Chapter 33
Twin Dragon Mount.
Ji Ye slowly reappeared in his new room as his faint silhouette gradually turned solid. He had experienced such an arrival many times by then, yet he could never get used to it. It was as if he had been pulled away from his home world and thrown into another in a second.
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“It’s the master! The master is here!” someone yelled loudly as soon as he left the door.
He saw a group of Twin Dragon Mount settlers waiting for him outside, including Elder Hu.
“What’s the matter?”
“This is bad, master! Ducky was abducted by a ghost!” the old man answered Ji Ye with a fearful gaze.
“A ghost??” Ji Ye scowled. Geez. I just read about them on the forum, and one of them showed up here?
Commoners usually had no means of fending off ghosts. This must be why the settlers looked so panicked.
“Where is Chief Lu?” He looked among the chattering people but without finding the big guy.
This was the first time he had seen a dead person in the Land of Inheritance. And it sure felt different from seeing dead monsters. After all, a dead human NPC wasn’t much different from a murdered human in reality.
Ducky was one of the most sociable people at the settlement. This man had even offered him several toasts the day before, so Ji Ye knew him well.
Yet there he was, a cold body.
Ji Ye wasn’t spooked by the corpse in the least. But he did feel bothered by it. He wondered if “ghosts” could kill people like this. Or, was it just another common flesh and blood monster?
“Chief Lu is still chasing it. He—he told us to take the body back first,” a settler explained while trying to remain calm.
Most of them were coping with the loss of one of their friends just fine. Twin Dragon Mount used to be a bandit camp after all. The people there were not strangers to bloodshed.
If common citizens were there, they’d probably be rendered speechless already.
“You go ahead, I’ll help the chief.” Ji Ye ordered the settlers to leave and kept going forward.
Soon, he heard fight noises further away.
The size of the combatants made them stand out considerably while among the trees. One of them was of course, Lu Zhishen. His enemy appeared to be an even bigger entity with a humanoid body covered by thick, black hair. Occasionally, it would expose its red face from behind tha messy hair; it was too big and terrifying to be considered human. Not to mention that the creature had two pairs of sharp fangs sticking out from its mouth.
Its knee-level arms were also hairy, ending with a pair of claws that looked as big as water sinks. Even without using weapons, those nails were probably enough to directly carve someone’s heart out during close-quarter fights.
Lu Zhishen was wise enough to not fight the “ghost” using hands only. He was using a steel machete forged in the settlement to make up for the bodily disadvantage.
Whoosh!
Like a flash of lightning, the shiny blade went to the ghost’s neck.
“Roar!”
However, although evil spirit didn’t have any weapons in its hands,
on a pair of claws that were about the height of an ordinary person, they were covered in a layer of blurry yellow light. They slashed out without any fear, colliding with Lu Zhishen’s steel saber!
Clang!
The sound of rocks being struck vibrated Ji Ye’s eardrums, accompanied by sparks.
Lu Zhishen, who was born with divine strength and had activated the Primordial Chaos Force, failed to gain the upper hand in the collision. He was even sent flying back by the claws that were enveloped by the yellow light.
Extraordinary powers!
Ji Ye’s eyes turned cold.
Clearly, this evil spirit wasn’t an Ordinary creature, but at the Extraordinary stage!