected by the strange power in the darkness.
Luo Hongyan sighed regretfully: "In the end, I still didn't have the chance to take revenge."
Hearing this, Pang Jian frowned and said nothing, but tried hard to think of a solution.
The darkness is still spreading silently.
The dark anaconda changed its direction, but it only took with it a part of the dark frenzy; the darkness originating from the alley still spread in all directions like flowing water.
Pang Jian was the first to be shrouded in darkness.
As he passively sank into the darkness, he sensed that the foul and strange power within it had become stronger than ever before!
It was as if the filthy essence of alien power scattered in all the streets of the entire Bagua City was gathered by a force and injected into the City Lord's Mansion!
He was safe and sound in it.
But no one except him, including souls and ghosts, can withstand the invasion of such a horrible alien power!
Luo Hongyan, who was beside him, showed a sad and helpless smile after being engulfed by the darkness. He felt that Luo Hongyan was not only unable to see in the darkness, but her soul was also infected and gradually weakened.
The darkness once again engulfed Li Jie who was sitting upright.
“Shhh!”
The Qilin Bell fell down, completely covering Li Jie underneath.
On the clock wall.
The vivid Qilin made a hissing sound in the darkness, as if it was gradually disappearing due to the infection of a foul alien force.
On the high platform.
The city lord Yuan Shishan was just engulfed by the darkness, and the white clothes on his body were instantly dyed black.
The thick and filthy alien power penetrated into his body madly, as if he was the outlet for this filthy alien power.
The giant dark anaconda meandered upwards along the platform and headed straight for Yuan Shishan.
Pang Jian could vaguely feel that it was full of desire for Yuan Shishan's body, as if it wanted to drink Yuan Shishan's flesh and blood.
As soon as this thought came to mind, a giant dark anaconda flew out of the bronze door and landed on the platform, eagerly biting Yuan Shishan's body in the darkness.
As the lord of Bagua City, Yuan Shishan, the weapon soul mentioned by Li Jie, had his body filled with filthy alien power and did not even have room to struggle.
He could not see anything, but he knew that there was a strange creature in the darkness, gnawing at his body.
The horror of being unable to see anything and yet being eaten by a foreign object made the city lord who had gone astray three thousand years ago let out a shrill and desperate scream.
His screams made Luo Hongyan's heart tremble.
"Pang Jian, what happened in the darkness? I can't see anything. My soul has been infected and is becoming weaker and weaker."
Luo Hongyan looked around in confusion and asked in fear.
Pang Jian grabbed her hand and felt her whole body trembling. The fear of not knowing what she would face made Luo Hongyan feel like her soul was suffocating.
She couldn't see, but she could hear Yuan Shishan screaming.
This kind of helplessness of not knowing when it will be your turn, and not knowing what you will face... is the greatest fear!
"Pang Jian!"
Li Jie, who was hiding under the Qilin Bell, used a rare treasure to resist the invasion of darkness and screamed, "What happened to Yuan Shishan?!"
"Something is eating him."
Pang Jian answered honestly.
After these words were spoken, Luo Hongyan trembled even more violently.
She held Pang Jian's hand tightly and said, "I can't hold on any longer. Pang Jian, I did have ulterior motives when I approached you at first. But later, I really felt that you were a good guy, and Zhou... was not bad either."
"I'm not some evil woman who kills innocent people indiscriminately. Many of the people I killed deserved to die!"
"Pang Jian, I was also harmed by someone and became like this! I used to be many times more beautiful than Ning Yao, but it's a pity that I haven't shown it to you yet..."
It seemed that only in this way could she be in the dark without fear of the approach of terrifying alien creatures.
Only in this way can she calmly wait for the moment when her soul will be destroyed.
"You won't die."
Pang Jian growled, grabbed her hand tightly, and dragged her towards the pool.
When all the pool water is poured back into the pool from outside, the ice crystal-like mirror tunnel reappears in the world!
Yuan Shishan, howling in despair, no longer had the ability to restrict the mirror tunnel from leaving.
"Where are you taking me?"
Luo Hongyan exclaimed softly.
"I'll keep you alive."
Pang Jian responded and arrived at the mirror tunnel.
He shouted at Li Jie in the Qilin Bell: "As the master of Jie, if you still have the ability, send her to the fourth realm!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Pang Jian pushed Luo Hongyan into the mirror tunnel and shouted, "I'll come find you later!"
"I'll try."
Li Jie responded in the Qilin Bell, and the next moment he shouted, "I can do it!"
Pang Jian immediately forced Luo Hongyan into the mirror tunnel and watched her disappear like Zhou Qingchen, Han Duping, Jiang Li and others.
“Crunch! Snap!”
Yuan Shishan's shrill screams disappeared, leaving only the crisp sound of the dark giant anaconda gnawing at his body, as if even his bones were not spared.
The dark anaconda ate with gusto.
"Yuan Shishan just died. Does this mean that the disaster involving you is over?"
Pang Jian asked while looking at the Qilin Bell.
"Perhaps."
The Qilin Bell rose into the air, as if it had eyes in the darkness, and flew towards the direction of the mirror tunnel.
At this time, the lifelike Qilin on the wall of the bell had been mostly infected by the filthy alien power in the darkness.
Even more concentrated and filthy strange power is still pouring into the Qilin Bell.
Li Jie knew that he could not stay there for long, and the light curtain he had painstakingly set up at the bell mouth would soon be infected and collapse.
"Pang Jian, I can't see what's going on, but I'm leaving."
The Qilin Bell hovers in the mirror tunnel.
Li Jie left a final message, saying, "You have to leave as soon as possible. As the Lord of Jie, I can't understand the current Bagua City. What I can do for you is that when you leave through the mirror tunnel later, you will appear in the fourth realm like that woman."
"Goodbye!"
Li Jie, without even showing his head, landed in the mirror tunnel with the Qilin Bell and disappeared immediately.
In the blink of an eye, Pang Jian and the giant dark anaconda were the only ones left in the City Lord's Mansion.
Pang Jian looked at the dark giant anaconda that was still gnawing at Yuan Shishan's corpse and asked, "Are you going to leave or not?"
The dark anaconda, seemingly not understanding his words, ignored him.
Pang Jian frowned. He felt that this dark giant anaconda belonged to the fifth realm and should have stayed here.
After a moment of hesitation, his eyes fell on the copper box on the platform, and he suddenly said, "Give me that box."
The dark anaconda still stared at him blankly.
Pang Jian felt helpless, so he suddenly jumped up and rushed towards the platform.
The dark giant anaconda, who thought it was coming to capture it and take it away from here, swallowed up the few remaining bones of Yuan Shishan in one gulp.
The dark anaconda suddenly fell from the platform, and with a "bang", it broke open the back door that was always closed.
It looked back at Pang Jian with nostalgia, and then disappeared into the darkness.
Pang Jian watched it go away until it was completely out of sight, then he reached out and grabbed the bronze box.
The moment his fingers touched the box, endless resentment and anger surged into Pang Jian's heart, almost driving him insane.
At that moment, he felt like he had become Yuan Shishan, the lord of Bagua City, who had been imprisoned for three thousand years.
Living without sunlight for three thousand years had caused Yuan Shishan to develop endless negative emotions, which are now slowly dissipating due to his death.
If this thick and vast negative emotion is not dissipated, whoever touches the box for a long time will become another Yuan Shishan!
Pang Jian, who was terrified, suppressed the terrible feeling of mental breakdown and quickly threw the copper box into the storage bag.
He secretly made up his mind that before he had enough strength, he would not touch the box if possible, and it would be best not to take it out at all.
Immediately, he also flew towards the mirror tunnel and disappeared.
…
After a while.
The girl who had been hiding earlier came in from the main gate of the City Lord's Mansion and saw that there was nothing in the mansion which was engulfed in darkness.
"Is it over?"
She frowned.
According to the information she had received, the disaster would be over when darkness completely submerged the pool.
Li Jie, the leader of the robbery, should have left long ago.
"That guy Li Jie has all these strange treasures on him, so he must have made it through successfully. Forget it, I should go back and ask him."
The girl looked at it for a while and felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't tell why.
"Fourth Realm, Pang Jian, should be fine..."
The girl floated down into the mirror tunnel and was the last one to disappear from Bagua City.
The Bagua City, which had disappeared for three thousand years, fell into absolute darkness again, and there was no light anywhere.
There was only a newly born dark giant anaconda running freely in the empty streets in the darkness. Green scales kept growing on its body and began to appear in large numbers.
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(End of this chapter)