Divine War Pill Emperor

Chapter 309: Chapter 307: Surrounded

In the darkness, the appearance of the Ghosts threw everything into utter chaos.

Cries of alarm and agonizing screams rose from all directions.

Streaks of blue light, drawn by the sounds and even the faint glimmers of light, appeared one after another. More and more Ghosts were materializing.

Jiang Chen and his group had already run into Ghosts seven or eight times. On one occasion, over a hundred of them had appeared at once.

If they hadn’t played dead, their chances of survival would have been slim.

They continued to press forward through the darkness, nearly tripping over the corpses on the ground several times.

"What is that?"

Unable to reopen the great doors to the Divine Hall, the army of the Fire Sparrow Kingdom had stopped in front of them.

Wen Shixuan heard the screams, and he could even see people fleeing in their direction.

A faint blue light flickered in the darkness.

He pointed toward the blue light and asked curiously.

Grand General Ming Zhe’s eyes narrowed. "This is bad," he said suddenly. "There’s danger."

"Quick, protect the Crown Prince!"

With his Cultivation at the Martial King Eighth Layer Heaven, he naturally had a strong premonition of approaching danger.

The source of the crisis was precisely those blue lights.

Although, he still didn’t know what they were.

"AHH, help me! Help me...!"

A few of the Martial Cultivators who had just been freed were now running back.

Seeing Wen Shixuan and the others, they desperately cried for help.

Their faces were masks of terror.

But the Ghosts behind them were faster.

SWISH!

A Ghost instantly burrowed into a Martial Cultivator’s body. After a brief struggle, he collapsed to the ground, becoming another corpse.

Wen Shixuan and his men were aghast.

Grand General Ming Zhe exclaimed, "Ghosts! These are the Ghosts of legend!"

Even so, he had no idea how to deal with them.

He immediately commanded his soldiers, "Attack! Attack the Ghosts!"

"Kill!"

Soon, the experts of the Fire Sparrow Kingdom, including the Martial King Expert Po Jun, took action.

They charged the approaching Ghosts.

"Die!"

Po Jun’s saber slashed out, viciously striking one of the Ghosts.

He thought he saw the Ghost cleaved in two by his powerful strike.

But in the next moment, Po Jun’s jaw dropped in astonishment.

The Ghost was completely unharmed and lunged at him again.

SWOOSH!

In an instant, the Ghost was upon Po Jun.

Po Jun immediately mobilized the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi to form a protective barrier against it.

But he had still underestimated the Ghost.

The Ghost broke through his barrier directly and burrowed into his body.

Po Jun tried to force the Ghost out, but it was impossible.

This Ghost was not a physical being; it was like a shadow.

Once inside his body, it locked onto his soul.

Before Po Jun’s very eyes, it wrapped its ghostly limbs around his soul.

"AHHH..."

Po Jun let out a bloodcurdling scream as the Ghost swiftly devoured his soul.

THUD!

Po Jun, a man with Martial King Cultivation, fell to the ground.

He hadn’t lasted a single exchange with the Ghost.

HISS...

Seeing Po Jun, a cultivator at the Martial King level, fall in a single encounter, everyone from the Fire Sparrow Kingdom sucked in a cold breath. A chill ran down their spines.

WOOOO... WOOOO...

The Ghost soon flew out of Po Jun’s body and turned its vicious gaze upon the people of the Fire Sparrow Kingdom.

Its eyeballs darted about, unnervingly agile.

As the Ghost wailed, more blue lights, as if stimulated by the sound, appeared in the distance. A growing number of Ghosts began to converge on them.

’Dammit, they’re this strong.’

Even the worldly Wen Shixuan was drenched in a cold sweat.

Not only did these Ghosts possess an Undying Body, but they were also terrifyingly powerful.

He was starting to panic.

Even Grand General Ming Zhe felt his scalp tingle with fear.

He was completely out of ideas.

His heart pounded with anxiety.

None of the experts knew how to deal with the Ghosts.

A single Ghost already seemed invincible.

They pounced on anyone from the Fire Sparrow Kingdom they saw.

In just a short time, no fewer than twenty experts had died.

All of them were killed in a single strike.

The screams were endless amid the chaos, and some even tried to flee.

The Martial Cultivators they had previously enslaved were gone, leaving them to face the vicious Ghosts alone.

Behind them, a dense, innumerable swarm of Ghosts was gathering.

’Are we all going to be wiped out by these Ghosts?’

Wen Shixuan hid in terror behind his men, protected by Grand General Ming Zhe.

He began to fear for his life.

Grand General Ming Zhe’s expression was grim. "These Ghosts can’t be killed."

"And there are more and more of them now."

"The odds are against us."

Soon, a large horde of Ghosts appeared and began pouncing on the soldiers. Within moments, they turned the men into corpses.

In a short time, hundreds of people had been turned into corpses.

Suddenly, an idea struck Grand General Ming Zhe.

"Crown Prince, quickly, take out that Jade Talisman and try it!"

"Whether we can escape this disaster all depends on that Jade Talisman."

At his words, understanding dawned on Wen Shixuan.

He hastily took out the black Jade Talisman.

The talisman was inscribed with the character for "Ghost."

Without a second thought, he released his Cultivation Power into the Jade Talisman to activate it.

SWISH!

In the darkness, the Jade Talisman suddenly released a black light that merged with the surrounding gloom.

The moment the black light appeared...

WOOOO... WOOOO... WOOOO...

At that moment, the wailing seemed to grow even louder.

However, the Ghosts, which had been so vicious before, seemed to have met their nemesis. They immediately stopped devouring souls.

They hastily pulled back and retreated.

They recoiled from the Jade Talisman in terror.

They even let out whimpering cries.

"It’s working!"

Wen Shixuan was ecstatic. Holding the Jade Talisman, he continuously powered it, and its black light spread further out.

In just a moment, it enveloped everyone from the Fire Sparrow Kingdom.

The attacking Ghosts shrieked and fell back continuously.

PUFF!

A few that retreated too slowly were swept by the black light, dissolving into motes of blue light before vanishing into the darkness.

"HAHAHA, wonderful! This Jade Talisman is truly amazing."

Wen Shixuan was overjoyed to find that the Jade Talisman could dispel the Ghosts.

Using the power of the Jade Talisman, Wen Shixuan drove back the Ghosts while searching for the entrance to the second level.

"Jiang Chen, how are we supposed to find the exit?"

Following Jiang Chen, Zhan Yang and the others had no idea how far they had walked through the darkness, but they still couldn’t find a way out.

They kept running into Ghosts, which scared them half to death.

Jiang Chen said helplessly, "The exit is on the third level. We have to get to the second level first. Once we’re on the third level, I have a way to get you all out."

In his previous life, Jiang Chen had escaped through the third level.

So he was confident.

But he had no idea what kind of trouble they might encounter on the way to the third level with Zhan Yang and the others.

Fortunately, his method allowed them to temporarily evade the Ghosts.

"Let us leave?"

"What about you?"

JinLing accurately picked up on the meaning behind Jiang Chen’s words—that he was only talking about *them* leaving.

Jiang Chen wasn’t leaving.

She began to wonder.

"I still have things to do here,"

Jiang Chen replied.

JinLing and the others were all surprised.

"Don’t tell me you really came for the Black Fire?"

They all knew that the Black Fire had appeared and that many people were after it. It seemed Jiang Chen was one of them.

"That’s right. I’m here for the Black Fire."

Jiang Chen didn’t hide it, admitting it frankly.