Master of Ten Thousand Foxes

Chapter 534: Chapter 295: Five-Colored Fire Cloud Soars Straight to the Ghost Gate!

"What is this thing?"

The atmosphere in the auction hall was peculiar.

Bosses one by one took out their phones, watching live streams and messages from family and friends.

"This looks like a door in the sky?"

"It’s so big."

"It covers the entire sky."

"Should be fine, right? Do we need to run?"

"No need to run for small things; can’t run from big ones."

"There’s the West State Boss around, it’ll be fine!"

"Haha, that’s true."

"When the sky falls, the tall ones will hold it up."

The atmosphere in the second-floor private box was strange.

Fang Xiaoyu, Wu Qingyun, Bai Mo, and others received an emergency notice with just four words... standby for orders!

Fang Xiaoyu held her phone, quickly refreshing, occasionally looking up at the sky.

"Oh my, it seems something big is happening?"

Wu Qingyun held her sword, her expression dazed, as if communicating with the Ancient Immortal in her dreams.

Bai Mo held his apprentice Flying Electric Claw, expressionless.

In fact, he employed the abilities of the Master of Communication, listening to the flow of the air, the sound of the bonsai in the box, the flowers at the edges of the auction hall, the green plants outside the Golden Emperor Mansion, the greenery on the street, the weeds in the alleys... listening to the sounds of every plant in the city, to gather information and assess the situation.

He rubbed Flying Electric Claw’s chubby belly, reclining on the soft back of the large sofa, eyes looking at the ceiling.

His Divine Sense penetrated the ceiling, revealing the night sky.

He saw the enormous Ghost Gate that covered the night sky, slowly opening, a crack forming! A crack stretching from south to north across West State!

The speed of the opening crack was too slow, too narrow!

Yet in the cold night wind, countless scratching sounds, countless strange laments echoed!

It turned out that from the crack, one frantic claw after another emerged, trying to pry open the door!

It turned out that behind the crack, one ghastly pale face after another pressed close, wanting to peer into the present world!

...

Atop the Celestial Universe Building in West State, on the rooftop in the vast darkness, amidst the mighty night wind.

A group of people gazed upward, faces pale.

Guan Yuexi stood at the front, wearing a black cloak, adorned with vibrant vines and flowers, the hem of her cloak lifted by the wind.

More than a dozen bright, new Flying Swords hovered beside her, she looked up at the sky, face tense and grave.

"It’s different."

This time, the Ghost Messenger was entirely different from those she had faced before.

This Ghost Messenger was more... real!

The Ghost Messengers she had faced seemed separated from reality by a thick barrier.

This Ghost Messenger, however, truly reached into the present world!

Among the people, a young man in a suit and coat, face particularly dull, was the Array Dao expert, Cai Xiaozhen.

He was blankly listening to the Ancient Immortal in his dreams.

The tone of the Ancient Immortal carried three parts coldness, three parts mockery, three parts pride, and one part triumphant joy of a conspiracy succeeding.

The Ancient Immortal had long known these secrets, yet he deliberately withheld them until now to tell Cai Xiaozhen.

"The things behind the Ghost Gate are called Ghost Messengers."

"Since their birth, they have had the urge to capture Life Souls!"

"If they can’t capture Life Souls for a period, the urge accumulates, grows increasingly intense, increasingly frenzied!"

"In the Array Kingdom of the Ancient Immortal Dynasty, they held the Ghost Gate Festival annually, offering Life Souls to the Ghost Messengers to dissipate the accumulated urge to capture souls over the year..."

As the Ancient Immortal spoke, Cai Xiaozhen began to speak, telling those around him.

"...This urge can only be guided, only dissipated, not eliminated."

"The Immortals of the Ancient Immortal Dynasty did not dare let it accumulate, so they held the Ghost Gate Festival annually."

"Before the Immortal Dynasty’s downfall, the Immortals feared the Ghost Messengers would destroy subsequent civilizations, completely sealing the gate."

"They knew the urge to capture souls behind the gate would infinitely accumulate, infinitely grow."

"The Ghost Gate would eventually be breached."

"And then, boundless Ghost Messengers would return to the human world, carrying their accumulated urge to capture souls over millennia, arriving once more!"

"They were gambling, gambling that the successors could protect themselves, solve this immense disaster!"

Su Yaoyao, Professor Zhang, Su Ruhua, and others looked up at the sky, listened to Cai Xiaozhen’s words, their expressions already numb.

They saw the crack stretching across the night sky had opened wider, Ghost Messengers extending countless arms through it!

"Ow..."

"Ah..."

"Hungry..."

Strange sounds emanated from the crack, from the night wind, making one’s hair stand on end!

As if the night sky had split open, to unleash Ghost Messengers’ accumulated soul-capturing urges across West State!

If the Ghost Gate opened, if the Ghost Messengers captured souls, if the boundless Ghost Messengers vented, how many living people would remain in enormous West State?

And even then, would the lives of millions in West State suffice?

Would the Ghost Messengers continue elsewhere?

...

In the auction house box, Bai Mo suddenly realized.

No wonder the Nine Kingdoms of the Ancient Immortal Dynasty would put aside all grievances, work in unison, and celebrate the Ghost Gate Festival.

Originally, it wasn’t to celebrate the festival together, but to dispel the disaster together!

...

On the rooftop of the Celestial Universe Building.

Professor Zhang also spoke, sweating profusely, revealed the secrets conveyed in the Ancient Immortal’s dreams.

"...In the past, the Array Kingdom didn’t completely use human lives to dispel the Ghost Messengers’ urges."

"The people of the Array Kingdom closed doors and shut themselves in, entering a special state of feigned death, lying on wooden boards, deceiving the Ghost Messengers."

"Each palace, every city, every village in the Array Kingdom erected altars."

"Criminals from the Nine Kingdoms were placed on the altars."

"Immortal Beasts from the Beast Kingdom, insects from the Gu Kingdom, Immortal Grass from the Dan Kingdom... were all placed on the altars."