Turning Hostile (Second Update Today, Please Bookmark and Recommend)

Chapter 10: Turning Hostile (Second Update Today, Please Bookmark and Recommend)

PS: Sorry, I overslept.

Hu Donghan had repeatedly refused, and now he was even putting on an act of turning around and leaving, filling Wang Linshu with rage.

Wang Linshu flashed through the air and blocked Hu Donghan's path. Holding the Hundred Ghost Banner, his face icy, he spoke with a chilling air, "Junior Brother Hu, I've invited you time and again, yet you keep refusing. What exactly do you mean by this? Could it be that you look down on me?"

"Ah..."

Hu Donghan's strength was still insufficient, and he had originally had no wish to completely fall out with Wang Linshu. When one lacked strength, one had to endure. The strong devoured the weak—this was the naked law of nature.

But Hu Donghan had yielded again and again, while Wang Linshu refused to give an inch, pressing forward step by step. Hu Donghan had already been forced into a corner—if he still did not resist, was he really supposed to travel with Wang Linshu as Wang Linshu demanded? Once he truly traveled with Wang Linshu, no matter how capable Hu Donghan was, he would be restrained by Wang Linshu.

"Senior Brother Wang, you and I have neither grievance nor enmity. Why must you humiliate yourself?"

Since he could no longer endure it, there was no need to endure any longer. Once he turned hostile, Hu Donghan would not leave even the slightest room for retreat.

As he spoke again, his words carried a cold chill, while madness shone from within his seemingly placid eyes...

Hu Donghan recalled the days of his childhood in his previous life, when he had fought mad dogs for food. That crazed gaze made even Wang Linshu's heart skip a beat.

After that jolt of fear, Wang Linshu quickly came back to his senses. This little piece of trash before him was only at the Qi Refining First Layer—what was there to fear? Moreover, the four words "humiliate yourself" had deeply provoked Wang Linshu. What did this little trash mean? Was he nothing but a clown in Hu Donghan's eyes?

Wang Linshu took two strides forward, nearly pressing up against Hu Donghan. The aura of the Late Qi Refining Realm bore down directly on him. "Little trash, what did you say?" At that moment, all the killing intent Wang Linshu had previously concealed was revealed without the slightest reservation. Even several Yin Souls from the Hundred Ghost Banner in his hand manifested, exhaling and swallowing yin energy before Hu Donghan.

If Hu Donghan had truly been an ordinary first-level Qi Refining cultivator, he might indeed have been suppressed by Wang Linshu's aura. But in his previous life, Hu Donghan had cultivated the Ghost Dao and forcibly suppressed the resistance of five vicious ghosts, three zombies, and two skeletons. How powerful was his will?

After only a brief daze, he broke free from Wang Linshu's aura suppression and said calmly, "Nothing impressive."

After a pause, Hu Donghan continued, "If you have the guts, kill me right now. If you don't, then get lost!" From Wang Linshu's aura just now, Hu Donghan had already confirmed that this man had murderous intentions. Faced with an enemy, naturally Hu Donghan had no good words to offer.

With that, Hu Donghan walked straight ahead and passed around Wang Linshu. As he went by Wang Linshu, he deliberately flashed the jade talisman for requesting aid that had been given to him by the Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator at the Lonely Soul Ridge outpost. Its meaning was self-evident.

Within the Yin Soul Sect, private fighting was punished by whipping; killing a fellow sect disciple meant execution!

This was an ironclad rule of the Yin Soul Sect. Even the sect patriarch could not violate it!

After all, disciples were the foundation of a sect. If cultivators of the same sect could casually slaughter one another, then the sect's foundation would be gone. How could such a sect possibly endure for long?

Wang Linshu indeed had the strength to kill Hu Donghan. In fact, if he wished to kill Hu Donghan, Hu Donghan would not have even the slightest ability to resist. But did Wang Linshu have the nerve?

Wang Linshu did not dare! He absolutely lacked that courage! He was one of the few outer disciples who had seen the Blood Bone Peak of the Law Enforcement Hall and returned alive. The hellish horror of Blood Bone Peak still appeared in his dreams. He had personally seen a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator howling at the foot of Blood Bone Peak.

Thus, Wang Linshu could only grit his teeth and watch Hu Donghan pass by him. Killing intent flickered in his eyes, yet he did not dare strike and kill him.

Seeing that Wang Linshu had not attacked at first, Hu Donghan finally let out the heart he had been holding at his throat. He mounted his bone horse and gradually rode away.

Only after Hu Donghan had gone far away did Wang Linshu let out an enraged roar. As spiritual power circulated, the Hundred Ghost Banner in his hand was instantly shrouded in yin energy. More than a hundred Yin Souls surged from the banner, shrieking as they devoured everything around them. A few breaths later, those hundred-odd Yin Souls had plowed through the surrounding area, leaving utter devastation behind.

"Damn it! One day, I will kill you!" After roaring furiously, Wang Linshu rode the Hundred Ghost Banner and flew toward the inner regions of Lonely Soul Ridge.

In the distance, Hu Donghan heard Wang Linshu's furious roar and breathed a sigh of relief:

"Judging by Wang Linshu's manner, he probably won't have the face to come trouble me again anytime soon. Petty men are like ghosts—those words truly are right. If I had gone soft before Wang Linshu, I'm afraid it would have been difficult to get away this time. But once I hardened up, he did not even have the courage to stop me."

"However, I've also provoked Wang Linshu this time. From now on, this will surely become an irreconcilable blood feud. A blood feud it is, then! Since he has developed the intent to kill me, even if he does not come looking for me later, I will find an opportunity to kill him and settle the matter."

"Today's encounter ultimately happened because I am too weak! If I were stronger than him, how could he possibly come swaggering before me? And that Mu Zhengfeng—would he dare hop about before me like a clown? Everything comes down to one thing: only increasing my strength is the kingly path!"

"Once the entry trial mission is complete, my foremost priority will be to obtain a ghost charm. With a ghost charm assisting me, I can test whether the methods recorded in the 'True Explanation of the Ghost Dao' truly work. If the ghost-controlling technique and the ghost-raising technique from the 'True Explanation of the Ghost Dao' can work together..."

Chaotic thoughts churned through Hu Donghan's mind until he encountered another Yin Soul, at which point he became serious once more.

During the day, he hunted ghosts; at night, he returned to the outpost to rest.

Without realizing it, more than half a month had passed.

Over these days, Hu Donghan killed an average of eight or nine Yin Souls each day.

The entry trial mission had already been completed on the second day. During the remaining time, Hu Donghan continuously hunted Yin Souls solely to find a Ghost Wraith among them.

Whether it was the ghost-controlling technique or the "True Explanation of the Ghost Dao," both required a ghost charm to be used.

Within Lonely Soul Ridge, countless souls and Wandering Souls had gradually grown under the nourishment of yin energy. Both the number and strength of Yin Souls were rapidly increasing.

Several days earlier, Hu Donghan had already discovered lone mid-stage Qi Refining Yin Souls and groups of more than ten Qi Refinement Early Stage Yin Souls on the outskirts of Lonely Soul Ridge. The current Lonely Soul Ridge had already become somewhat dangerous to Hu Donghan.

(End of Chapter)