Chapter 334: Chapter 134: Ghost Moon Returns and the Grand Array Activates, the Resentful Spirit Is Born and Disaster Befalls
An invisible curtain seemed to swallow the light, leaving behind a suffocating gray haze.
"Why has the sky gone dark?"
"My blood is roaring in my ears, and a tightness is gripping my chest!"
"I can’t breathe..."
"What’s happening? My heart is about to explode!"
On the streets of North City, the people looked up in terror.
Immediately, they each felt the blood in their veins race uncontrollably. Their bodies burned hot, yet their limbs grew ice-cold.
An invisible pressure descended, weighing on everyone like a thousand-pound burden.
Taking even a single step was an ordeal. Their breathing grew ragged, and their chests felt so tight they might burst!
Panic spread like a plague in an instant!
The next moment, an even more terrifying scene unfolded.
WUUUU—!
It was a guttural roar, neither human nor bestial.
Filled with venomous resentment and agony, it seemed to claw its way up from the depths of the earth and drift in from the netherworld, piercing straight into every soul.
A churning mass of black energy, as dark as spilled ink, erupted from the center of North City and shot toward the heavens!
Within the black energy, enormous chains wreathed in dark mist bound a blurry, unrecognizable shadow whose form twisted and contorted.
The shadow had no fixed form. One moment it was a man, the next a woman, then a child...
Endless resentment, hatred, and a lust for destruction churned within it, making the hearts of everyone in Cyan Yang Ancient City tremble in fear!
A moment later, the shadow took the form of a little girl and finally stabilized.
Its scarlet "eyes" swept over the ground below. Wherever its gaze landed, vegetation withered in an instant, and a layer of decay coated the brick and stone.
A mist of blood erupted from the bodies of many people!
The blood mist billowed and converged upon the massive figure of the little girl!
"A Resentful Spirit! It’s a Resentful Spirit!"
"Heavens! Someone is trying to perform a Blood Sacrifice on Cyan Yang Ancient City!"
"Run! Run out of North City!"
"It’s too late... The Grand Array is active! People can get in, but no one can get out!"
"It’s the Moon Worship Sect! Only they are this depraved!"
Within Cyan Yang Ancient City, the powerful experts of the major Noble Families and factions were all stirred into action.
From their high vantage points, they looked toward the resentful energy soaring into the sky from North City, their faces contorting in horror as they were rendered speechless!
And as for the people from the various factions and families within North City, their faces were drained of all color...
Disaster had arrived!
...
Chu Fan stared up at the sky-blotting shadow of the Resentful Spirit and the invisible force field enveloping North City, his pupils contracting sharply.
’Cyan Snake Xiaobai just delivered the message, and the Grand Array activated...’
’What was bound to happen has finally come to pass.’
’I tried. I fought with everything I had, but I still couldn’t stop any of this.’
’In this world, who can truly control everything?’
’But something about this is very wrong...’
’The Moon Worship Sect doesn’t have nearly enough people in Cyan Yang Ancient City to activate and maintain the Grand Array!’
’According to Xiaobai, Ghost Moon, the one sent to intercept the Demon Suppression Bureau, should be back.’
’But it’s just Ghost Moon alone.’
’Even with Zhang Yunpeng and the other seven at the Spirit Awakening Realm, that’s only nine people total!’
’Even if they don’t know the people at the dozen or so nodes have been killed, this Grand Array requires several Divine Power Realm experts to maintain...’
’With just the two of them, Zhang Yunpeng and Ghost Moon, at the Divine Power Realm...’
’Have Zhang Yunpeng and Ghost Moon gone mad?’
’Activating the array this hastily, they won’t be able to contain that terrifying Resentful Spirit at all!’
’Zhang Yunpeng and Ghost Moon will be the first to face its wrath. One wrong move, and they’ll be annihilated!’
’What could have possibly happened to make them so desperate that they’d take such an enormous risk?’
"It must be that Ding Jian and his people are about to arrive."
The Paperman spoke, "Ghost Moon and Zhang Yunpeng are now making a final, desperate gamble."
"They fear Ding Jian and his two companions, so their only choice was to force the array’s activation."
"Once the Grand Array is active, even if Ding Jian and his group arrive, they won’t dare to enter—entering is a one-way path to death!"
’A one-way path to death even for them?’
Feeling the ever-increasing pressure, Chu Fan pushed off his foot, spun around, and rushed back into the house to sling the Sunset Bow and Thunder Blade over his back.
At this moment, he truly understood the meaning of a death struggle.
After all, weren’t his current actions a death struggle themselves?
’But what else can I do but struggle?’
’Just sit here and wait to die?’
’That’s not my style.’
Chu Fan put on the Evil Ghost Mask and sped toward the center of North City.
At this moment, North City had transformed into a living hell.
Beneath the dim sky, the roars of the Resentful Spirit mixed with the cries and screams of the people.
The invisible force field was draining the life force and blood from all living things. Ordinary people and those with weak Cultivation had already collapsed, their faces ashen.
One after another, great trees groaned under the corrosion of the resentful energy, withering and collapsing.
Despair, like a cold tide, drowned everyone.
Chu Fan’s speed increased...
All around him, crowds of people fled in a futile panic, like headless chickens.
Feeling the omnipresent oppression and despair, Chu Fan’s expression was grim.
Suddenly, the Paperman said, "Based on my understanding of Ding Jian and his group, if they make it here, they will enter the city."
"But if they do, they’ll only be walking to their deaths."
"They can’t control that Resentful Spirit."
Chu Fan asked, "Is there any way to break the Resentful Spirit’s chains?"
"Even if there were a way, we couldn’t use it," the Paperman said. "Without the chains, the Resentful Spirit can still be suppressed. But once the chains are broken, it won’t just be North City that suffers."
"The entire Cyan Yang Ancient City will become a land of the dead!"
Chu Fan fell silent.
Suddenly, the Paperman turned toward the black market in North City and spoke softly, "Old friend, are you going to stand idly by and watch the entire city’s population be annihilated?"
His voice wasn’t loud, yet it strangely pierced the air, echoing above the dilapidated little courtyard in North City’s black market.
In the dilapidated courtyard, Old Limp slowly raised his head. His cloudy eyes gazed toward North City as he let out a soft sigh.
At his feet, a small White Snake trembled, sensing the terrifying aura of the Resentful Spirit.
