Chapter 240 - Sealing Guangru

The hallways continued to be so dark. No speck of light was there, and Liu Xiaodan kept on checking if the patient rooms were actually occupied. In one room, he actually found Zhang Wuji curled up in his bed. 

"Hm… it's Mr. Wuji..."

Liu Xiaodan was actually relieved he was safe, but the man didn't look okay at all. He was trembling in fear, and his mouth was moving as if talking about something. Liu Xiaodan was about to open the door, but he watched Zhang Wuji claw out his arm as he started making maniacal expressions on his face.

Blood dripped profusely on the bed, and the man even savored the blood coming out. Bite. He started munching on his very arm. Liu Xiaodan phased through the door instead of opening it, not activating the formation at least. The man then stopped and recognized the man… "Xiaodan..."

"You lied to me, didn't you?" Liu Xiaodan stared down at the man. "You're not Mr. Wuji..."

"...are you going to kill me?" The entity that hid himself inside Zhang Wuji chuckled as he started curling up again. "It doesn't matter. You do realize that this place is going to be destroyed after all. Do you really think everyone who survived is still the person they were supposed to be?"

Liu Xiaodan only stared at him. Soon—bang! Bang! Something was forcing the door to open as Liu Xiaodan continued to glare at the person. It seemed like the newcomer wasn't hitting the door with his own fist. Zhang Wuji then looked up at him in fear. "...what are you doing? Are you having trouble breaking the door open? You don't need to open it for you to leave after killing me, right?"

The man only turned away. "I don't want you inside my tummy."

Bang! The door basically opened, and the way out was suddenly bared open. The ghost actually thought of escaping, but he didn't know why Liu Xiaodan would bother freeing him now that the secret was out. Then, it hit him. The sutra was still resounding, and without the door keeping the room safe from outside noises, the ghost started to react to it. He then suddenly burst into a violent convulsion.

"It burns! It burns! It burns!" The ghost continued to cry and even wanted to ask for mercy, but Liu Xiaodan only walked off to leave. "No, please, I'm sorry! I'm really sorry—ahhh!" The ghost was completely purified, and the face of the patient just sunk and wrinkled as if it had lost its life days ago. 

Moreover, every patient room Liu Xiaodan passed by would have the doors disengaged. The moment the continuous sutra hit their ears, they would all tumble in pain and die all over again. The people that Liu Xiaodan thought he must save… they were all not humans anymore.

However, he passed by a room where no screams were heard. When he walked inside, it was one of those people from the fourth floor. The patient even stared wide-eyed at him. "X-Xiaodan!"

"Mr. Rong, let's go. I'm taking you somewhere safer." Liu Xiaodan didn't doubt the person as the sutra didn't affect him. The next two rooms were also filled with the new patients. It seemed that they only had the seeds inside them; it might not have happened yet as well. It made Liu Xiaodan a bit relieved.

However, that smile didn't stay on his lips for too long. He needed to walk closer down to the source of the sutra. Who knew if Guangru was actually suffering from it? The father continued further down, doing the same to everyone in the patient rooms in the Treatment Hall. What made it hard to stomach was that everyone that he had seen through the glass windows was indeed not humans anymore.

Could it be that this was why Guangru didn't care about these people when he broke the maze formation? He only cared about the Rooms Hall?

"...Baba, don't get any closer..."

Liu Xiaodan paused as he heard the voice of the child. He was in pain and clearly not in a good condition. The father did exactly what the child didn't want him to do and reached the floor where the sutra was the strongest. He started to feel the burn inside his body. The words of the sutra then started to sound familiar… 

It was as if he had heard it before.

'Is this… the same sutra that the shamans used to seal Guangru? No, I can't let them seal Guangru now!' Liu Xiaodan ventured closer to where the sound was coming from. Before he knew where he was exactly, he found Guangru curling on the ground, his wooden vines trying to build a shield around him, but the power of the recited sutra was keeping him from protecting himself.

Qiao Ni noticed Liu Xiaodan in the distance, but she didn't care about him. What was he compared to an ancient demon that was barely getting back to its peak? Guangru might have recovered his power notch by notch since they came here, but it was not enough to compare to his original state. Even if the Qiao family had no idea how strong he really was, they had reasons to believe that Guangru was not that ancient demon anymore.

Even Fan Meiling turned her nose up. The proud transcendent had come to them to die. Her eyes grew cold as she saw Liu Xiaodan getting closer to Guangru even if his movements were getting really wobbly. She would threaten the man, but the sutra was very delicate at this stage.

Yes, stage. Sooner or later, Guangru would become unresponsive anymore.

"Guangru..." Liu Xiaodan called out, but his voice was being drowned by the shaman's recited sutra. He then took a look at Qiao Ni, and the woman moved her other hand, and a talisman flew to electrocute him. He couldn't even scream in pain as his very body was jolted inside out. Moreover, it wasn't just one wave. The electricity rattled him as long as he was moving and awake.

"...Guang…" The father had to endure the shock that made him feel like the insides of his body was being toasted. A burning smell was coming out from his body, and blood was beginning to drip from the orifices of his face. He was pretty much assuming the position of the child on the ground.

Moreover, when he took a look at their side again, a certain someone walked into the light cast by the glowing shaman. He then lifted his hand, gun directly at Liu Xiaodan's face.