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Chapter 319 Demons? Ghosts?
late at night.

Outside Luoyang City.

Outside a village, two figures lurked in the shadows, staring intently at the entire village.

At this moment, everything was silent, the entire village was pitch black, without a single ray of light, and everyone in the village was already asleep.

Two figures stared at the dark village. One of them spoke in a low voice, "Do you think those rumors are true? Were those people who died mysteriously outside the city really killed by demons?"

The other person shook his head; "It's hard to say, after all, no one has seen it with their own eyes."

"However, the way those people died was strange; there wasn't a single wound on their bodies. This is indeed a bit eerie."

"Sigh, let's hope our luck isn't too bad and nothing happens to this village, otherwise we'll be in big trouble."

The first person to speak sighed, then suddenly shuddered and let out a soft exclamation.

"Hey, why does it suddenly feel so eerie? Did you feel it too?"

"Get lost, stop scaring people. You keep an eye on things, I'm going to pee in the back."

The other person said something irritatingly, then got up and went to the back to relieve himself.

"I really felt a creepy atmosphere, I'm not kidding, why didn't you feel it!"

Seeing his companion go to urinate, the man muttered to himself and continued to stare at the village, observing the activity within.

These two figures were none other than the guards of the Eastern Depot.

Zhou Chen ordered the Eastern Depot to investigate these strange incidents outside the city. In order to find clues about these strange incidents as soon as possible, Cao Zhengchun directly sent most of the Eastern Depot guards outside the city.

Not only this village was being watched by the Imperial Guards, but all the villages outside Luoyang were being secretly monitored by them.

In other words, all the villages outside Luoyang were already under the surveillance of the Eastern Depot.

If such bizarre events happen again, they will not escape the eyes of the Eastern Depot.

Time passed by minute by minute.

The guard who left to relieve himself never returned.

The factory guard, who had been watching the village, felt that several minutes had passed, so he called out softly to someone not far behind him, "Are you done yet? How long has it been? Haven't you finished urinating yet?"

however.

There was silence afterwards, without a single echo.

Uh?
The guard immediately sensed that something was wrong.

As a guard of the Eastern Depot, his vigilance was unmatched by ordinary people.

Before the guard could even turn around, he felt a chilling aura rushing towards him from behind.

Instantly, the hair on the entire body of the guard stood on end.

Say nothing.

The guard casually drew his sword.

Phew...

With one slash, a head rolled to the ground.

When the guard saw the headless body behind him and the human head rolling to the ground, his expression changed drastically.

Isn't this the same guy who just went to the back to pee?

However, at this moment, his companion had already been beheaded by him with a single stroke.

Strangely, not a drop of blood spurted out, and the headless corpse showed no trace of blood.

"Hehehe, you can't kill me, you can't kill me..."

A chilling, eerie sound suddenly came from the mouth of the head that had rolled to the ground.

The head that had rolled to the ground still had its eyes moving. Then, the head flew off the ground and returned to the neck of the body.

Upon seeing this, the guard's pupils constricted.

To be honest, as a guard of the Eastern Depot, I've seen all sorts of scenes.

But this was the first time the imperial guard had ever seen such a bizarre scene.

It's eerie, terrifying, and frightening.

"What the hell is this? I refuse to believe I can't kill you. Die!"

The imperial guard felt a chill run down his spine, but his actions were swift and decisive.

The crescent blade in his hand swung out once more...

However, the moment the imperial guard raised his crescent blade, he froze in place.

Before the guard could react, he was plunged into endless darkness.

"Hehehe, this tastes really good!"

"These two are much stronger than ordinary people. It is the vitality of these cultivators that is greatly replenished."

The eerie sound rang out again, sounding particularly chilling and unsettling outside the village in the dead of night.

at this time.

Sudden.

A soft, feminine shout came from afar.

“You audacious fiend, daring to kill my Eastern Depot guards, you shall die!”

A massive, sky-covering hand, radiating intense heat, slammed down from afar.

"Puch."

A wisp of smoke rose, and a shrill scream pierced the night sky.

Then, a cloud of black mist burst out from the bodies of the two factory guards and disappeared into the distance.

"Trying to escape? Do you think you can escape from someone like me?"

Cao Zhengchun was already rushing over.

After glancing at the two imperial guards who were already lying dead on the ground, Cao Zhengchun didn't say a word and immediately chased after the direction the black mist had disappeared in.

In just a short moment, Cao Zhengchun caught up with them and reached the mass graves outside Luoyang.

The desolate graveyard was shrouded in a chilling, eerie atmosphere.

Even Cao Zhengchun, who had cultivated the pure Yang technique of the Heavenly Gang Child Skill, felt a chill all over his body after stepping into the chaotic graveyard.

Cao Zhengchun stood on the wind-swept hill, surveying the entire chaotic graveyard.

"I'd like to see what kind of thing you really are?"

"Heavenly Gang Boy Skill".

Cao Zhengchun could already sense the chilling aura emanating from this chaotic graveyard, which was exactly the same as the chilling aura he had felt when he went to the village outside the city with Zhou Chen.

Needless to say.

The strange events that have recently occurred outside Luoyang are probably related to this place.

In other words, the culprit behind those bizarrely murdered civilians outside Luoyang should be on this mass grave.

The Heavenly Gang Boy Skill began to circulate rapidly within Cao Zhengchun's body, and streams of pure Yang Heavenly Gang Qi emanated from him, enveloping the entire chaotic graveyard.

ah ah ah...

Under Cao Zhengchun's pure Yang Heavenly Qi, sharp roars rang out from all directions of the mass grave.

As the sharp roar echoed, the eerie atmosphere on the mass grave gradually dissipated, and the chilling feeling disappeared.

suddenly.

A sudden gust of wind arose.

A dark figure appeared in Cao Zhengchun's line of sight.

The shadowy figure glared venomously at Cao Zhengchun; "Cao Zhengchun, you first crippled my cultivation, and now you want to cut off my path to immortality. You deserve to die."

The dark figure stared intently at Cao Zhengchun, its chilling aura surging around it.

"It's you, Zhou Qian?"

Cao Zhengchun stared at the dark figure in surprise.

Cao Zhengchun never expected that the culprit behind these strange events that have recently occurred outside Luoyang City was actually Zhou Qian.
Wasn't Zhou Qian shot and killed when he escaped from the Eastern Depot's prison? The Eastern Depot disposed of Zhou Qian's body, so how could Zhou Qian still be alive now?

wrong.

This week, Qian's entire body was shrouded in yin energy, his form was ethereal and lifeless; he could no longer be considered a living person.

Cao Zhengchun immediately noticed Zhou Qian's strange behavior.

Indeed, the dark figure that appeared was Zhou Qian, who had entered the mortal world with Zhou Wudao and the others, and who had his strength crippled by Cao Zhengchun in the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

"What? Are you surprised I'm still alive?"

“Cao Zhengchun, this is another chance for me to live, and my purpose is to take revenge on you.”

"Since you've come to this mass grave today, you don't need to leave."

"Once I've absorbed you and my strength has increased to a higher level, I'll go and kill that emperor. Then the entire Great Zhou will be my source of nourishment."

As Zhou Qian spoke, he gave a sly laugh.

That laughter was incredibly sinister.

"Heh, you insignificant ant. When you were alive, I would have killed you like a dog."

“Now that you’re dead and look like this, neither human nor ghost, killing you would be as easy as stepping on an ant.”

Cao Zhengchun said with a sneer, looking at Zhou Qian with great interest.

To be honest, Cao Zhengchun had never seen anything like Zhou Qian before.

Cao Zhengchun was very curious about Zhou Qian's current state.

demon?

immortal?

Goblin?
Words appeared one by one in Cao Zhengchun's mind.

"Whether you are a demon or a ghost, if you dare to harm the people outside my Luoyang city and kill my Eastern Depot guards, then you must die."

Without hesitation, Cao Zhengchun struck out at Zhou Qian.

"boom……"

Zhou Qian was smashed into a pulp by Cao Zhengchun's palm strike and slammed to the ground.

But to everyone's surprise, Zhou Qian immediately stood up again, completely recovered, and let out a strange laugh: "Hehehe, you can't kill me, you can't kill me."

A hint of surprise flashed across Cao Zhengchun's face.

Cao Zhengchun had not expected that his palm strike would have barely injured Zhou Qian in the slightest.

Apart from emitting a wisp of black mist, Zhou Qian showed no other unusual behavior.

"Sure enough, there are some doorways."

Cao Zhengchun raised his eyebrows slightly.

Before Cao Zhengchun could react, the black mist and yin energy of the entire mass grave swept towards him, and Zhou Qian's figure had already disappeared from the spot.

In an instant, Cao Zhengchun felt himself plunged into darkness, surrounded by a chilling aura.

Moreover, these chilling auras are gradually eroding Cao Zhengchun.

"Hmph, that palm strike I just used was merely to test your strength. Did you really think I couldn't destroy you?"

Cao Zhengchun snorted coldly, and his life-defying aura, which was capable of defying fate, was fully unleashed.

"Heavenly Gang Boy Skill".

The scorching Heavenly Qi erupted directly from Cao Zhengchun's body.

When that cold, yin energy encountered Cao Zhengchun's Heavenly Gang Qi, it was as vulnerable as a mouse encountering a cat.

The Heavenly Gang Boy Skill is inherently a supremely Yang skill, and is the nemesis of supremely Yin and evil.

Especially when it comes to things like Yin energy, the Heavenly Gang Child Skill is the most effective countermeasure.

"This... how could you be so strong? This is no longer the strength of the Celestial Realm, but the Life-Seizing Realm, which transcends the Celestial Realm and is a struggle against the heavens."

"How can this be……"

"I'm not reconciled..."

A piercing scream echoed throughout the mass grave, tearing through the night sky.

With a shrill scream, the chilling aura that was sweeping towards Cao Zhengchun exploded.

"boom……"

After a loud noise.

Everything returned to calm.

The piercing screams disappeared, and the chilling, bone-chilling aura dissipated.

The entire mass grave was originally gloomy and filled with a dark, eerie atmosphere.

But at this moment, after being baptized by Cao Zhengchun's Heavenly Gang Boy Skill, the entire mass grave no longer felt gloomy. Instead, it was as warm and hot as the sun after the rain.

Cao Zhengchun stood suspended in mid-air above the mass grave, feeling the dissipating chill of the graveyard, his eyes gleaming.

What the hell is this?

It's so weird.

Cao Zhengchun frowned slightly as he pondered.

Although this thing isn't very strong, its abilities are rather strange.

Most importantly, this kind of thing seems to be able to increase one's strength. If this thing increases its strength, with its strange abilities, it will definitely cause a great disaster.

In particular, this ghostly thing seems to be formed from the remains of a dead person, which is truly terrifying.

If people turn into these kinds of ghostly things after they die, then it will be a huge problem for the Great Zhou.

Just as Cao Zhengchun was deep in thought, two figures rushed over from a distance.

In the blink of an eye, two figures appeared in front of Cao Zhengchun.

These two figures were none other than Cao Shaoqin, the second supervisor of the Eastern Depot, and Cao Youxiang, the third supervisor.

In order to investigate the strange events outside the city, not only were most of the guards of the Eastern Depot stationed outside the city, but the three supervisors, Cao Zhengchun, Cao Shaoqin, and Cao Youxiang, also personally went out to guard different directions outside the city.

Cao Shaoqin and Cao Youxiang had sensed the commotion and rushed over immediately.

After glancing at the traces of the recent battle at Luanfenggang, Cao Shaoqin and Cao Youxiang both looked up at Cao Zhengchun; "Found it?"

Cao Zhengchun nodded; "It was the work of ghosts and monsters."

Goblin?
Cao Shaoqin and Cao Youxiang both raised their eyebrows, finding it somewhat unbelievable.

In their minds, ghosts and monsters only exist in legends and cannot possibly not exist.

"Yes, ghosts."

Cao Zhengchun nodded again.

"Even I find it somewhat unbelievable. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would hardly believe it."

“Zhou Qian, that dead man, just appeared before us in a bizarre way. He was lifeless and full of yin energy. What else could he be but a ghost?”

Cao Zhengchun didn't know to describe Zhou Qian's strange appearance in this way, so he could only define it as a ghost or monster.

In fact, it wouldn't be wrong to define Zhou Qian as a ghost.

What else could a strange creature like Zhou Qian, devoid of any life force and exuding an aura of yin energy, be but a ghost?
Both Cao Shaoqin and Cao Youxiang were shocked upon hearing Cao Zhengchun's words.

Cao Shaoqin, in particular, knew about the killing of worldly people like Zhou Qian.

Zhou Qian reappeared before Cao Zhengchun, lifeless and filled with yin energy, which was truly unbelievable.

"You two continue to guard outside the city. Although this ghostly thing has been found, there's no guarantee that there won't be other ghostly things."

"I must return to Luoyang immediately and go to the palace."

After Cao Zhengchun finished speaking, he took a step and left the mass grave, returning to Luoyang.

The appearance of this ghostly creature, Zhou Qian, who could mysteriously reappear even after death, prompted Cao Zhengchun to immediately go to the palace to report to Emperor Zhou Chen.

(End of this chapter)