Cannon-Fodder Heiress Turns the Tables by Fortune-Telling-Chapter 856 - 854: Truly Frightening Upon Careful Thought
The White Tiger had thought it through well, but before it could retract its gaze, it met the eyes of the Dragon Spirit.
A dragon and a tiger faced off, creating a vivid scene of dragon fighting tiger.
However, the Dragon Spirit merely smiled and looked away, which didn’t comfort the White Tiger; instead, it felt belittled.
An unnamed flame burned within the White Tiger’s chest, stubbornly refusing to be dispelled.
Yet it understood that in the current situation, it was at a disadvantage and should not worsen its position for mere verbal triumph.
The White Tiger suddenly didn’t want to deal with anyone, so it buried its head in sleep, avoiding sight for peace!
The Dragon Spirit leisurely finished drinking the water that the Little Paperman had poured for him.
Only then did he stand up, looking at Xie Xuzhi: "I’ve delivered your people to you without a single one missing, and I’ve cleaned out most of the dangers of this Underground Palace.
The remaining matters are for you to handle yourself; I’m going to find Yun Ran and Junior Master."
After speaking, the Dragon Spirit ignored whether Xie Xuzhi wanted to decline and turned to look at the Little Paperman beside him.
"Lead the way for me; I want to enter the Demon-locking Tower!"
The Little Paperman’s tiny mind spun around; its master had previously ordered it to safeguard Director Xie and keep an eye on the White Tiger.
There were no other instructions given, meaning it could make its own decisions.
"Alright, I’ll take you there!"
Xie Xuzhi: ...
Another day regretting never having learned Xuan Sect methods.
If he had, neither the Dragon Spirit nor the Little Paperman would so naturally think they could notify him with a single word and then do as they pleased.
However, knowing the Dragon Spirit’s capabilities, there was no need to stop him.
The Dragon Spirit entering was also a helping hand for Yun Ran.
Having reached a consensus, the Little Paperman and the Dragon Spirit vanished in a flash, appearing at the entrance of the Xuan Sect Gate.
"Good luck, Dragon King, I’m heading back!"
Saying that, the Little Paperman disappeared, reappearing beside Xie Xuzhi in just a few seconds.
The Dragon Spirit attached numerous talisman papers to himself before he leisurely pushed open the Mystic Iron Gate and walked inside.
Perhaps due to the array of Magic Artifacts he carried from the stone columns, the constantly shifting path showed no change.
The Dragon Spirit looked at the stone walls full of pits and hollows and immediately understood—this was the corridor the Little Paperman mentioned, dug out by Yun Ran and the Ginsengfruit.
"Truly a treasure-obsessed one, so many Great Demon Inner Cores, all dug out cleanly, not a single one left!"
(Yun Ran shook her head, protesting: Nonsense, I left quite a few defective ones!)
Fortunately, his eyes were sharp; otherwise, in this pitch-black place, he’d probably be unable to find his bearings.
As he walked, the Dragon Spirit heard an intermittent sound of clanging iron chains.
Instead of feeling fear, the Dragon Spirit sped up considerably.
Soon, he reached a vast open space.
Countless iron chains were deeply embedded in the stone walls, their other ends tethered to many people.
This sight reminded the Dragon Spirit of a time when he had no physical form and followed Yun Ran to Yinghua Country, witnessing a similar scene.
In that enormous underground structure, many people hung in mid-air; although most were dead, there were still a few living ones.
One of them looked exactly like Yun Ran’s ’old friend’ Tan Chengbi.
The Dragon Spirit gasped: "No way, could it be that the place we broke into back then was actually a simplified version of this Demon-locking Tower?"
The body he had seized belonged to the one causing trouble in that place, with an identity linked as the master of the Gu God Hall...
Many things, when unconsidered, seemed nothing, even coincidental.
But once connected, they became deeply unsettling.
"Could it be that the people from the Gu God Hall and these Black Robed People are actually allied?"
The Dragon Spirit now genuinely couldn’t wait to meet Yun Ran, to compare notes, and perhaps discover new clues.
Those chained people seemed triggered, wailing like ghosts, their destructive strength astonishing.
The surrounding stone walls suffered extensive damage.
The one discordant aspect was that these people seemed powerless against the chains.
The Dragon Spirit instinctively weighed the Magic Artifact retrieved from a stone column in his hand.
Approaching one person, though they were frenzied and wielded significant destructive power.
Yet they ignored the Magic Artifact-wielding Dragon Spirit, retreating instead, as if the Dragon Spirit was something they feared.
This made the Dragon Spirit more curious.
He extended the Magic Artifact toward the chained people, and indeed, they withdrew faster.
"These seemingly insane people fear this thing, huh."
Now, the Dragon Spirit wasn’t in a rush to meet up with Yun Ran; he felt he might have truly stumbled upon something momentous.
Walking among the frenzied ones, not meeting any obstacles, it felt like entering an uninhabited realm.
"Interesting!"
What a shame, the phone couldn’t be used here at all, unable to record the scene.
This inoperability wasn’t due to lack of signal, but the device couldn’t turn on.
It seemed the electronic components inside had been affected by some force, completely failing.
The Dragon Spirit walked the space back and forth, naturally counting all the chained people.
There were exactly eighty-one people chained.
After examining a few individuals closely, the Dragon Spirit was astonished.
These individuals were no longer alive, yet they appeared indistinguishable from the living.
He could even feel that supposed deceased had the consciousness of the living.
"Remarkable means, driving dead bodies solely with awareness, even with such immense power and destruction."
From another perspective, these people may have been ’seized’ bodies, just like him using his own consciousness to control this body.
The key difference was that when he seized this body, the previous owner hadn’t died yet.
The final consciousness was ultimately devoured by him for perfect integration.
Body seizing while alive is considered an Evil Technique by many.
For the dead to act like the living, it disrupts the order of realms.
