Signing-In: The Lazy Moon Goddess-Chapter 736: Push down

With them being suddenly locked in one area, one couldn’t help but feel tense about the situation. Those who are close to breaking down, now have totally lost it. One even went crazy and bangs onto the wall where the door had disappeared, even ignoring the pain and blood on his hand as he hit the walls without mercy. The others looked terrified as they tried to hide at the corners. There are also others whose face didn’t change much but was on guard the whole time while observing people.

Ru Yunlan already heard that he is being targeted but this place is the only way to get out of this place. He was planning the whole way out when suddenly he felt a strong qi of death which his body yearns for.

Rumbles~

The center of the huge hall they are in suddenly caved in from the center. A few stages appeared from below while the depths of where it came from seems to be endless. But, the qi emitting for underneath the stages is the very energy Ru Yunlan wanted to find.

"This is..." He immediately ran towards the edges where the huge hole appeared and was dumbfounded. This is the first time he had felt such a powerful energy of death.

{A public graveyard. The stage below had thousands of bodies and souls which were locked in. What a disgusting way to kill. Because of this, the death qi here is foul. If you are going to absorb it, it’s better to send the tortured souls first to reincarnation and free them from this hell.}

The Death God’s soul fragment seems to be annoyed by how useless the deaths of these beings are. It is simply an insult from a natural death and the God of Death despite this way of gathering death qi.

’Is there something wrong with this Death Qi?’ Ru Yunlan asked. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

The one who answers is none other than the artifact spirit, Death Scythe (Broken), {This Death Qi is impure and once you absorb it, it would transform your body into something hideous due to the curses and implication caused by a tainted soul. Your soul might go mad as well if you aren’t careful.}

{To remove the taint, you must free the original souls first so their death qi will not possess much negativity on you. Especially, since you aren’t strong enough to bear with such negativity at the moment.} The God of Death’s soul fragment said. {Jump down. We can help you block the attacks of the souls as you purify them. Also... don’t listen too much.}

Ru Yunlan asked in his mind, ’Don’t listen to what?’

But before he could get an answer someone had pushed him from behind and fell directly to the unknown cliff below. This is something he didn’t expect. He turned around as he fell just to look at the person who had pushed him down and it was unexpected that a young cultivator called Zou. Right now, he didn’t look like a gentle looking guy from before. Instead he looks so thin and malnourished and except for the hints of life within his eyes, he is now no different from an undead man.

All Ru Yunlan can read from the man’s moving lips are ’Please save them.’

Everyone watches as Ru Yunlan falls into that unknown abyss below the stages and no one dares to help him. Maybe because they had witnessed this scene a couple times and had gotten used to it. After all, the one who had pushed Ru Yunlan is a madman known by everyone. As for the appearance of the stages, they didn’t seem surprised.

A few murmurs were heard from the crowd.

"Another soul had fallen."

"He looks so powerful. How can he fall from a single push?"

"Did he fall on purpose?"

"Would you want to fall in that place? That is no different from hell!"

"So he is acting like he is strong?"

"What a waste. I should have stolen everything before he died."

While the commotion in the crowd is getting louder, a lot of the people in the area all believe that the man who had fallen just now is no different from the dead but some with keen eyes thought otherwise. After all, they didn’t see any struggles when Ru Yunlan had fallen and there wasn’t even any shouting on his way down as if he didn’t care that he was falling. In short, whoever it was that had fallen down was so calm when he did. Their eyes narrow thinking if the way to leave this place is found at the bottom which they considered the most dangerous.

As expected, someone had jumped down intentionally, it was another young man. It was only something he had done after talking to his group. His last words were cheerful and said,

"Come find me once you are done here."

Even though everyone was stunned by this action, no one dares to follow after the madman who jumped while laughing. His laughter had echoes until it disappeared to the depths of the dark abyss below. After that commotion some old looking man that seems to be made of just bones and skin appeared. For those who had been here earlier than others, this is the second or third time they are seeing this man. Based on the reactions of the survivors, this being is no different from being the devil himself.

"Oh~. Everyone is... here. We can... start... another round... of death... battles~."

A hoarse voice came out from this man’s mouth which fits his current state. He looked like a dying old man who was one foot away from his grave, as if one push from them could end his life. If not for the fact that the first batch who had arrived before others had witnessed him easily breaking someone’s neck, they would believe that he is just a weakling. Though in reality, he is a monster who can easily kill someone at the Yuanying realm and is most likely a Huashen realm cultivator at least.

"The unfortunate... soul who had... fallen. Keke~ ...not that... I care... much. Two people ...on each stage... failure to do so... means death," The old man said.

The moment he said these words, most of those who had survived the few batches before this one had already jumped on to the stage while those who just arrived were stunned and didn’t make a move at all. When the old ghost saw this he clicked his tongue and suddenly appeared among those who hadn’t gone on the stage yet.

"Not going ...on stage?"

A young man spoke up and said, "Who the hell would go there?! Isn’t the bottom of that stage too dangerous? I won’t go!"

"Is... that... so?" The old man murmured and suddenly grabbed the neck of the young man who had spoken and with a grip, it cracked and tilted to such a dangerous angle.

The young man died without knowing how he died. The old corpse clicked his tongue as he lightly threw the body in his hand to the bottom of the stage and then looked at the rest who still hadn’t made a move.

"Are you... also not... going on... stage?"

The rest of them upon seeing what just happened scrambles to get on the stage in fear. What they didn’t know was that the horror had just begun and it all started on the stage they had just climbed up into. Now that all of them are on stage, the old man who looks like a moving corpse had suddenly reappeared above them flying. With his eerie laughter resounding in the area, almost everyone has a frown on their faces.

The old man had spoken, "Alright... Let’s begin...a game called... Survival for... the fittest. Only ...the one ...who was ...able to... live ...at the end... and become... the sole ...survivor ...can leave... the pyramid~. Keke~"

The announcement made those who had just arrived panic while the other people had heard the new rules were dumbfounded. They thought that they would only need to defeat another batch of opponents and now this old bastard is asking them to kill the rest of them. But this is something that can be done, most of those who had survived were people of the same group. Asking them to kill their own people is not possible.

In the end, an upheaval suddenly happened and their target was that old bastard who was asking them to kill each other with only one as a survivor. Most people, especially the ones from the group of the young man who chased after Ru Yunlan who was pushed down, were against these new rules. They finally fought against the corpse like an old man in disagreement.

On the other hand, Ru Yunlan who was pushed down on the cliff, realized that the one who had done it had pasted some kind of talisman on him before he was pushed. This talisman had protected him before falling on the ground. Adding the fact that the last few words Cultivator Zou had told him before he fell in, Ru Yunlan realized that after he had separated from the four cultivators before something must have happened to them.

Ru Yunlan landed in something that didn’t seem to be a land. He looked down only to be startled by the scenery of the place he had fallen into. It’s a huge mountain of skeletons and dead bodies, piling up to reach this stage.

The young man calmly surveyed the area and noticed that this is indeed a scene one wouldn’t like to see.

"A mountain of corpses?" Ru Yunlan murmured.