Chapter 1940: Chapter 1937: Demonic Voices
"Master, you’re about to hit something underneath."
"I know, no need for you to tell me." Lin Tian shouted angrily.
"So how are you going to get through? Your asset is so hefty, even more pronounced than those two women’s chests." The Sword Spirit’s remark was hard to tell if it was admiration or schadenfreude.
Lin Tian wasn’t sure whether to be pleased or frustrated. His communication with the Sword Spirit happened in the blink of an eye. At the crucial moment, he blocked with his right hand, just in time to stop the oncoming beam and avert the crisis.
But another crisis emerged as the place without the Moonlight Stone allowed the beam to shoot down. Lin Tian’s reaction was certainly not as fast as light, but he moved preemptively. As he shifted his right hand, his right foot also moved half a position, barely dodging the beam.
This scene was just witnessed by the two women, who both widened their eyes, their pretty faces involuntarily blushing.
"I told you, men think with their lower half. Keep your lower half in check, don’t get us all in trouble," Zhang Ruyan chuckled flirtatiously, still in the mood to tease. Zhang Lingyu quickly averted her gaze, not daring to look again, but her heart inexplicably sped up.
"Jerk, pervert!" Zhang Lingyu grunted a few times, expressing her complicated feelings at the moment.
"Heh, it was an accident, an accident..." Even with a thick skin, Lin Tian was extremely embarrassed.
Lin Tian quickly moved the Moonlight Stone, adjusted his posture, and continued upward, but he didn’t dare look around recklessly anymore; his luck might not be so good next time.
Moreover, after the incident just now, the two women were clearly on guard against him, taking care to avoid exposing themselves when changing positions.
After a difficult climb, Lin Tian was the last to reach the second floor. The second floor had no Moonlight Stone and no light net. Lin Tian breathed a big sigh of relief. It wasn’t that he was afraid of the light net, but the previous situation was too embarrassing.
The second floor was very empty, with nothing on the ground, but when Lin Tian looked up, he was stunned. On the ceiling hung many small bottles, transparent, with something seemingly inside them.
"What is this?" Lin Tian asked curiously.
"These are sealed evil ghost spirits. Each sealed bottle contains a spirit, waiting for the Netherworld to register and guide them into the Netherworld, then cast them into the Six Paths of Reincarnation, or ban them for eternity. Some evil spirits not guided into the Netherworld have to remain in the Spirit Suppressing Tower until they’re completely obliterated."
Zhang Lingyu looked at the bottles and said in a calm tone.
"What if you catch a zombie?" Lin Tian asked oddly.
The two women immediately looked at him. Zhang Ruyan gave a strange smile and chuckled, "That depends on the level of the zombie. Regular ones are directly incinerated. Of course, a zombie of your level isn’t affected by fire, so other methods are needed."
"Zombies do not belong to the Five Elements, existing outside the Six Paths, beyond the Netherworld’s jurisdiction, which they don’t want anyway. Hence, captured zombies have only one fate: to be reduced to ashes," Zhang Ruyan stared at Lin Tian and said.
"It seems they really are mortal enemies." Lin Tian sighed, both women also showing peculiar expressions.
"Let’s go; don’t touch any of these sealed bottles here." Zhang Lingyu instructed, leading the way up to the stairs of the third floor.
Upon entering the area covered by the sealed bottles, Lin Tian understood why Zhang Lingyu said that. The transparent bottles each lit up, emitting beams of various colors.
With hues of blood red, grey, black, green, yellow, purple, it was like a colorful Milky Way traversing overhead, spectacular and eerie.
Imagine, walking under such "beauty" with two beautiful women, how wonderful it would be, like a romantic evening beneath the flowers and moon. However, under such "beauty," the two women remained indifferent, even frowning slightly, without the intention of admiring at all.
The next moment, Lin Tian realized why the women’s expressions were off. The light clusters inside the bottles began moving, producing strange noises.
"Let me out..."
"I’ll kill you all..."
The voices were piercing, like demonic chants. The colorful magnificence vanished, replaced by an eerie, terrifying aura, as if countless evil spirits were rushing forward.
Lin Tian felt dizzy, an illusion appearing before his eyes; headless evil ghosts, sharp ghost claws, smoking Blood Pools, all kinds of terrifying scenes accompanied by cries of ghosts and wolves, a hellish apocalypse.
Not to mention regular people, even Demon Exorcists encountering this suddenly would likely be frightened to the point of peeing themselves or fainting, but Lin Tian was no ordinary person.
He squinted slightly, a flash of bright yellow lightning flickering in his eyes, a surging aura bursting from within him, dispelling all illusions and demonic sounds.
In just an instant, the illusions and demonic sounds before him melted away like snow and ice, disappearing entirely, the surroundings returning to peace, the overhead remained a colorful, splendid "Milky Way," as if nothing ever happened.
Looking again at Zhang Lingyu and Zhang Ruyan, light was emitting from their battle suits, seemingly unaffected by the earlier illusions, and Lin Tian realized both women were looking at him with strange expressions.
"It takes one to know one, I knew he wouldn’t be affected by the illusions." Zhang Ruyan smiled slightly.
Lin Tian raised an eyebrow, moaning in annoyance, "What do you mean it takes one to know one? Am I a villain? Also, what happened just now?"
Zhang Lingyu didn’t answer immediately, but started walking forward, explaining as she went: "Although the evil spirits here are trapped in sealed bottles, they emit demonic sounds and auras. These are transformed by the Zhang Family’s formation, impacting those who pass through."
"Those with weaker spiritual power or willpower can’t resist; if caught in the demonic sounds and illusions, at best they’d faint, at worst suffer mental damage, becoming deranged, living a life of chaos, constantly tormented by nightmares, never finding peace."
Zhang Lingyu’s tone was calm, but the content was heavy, being tormented by nightmares one’s whole life is truly a fate worse than death.
"The second floor is where the evil spirits are sealed and also utilizes them as part of the Spirit Suppressing Tower’s defense. Intruders are effortlessly trapped in illusions." Zhang Lingyu stopped, looked back at Lin Tian, and added.
Lin Tian’s face turned black, protesting, "You guys are too cruel. Why didn’t you mention this beforehand? What if I’d fallen for it?"
Zhang Lingyu’s face showed a hint of embarrassment, softly saying, "It wasn’t me. It was Sister Ruyan who wanted to test you."
Lin Tian looked toward Zhang Ruyan, but before he could speak, she had already opened her mouth, "Why are you looking at me? It’s just an illusion, and you’re perfectly fine now, aren’t you?"
Damn, this woman almost set me up and is now acting so righteous, Lin Tian was speechless, but indeed, Zhang Ruyan dared to challenge all taboos, even defy the entire Demon Exorcism World’s rules.
