Origins of the Specters

As Su Fang fled, his first instinct was to refuse.

After all, Li Junhao was still chasing him from behind.

Not to mention there was a Specter helping Li Junhao nearby.

But just as he was about to refuse, a chill directly enveloped his body. The hairs all over his body stood on end, as if a prehistoric beast had fixed its gaze upon its prey.

"Yes, yes, I came to play with you!"

Su Fang hurriedly agreed. Using the towering tombstone beside him, he stepped onto its peak and leaped behind the mad old man.

"Ah! Old Sun finally has a playmate! I finally don't have to keep playing with this pale food!"

At the sight of Su Fang, Old Sun immediately broke into a brilliant smile. His yellow teeth and foul breath rushed straight at Su Fang, then he slapped the trembling Specter beside him.

Bang!

It sounded like a water jar filled to the brim had shattered beside Su Fang's ears.

The Specter, which had been giving off a terrifying aura, died just like that for no apparent reason. In the end, it did not even leave behind the slightest trace.

Su Fang was utterly shocked by the sight.

"Holy crap! This mad old man is way too strong! He killed such a powerful Yin Wraith with one slap!"

This mad old man was truly terrifying. He had casually destroyed the Specter with a single blow.

Just what level is this mad old man at? Su Fang wondered.

"Sigh! Why can't this old man ever keep the food?"

"Why do they disappear right after taking one slap? Are they playing hide-and-seek with me?"

Old Sun looked utterly confused, but then he turned toward Su Fang again with a beaming smile.

Su Fang's heart skipped a beat. He could only hope this mad old man would not slap him to death as well.

"I think I remember you. Once, you were playing with food, and that food even stuck its hand into your head. I want to try it too. Maybe it'll be fun!"

Before the mad old man could finish speaking, Li Junhao caught up. The Yin Qi around them condensed into cloudlike mist, surrounding both the mad old man and Su Fang.

"Su Fang, run! Go on, keep running!"

Li Junhao had initially thought Su Fang had encountered some powerful expert, which was why he had stopped.

But when he approached, he saw that it was merely a mad old man. Li Junhao did not care in the slightest.

This mad old man always called himself Old Sun and was a notorious lunatic within the Gods and Devils Cemetery.

Some had even seen Old Sun dig up the corpses and bones from numerous graves!

When Martial King-level experts passed away, the bones left behind by their bodies usually gleamed with an unusual silver light, while only their skulls gleamed golden.

Yet this mad old man had forcibly dug up countless graves, all for those skulls. He had even used a coffin made of Mystic Stone as a pot and a coffin lid as its cover, boiling those bones into soup and drinking it.

Genuine bone soup!

Because of that, Old Sun was fairly well-known within the Gods and Devils Cemetery.

But Li Junhao had tested Old Sun more than once and discovered that he was only a Martial Artist. Perhaps he had accidentally consumed some treasure left behind by a great expert within the cemetery, allowing him to live for so long.

Still, Li Junhao harbored some doubts, which was why he did not immediately step forward to kill both the mad old man and Su Fang.

"Hehehe, why aren't you running, flesh? Weren't you running quite fast just now?"

But the pursuing Specter paid no attention to any of that.

In her eyes, the mad old man and Su Fang were both food. One was simply more tender, while the other was rather old.

"Let me taste your kidney!"

The moment the Specter spoke, she appeared directly to Su Fang's left, not giving him any chance to make a move.

The Specter raised her left hand, turning it into a claw that struck toward Su Fang's head. Her right hand blasted toward his waist, while the dark-red blood claw was even more sinister, continuously absorbing the surrounding Yin Qi and Killing Intent as it gave off piercing whistles through the air.

"Ah! This food is so strange!

His hand is actually red! Hurry and let me break it off and see how he made it red!" Old Sun was overjoyed. So many people had come to play with him today.

He stretched out both hands and grabbed the claw. No one saw his speed clearly; even Su Fang only saw Old Sun make his move.

Old Sun simply lifted his hands, and the dark-red claw fell right into his grasp.

"Not good! Retreat!!!"

How had the Specter ever encountered such a situation?

She did not even care about her vanished hands. With a flash, she plunged headfirst into the tomb behind her.

In Su Fang's perception, the Specter that had been pursuing him had actually fled!

And she was incredibly fast, completely ignoring her partner, Li Junhao.

The Specter was clearly terrified of Old Sun, which was why she had escaped.

Old Sun paid no attention to the fleeing Specter. Instead, he curiously patted his hands, seemingly searching for the vanished blood claw.

"Ah! The claw is gone. Where did the claw go?"

But Li Junhao, standing in the distance, was violently shaken to the core at that moment!

Li Junhao knew full well how strong that Specter was. If even the Specter had been frightened into fleeing by Old Sun, then he was absolutely no match for Old Sun either.

"Damn it, this Old Sun hid himself deeply!" Li Junhao turned and ran.

If he did not run now, it would be too late!!!

This mad old man was no Martial Artist at all. He was a powerful expert whose cultivation Li Junhao could not fathom.

His cultivation might very well have surpassed the Martial King realm.

"Damn it, what exactly is going on with the Gods and Devils Cemetery? It was usually so quiet, so why did two monsters appear the moment I showed up?"

Li Junhao's heart pounded wildly, and his feet moved even faster.

In a flash, he had already fled several hundred meters away.

But before he could turn around to see whether he had escaped the mad old man's attack range, he felt a sharp pain in his head. His vision went black, and he lost consciousness forever.

In the distance.

Su Fang stood where he was, his scalp tingling as he watched Old Sun clutch Li Junhao's head and imitate the Specter from before, desperately jamming his fingers inside.

Then an utterly disgusting scene unfolded.

Li Junhao was killed by the mad old man just like that.

"Old Sun truly deserves to be called a mad old man. Not many normal people could do something like that!"

"I have to find a way to stay away from this mad old man. Otherwise, if he suddenly gets the urge to stick his hand into me one day, won't I be finished?"

Su Fang understood that he might still be able to escape if a Martial Sect expert like Li Junhao pursued him.

But when facing Old Sun, whose cultivation was unknown, let alone escaping, even choosing a relatively normal way to die would be difficult.

"Right, I brought some food with me. I could use it to bribe him a little..."

But before Su Fang could figure out how to deal with the mad old man, he saw a faint white glow rise from Li Junhao's body, despite the fact that Li Junhao had already been killed.

At the same time, the strange energy within the Gods and Devils Cemetery began rapidly gathering.

The Yin Baleful Qi in the air continuously condensed before finally rushing toward the white light that had formed after Li Junhao's death.

With his knowledge of soul arts, Su Fang understood that the pale white light was the soul leaking out after Li Junhao's death.

At that moment.

Su Fang finally understood where these Specters came from, and why this Specter had been able to communicate with others.

"Could this be why the outside world insists on sending criminals into the Gods and Devils Cemetery?"

"To turn people like us into the final tomb keepers of the Gods and Devils Cemetery!!!"

At the cost of their souls, they became Yin Wraiths one after another, then guarded this ancient cemetery?