Chapter 29 The Cold Winds

At this moment, Cyrus and Rita were walking on the clean paved streets of District-A while their surrounding were lit with bright streetlamps. They had to get rid of their masks after crossing the last hurdle.

This was nothing like the other district, as it was almost hard to believe it was part of the Slum District. District-A was like a normal city bustling with activities and without any gloomy air of despair.

Furthermore, District-A was the biggest out of the other districts. As for how big, it covered over 55% area of the entire slum district, which was simply massive.

The population here was naturally the biggest as well, but there was no BOD here. They were simply not allowed in District D, much less in District-A.

Rita's eyes were shining as she looked around the city lights curiously despite her somewhat pale and exhausted complexion. She had used all of her Qi in this small venture, even over-drain herself, but looking at this living place, she felt it was all worth it.

Since she was young, she only dreamt about leaving the Slum District, but she never thought she would be doing it and even with her own unique power at that.

Her every dream was coming true, and it was all because of the young man beside her who still had this uninterested expression on his handsome face like he was some aloof being walking between mortals.

"Aren't you satisfied with our progress?" She couldn't help but ask with squinted eyes.

Cyrus merely snickered, "I'll be satisfied when we are free from this shithole, and this place wasn't even a fragment of what I had seen in my life."

Rita pursed her lips and snorted, "Yeah, yeah, I know, O' mighty God of Lust."

"As long as you know." Cyrus remained indifferent.

But a glint of lust appeared in his eyes before it completely vanished as he thought while looking at pouting Rita, 'She's not in a state of breakthrough right now. I should make a move the following night. This way, her strength would be enough even if we encounter some variable while leaving, and I only have to complete one last condition of lust mission…'

"Rumbleeee…"

However, his thought process was disputed by this reverberating thunderclap above.

Including Cyrus, everyone was startled by this sudden rumbling because even though the sky was filled with clouds but this thundering sound was simply too loud and unnatural. It was like someone was tearing the sky apart.

Cyrus abruptly looked at the sky, and his expression changed because there was literally a tear in the sky!

The cloudy sky was ripped into two layers like some fabric, and those two layers were spreading like some dark curtain, revealing an endless ocean of colorful stars. It was simply a breathtaking phenomenon.

Everyone started to exclaim as they watched the unimaginable scene playing right in front of their eyes, and no one was able to avert their eyes from it.

Thereafter, within the ocean of stars, a certain star started to illuminate brighter and brighter before it covered all the stars visible through the tear.

However, the strangest part was this bright star was actually of inky black color, and it looked like an endless dark hole. The magnificent dreamy scene turned into gloomy and horrid as that darkness covered the sky.

Cyrus was pale when he saw the darkness. He was not like these ignorant ordinaries and had seen many things a mortal couldn't even imagine. But he told himself that this was just his imagination and this was some sort of illusion.

However, a gust of wind, so cold it could freeze people's souls, brushed past Cyrus, making his entire body shudder instinctively. His expression went completely ashen at this moment because he knew it wasn't an illusion at all!

Cyrus wasn't the only one who showed such a reaction, but he was the only one still standing straight because everyone around him started to tremble as those icy winds started to blow all of a sudden.

Even Rita, a peak Qi-gathering cultivator, was trembling and rubbing her hands for some warmth.

"W-why… why is it so freezing all of a sudden…" She couldn't help but quiver with clenched teeth with the cold.

Those ordinary people were even worse because they didn't have strong bodies like Cyrus or Qi like Rita, so they started to run toward their houses for warmth, or they will freeze to death.

However, no one noticed one thing, there was no ice or snow despite the freezing winds.

Well, except for a single person, Cyrus!

With an ashen expression, he looked at the inky sky and hoarsely said, "It's not the winds of winter."

Rita also noticed the gravity in Cyrus's voice. She has never seen him so serious and pale before. A foreboding feeling welled up in her heart as she quavered, "T-then what… what is this wind? Y-you know… s-…something?"

Cyrus uttered with clenched teeth, "The cold you're feeling isn't physical, but you're feeling cold directly to your soul. And only one place could have Soul Winds, the mythical abode of the dead… Underworld!"

Rita's eyes went wide, and she blurted without even thinking, "Are you crazy? There's no such a thing as the world of the dead!"

"I wish. But there's no denying it. I've been there before, and these winds are just from the outermost place of the Underworld." Cyrus grimly said as he kept looking at the darkness as he wanted to pierce through it.

"But how is it possible?!" Rita was no longer calm as she also started to notice that no matter what she did, she couldn't feel warm at all as it simply couldn't be blocked.

"I also wanted to know just that. This is an iron-clad rule that undead can't breach past the barren between the worlds of living and dead, and they doom to remain in the underworld.

"Even if some mad Underworld God tries to breach this barrier, the Gods won't sit around and let him do it even heavily laws will turn against them. What the hell is going on with this world?" For the time after his rebirth, Cyrus felt flustered and as confused as when he mysteriously got reincarnated despite being a God.

At this moment, the people who had weak souls started to collapse one after another, and even those who were protected behind the walls started to get effective of the soul winds.

Just as Cyrus said, these winds were directly affecting the souls of every person, and ordinary people couldn't handle them.

Furthermore, as the darkness spread in the sky above the slum district, the winds also started to rose within every slum district until the entire slum district was covered.

Cyrus looked around. He could hear people's screams of terror and despair as they all tried to find shelter from the icy winds.

'No mortal can survive the winds of the underworld. They will eventually perish, even I…' His heart palpitated as he looked at Rita, who was on the verge of a mental breakdown.

Who could blame the poor girl?

She was just an ordinary few months ago; she didn't even know if the cultivation existed or not, much less the fabled Underworld.

He suddenly held her hand tightly, which was icy cold, drawing her attention. He looked right into her eyes and solemnly said, "I know this is too much for you to take, but don't forget you're not like those helpless people around you.

"You are a cultivator, and there's absolutely nothing a cultivator can't face. You just need the resolve to face any challenge, which is no different. Understood?"

Rita felt her fear subdue a lot hearing Cyrus's encouragement. He was her only mental support. Since he wasn't giving up, how could she?

"Understood!" She nodded gravely.

Cyrus nodded, "Good, these soul winds are nothing as long as your Yin Qi is strong. You're far more resilient to Underworld soul winds than you could imagine."

He revealed with a solemn face, "As long as you can break into Body Qi Tempering Realm, this is a huge opportunity for you to use the Underworld's soul winds to temper your body while using the Devil's Spouse Technique. It can easily help you achieve that."

Rita was astonished and disbelieving, "Temper my body with Underworld winds? I-is it really possible?"

Cyrus sneered disdainfully, "So, what if it's Underworld's winds? My creation isn't something restricted by mere outermost winds of the underworld. Although I don't know what is happening here, as long as it's at this level, we'll be able to resist it.

"Let's find some shelter, and I'll help you break through to Body Qi Tempering Realm as fast as possible. Then even if these winds increase, they'll be nothing but nutrition for you."

Rita's anxious expression instantly turned into expectancy, and she failed to notice the unease deeply hidden behind Cyrus's confident expression.

However, before they could take a step, a creepy voice that could make anyone scream in horror rang in their minds!