Chapter 59 - Blood Eagle (5)

One week passed in a flash. Throughout the week Chu Yi had been on edge, not because of crippling fear but because of the burning excitement felt in heart, it was as if adrenaline never stopped bumping in his veins.

The feeling of being hunted, the feeling of being the prey made Chu Yi feel as if there was fog in his brain. As if he was being suffocated in anticipation, every breath felt as if was pressing against his heart

His body has already experienced a stress response due to lack of oxygen, and his consciousness felt dizzy, but all he felt was-

Exciting. So Exciting.

The danger of being forced to suffocate, wandering around the edge of life and death, made him feel so refreshed that his hands and feet were soft, his spine was numb, and his toes couldn't help but curl up.

He was a natural gambler, walking on a tightrope, chasing danger, obsessed with excitement, and the more desperate he is between life and death, the more it makes him.... burn.

It's been a long time since he's been so mentally stimulated

The more its dangerous, the happier he is.

The constant knocks on the door, moving around of furniture and the feeling of being stared at perpetually, were all for the sake of pushing him to the breaking point. A psychological warfare between him and them.

It was the 7th day.

Finally, they got anxious.

The sky was pitch-black, a sheet of black silk that completed blotted out any light, like a cold eclipse, and in a flash of spiraling white light , Chu Yi appeared. He had been transported here directly from his room !

Chu Yi looked around with squinted red eyes, that glowed unnaturally in the pitch black night, this is clearly an abandoned warehouse full of debris! And he himself came to the center of the warehouse unknowingly, and there were giant flying bats with their fanged mouths wide open flying frantically towards him!

Chu Yi scoffed slightly "This is just the beginning, shouldn't you be so exciting?"

The nearest giant bat just pounced in front of him, but was directly slashed into, spewing putrid black blood in all directions as it fell! However he still couldn't help but frown, it wasn't that the bats were particularly strong but the smell of these animals was strong, like rotten meat that had been fermented for too long, with a bad oily smell, and the thought of just leaving quickly sprung up in his mind, in the end the excitement that had brewed over the past week, made him eventually ignore it with disgust.

Chu Yi did not show the slightest surprise in the face of the giant bats that rushed up. He even managed to avoid the siege of the giant bats in a warehouse and counterattack, slashing and slicing them like one would cut into cloth!

However, soon enough the excitement of the kill, soon boiled down to boredom and disappointment.

"Is this really what you've prepared after all this time?

"Disappointed?" In the ear-grating sound of bats screeching and dying, the voice was particularly abrupt and frightening! The voice was distorted, and seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

"Is it fun to pretend to be God " Chu Yi laughed sarcastically " Truly a donkeys lips do not fit a horse's mouth"

"Haha Chu Yi I would suggest you start counting your prayers!" The voiced laughed uproariously, as if truly amused by Chu Yi's words "Do you know what organization we're from?!"

"Do you really know what you're up against!"

"We are the Holy Desolation! Do you hear that! The Purple Turbans! No matter where you go or How powerful you are! Can you, a little newcomer fight against an organization!"

"Chu Yi, just like how we could transport you here without you even being able to resist! We can have you die without knowing how you died!"

Chu Yi listened to the nonsense without expression, when the voice finished ranting and turned hoping to see a face of regret and despair, he was disappointed to see that Chu Yi had no reaction to his words.

It couldn't help but ask again "Do you really understand-"

Chu Yi seemed to be able to read his thoughts and interrupted him before he could finish.

"Tch- Stop delaying my time, as long as you're dead what does a organization have to do with me?"

The voice couldn't help but be stuck for a few speechless seconds, then anger seeped couldn't help but seep into it's tone,

"That's all right. Let me be the one to send you on your way to the Yellow River! I hope you still believe that when you meet the King Yama for me later!"

There was a rumble underfoot!

When Chu Yi realized something was wrong, he subconsciously wanted to avoid the attack, he was surprised to find that he couldn't move anymore - layers of yin energy rose from under his feet, and he didn't know when he was planted by the Seven Evil Soul Locking Array!

The Seven Evil Soul Locking Array is of the Mozhan Star-Pointed formations. Although this formation belongs to the Taoist Dao, it is one of the few vicious formations in the Taoist School. This formation is trapped by the Seven Evils of the Underworld and formed with the resentment of a hundred defeated warriors and baptized with blood of 44 unborn fetus'! Simply put this was a vicious array that would slowly drain the vitality from its victim until they were nothing but a mummified corpse! It also had high requirement of its caster and although the system had simplified its requirements, the prerequisite of casting is that the caster must be vicious and cold-blooded otherwise it would be swallowed by the array!

The moment the 'Seven Evil Soul Locking Array' appeared, boundless evil spirits swarmed, instantly engulfing Chu Yi's figure. He felt as if what he was breathing wasn't oxygen anymore, it was pure yin! This was a move, even he didn't expect but it was unexpectedly effective!

The floating resentment was very strong. Normally, when a corpse it releases a small wisp of yin energy. Just staying in a graveyard with yin energy would gradually cause sickness and maybe even death, not to mention now where he was basked in ten times the resentment! According to this rate, he would be slowly sucked dry and mummified in a matter of minutes!

In addition, accumulating so much resentment would mean that he wouldn't even be left with a whole body, he would eventually explode inti the bits of dry-bark like flesh and bones from the pressure!

He was facing a bigger predicament than the one in the last copy!

Naturally there was a way out of this, but faced with such overwhelming power, even those chances seemed slim!

"Chu Yi! You can only blame yourself for being in my way!"

Chu Yi ignored the mocking voice, his brain turning rapidly

The best result is naturally to break the barrier of grievances, leave here, and then find then Zhong Feng and Bu Hua. If he failed, or lose his way at the slightest, or become infected by resentment, he would die extremely gruesomely!

Everyone is a player. Even if most of the abilities are sealed in the Main World, the mental power is not comparable to ordinary people. Moreover, night and early morning are the times when the grievances are strongest, and Zhong Feng and Bu Hua had undoubtedly chose the best time.

He knew that the 'Seven Souls Locking Array' had six auxiliary nodes and one central node that controlled the resentment in the array, he only had a few minutes to find the node and get out before he turned into a stick figure! In the time, he had spent thinking , nausea had already settled in the back of his throat, this was sign that his vitality was been corroded by the second.

"You cant win!!" "Give up and accept Death!" "Chu Yi, I wish you better luck in your next life!"

Time was ticking! As Chu Yi's face got paler and paler, his eyes became brighter and brighter like the sun before the eclipse, even as he felt his breathing become heavier and his body getting weaker, Chu Yi never stopped thinking!

Seven nodes! Only one was the real center! He had to choose the right one !

There wasn't any flags or plates that would make things easier, the 'Seven Soul Locking Array' could used anything, rock, carving ; set up at key points in order to activate the formation.

It could even be an animal-

Animal!

The Bats!

He had overlooked this! The bats from the very start weren't very strong! Zhong Feng at the very least has played two copies with him and at least knew a general gauge of his strength. He knew the bats were useless against him but still sent them out! It was all in order to hide the their true function!

This was a death trap, under so much pressure who would take note of the strength of the monsters they've already defeated!

Chu Yi staggered where he stood, he could feel the blood in the back of his throat , his body was on the last straw! However, Chu Yi broke out into a huge chagrined grin , the feeling of death only made him frenzied!

With only a few seconds left, and under the mocking laughter of Zhong Feng, Chu Yi pulled out his sword and with the last vestiges of his strength, flung it towards a hidden corner of the warehouse!

Time seemed to freeze and only the swoosh of the sword as it cut through the air echoed in his air, then there was a thud, the sound of knife hitting flesh!

"Screee----"

It was like a huge vacuum had been activated and the resentment was sucked up like a whirlpool disappearing underground, Chu Yi could straightened as he felt his lost vitality being slowly fed back into him.

The sound of dripping blood and gasping breaths seem to be the only thing in the abandoned warehouse but Chu Yi knew it was not so.

His laugh started off as a low chuckle, then it increased in symphony until it became a roaring wild laughter like he had just seen the biggest joke of all time! Then it stopped and Chu Yi spoke in a freezing tone.

"Go to Death? Do you think you're worthy"

[System Confirmation: Does Player Chu Yi Id No. 50001 confirm usage of 'Th Evil Spirits Approval Ticket?']

"Yes."

[Request Processing.....All Area in a 30 mile radius is now placed under Lock and all teleportation props are directly disabled. Life Form detected; Two Life Form is 13 steps in front of player. ]

Da, Da, Da, Da.

"Lets get the party started shall we?"

"No. No. No. No."

"Chu Yi it was him, all him! it was was all Zhong Feng's idea, his fault- he told me that you were the imposter! He lied to me! Chu Yi I was a victim too! Kill him not me! Chu Yi! I'm sorry, spare me!"

Chu Yi stepped past the man on his knees on the ground before him, crushing his heels into the mans fingers and rendering them into bloody dregs instantly.

Zhong Feng once stood before him like triumphant god, now the mans face was pale with fright. Not only was the array that he thought was uncrackable directly solved by the man before him , he was also terribly afraid, he had seen those eyes before only once, in the eyes of the most dangerous NPC bosses in the copy. It reminded him of the one A-level instance where he was only brought back with half his body remaining, those eyes were beastly and inhuman, like a demon crawled out of the abyss craving for blood.

"Demon- DEMON! Get away from me!!" Maybe it was the fear of the instance that overtook his mind, maybe it was Chu Yi himself but Zhong Feng directly broke down.

He was doomed then,

There was only one person who was ever fortunate to witness the blood eagle with his own eyes,

Cruel, Bloody and Violent. A work of art that killed,

It first started with the carving of an eagle onto the back of the victim. Through the carving, his back was then pried open and his ribs were detached from the spine, one at a time. Following that, his lungs would be pulled out and spread over the ribs. And the the final show supposedly represented an eagle. The Victim didn't die immediately, instead he he had to be alive throughout the whole process, so that the finishing touch, the ripping out of the still beating heart and places it in the mouth of its victim, could be completed.

It was said that when Bu Hua was found later by his friends, he kept repeating,

"Blood-So much Blood-" Over and Over again like a broken record, no matter they tried to get the story from his mouth, it was like he had lost his soul, only sitting and staring into the wall and then going crazy, screaming for murder before once again going back into a lifeless trance.

But that had nothing to do with Chu Yi, who was preparing to enter into his third copy,

'The Institute'