Chapter 477 - Spiritual Sin

Chapter 477 - Spiritual Sin

Li Huowang was convinced that Zhuge Yuan had deep feelings for that good friend of his the moment he saw the latter's exceptionally sorrowful expression. Zhuge Yuan was a righteous person, and he was always willing to go to great lengths for his friends.

One could only imagine just how much he had suffered after being forced to kill a friend with his own hands.

Zhuge Yuan added, “The spiritual sin who took away my good friend became capable of using the techniques and powers of my friend. It also grew even stronger.

“Brother Li, I know that the Surveillance Bureau has always been talking about just how formidable spirits can be, but you must be careful against a spiritual sin. You might be fighting a spiritual sin, but you might be fighting something else the next moment.”

"Spiritual Sins are capable of changing hosts, which is the reason they're both troublesome and dangerous to handle. The best way to take one down is to ambush it."

“Once you encounter a spiritual sin, you must be absolutely certain of success before you make a move against it. Otherwise, you'll suffer a fate worse than death if it manages to capture you. They’re all about sin and less about the spirit, after all.”

Zhuge Yuan was about to say something, but he paused. There was a monkey carcass lying by his feet. The carcass was dry, and the monkey's mouth was agape. Its limbs were twisted, and its belly was split open. Its rotten innards had splattered all over the ground, creating what looked like a flower.

“If we go by what you said, Brother Zhuge, does that mean we've just found the culprit behind this guy's death?” Li Huowang asked. Folloow current novÊls on nov/3lb((in).(co/m)

Zhuge Yuan nodded solemnly in reply.

Li Huowang became extremely cautious as he moved slowly into the depths of the peach blossom forest. The number of twisted and deformed corpses increased as Li Huowang walked deeper and deeper into the forest.

Eventually, he saw not just animal carcasses but human corpses twisted in bizarre shapes as well.

“Shh! Quiet! I think I heard something just now,” Li Huowang exclaimed at the monk. The monk was chanting a mantra for the deceased. Li Huowang fell on all fours and pressed his ear on the earth, listening intently. What are these noises? Breathing?

Whooo, whooo, whooo...

Rhythmic noises of what sounded like someone's breathing reached Li Huowang’s ears through the ground. Li Huowang gripped his sword tightly and moved slowly toward where the sound was coming from.

As the noises grew louder, Li Huowang picked up the pace as the noises grew louder. A thicket of branches stood before him, and Li Huowang jumped into it. Upon landing, the scene unfolding before him made his pupils quiver.

A massive pile of flesh, bones, and organs was on a large clearing up ahead. There were too many of them that a tiny lake of gore had been created from the flesh, bones, and innards.

“It consumes and uses the rosy light of the sunset[1]. Take a closer look at its body. Locate where the light of the sunset is leaking out of its body.”

“Okay,” Li Huowang said. He gnashed his teeth as his figure arched slightly as if he were a leopard.

The spiritual sin in the distance seemed to have sensed something. The pile of flesh, blood, and innards transformed once again into the figure of a deer. Then, it looked around and scanned the peach forest.

A Hong Zhong mahjong tile tumbled through the air, landing steadily on a peach tree.

The spiritual sin turned to look at where the noise had come from, and that was when Li Huowang rushed out from behind a tree. He whipped out his bronze coin sword and slashed out at the spiritual sin.

A crisp noise echoed, and the flesh that took the brunt of Li Huowang's attack sizzled. It emitted a plume of black smoke and withered like dead flowers. The attack from the evil-banishing sword was effective, but it failed to deliver a fatal blow.

The spiritual sin let out a cry. It returned to its original form and charged at Li Huowang.

A sea of flesh, blood, and innards shrouded Li Huowang in an instant, but he emerged unscathed. He had just switched positions with his illusion.

“Kill!” Li Huowang roared, and the purple-tassel sword slashed fiercely at the Nine-Colored Deer, carving open a massive wound.

However, the laceration healed rapidly. Zhuge Yuan saw that and said, “ Brother Li, this is not going to work. Its body is just its shell. You need to attack the spiritual sin directly inside of it for your attacks to be effective!"

A red light burst out of the Nine-Colored Deer.

Li Huowang deflected it with his sword in mid-air. The red light ricocheted off Li Huowang's sword and struck down quite a few peach trees.

“What does it look like?” Li Huowang asked while retreating to create some distance between them.

“You can’t see it. Living humans with the ten emotions and eight sufferings cannot see what it really looks like.”

“Since we can't see it, then so be it!” Li Huowang exclaimed. His expression turned fierce as he removed his red Daoist robes. Then, he whipped out his flint and slashed at himself.

1. more specifically, it’s the rosy-tinted light/clouds of sunrise/sunset ☜