Divine War Pill Emperor

Chapter 308: Chapter 306: Death

Upon seeing the three monsters,

the Martial Cultivators immediately screamed in terror.

After a Martial Cultivator attacked the first monster, its expression immediately turned cruel.

WHOOSH!

Its seemingly weightless body lunged at the Martial Cultivator. Its speed suddenly became incredible, like a streak of blue light.

In an instant, it was upon the Martial Cultivator.

The Martial Cultivator’s attack landed on the monster, but it had no effect whatsoever.

The attacking Martial Cultivator’s heart pounded wildly. He had never seen a monster that couldn’t be killed.

He hastily tried to flee.

But the monster had already lunged onto him. Then, in a bizarre turn of events, it burrowed into the Martial Cultivator’s body.

Soon, the Martial Cultivator’s body began to shake uncontrollably.

It seemed he lost all ability to fight in an instant.

CLANG!

Simultaneously, the Magical Treasure in his hand fell to the ground.

A moment later, the Martial Cultivator’s body went completely stiff, unmoving.

PFFT!

The next moment, the monster drilled its way out of the Martial Cultivator’s body.

Without a backward glance, it chased after the other Martial Cultivators.

As for that Martial Cultivator, after standing there for a moment, his body toppled stiffly to the ground.

THUD!

A dull thud echoed in the darkness.

The Martial Cultivator was silent, his body now a corpse that gradually grew cold.

"Aaaah..."

Countless people screamed in the darkness. The three monsters relentlessly pursued the fleeing Martial Cultivators; their speed here was incredible.

Soon, another Martial Cultivator was possessed by a monster. A short while later, after a fit of trembling, the Martial Cultivator died.

"Waaaaah..."

It seemed the commotion had attracted the attention of more monsters.

In the darkness, faint blue lights began to glow, one after another.

They drifted about in the darkness, floating toward the source of the noise.

"Aaaah..."

Another terrified scream came from ahead of Jiang Chen and his group.

The voice sounded utterly terrified.

"Someone’s there."

Zhan Yang was immediately on alert.

The five of them looked ahead at the same time.

"Waaaaah..."

The first thing they heard was a sound like a baby crying.

Hearing it in the darkness was particularly spine-chilling.

"What in the world is that?"

Zhan Yang asked, horrified.

Jiang Chen said with a grave expression, "They’re Ghosts."

"Quick, get down! Hold your breath and don’t move a muscle."

As he spoke, Jiang Chen was the first to drop to the ground in the darkness.

He pressed himself tightly against the floor.

He quickly instructed JinLing and the others, "Ghosts are easily attracted by light."

"They love to devour the souls of Martial Cultivators, and a Martial Cultivator’s attacks are useless against them. They have what is practically an Undying Body."

"When you encounter a Ghost, hold your breath and don’t move. The Ghosts will think we’re corpses and won’t attack."

His words registered in the minds of JinLing and the others, and their expressions changed drastically.

Undying Body. Hearing these two words, they knew the Ghosts would be difficult to deal with.

HUFF... PUFF...

A panicked figure rushed toward Jiang Chen and his group in the darkness.

"Dammit."

Jiang Chen, who was at the very front, cursed under his breath.

The person’s footsteps were heading toward them. This would attract the Ghosts.

"Waaaaah..."

No wonder the person was fleeing in a panic. Behind him, a faint blue light flickered, rapidly giving chase.

The Martial Cultivator cried out for help in a panic.

"Help, save me..."

Jiang Chen sensed the Martial Cultivator was only about ten meters away. At this distance, they could scan the area with their Divine Thought.

They identified the newcomer. However, the faint blue light behind him was drawing ever closer.

Five meters!

Just as Jiang Chen thought the Martial Cultivator was about to reach them, the man’s body suddenly froze.

It was because the blue light behind him had shot into his body in an instant.

THUD!

As if due to inertia, the Martial Cultivator’s body pitched forward, his desperate gaze fixed on Jiang Chen and the others.

It was a look filled with an extreme desire to live.

But it was forever frozen in that moment.

WHOOSH!

The blue light flew out of the Martial Cultivator’s body.

Then it floated about a meter off the ground.

Its eerie blue eyes were like starlight in the night, exceptionally beautiful.

Its eyes swiveled around. It had no nose and no mouth.

It was utterly bizarre.

Its eyes even swept over Jiang Chen and the others.

JinLing and the others broke out in a cold sweat.

After all, the Martial Cultivator from just now had a Cultivation at the Martial Master Eighth Layer Heaven, yet he had died right before their very eyes.

It was an incredibly bizarre death.

However, they followed Jiang Chen’s instructions and didn’t dare to move a muscle.

Not even a twitch.

They even stopped breathing.

The Ghost looked at them, but they didn’t dare to look back at the Ghost.

WHOOSH!

The Ghost suddenly shot toward them.

Jiang Chen’s body went almost completely stiff.

He was scared out of his wits as the Ghost appeared before him.

’I have absolutely no way to defeat this Ghost, at least not right now. My only option is to play dead and hide. To kill these Ghosts, one needs an extremely powerful soul—at the very least, a soul at the Martial Emperor Level.’

Compared to the Ghost Temple he had visited in his past life, Jiang Chen found that the Ghosts in this Ghost Temple seemed relatively weak.

But even the weakest of them were terrifying. They were Ghosts that specialized in attacking a person’s soul. Magical Treasures couldn’t harm them, but if a Ghost caught your soul, it would be devoured.

He didn’t dare to release the slightest bit of his aura.

After circling Jiang Chen a few times, the Ghost seemed to perceive him as a corpse.

Finally, it leisurely drifted over to Zhan Yang and the others and hovered around them for a while.

Seemingly confirming that they were all corpses, it then drifted away unhurriedly.

It floated into the darkness and vanished.

PHEW!

Once the Ghost had completely disappeared, Jiang Chen and the others all began to gasp for air.

Zhan Yang wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, beads of it dripping to the ground.

"Jiang Chen, we owe you. If it weren’t for you, we might have all been devoured by that Ghost."

He said with lingering fear, realizing that following Jiang Chen had been the right decision.

JinLing, Niu Tuo, and even Lu Beifeng were all grateful to Jiang Chen.

If they had followed their own instincts, they definitely would have attacked the Ghost or tried to flee.

But even a master at the Martial Master Eighth Layer Heaven had died so easily at the Ghost’s hands; they would have only died faster.

Jiang Chen got up from the ground.

He said in a low voice, "We still need to be careful from now on. If we run into a Ghost, just play dead."

"Don’t panic. Let’s focus on finding the exit first."

A faint sense of anticipation grew in Jiang Chen’s heart.

’My Nine Heavens Spirit-Seizing Technique came from a Ghost Temple. Now that I’m in a Ghost Temple again, I’m bound to make some kind of discovery. But being with Zhan Yang and the others will only slow me down. I’ll have to find a way for them to leave first so I can explore the Ghost Temple alone. The Black Fire... if I’m not mistaken, it should be on the seventh floor or higher. In my past life, I only made it to the first three floors. I found the Nine Heavens Spirit-Seizing Technique on the third floor.’

"Let’s get moving. Follow me."

Jiang Chen led the way. Now that he knew this was a Ghost Temple, he could figure out where the exit was.