Ghost Immortal Altar

"Die by your own hand, Lancer!"

With those words, Cheese's cherry lips parted, issuing a bizarre and irrefutable command.

The Lancer, whose spear had been severed and armor cracked by Li Yèlái, paused as if caught in a violent struggle.

Then, to Wang De's stunned gaze, the Lancer raised the two broken halves of his spear and plunged them directly into his own cracked chest plate.

The broken spear pierced his chest, and ethereal blood poured out.

"What are you doing?" Wang De cried in horror, shaking his silver bell again. "Stop! Stop it! Come back!"

But the Lancer tightened his grip, driving the broken spear deeper into his chest until it pierced his heart.

In the next second, several halos formed by Golden Incantations appeared on the Lancer's body, then shattered with a roar.

The Lancer fell to his knees, a final, unwilling roar escaping his lips. He died, turning to dust and scattering.

Wang De stared blankly. "How is this possible?"

The powerful Lancer had committed suicide at the word of this girl?

This was the powerful Lancer's ashes he had painstakingly obtained at great cost from some entity. According to the being with the black umbrella, it was a valuable item from a forbidden disaster zone, possessing strength equivalent to a second-awakened psionic. And now, it was dead?

The onlookers were equally stunned into silence. The Lancer had only been heavily wounded in his fierce battle with Li Yèlái, still possessing considerable combat power. Now, he was killed by a single sentence?

"Is Whisper Path that strong? Can I switch paths?" Li Yèlái looked at his bloodied hand, feeling as though his previous fight had been for nothing. At the same time, he felt a strange chill in his chest. Perhaps it was because he was also a Lancer, seeing how ignominiously the other Lancer had died, Li Yèlái felt a pang of fear. This Lancer died just like that, while he had fought for so long just to break his armor. Then, Cheese had finished it with a single sentence? That Lancer was too unlucky.

Recalling the arduous battle, Li Yèlái's mood was complex.

In reality, without Li Yèlái's armor penetration and damage, Cheese's ability likely wouldn't have worked. Li Yèlái's attack had drastically reduced the Lancer's psionic resistance, which was the main reason for Cheese's success. However, it was still shocking. Whisper Path seemed to have no combat power, with most of its abilities being auxiliary, like hypnosis and suggestion. But its practical effect was terrifying. It could eliminate everything with the power of words. He wondered how horrifying "Word of God" would be after a high awakening.

Li Yèlái mused inwardly, but his hands didn't stop. Seeing the Lancer dead, he immediately advanced with his blade, his Crimson Longsword slashing towards Wang De.

Simultaneously, Detective grabbed a rifle from a corpse and opened fire on Wang De.

This forced Dual Blade Knight to block in front of Wang De, raising his blade to resist. His dual swords moved fluidly, easily parrying Li Yèlái's assault and activating a psionic barrier to block the incoming bullets.

In just one exchange, Li Yèlái understood the Dual Blade Knight's strength, which was even greater than the Lancer's. However, because he had to protect Wang De, he couldn't easily dodge or create distance, greatly reducing his effectiveness. He could only passively defend against Li Yèlái's onslaught.

Wang De seized this opportunity to turn and rush towards the Blue Brick House.

However, Cheese quickly swallowed the sweetener in her mouth, suppressing her urge to curse, and immediately spoke again: "Listen to me! Cardiac arrest!"

Dual Blade Knight, of course, didn't react. He didn't even have a heart; he was merely ashes summoned by the silver bell. But Wang De was different. Upon hearing the words, he felt his body sway, his vision blacken, and he crashed heavily to the ground. He hit his head and bled, but he struggled to crawl to the threshold of the Blue Brick House and forcefully slammed the door shut.

He had concealed one thing from Li Yèlái and the others from the beginning. The Blue Brick House could indeed grant wishes by offering sacrifices, but there was no time limit. And through repeated sacrifices, he had discovered a dangerous hidden aspect of the Blue Brick House: if one closed the door and made a wish without offering any sacrifice, the Blue Brick House would undergo a bizarre transformation. A strange entity would emerge and forcibly seize the flesh and life of those around the wisher. This required more flesh and blood than a normal sacrifice. A wish that could be granted with the sacrifice of a live cow would instead take the life and flesh of a living person. It seemed to be a punishment for the wisher trying to get something for free!

Now, Wang De didn't care about such a punishment. After closing the door, he roared, "Great and just Ghost Immortal, I make a wish to you! I offer you a sacrifice! Please let me escape Giant City!"

<Li Yèlái> and <Detective> were stunned. They hadn't seen <Wang De> offer any sacrifice.

However, in the next second, the <Blue Brick House> trembled, and the door opened again, spewing out a tide of shadows.

Before anyone could react, the shadows instantly covered the entire basement.

In an instant, pairs of pitch-black human arms stretched out from the shadows and grabbed everyone!

<Li Yèlái>, <Cheese>, <Detective>, and other members of the Wang family, even the <Dual Blade Knight>, were all caught by the suddenly emerging black arms.

The corpses of the armed personnel who had died were also grabbed by the arms and began to quickly merge into the shadows, as if there was another world beneath them.

<Li Yèlái>'s two calves were grabbed by seven arms, rendering him completely immobile. He even felt a powerful downward pulling force.

"Foot fetish?" <Li Yèlái> roared, swinging his long saber to slash at the arms, but more and more arms emerged from the shadows.

As soon as <Li Yèlái> cut off the arms holding him, he saw even more arms extend.

Looking back, <Detective> had already been pulled to the ground, his gun firing uselessly.

The others were in even worse shape, struggling painfully amidst screams.

On the stairs, <Cheese>, also entangled by several arms and even having her shoulders grabbed, struggled to speak, shouting, "Listen to me, kill yourself immediately!"

The sudden change made her realize that this forbidden object had clearly lost control.

The only way to quell the chaos was to kill the wish-maker.

<Wang De> heard this and struggled, but with the protection of the so-called '<Ghost Immortal>', he suppressed the urge to commit suicide.

He also dodged backward, not being caught by the black hands. Instead, he was the most mobile person there and quickly retreated to the deepest part of the basement.

Laughing at everyone else, he had finally turned the tables!

After <Cheese> shouted this, she was dragged and fell onto the stairs. The black hands were dragging her into another world.

Struggling, she looked at <Li Yèlái> and yelled, "Listen to me, run!"

"Is this how you use your ability?" <Li Yèlái> roared anxiously, suppressing the urge to flee. He forced himself to calm down.

He quickly glanced at <Wang De> in the distance, and at the <Blue Brick House> just ten steps away.

He made a decision in his heart.

Since the forbidden object had lost control, he would destroy it!

In reality, this was an extremely risky act. Forbidden objects were manifestations of certain powers from the <Void Realm> in the physical world. Destroying one could lead to terrible disasters.

But <Li Yèlái> couldn't afford to hesitate any longer; if he delayed, everyone would die!

"Then let <Mr. Shadow> pay the price!"

<Li Yèlái> thought to himself, gathering his courage.

He quickly swung his long saber, cutting down the approaching arms.

At the same time, he leaped and used <Sky Stepping>, soaring over the entangled <Dual Blade Knight> in mid-air and crashing into the <Blue Brick House>.

Fortunately, no black arms extended from inside the <Blue Brick House>. Instead, behind a golden altar, a strange, blurry <Black Shadow> was floating.

It seemed to sense <Li Yèlái>'s intentions, looking at him indifferently and speaking in an ancient tone, "Presumptuous!"

The voice echoed back and forth in the small <Blue Brick House>, turning into a tangible pressure that bore down on <Li Yèlái>, causing him to bleed from all seven orifices instantly. His knees felt an urge to bend and kneel.

Was this the true form of the <Blue Brick House>?

Was this the existence from the <Void Realm> that could grant almost any wish?

<Li Yèlái> didn't ponder these questions. Instead, he pressed forward with his saber, enduring the intense pressure.

Every step he took made him want to retreat and flee, but he remembered his teammates outside and the threat of death.

Courage once again overcame fear.

<Li Yèlái> gritted his teeth and advanced, his double pupils bloodshot.

"You damn presumptuous bastard!"

Seeing the black threads emanating from the altar, <Li Yèlái> decisively raised his saber and slashed down! Exploiting the weakness!

In the next moment, an extremely terrifying scream and roar shook the manor!

Simultaneously, throughout <Border City No. 3>, all psionicists heard that furious roar.

"Damn it, something's happened!" In the East City branch, <Moon Shadow> activated their ability and instantly transformed into lightning, shooting into the sky.

<Yáng Chén>, who was rushing to another battlefield, also changed color and leaped up.

His skin turned crimson, and he stomped his foot, creating a sonic boom airflow.

Almost all psionicists were alerted.

And in a corner of <Giant City>, a young man holding a black umbrella looked faintly towards the new urban area and couldn't help but say, "Attacking the <Ghost Immortal> altar? It seems that <Wang De>'s kid is in trouble. Even a knight with power equivalent to a second awakening could lose."

At this moment, <Li Yèlái> was unaware of the changes happening outside. He was desperately slashing at the altar.

This altar actually possessed an extremely powerful and sturdy psionic barrier.

<Li Yèlái>'s desperate slash couldn't cut it down immediately!

The blade left a scratch on the altar, which widened, but it couldn't be driven down further. The blade was even being pushed outward!

Not enough strength!

So infuriating, it was right in front of him, he could already see the thing's weakness! But it was blocked by a psychic barrier, unable to shatter it!

"What a shame, times have changed!"

Li Yèlái roared, pulling out his Jet Steel Axe from behind with his left hand.

Then, he swung it forcefully at the back of the Crimson Longsword's blade.

At the same time, he pressed a button on the axe handle, and a flame nearly a meter long shot out from the jet nozzle.

Damn it, what did the equipment department put in this thing? Li Yèlái felt his left hand instantly lose control and smash down, as if it had been dislocated.

The axe thus accelerated sharply, smashing hard into the back of the longsword's blade!

With a 'crack,' the golden altar was sliced completely in two by the accelerated longsword!

Outside the Blue Brick House, the arms that had emerged from the shadows vanished instantly along with the shadows, leaving behind a group of disheveled people.

But this undoubtedly completely enraged a certain terrifying existence.

The moment Li Yèlái severed the altar, he had a fleeting glimpse of a mountain-like giant shadow appearing before him outside his Soul Well.

It wore a dark and white Taoist robe, exuding an immortal aura, yet countless vengeful spirits swirled around it.

That was the Ghost Immortal? Human?

It had actually found Li Yèlái's Soul Well directly from the Void Realm!

Its colossal body even blotted out the sky, looking down at Li Yèlái.

"How dare you?" The Ghost Immortal looked down at Li Yèlái, extending its right hand towards him, seemingly furious.

But soon, the Ghost Immortal seemed to sense something, abandoning Li Yèlái and looking up ahead instead.

It saw only darkness. No, where had the Void Realm's starry sky gone?

The Ghost Immortal's gaze slowly moved upward but still couldn't see the starry sky, until it saw a giant eyeball that blotted out the sun and obscured the heavens.

This... no wonder it couldn't see the starry sky. It was standing before a colossal being that could block out the stars, like an ant that had arrived at a human dining table.

And that being was looking at it with great interest from the dining table.

As if asking, what the hell gave you the nerve?

"No, I mean no offense. I didn't know this human was invited by you." The Ghost Immortal's voice trembled, but before it could even finish speaking, it was entwined by a tentacle as large as a mountain range and dragged into the darkness.

Then came the chilling screams and chewing sounds.

Seeing this, Li Yèlái was filled with shock. That... was "Mr. Shadow"?

It actually swallowed the Ghost Immortal whole? That was the Ghost Immortal capable of fulfilling any wish!

It was far more terrifying than he had imagined!

But... he hadn't even traded with it yet, and it had already handled things itself.

So... maybe he shouldn't trade? This doesn't count as getting something for free, right? The Ghost Immortal didn't say anything!

Li Yèlái thought to himself, then heard incomprehensible words: "This time... I won't give it to you."

Won't give what? Oh... the Blank Facial Mask?

Li Yèlái was somewhat surprised, then understood.

Although the process was troublesome, this Ghost Immortal had become a sacrifice offered by Li Yèlái. Previously, by offering sufficient sacrifices, he had obtained a new mask, or rather, a Facial Mask.

But Black Shadow had also saved his life because of this, so it didn't count as intervening and had no intention of giving Li Yèlái any reward.

Hooray! There's such a good thing! My luck is turning around!

Li Yèlái thought to himself, then his consciousness returned to reality.

"Phew, finally..." Li Yèlái breathed a sigh of relief.

However, his expression quickly changed again.

Because the entire roof beam of the Blue Brick House above his head suddenly collapsed.

"Shit!"

(It's best not to put this on a backlog, as new books are very dependent on continuous reading. Also, Old Lang writes 4,000 words a day, there's no shortage. And you can't have a burst of updates during the new book period.)