Chapter 332 - The Nether Emperor

As time passed, the scene inside the Barrier was astonishing. Dozens of black Qi darted all over, and whistles of the devil could be heard. The Devil Qi in Qingyu’s body was being sucked into Xiao Chen body bit by bit. The scales on her arm were also fading away bit by bit. She was slowly recovering into an ordinary human.

However, Xiao Chen looked more and more like a devil. He was surrounded in black mist and his eyes were in shades of indigo. Each of them was stunned by this scene. They did not expect him to possess such extraordinary skill. Zhiluan chattered and said, “Hang in there, kiddo. Don’t transform into a devil. Xian’er is still waiting for us to go back…”

30 minutes had passed, 60 minutes had passed and finally, it was noon. The Devil Qi in the Barrier had gradually disappeared. Qingyu was recovered completely, however, her face was still pale. The black Qi on Xiao Chen had also disappeared and he looked normal.

Everyone was overjoyed. But no one saw that a thin, near-invisible black Qi had penetrated between Xiao Chen’s eyebrows.

“All right, thank you; you can remove the Barrier,” Xiao Chen stood up and said.

The dozen people were already tired from the half-day of work, so they immediately removed the barrier once Xiao Chen said they could. Qingyu turned around and said, “Thank you, Junior Brother Xiao…” She lowered her head as she felt that she had dragged him down.

Xiao Chen, covered in sweat, shook his head and smiled. “It’s nothing.”

Zhou Li rushed over, Qingluan and Ziyun’er also rushed over and said, “Lord, are you all right?”

Xiao Chen shook his head and smiled. “I’m fine.”

On the other side, the boy in red had been watching quietly with his hands behind his back with no expressions on his face. However, at that moment, he frowned for a second.

The crowd took a short break on the spot. After 30 minutes, they set off on the journey again to find their way out. As dusk approached, they came to a narrow valley.

The path was paved with bones, and dead branches and rotten leaves had piled up a foot high on both sides. It looked eerie under the twilight as if it was leading to the Ghostly Hall.

There was also a pungent smell in the air, but the people were overjoyed because this valley was the same valley they had come in from the other day. But at that time, due to the illusions, it looked beautiful and clear. Zhiluan cried, “Holy meow! We finally found the exit!”

The others were delighted. They could not wait to get out of this bloody place at once and never come back again. However, at this moment, a strange voice suddenly came from the front, “Hiss… Hiss…”

The voice sounded empty, Xiao Chen immediately made a hush gesture. Then the group squat down and hunched over before they carefully tread forward slowly.

After moving for more than 30 meters, countless devil creatures covered in black Qi were seen gathering in front. They looked similar to humans, but with hideous looks. From afar, it was endless blackness.

“Now what? Do we just dash in and run through them?” Qin Shaoyang asked softly.

Bai Yushu shook his head and whispered, “There are too many of them. If we try to push through by force, we will probably attract more of them.”

Xiao Chen suddenly felt a pain in the back of his head, like his hair was being pulled out. He turned his head and saw the boy in red withdrawing his hand. He asked in a low voice, “What are you doing, little brother?”

The boy did not speak. He stretched out his left hand, and in it was a short dead branch with a hair wrapped around it.

Xiao Chen nodded and said, “Thank you.” As he was about to move slowly to the front, he stepped on a bone and crushed it, letting out a loud and clear sound.

“Oh, sh*t!”

Dozens of devil creatures immediately discovered them. In a flash, the army of devil creatures rushed towards them like a flood. Each one of them immediately summoned out their weapons to defend. Within a few moments, hundreds of devil creatures were killed. However, there were too many of them. They came wave after wave, but it was endless.

“Let’s leave!” Xiaoyue made an immediate decision and summoned her Autumn Water Sword to open up the way for the rest.

“Little brother, keep up!” Xiao Chen held the boy in red by the hand and ran forward. As he ran, he dealt with the devil creatures that came at them. Suddenly, the whole valley shook violently.

All of them nearly fell. The mountain walls on both sides suddenly shook and seemed to be collapsing anytime. The cliff measured more than ten thousand feet high. Once the whole mountain collapsed, even cultivators of Nascent Soul Realm would be buried alive here.

“Hurry up!”

“Holy meow! We’re going to die! We’re going to die!” Zhiluan covered its head with its paws and fled for its life. The moment it encountered a devil creature, it simply slipped through between the legs of the creature.

The mountain rocked more violently, many boulders of the size of roofs were smashed down, and more devil creatures were gathering around. Xiao Chen could not care more for the boy in red behind him and shouted, “Little brother, follow closely!” Then he freed up two hands to resist the falling rocks and devil creatures.

30 minutes later, the group finally ran out of the canyon. The mountain was still collapsing. The sound of rumbling shook the heavens and the earth. The exhausts filled the sky and the earth of five kilometers away, and where the heaven and earth met was covered entirely with thick smoke…

“Cough, cough, cough…”

The group almost choked to death. Xiaoyue shouted, “Is everyone out?”

After doing a headcount, Xiao Chen discovered that the boy who had been following him was gone. “Oh, no! The little brother is still inside!” Having said that, he was about to rush back into the valley again. Qingluan and Ziyun’er moved and stopped him. “Lord, don’t go back!”

As the rumbling of the rocks continued, the whole mountain finally collapsed completely. The valley was completely buried under the ground. Ling Fei said coldly, “That boy is obviously not normal. Maybe he had caused this! If you want to be a good person and die, then go ahead by yourself! We won’t do it together with you! ”

“Lord, please heed my advice. You must leave here now as soon as possible!” This time, Qingluan and Ziyun’er would not let him go back in again.

“Sigh…”

With a long sigh, Xiao Chen turned around in the end. Yu Yifeng immediately summoned the Flying-cloud Stone. They could not stay in this place any longer. Everyone went up the Flying-cloud Stone and left for the Burg of the Feral Phoenix right away.

On the Flying-cloud Stone, everyone was dusty and in silence. Through this narrow escape, they had realized how weak they were. What Top Ten of Immortal’s Sword Assembly, what List of Experts in Heaven and Earth and what First of the family sect, all these seemed to be a joke now.

At this moment in another place, which was, on the newly collapsed mountain. The smoke had been blown away by the strong wind. On a huge rock, a boy in red stood with his hands behind his back. He was looking into the direction of Xiao Chen and others had gone.

All of a sudden, two figures appeared out of thin air behind him, one wore a white robe and the other a red robe. They had a bucket cap on their head and their faces were covered with a mass of fog, not revealing their real appearance.

At the same time, the two bowed down to the boy on one knee and said, “Nether Emperor! Why did you come to this human world before recovering from your injury?”

The boy continued to stand with his hands behind his back and did not turn around. He said, “I just came up to have a look.” After that, he turned to look at the surging devil fog in the distance and continued, “The Valley of God and Devil has been sealed and cannot be passed through. The people of the Devil Clan then opened a pathway from my underworld to the human world, thinking that I was oblivious to it. Since then, I turned a blind eye and let them fight amongst themselves. I will sit and take advantage of doing nothing. The day I will unify the three worlds just around the corner! Ha ha ha ha ha…”

“Nether Emperor is brilliant.”

“You two judges have worked hard. Get up.”

“Thank you, Nether Emperor!” The Yin and Yang Judges finally stood up.

“Go check on a person named Xiao Chen on the Book of Life and Death,” the boy said slowly, and then threw a piece of deadwood branch behind him. On it wrapped a string of hair, and it was the hair he had pulled out from Xiao Chen’s head earlier.

“Yes!”

The two judges did not dare to say more. A moment later, Yin Judge who dressed in a white robe said, “Nether Emperor, I’ve found it. He is the son of the Human World Xiao family Fourth Young Master, Xiao Yifan and Su family Third Miss, Su Qing.”

The boy frowned. “What about his previous life?” The two judges looked at each other, and Yang Judge said, “Nether Emperor, there is no, no past life…”

The boy finally turned around. With just one look it made the Yin and Yang Judges trembled in fear.

“No past life?”

The Yin Judge quivered and said, “Nether Emperor, the Book of Life and Death had failed to find out the past life of this person. Maybe we could head back and let the Hell Lord of Ten Halls check again with the Life and Death Mirror.”

The young man reached out his hand and said, “No, it won’t be possible to find him. I’m afraid this person’s sin was too great to enter reincarnation, so someone had resurrected him using the Samsara Life-reversing Technique to change his identity for him. What a job well done to hide from the world. I wonder who has the ability to do this under my watch…”