Chapter 428: Small interlude (1)

The golden glow spread across Lin Fan's sword until it was completely covering it.

The moment the sword covered in the golden glow came into contact with the ghost, the ghost started writhing in pain as it tried to get out of the way, but there was too much momentum for it to stop. The sword continued to cut right through the ghost like there was no resistance at all until the ghost was completely cut in half, unable to do a thing.

Unlike before, where the separated parts would have grabbed out at each other, this wasn't the case this time.

The ghost started to dissipate the moment Lin Fan's sword cut through it and it couldn't even do a thing when it turned into ashes just like the ghost principal from before.

However, unlike the ghost principal from before, this ghost wasn't coherent enough to say anything to Lin Fan before disappearing. All it did was scream out in pain until it completely dissipated into ashes.

After it disappeared into ashes, Lin Fan didn't bother looking at the pile of ashes that was left behind by the ghost that he had just smited, rather he turned to the end of the hallway where there was another rat bringing in another ghost.

This was another ghost that was in the high Embryo Soul Realm like the previous two and Lin Fan didn't waste any time in charging forward.

Gathering all his focus to the center of his forehead again, he swung out with his sword without any laws gathered around it.

As he approached, once again, there was the golden diamond that appeared on his forehead that once again released a golden glow that wrapped up around his sword. When he swung down with that sword, the same thing happened where the ghost was unable to resist the golden power that surrounded the sword. The ghost was slashed right in half and before it could even react, it had already dissipated into ashes.

Just like this, Lin Fan had easily cleared out two ghosts that should have been invincible in this space.

Lin Fan didn't feel any sense of accomplishment as he looked down at his sword that was no longer covered in the same golden glow. After all, this golden glow wasn't one of his abilities and came from an external source, so it didn't feel like an accomplishment at all.

But that didn't mean a thing since he had found a way to take care of the ghosts. As long as he was able to use this golden energy, he would be able to take care of all the ghosts here without worrying about them reviving.

However, the one problem was that he wasn't able to control it.

This was an external power after all, so he didn't have control over it at all.

Based on what he had just seen, it was clear that this power had some requirement for it to be activated and it wasn't hard to guess what it was.

When Lin Fan had charged at the ghosts, he hadn't covered himself in any of his laws.

If he were to take a single hit from the ghosts, there was no chance that he would have made it out unscratched, which meant that he was risking his life.

It seemed like the condition of the golden glow appearing was that his life was at risk, but that was also strange since Lin Fan's life wasn't at risk last time when he faced the ghost principal…

Perhaps there were more than one condition for this golden glow to appear, but for now, the most consistent method was to use his life as a gamble.

Lin Fan looked up from his sword and looked to the end of the hallway where there was another ghost being led over by a rat puppet.

Lin Fan didn't hesitate at all as he charged out at the ghost with his sword already in mid swing.

Just like this, Lin Fan continued to test the conditions of disabling these ghosts.

He even gave his sword to Mo Ze Chen a few times to let him learn how to disable the ghosts like he had done the first time.

Mo Ze Chen didn't have flame laws like Lin Fan did, so instead he pulled out a jewel that he wrapped on the hilt of the blade, which imbued it with flame laws that were strong enough to burn the flesh of the ghosts.

While the two of them were inside this hospital playing around with the ghosts, testing the limit of their durability, things were also happening outside.

…

It had already been an hour, close to an hour and a half since Lin Fan and Mo Ze Chen had entered the city inside the giant tree of light.

During this time, there had been quite a few examinees that had slowly made their way into these ruins through the entrance that Lin Fan had left open.

Most of them were shocked the moment they had entered these ruins, but they didn't have time to remain shocked for that long since there were still ghosts all over the city. Those that were unlucky had been caught by the ghosts and had their life energy completely sucked out, killing them in the process.

After all, most of these examinees were only in the Fragmented Soul Realm and these ghosts were in the Embryo Soul Realm, so they had no chance of fighting back.

Though most of them were faster than these Embryo Soul Realm ghosts with their rotten bodies that were incredibly slow.

As for how they were caught, most of them had let their guards down when they thought they had been safe and were caught by the ghosts.

They didn't know that these ghosts were able to sense life force and could find them even when they were hiding.

Those that were smart had used the gaps in the routes of the ghost created by those people who were unlucky enough to get caught to make it deeper into the city. Those included those seeded candidates that had skipped the first round just like Lin Fan.

There were two groups among these people, those that had arrived first and those that arrived later because they had to deal with the traps that were in their way.

The ones that had arrived first were already at the tree of light, but unlike Lin Fan who was able to see the clues that were left there for him, they were unable to find the entrance at all.

There were some that had become dissuaded once they were unable to find anything, those people began wandering around the city, looking to see if they could find any other treasures.

As for the ones that did stay at the tree, they began walking around the circumference of the tree, looking for anything that stood out, but so far no one had seen anything.

Of course it didn't help that all the ghosts that were around the tree were all much more powerful than the ones that were scattered around in town.

This was a clear indication that they had to be guarding something special if the guards that were here were stronger than normal, which made some of these people even more certain that there had to be something special here.

What they didn't know was that atop the tree, there was a beast who was looking down over them with several ghost commanders standing behind it. That was the reason why the casualties had been rather low for what they should have been, most of the ghost commanders were here instead of being down there hunting people.

The beast was looking down on the city, looking down on the humans and instead of looking at them like equals, it looked down on them like ants.

It had been watching the humans running around with the ghosts for a while, but it didn't do a thing as it just laid there atop the tree.

The ghost commanders also looked indifferent as they looked down at these humans.

After a few more minutes, the beast finally said, "Go and test them."

The ghost commanders all gave a bow to the beast before flying off the tree in different directions.

Every single ghost commander headed off in the direction of a human and each of these humans were in the Embryo Soul Realm.

They didn't immediately fall down, but rather they floated there in the air for a bit while watching over them.

Though not every single ghost commander was as patient.

There were two of them that only stayed in the air for a minute before dropping down in front of their target.

These two were clearly shocked by the sudden appearance of this ghost commander, but they didn't panic either since both of them were in the mid Embryo Soul Realm.

They could tell that these ghost commanders were in the peak Embryo Soul Realm, but that didn't matter to them since they were able to fight normal peak Embryo Soul Realm Experts to begin with. This was the advantage that they had as geniuses, which was that they were much stronger than normal experts at the same level. They were so strong that they could match those experts that were even stronger than them.

Both of them pulled out their artifacts and charged out at the ghost commanders, but the ghost commanders weren't afraid.

They looked at the kids charging at them before suddenly punching out.

In two different locations, there were two figures that suddenly flew out and slammed into walls.