Chapter 380: The Origin of the Space Behind the Door, Intersection between the Human World and the Underworld!
Ghosts flew toward them like moths to a flame. Although their power was low, they were numerous.
They rushed at the group in relentless waves, making it hard to respond.
Wei Zhuang’s Shark Tooth Sword glimmered with golden light in the darkness.
With a single sweep, he took down dozens of white ghosts.
Yet, the white ghosts did not diminish; instead, they seemed endless, continuing to swarm toward them.
In the blink of an eye, the group was overwhelmed.
Fei Yan and the Moon Goddess joined forces to unleash the Dragon’s Energy, creating a vacuum in the swarm of moth-like ghosts.
Their combined Dragon’s Energy formed a barrier beside the group.
The pure Yang energy from the Dragon’s Energy caused any ghosts that came into contact with it to vaporize instantly.
“This won’t last long.”
Before they could even catch their breath, Wei Zhuang noticed the “420 issue.”
Although they had temporarily held off the ghosts, the Dragon’s Energy was extremely taxing.
The barrier created by Fei Yan and the Moon Goddess lasted only a short while, with the weaker Moon Goddess already feeling depleted.
“Why are there so many of these things here? What exactly are they?”
Wei Zhuang swung the Shark Tooth Sword, helping to alleviate the pressure on the group as he asked.
Li Mo was also busy and managed to reply, “Souls that have left the human realm but cannot enter the underworld.”
Wei Zhuang was momentarily taken aback, murmuring, “Souls, could such things really exist in this world?”
“Of course they do.”
This question was best answered by Li Wu.
After all, she had existed in such a state for a period of time.
The world is divided into three realms: Heaven, Human, and Underworld.
As the name implies, the Heaven realm is the place where the deities reside.
For example, the Lady of the Nine Heavens, who was said to have helped the Yellow Emperor defeat Chiyou, is a deity of the Heaven realm.
The Human realm refers to the earth where humans currently reside.
The Underworld is the place where souls go after humans die.
Back in the day, Chiyou was so powerful that although his physical body was destroyed, a malevolent spirit was born from his soul.
This malevolent spirit roams between the human world and the underworld.
It refuses to accept entering the underworld, but due to the suppression of the Chiyou Magic Sword, it cannot reach the human world.
Thus, it has continued to exist in this gap between the two realms.
What kind of place is that, the answer is already evident.
It is the border between the human realm and the underworld!
Only in such a place can there be so much Yin energy.
Loulan is deep in the desert.
It is the place with the most Yang energy in the human realm.
Only in such a place can it suppress the Yin energy emanating from the underworld.
That is why the great deities of antiquity chose to establish the passage to the underworld here.
Wei Zhuang looked at the white shadows being eradicated, his expression as cold as an ice shard.
As for why these ghosts did not enter the underworld but instead wandered here, it is evident that it is due to the existence of the Chiyou malevolent spirit.
Chiyou and the emperor are figures from ancient times.
Even so, people eventually have a lifespan.
Unless one can ascend to become a deity, they cannot extend their lives.
Otherwise, every living being will reach the day when their lifespan is exhausted.
Chiyou’s malevolent spirit is simply an energy entity.
Since it is an energy entity, it is subject to consumption.
From antiquity to now, it has already been several thousand years.
Even without threats, the Chiyou malevolent spirit will gradually be consumed over such a long period of time.
The reason the Lady of the Nine Heavens suppressed it here was precisely with this intention.
She wanted to use the long passage of time to wear down the Chiyou malevolent spirit.
However, things took an unexpected turn.
Instead of being consumed by time, the Chiyou malevolent spirit has thrived by devouring the souls entering the underworld.
Thinking of this, Li Mo and the others couldn’t help but feel a chill run down their spines.
If the Chiyou malevolent spirit only relied on these souls to sustain its existence, it would be manageable.
But if it also uses these souls to strengthen itself, that is truly terrifying.
In thousands of years, the number of souls it has devoured is likely countless.
Even if each soul only increases its power by a little.
After such long accumulation over the years, that would be a horrifying number!
How many could it possibly number into the millions?
Of course, it cannot consume all the souls.
It is like a tiger on a mountain.
The rabbits in the mountain are its food, but it cannot eat all the rabbits.
Ultimately, a large portion of the rabbits can escape its clutches.
Conversely, the souls in the human realm generally still pass through here to enter the underworld.
The Chiyou malevolent spirit is like the tiger on the mountain, preying on those it can catch.
“How many souls must we kill?”
Wei Zhuang, with a single sword strike, eradicated dozens of souls again.
Since this place is the gap leading to the underworld, all souls from the human realm will gather here.
This means the souls here are relentless and endless.
In this situation, it is likely that even after exhausting their internal energy, they will not be able to eliminate them.
Li Wu then took over the conversation, saying, “Someone is controlling them from behind.”
Wei Zhuang immediately shot her an inquiring glance.
Meaning, how do you know this?
Li Wu replied, “After souls are born, they have no consciousness, only instinctively heading towards the underworld, and do not possess any aggressiveness.
However, these souls have a clear purpose, which is to eliminate us.”
Because Li Wu was in such a state before.
She knows what it is like to be in the state of a soul.
If it hadn’t been for the Luo Network’s spell to preserve their eight delicate souls, they would have instinctively gone to the underworld.
Moreover, if souls truly possessed aggressiveness, the human realm would not be in such a state now.
Soul originates from the human body.
When a person dies, their soul departs from the body.
Before entering the underworld, humans and souls exist in the same world.
If souls indeed have aggressiveness, the human realm would have long been in chaos!
And now these souls are targeting only the few of them, which is obviously being manipulated by someone!
Apart from them, there are only two other individuals present.
One is the Chiyou malevolent spirit that has been here for thousands of years.
The other is Donghuang Taiyi, who entered only a month ago!
Now the enemy is in the dark while they are in the light.
Who exactly is manipulating these wandering spirits remains unknown between these two individuals,
