The Demon Cultivator Who Received a Second Invitation

Blackheart Mountain was gone?

As they descended the mountain, Blackheart Elder's disciple-consumables could not help but look bewildered.

When they had first been forcibly abducted to the mountain, Blackheart Elder's notorious reputation had naturally left them uneasy. But after obtaining the Sevenfold Demon Body Scripture, that unease had been replaced by delight.

After all, this was a superior tome-grade cultivation art!

Yet before long, they all became happy. First, Blackheart Elder seemed to be gone. Second, Blackheart Mountain had dissolved. This meant that from now on, they could act without restraint. Even taking this superior tome-grade cultivation art and seeking refuge with an orthodox sect would pose no problem.

Watching these junior brothers and sisters descend the mountain, Tan Shuchang merely smiled faintly.

He had already given them the best road to survival, for the sake of their time as fellow disciples. As for how they would fare in the future, that would depend on their own fortunes.

"My master is dead. This deathtrap I was caught in has been broken."

"Next, I should give some thought to that Weird Game..." When it came to this, Tan Shuchang's feelings toward the Weird Game were somewhat complicated.

After all, if not for the Weird Game's sudden appearance and its invitation to him, he might still have been unable to find such a suitable fierce ghost!

And he would not have possessed the strength to kill Blackheart Elder.

But any place associated with the word "weird" could hardly be a kind and benevolent place.

"Oh, right. And that damned thief who stole my diary!"

At the thought of it, Tan Shuchang could not help grinding his teeth.

The place where he had stored his diary had actually been specially prepared. Otherwise, it could not possibly have remained undisturbed for several years.

Earlier, Tan Shuchang had gathered all his junior brothers and sisters, but not one of them had triggered his senses. This meant that the bastard who had stolen his diary was from outside Blackheart Mountain!

However, before Tan Shuchang could carefully investigate any suspicious targets, the familiar attribute panel appeared before his eyes.

Player: Tan Shuchang.

Level: Ding Eight (Ding rank; advance once after experiencing one Weird Game.)

Malice Resistance: Jia One.

Corruption Resistance: Jia One.

Destruction Resistance: Jia One.

Supernatural Resistance: Jia One.

Other than the change in player level, the information within this attribute panel had not changed at all. After all, what it represented was not Tan Shuchang's physical fitness, but the limits of a player's physical abilities within the Weird Game.

"Am I going to experience another game?"

Tan Shuchang was rather excited.

Just one fierce ghost, after being refined, had granted him an immense boost in power. In one stroke, it allowed the two cultivation arts he practiced to possess, while still at the introductory stage, the power that only the ultimate realm could offer.

The supernatural power a cultivation art could unleash upon reaching the ultimate realm was terrifying indeed.

The Blood-Refined Lotus Art in particular had reached the point where it could form a formation on its own.

If not for the spirit-linked treasure being a famed divine artifact of the Jia Five Realm, something utterly unreasonable in its power, Blackheart Elder would never have been able to break the Blood Refining Grand Formation at the time.

As for the ability to temporarily merge with a fierce ghost after refining it, shifting between the tangible and intangible, although it had allowed Tan Shuchang to evade the Chaos Fate Orb's fatal strike and appeared profoundly mysterious, even touching upon the mysteries of space, in terms of practicality, it was actually far inferior to the former.

That was because the Jia Five Realm possessed many methods for capturing and suppressing fierce ghosts.

The reason Tan Shuchang had so easily captured that fierce ghost girl in the Weird Game earlier was not because of his formidable physical abilities, but because he had used a relatively common method of ghost-catching to seize her.

As Tan Shuchang's excitement rose, the Weird Game he had been thinking about descended as well.

Unlike the first time, no string of information flashed before him. As the surrounding environment continuously twisted, Tan Shuchang was directly brought inside.

Perhaps he had been preset as an "old player," since he was not even given a basic prompt.

But Tan Shuchang did not mind in the least.

After all, he had come to seek cultivation resources. Anything other than cultivation resources lay completely outside Tan Shuchang's considerations.

At that moment, he was staring at the dim dormitory building before him, faint black light flickering in his eyes from time to time.

Tan Shuchang was using this to locate the fierce ghost's precise whereabouts within the building.

Yet to Tan Shuchang's surprise, he could not find the fierce ghost inside this dormitory building.

"Is it because the time has not come yet?"

Tan Shuchang guessed as much, because he saw a clock hanging inside the dormitory building, and the time it displayed was still in the afternoon.

Thus, he walked toward the dormitory building.

Only after reaching it did he discover that he seemed to be the only player this time. The surroundings were very quiet, without even the slightest sign of another person's presence.

"In that case, I'll lock the doors and windows first."

By locking them, Tan Shuchang naturally meant using the sealing power of his cultivation art. He was worried that he might frighten the fierce ghost later, allowing it to use its advantage of terrain and its advantage as the host to flee.

After all, compared to the fierce ghost that had remained in the Weird Game all this time, Tan Shuchang, who had only come here for the second time, was undoubtedly at a disadvantage when it came to information.

When fighting on unfamiliar ground, the most important thing was to be cautious and prudent, anticipating every possible development in advance!

"Sevenfold Shadow, seal!"

A black figure condensed behind Tan Shuchang. With a flicker, it split directly into seven portions. Each of those divided shadows then sank into a different place—walls, floors, or ceilings, all in different locations.

Before long, Tan Shuchang felt that he could sense every corner of the dormitory building.

"The fierce ghost still isn't here. It seems it won't appear until nightfall..."

Having understood this, Tan Shuchang found a place and patiently waited.

Just as Tan Shuchang layered seal upon seal over the dormitory building, shadowy figures began slowly approaching it.

Every one of those figures was a player of the Weird Game.

Originally, these players had all approached with great caution. But upon discovering others, they immediately stood together with people they knew.

This was because the players participating in this game belonged to two different player groups.

"It's you!"

The two player groups had long harbored considerable conflict against one another.

"Enough, don't get worked up. This game instance is the Endless Dormitory Building, where the chances of a total party wipe are extremely high! I suggest we call a truce for now. No one is allowed to attack anyone else in this game instance!"

Someone quickly stepped forward and curbed the conflict between the two sides.

Neither side objected.

These were all veteran players. Once the conflict had been suppressed, they spent only a few minutes discussing a viable exploration plan.

However, what none of these veteran Weird Game players expected was that as soon as their plan was established, they had to overturn it and start over.

Because...

"Why are all the doors to this dormitory building locked tight?"