"What do you make of what that human Elder Tang said?"
City Lord Gao Ansheng spoke indifferently. Green light glowed from his eyes, as though ghostfire were brewing in the depths of his pupils.
If the many humans of Qingyang City saw their city lord, Gao Ansheng, emanating such an aura, they would be scared half to death. He was supposed to be humanity's guardian deity, the ruler of Qingyang City.
Yet he had unknowingly been possessed by a Nether Ghost and turned into its puppet. If news of this spread, it would surely shake heaven and earth. Even humanity's strongholds had been infiltrated by Nether Ghosts—where in the world could possibly be safe?
And judging by the situation, it was not only the city lord who had been possessed by a Nether Ghost. Quite a few elders had also become Nether Ghost fodder.
It could be said that Qingyang City had been infiltrated until it was riddled with holes, falling into the hands of the Nether Ghosts without anyone noticing.
"It's possible."
A Nether Ghost nodded. "According to our lord's intelligence, the reason he could kill Nether Ghosts was because he wielded hellfire, which can harm the very essence of our souls.
Such power is not something humans of this world can possess. In other words, he must have come from another human world. That human elder's conjecture is seventy or eighty percent likely to be true."
Judging from every sign, it too admitted that Elder Tang's speculation was highly plausible.
"If that is the case, then that human absolutely cannot be allowed to live."
A cold glint flashed in Gao Ansheng's eyes. "If he opens a passage to another human world and leads a massive force of human reinforcements here, wouldn't we Nether Ghosts be in mortal danger,