bookbashuk Chapter 36: The Phantom of Death
Chapter 36: The Phantom of Death
After resting for a night, Huo Yuhao and his group began searching for traces of the evil soul master.
After Wang Yan discovered the abnormality of the Wenlan Tree, Huo Yuhao had a specific direction for his mental probing.
Currently, Huo Yuhao's use of divine sense to directly probe is sufficient to cover the entire Mingdou Mountain Range.
However, if the other party truly possesses divine sense, then it would be tantamount to alerting the enemy.
Huo Yuhao's mental strength was already very powerful, but his mental detection soul skill was not keeping up.
Using his peak Spirit Realm spiritual power to conduct mental detection, Huo Yuhao quickly discovered the cave where the Death Messenger was located.
"Everyone, put on your defensive soul tools. The abilities of evil soul masters are chaotic and mixed. Be careful of the corpses in the cave."
Huo Yuhao gave a warning and led the group into the cave.
However, once the mental probe truly covered the cave, Huo Yuhao frowned, and his emotions became somewhat unstable.
Inside the cave, it was a scene of utter hell.
Five infant corpses were impaled on a stone cone at the cave entrance, the infants' faces still showing confusion.
Two bandits sat to one side, chatting as they kicked the head on the ground, whose owner was hanging from the top of the cave, his body mangled.
Further inside, all that could be found were severed limbs and broken bodies: a middle-aged man missing half his body, a couple bound together, and an elderly man folded up in a U-shape.
Inside, the bandits were still drinking and eating meat, and even occasionally tugging at the entrails that were scattered everywhere.
Huo Yuhao was beyond furious; his intense emotions caused a mental storm, almost tangible, to surround him.
"Yuhao, you need to learn to control your emotions and not let them interfere with you."
Electrolux's voice came, resonating in Huo Yuhao's mental sea like a tranquilizer.
"Thank you, Elder Yi. My mental strength has been growing too fast lately, and I still can't fully control a portion of my divine sense."
After Huo Yuhao regained his senses, the storm around him subsided, as if nothing had happened.
Xuanzi and Yan Shaozhe, who were outside, had already protected the other students. Sensing the powerful fluctuations in their spiritual energy, everyone looked at Huo Yuhao with shock.
Seeing Huo Yuhao calm down, Xuanzi and Yan Shaozhe breathed a sigh of relief, fearing that Huo Yuhao might get injured by his teammates if he lost his temper.
Before this trip, Huo Yuhao had mentally prepared himself many times, thinking that he would feel disgusted by it. However, after seeing the nearly 10,000 gruesome corpses, his first reaction was an uncontrollable rage.
Huo Yuhao has only killed a few dozen enemies since he transmigrated, including Dai Huabin. How could he bear to witness such a brutal scene?
In this dog-eat-dog world, Huo Yuhao naturally understands the principle of eliminating all threats, but what is the purpose of this reckless massacre?
Is it possible to disregard humanity and slaughter nearly ten thousand people without any grudge, just for the sake of improving one's cultivation level?
As Huo Yuhao drew closer to the cave, with the aid of his divine sense and necromancy, he heard the painful wails of the departed souls.
At the same time, the Eye of Life between Huo Yuhao's brows slowly opened, and beams of light converged, representing the memories and wishes of the deceased.
Huo Yuhao watched the short lives of each undead as if he were watching at double speed.
I witnessed their joys and sorrows, their luck and misfortune, their exhaustion and diligence, and their daily moments of happiness.
I saw their desperate eyes, their helplessness in the face of their loved ones' tragic fate, how they were brutally murdered, and their resentful roars of anger.
As the last wishes of the final spirits converged, Huo Yuhao's Eye of Life shone a white purifying light upon them.
Under the light of purification, the spirits gradually transformed from black, radiating resentment, into white, filled with expectation.
A gray-gold soul ring slowly appeared behind Huo Yuhao.
However, this spirit ring did not float up like the other spirit rings, but instead hung behind Huo Yuhao like a divine ring.
As Huo Yuhao's desire to avenge them was conveyed, streams of white-glowing undead gathered into the gray-gold soul ring behind him.
Without relying on his two-word battle armor, Huo Yuhao slowly floated up and stood in mid-air.
Golden light shone in his eyes once more, but it was different from when he awakened to his destiny.
It is no longer the slightly noble rose gold, but a bright gold that shimmers with light.
The gray-gold soul ring behind him also gained a seven-colored halo after gathering the power of the dead.
Huo Yuhao looked at the Shrek Academy members who were standing there in a daze, and said without a trace of emotion:
"Wait for me here, everyone. If necessary, leave this place on your own. The battle that follows is not for you to participate in."
Looking at Huo Yuhao, who seemed like a god, everyone unconsciously believed his words, as if they were talking to a god at this very moment.
Even Xuanzi and Yan Shaozhe nodded unconsciously, then turned and led the group of students to slowly retreat.
Watching Xuanzi and the others leave, Huo Yuhao entered the cave at an extremely fast speed, and all the bandits along the way were turned to ashes by the seven-colored light surrounding Huo Yuhao.
In the eyes of the living, beams of seven-colored light shone upon the mangled corpses, and tombs slowly rose up.
When the Grim Reaper noticed something was wrong, Huo Yuhao had already appeared before him.
Upon seeing Huo Yuhao, who was radiating strange energy, the Death Messenger showed fear for the first time. He didn't even have time to unleash his Corpse Explosion before turning to flee.
Huo Yuhao only glanced at him, and his whole body burst into platinum flames, instantly collapsing to the ground.
"This flame contains the rage of all those you have cruelly murdered. Let you have a good talk with them."
As Huo Yuhao's calm voice fell, the Grim Reaper immediately let out a painful wail, his expression turned ferocious, and his body suddenly twisted.
"What, you gods from another world, aren't you going to come out and greet me? I'm about to kill your messenger."
Huo Yuhao continued to ask, and seven-colored light gathered in his Eye of Life, pointing directly at the divine consciousness within the Death Messenger's body.
Seeing that Huo Yuhao was not faking it, the divine sense within him finally could not sit still. A black phantom emerged from the body of the Death God Messenger, radiating a powerful aura.
In an instant, the entire Mingdou Mountain Range was shrouded in this oppressive force, and all the Soul Masters within its range were unable to stand up.
Far away in the military camp, Dai Hao knelt down in shock, staring at the huge phantom that appeared on the distant mountain range.
The phantom of Death appeared, emitting a very eerie laugh.
That eerie laughter alone was enough to give any Soul Master below the Soul Emperor level a splitting headache, and the Death Messenger's head exploded instantly.
"He's just a piece of trash, so what if he's dead? But I'm actually quite interested in you. You're just a temporary level three god, yet you dare to provoke me."
Huo Yuhao remained expressionless upon hearing this, responding calmly.
"You talk as if you're the real body, but you're just a stolen first-level god avatar, a piece of trash who doesn't even dare to use the fundamental laws. Why should I fear you?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a huge phantom appeared behind Huo Yuhao. The phantom wore a white-gold robe and held a silver-white staff in its hand.
Holding the silver-white staff formed from the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, Huo Yuhao murmured softly, and a white light adorned with seven colors fell upon the phantom of the God of Death.