Chapter 160: Fourth Wave

Chapter 160: Fourth Wave

Hui gestured Jin Xian back. She hopped back and stood where hed sat, gazing blankly at the ghouls around them. Hui drew a deep breath and looked out at the ghouls rising through the earth.

How many are there? Ten twenty thirty fifty? Fifty fourth-stage ghouls? Grandpa trial realm, please this small cultivator only just reached the fourth realm, and youre already telling me to take out fifty ghouls?

He glanced at Jin Xian, but sighed immediately and shook his head. Theres no point. Shell just get destroyed immediately. I can still refine her further if I make it out of here. Destroying her now will be a total waste of my effort.

Jin Xian twitched. As he watched, the ghouls connected to her glowing green strings shuddered, then withered away. Globes of green light passed up the string and into her hand. Her eyes flickered, and she sighed. The last of the green strings faded away. For a second, she stood there, completely still.

All at once, her body trembled. Fluctuations at the peak of the third realm rolled out from her body. Green strands of light flickered all over her, reminiscent of the aurora borealis. Her eyes went wide, blazing with green light. She turned to Hui and gnashed her fangs.

Hui blinked. Elder Sister are you, by any chance, hungry?

Jin Xian smiled and licked her claws.

He furrowed his brows. She cant eat these ghouls as-is, but if I weaken them some His eyes flashed. Zhubi! The silver poison!

Zhubi reared up on Huis neck. Hui grabbed the shadow snake and pressed it against Zhubi. The shadow snake squirmed desperately, and Zhubi flinched away, but he didnt let either go. You two, be friendly, okay?

Zhubi hissed, annoyed.

The nearest ghouls charged at him, fangs bared.

Zhubi! Hui shouted. He flicked his wrist and drew a talisman just in case.

Zhubi snapped forward. A glob of silver flew through the darkness. In midair, the silver turned into a wall of mist. The mist wall rushed at the ghouls. Sensing danger, they slammed in their heels and backpedaled, but too slowly. The silver mist settled over the ghouls.

This truly is a holy land for me! I thought the Blood Mist Valley was easy, but compared to this trial realm, it was a world of hardships and pain! Huis eyes glittered. He gazed ahead, past the ghouls. Am I the one fated to accept the inheritance of this realm? Is this demonic sect nothing but a windfall for me?

A second later, he froze. No, no, no, Hui! Youre a righteous cultivator, righteous! Inheriting a demonic sects secret inheritance technique? No, no, no. Thats impossible. Surely the elder who created this realm would never choose a righteous cultivator like me. Its not like the red soul. I dont have a reversal for the spell array, or a way to lock away whoever created this realm and loot it at my leisure. Im not cheating at all, not one bit! The ancestor would have to honestly choose me to inherit his technique, and naturally, they never would! Never. Not a chance.

Ten ghouls rushed at him. Hui flashed a handful of fire talismans. Fire tabbies rushed at the ghouls, slamming into them. The attack barely made the ghouls stagger, but the flames caught on their rotting robes and flesh. Unfeeling, they didnt pat out the flames. Hui retreated, letting the tabbies whirl about and rush at the ghouls again and again. Their flesh slowly weakened as the tabbies cooked it.

Hui smiled. One attack from a third-realm talisman isnt much, but repeated attacks? It wont kill you, but as long as I can weaken you, thats enough! He jabbed his hand out and drew at the ghouls death qi.

The ghouls shuddered. Black qi streamed from their bodies to his hand.

I guess being at fourth stage has its advantages, after all.

Hui closed his hands. The ghouls toppled. He turned toward Zhubi and Jin Xian. Im coming

Jin Xian stood atop a pile of dead ghouls. Green threads buried into the pile, pumping orbs of green light into her body. She licked putrid blood off her lips and glanced at him, then screeched.

Er aha! I see youve done it without my help! Hui said, chuckling nervously. Er Elder Sister? You youre scaring me.

Jin Xian walked over to him and stood quietly by his side. Zhubi leaped off her neck and wound around Huis instead, rubbing his head against Huis neck in joy at their reunion.

Thats right. You did well, boy, Hui said, patting him on the head.

At the far end of the bone chamber, a door creaked open. An ordinary door, sized for an ordinary man, it stuck out for its ordinariness. Hui looked up, then strode toward the door, clasping the shadow snake in his fist. Jin Xian followed silently. A glimmer of intelligence swirled in her eyes, suppressed a second later.

Hui glanced back. He frowned, then rubbed the back of his neck. What was that? I felt as if this small cultivator should play dead, suddenly. But why?