Turn Hostility into Friendship

A million mouths, a million chants, a million pilgrims.

The emanating sonic sounds were high-pitched, vast, and so orderly that they Resonance to some extent with the Wraith Fog.

It emanated from underground, yet it seemed to descend from the sky, thumping our eardrums and shaking our souls.

Xiao Ran had once encountered what appeared to be members of the Apostle preaching. The chanting, which summoned the Wraith, was extremely obscure and jarring, sending chills down one's spine.

This ethereal sound was far more vast, possessing a sense of ancient emptiness that deeply moved the listener.

It was as if what was being summoned was not the Wraith, but something else entirely...

Things have come to this.

Xiao Ran had no way to kill the million citizens, nor could he stop them from chanting, or awaken them from their delirious state through the Resonance Power.

All he could do was get the stone tablet.

He would seize whatever the enemy needed.

That can't be wrong.

Before Xiao Ran could even move, the spiraling, gathering Wraith Fog in the air quickly descended and enveloped the two of them.

Xiao Ran's heart tightened.

Without a doubt, this was the Wraith Fog that guided Liu Mingyang his companion to move the stone tablet within the maze, and then poured into their bodies! The ordinary Wraith Fog above Flamefree City originated from the Great Netherworld.

This kind of Wraith Fog very likely controlled by Primate themselves.

The two look exactly the same and are easily confused.

As a result, Liu Mingyang and his companion, and even their Master, were all successively infused with the Wraith Fog and suffered great losses.

"Shut up!"

Xiao Ran reminded him.

Lingzhou Yue was enveloped in Wraith Fog, and the familiar feeling returned. She had no choice but to force herself to hold her breath and say, "This woman is really slutty. You have to be careful."

"Shouldn't you be the one paying attention, Master?"

For Xiao Ran, the Wraith Fog had difficulty drawing out his Spiritual Power and could not penetrate his body.

But for Lingzhou Yue, inhaling a single Wraith Fog was addictive.

In the Wraith Fog, all five senses disappear, and nothing can be seen except for the hazy fog.

"Master, are you feeling alright?"

Xiao Ran asked.

Hearing Xiao Ran's suddenly serious tone, Lingzhou Yue roughly understood what he meant.

"Should we activate the Bone of the Blood Moon to break through the Netherworld?"

Will people die?

"With your help, and if the two of you work well together, we should be able to keep the death toll below one million. Do you want to give it a try?"

Less than one million people...

Xiao Ran said helplessly, "Then let's forget it. The million practitioners of the Everlasting Spring Art are not seriously injured. Even if their souls are used, they may not die. Let's try our best to seize the stone tablet."

As he spoke, Xiao Ran used the Resonance Power to penetrate the layers of mist and quickly located the position of the stone tablet.

That soft, melodious female voice, as if it could flow from water, rang out beside Xiao Ran once again, gently caressing him.

"Xiao Ran, you bear the weight of millions of lives on your shoulders. Do you really want to start a war with me?"

What, you still want to turn hostility into friendship?

Xiao Ran said calmly.

"Why don't you tell me your plan? If I think it's okay, I won't stop you."

A soft female voice said, "My plan is simply to use the soul power of a million people to control this Great Underworld. If successful, these people will at most lose their memories for a few days, but will suffer no damage."

Xiao Ran thought about it; the plan made sense in theory, but—

What if we fail?

A soft female voice sighed, "This is just a slightly ahead-of-its-time solution to save the world. If we let the Great Underworld devour mortals, or if Li Wuxie were to slay the Underworld with his sword, these people would also die."

Xiao Ran sneered, getting straight to the heart of the matter.

"You're the one who summoned this Great Underworld!"

The delicate female voice did not deny it.

"I only summoned the time and place where it appeared. I accelerated the process of the apocalypse in order to find a way to reverse it. Even if I hadn't summoned it, this great underworld would have devoured the same city someday in the future. You should be glad that Flamefree City is just a small city."

Xiao Ran asked, "Have you found a way to reverse the apocalypse?"

After a long silence, the soft female voice finally said, "It will be soon."

Xiao Ran asked again:

"Since your plan is so good, why not discuss and implement it with the Dao Alliance?"

The female voice asked in return:

How do you know no one from the Dao Alliance participated?

Xiao Ran sneered.

"It's no use saying anything. The more you talk, the more afraid you are of me getting the stone tablet. Before the National Teacher died, why didn't you talk so much? In the Underworld, the National Teacher was your trump card. Who would have thought that the National Teacher would lose to me? Now that the National Teacher is dead, do you think you can stop me with your ventriloquism?"

"..."

What Xiao Ran said was true. If he hadn't tried so hard to hide his strength at Sword Mound Mountain, the Primate would probably have sent someone even stronger to carry out the mission if Little Mist had known that he had combat power surpassing that of a Golden Core cultivator.

The delicate female voice fell silent.

Despite his verbal spiel, Xiao Ran's flight speed remained undiminished, heading straight for the stone tablet.

Lingzhou Yue followed behind Xiao Ran without saying a word, only drinking and nodding occasionally to show her approval of her disciple's performance.

However, she only vaguely understood what the two were saying, and she didn't care to understand it.

After flying for an unknown period of time, the soft female voice spoke again, " In the Dharma Ending Era, the common sense that you once thought was correct may not be so correct anymore, Xiao Ran. One day you will understand that while you are content with the status quo and overly protect mortals, you are also prolonging the life of the Wraith."

"Okay, I'll wait for that day."

Xiao Ran remained steadfast and focused, channeling his Resonance Power to accelerate his flight.

As it turned out, the Wraith Fog, besides being verbose, also physically interfered with the flight speed of Xiao Ran and his companion.

By the time the two caught up with the inscription, it had already flown to the edge of the city.

Cao Yun and Liu Mingyang released the stone tablet, letting it fly towards the Wraith Barrier.

Under the control of the Wraith Fog, the two men's eyes turned completely black, blocking Xiao Ran and his companion.

Xiao Ran had a bad feeling.

"It seems that this woman not only wants to control the Great Underworld, but also wants to take the stone tablet."

Lingzhou Yue nodded, bypassed Liu Mingyang and the other person, and flew away on her sword, chasing after the stele.

As Xiao Ran flew closer to the two.

The two men clasped their hands together, formed a hand seal, and shouted in unison:

"Spirit Explosion!"

The Spirit Explosion can directly detonate the Dantian Qi Sea, taking Xiao Ran with it in a self-destruction.

Fortunately, Xiao Ran's movement technique was fast enough!

With a thud, he flashed and appeared between the two.

He grabbed his forehead with both hands and gave a jolt.

Bang! Bang! The tops of his head suddenly shook, the shockwave instantly coursing through his entire body, and a cloud of Wraith Fog burst forth from his seven orifices.

The two bodies were blown to pieces and fell from the sky.

Fortunately, the technique to detonate their Dantian was stopped, and both of them Dantian unharmed. With the dissipation of the Wraith Fog, they regained consciousness in mid-air.

He quickly used his strength to land smoothly, took the medicine, and tried to recover his physical body as soon as possible.

Liu Mingyang caught his breath.

The scene from just now flashed into my mind. I looked up and saw Xiao Ran had already disappeared.

Cao Yun said, "We were careless; we were actually controlled by the Wraith Fog!"

Liu Mingyang came to his senses.

"It was Xiao Ran who saved us. If we had been a fraction of a second later, all three of us would have died... Now you know what kind of person General Xiao is, right?"

Cao Yun was taken aback.

"General Xiao?"

To the east of the underworld.

Having dealt with the two from the Dao Alliance, Xiao Ran looked up.

Master had already chased after the stone tablet, and together they rushed into the spatial turbulence of the Wraith Barrier.

He glanced back at Flamefree City, then without further hesitation, hurriedly chased after them into the Wraith Barrier.

Flamefree City.

It was still night.

Five giant torches were suspended in mid-air around the Netherworld, in all directions.

The bursting flames seemed to penetrate everything, illuminating the outer layer of black mist with a yellowish hue.

Like five lighthouses in a spatial turbulence, they attempt to guide the hunters out of the underworld.

But it was useless.

Six days have passed since the appearance of the Underworld.

Five and a half days have passed since the first batch of hunters entered the Underworld.

To this day, not a single person has escaped the underworld! This is the first time such a thing has happened since the Dharma Ending Era.

The level of this Wraith incident has been upgraded from Grade C to Grade A.

Hundreds of cultivators, indistinct and shadowy, guarded the weakest entrance to the Netherworld.

In.

There was Li Wuxie, the Chief of the Eastern Floating Dao Alliance, Ta Hongzi, a Law Enforcer, and dozens of other Law Enforcer.

Among them Ouyang Cheng, a high-ranking headhunter from the Dao Alliance Headquarters, the Wraith Punishment Bureau Palace, and a group of Wraith Hunter were originally going to enter the Underworld but were forced to stay.

There were representatives from Zongzhi Mountain, the Disciplinary Elder, Huangfu Qun, and several Discipline Hall Law Enforcer.

And the sect leaders and elders of the nearby Subsidiary Sect, as well as the officials of the Blazing Fire Kingdom from the nearby counties.

Standing at the front of the entrance were Li Wuxie, Ouyang Cheng, and Huangfu Qun.

Because Lingzhou Yue and Xiao Ran were trapped in the Netherworld, Huangfu Qun paced back and forth, his gloomy face, as cold as an ice sculpture, reflecting the flickering firelight.

With his hands behind his back, he paced anxiously to Li Wuxie's side, then suddenly stopped and said:

"Chief Li, what are you waiting for? Nobody wants this to happen, but things have come to this, saving the cultivators is the top priority! This Netherworld is only at the Spirit Severing Realm, you at your peak can definitely kill him with one sword. Moreover, after killing the Netherworld, the three of us will do our best to rescue him, the casualties in the city are not as great as you imagine."

Li Wuxie closed his eyes and pondered, without speaking.

Ouyang Cheng, standing to the side, shouted, "What do you take human lives for? Those are three million living, breathing human lives. Without a massive number of ordinary people as a foundation, where would cultivators come from?"

Ouyang Cheng is the cousin of the Old Instructor Ouyang Zongzhi Mountain. He looks much younger and his Cultivation Level a level higher than that of the elder, at the Spirit Severing Realm.

He has a close relationship with Zongzhi Mountain.

He was a tall, middle-aged man with deliberately messy scars on his face. He was thin but upright and strong, and a flowing blue-black cloak accentuated his strength and status.

Huangfu Qun then walked up to Ouyang Cheng and argued forcefully:

"If we just wait, will they definitely survive? Besides, Cao Yun of the Dao Alliance and Xiao Ran of my sect are both outstanding talents who have emerged in recent years. There are only one like them among three million people."

Ouyang Cheng glanced at him with a long, languid look.

"So you finally admit that Xiao Ran is a prodigy? You were hiding it very well before."

Huangfu Qun was taken aback, then angrily swung his sleeve.

"What time is it to still be fussing about this? Xiao Ran is secondary. Our sect's Sword-Wielding Elder, Lingzhou Yue, also entered the Netherworld with the Qi Refining Cultivation Level. Her Cultivation Pearl is separated outside the Netherworld. If we push her too far, she will definitely connect her Cultivation Pearl inside and outside and use the Tidal Power to forcefully penetrate the Netherworld. At that time, many people will die as well."

"Such a thing exists?!"

Ouyang Cheng looked at Li Wuxie.

Li Wuxie closed his eyes and nodded.

Huangfu Qun then asked, "If you were facing a life-or-death crisis, would you rather entrust your life to Chief Li's sword or Lingzhou Yue's sword?"

The thought of that reckless woman sent chills down Ouyang Cheng's spine.

"This matter is of utmost importance; I must apply to the Wraith Punishment Bureau for permission."

"No need to apply."

Li Wuxie slowly opened his droopy dark eyelids.

He drew forth a slender, clumsy silver Spirit Sword!

Ouyang Cheng's eyes froze.

After so many years, he saw once again the very weapon that had haunted the nightmares of countless people in the Academy back then—

Boundless Innocence.

Li Wuxie was about to draw his sword.

Suddenly, Gale Wind arose, and the wind gathered from the clouds!

"What's going on?!"

Ouyang Cheng instinctively drew his sword.

In the blink of an eye, a torrential downpour extinguished the five torches, plunging the area inside and outside the black fog back into darkness.

Everyone looked up at the sky.

Rogue—

A vast and majestic dragon's roar enveloped the heavens and earth! It was like an ancient thunderclap.