Two Realms Shuttle Gate: Don't Call Me a Demon!-Chapter 264 - 179: Seeing Han Ruyan Again (Fourth Update)
Chapter 264: Chapter 179: Seeing Han Ruyan Again (Fourth Update)
Half a day later.
By the time Su Jie arrived, what he saw was the desolate Han Mansion, which seemed to have become a Ghost Mansion.
The open gates appeared to invite every passerby, the characters ‘Han Mansion’ carved above the door were already indistinct, and the lion statues on both sides had fierce expressions with dried, black blood on them.
Carrying Qi Shijian in his hand, Su Jie had just arrived with Xiao Fengyuan and Ning Xinyue.
They had barely arrived when, coincidentally, footsteps sounded from the other direction.
They saw Yu Wenjing, Xiao Guanglian, and Mo Shiyao—the elite disciples from Guan Chao Pavilion, Purple Mist Sect, and Miao Yin Temple—accompanied by twelve Righteous Disciples, appearing before Su Jie at the other end of the street.
The two groups faced each other across the street; Ning Xinyue and Xiao Fengyuan had already drawn their Vajra Bracelet and Blood Cang Spear, while Mo Shiyao took out her wooden fish, and Xiao Guanglian even took out a large quantity of Magic Artifacts, with the other disciples not willing to show weakness either.
Only Su Jie and Yu Wenjing remained motionless.
“Brother Yu Wen, since we’ve all gathered here, presumably you’ve come to destroy the Array Eye as well. Do you want to join forces to increase our chances of success, or would you rather fight until both sides suffer and unwittingly become nourishment for the fierce ghosts? The choice is yours.”
Su Jie looked toward Yu Wenjing, who was born into Guan Chao Pavilion and was clearly the leader among the group of Righteous Disciples opposite him.
“Associate with a Demon Cultivator like you and wait to be backstabbed?!”
Xiao Guanglian’s eyes were filled with murderous intent; although his severed arm had regrown, he still vividly remembered his grudge from losing a hand and couldn’t forget his defeat at Su Jie’s hands a few days ago.
“I forgot to thank you last time. The Magic Artifact and Qilin Crystal Silver Flower Fruit you left behind were very useful.”
With a faint smile at the corner of his mouth, Su Jie turned Xiao Guanglian’s face an eggplant purple, making him feel as though he’d lost all face.
“Su Jie, the strong among the new generation of Ghost Ridge Palace disciples—is it you who killed my worthless junior brother, Du Shaochang?”
Yu Wenjing’s eyes were cold and calm as he intercepted Xiao Guanglian, who wanted to rush forward.
“I didn’t want to, but who told him to willingly seek his own death.”
Shrugging his shoulders, Su Jie’s words caused Mo Shiyao’s eyebrows to furrow. She pointed at Su Jie and said, “Demon Cultivators deserve to be killed by everyone. I will definitely avenge Brother Du with my own hands.”
Poor Qi Shijian had been fawning over them, and now, imprisoned, Mo Shiyao didn’t even mention his name once. Instead, she reacted the moment she heard Du Shaochang’s name.
“You think you can?”
Su Jie touched the Thousand-Handed Centipede coiled around his right hand—his meaning clear.
If you can’t even beat my Thousand-Handed Centipede, how can you talk about avenging him with your own hands?
The Thousand-Handed Centipede rose vertically and opened its gaping maw toward Mo Shiyao.
Clearly, it also remembered the woman it had fought with, flaunting its martial prowess aggressively.
“Vile vermin.”
Mo Shiyao gritted her teeth in frustration. It was unfortunate for her that she truly couldn’t beat the Thousand-Handed Centipede; she vividly remembered being chased and forced to hide everywhere during their last encounter.
“Hey, are you going to fight or make peace? Make it quick. Don’t think that we’re afraid just because you have more people. If it comes to a fight, our Brother Su here can take on ten of you by himself,” Ning Xinyue said, hands on her hips and arrogantly assured with Su Jie by her side.
Su Jie couldn’t help but turn his head and glare at the young girl, “When did I say I was going to fight ten of them?”
Ning Xinyue, feeling guilty under Su Jie’s gaze, playfully twisted her black hair and quietly stopped interjecting.
“Heh heh, since that’s the case, let’s join forces then,” Yu Wenjing’s eyes flickered slightly before he made his decision.
Many Righteous Disciples looked over, but no one objected to this decision, and Mo Shiyao and Xiao Guanglian were also persuaded by the other disciples to agree.
From their last fight with Mo Shiyao and Xiao Guanglian, they had recognized the strength of Su Jie and the other two Demon Cultivators.
Especially Su Jie, who could almost be said to have defeated both Xiao Guanglian and Mo Shiyao on his own, his power was extremely formidable, a danger within dangers.
If a conflict were to break out here, even if they won, their own side would suffer heavy casualties.
And with the entire area covered by the Heavenly Soul Formation, if they were to lose more hands, it would be even more impossible to break out, and everyone would die here.
“A pleasure to cooperate.”
Su Jie made a cupped fist salute, the two sides had previously been enemies, fighting fiercely as Right and Evil cannot coexist, but now faced with an even more dangerous enemy, they had no choice but to temporarily cease hostilities and cooperate.
Both parties entered the Han Mansion with a trace of wariness toward each other.
Within the Han Mansion, huge black steles stood everywhere, carved with dense and numerous magic symbols, emitting a faint glow.
Some strangely shaped statues were also placed around the Han Mansion, and as if they were alive, their eyes would move when someone passed by, adding a bit more eeriness and mystery.
Merely in a matter of days, the place had become somewhat unfamiliar to Su Jie; the rooftiles were mottled as if they had been sealed for years, and each closely shut courtyard and house, with their doors adorned with bronze rings, seemed to hide ghosts watching Su Jie and his group, exuding cold and eerie vibes, making people unconsciously clench their fists and their heart rate accelerate.
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Passing through the front hall, they entered a quiet bamboo grove where the bamboo leaves gently swayed in the wind, making a rustling sound.
In the depths of the bamboo grove, one could see a quaint pavilion, surrounded by hanging wind chimes that tinkled crisply whenever the breeze blew.
Around the pavilion, unlike the quiet and elegant bamboo grove, lay a forest of skeletons; human heads were trampled into felt, flesh rotted like mud, stuck in the cracks of the ground tiles, with sinews hanging on the walls, the stench spreading all around, a true vision of a human inferno.
Everywhere, the corpses thrown by Fierce Ghosts could be seen forming towering mounds of bodies.
As a result, the lingering black resentment and fear enveloped the entire Han Mansion like smoke, and the pavilion inside absorbed a figure shrouded within.
That figure had her eyes closed, her beauty once comparable to that of early spring cherry blossoms, but now with her hair flowing in the wind and her red wedding dress torn, as if smeared with a layer of blood, she appeared vividly red as blood.
Her long hair fell like a waterfall, covering most of her face, and beneath the wedding dress were visible transparent ankles and embroidered shoes; the surging resentment and Yin Qi were incessantly absorbed by her and taken into her body, where the deathly aura churned like waves.
This was indeed Han Ruyan, but at this moment, she was clearly no longer the Han Ruyan of the past.
The parents of Han Ruyan, Han Jinghuan and Han Mother, as well as everyone else in the Han Mansion, both young and old, were hung to death near the pavilion, like dried cured meat.
Including Xie Wenyi, the Prince, whom Su Jie had once met, as well as his accompanying Hidden Realm Elder Tang Lie, was seen gutted and hung upside down on bamboo,
Seemingly with the intention to use this method to make the resentment of Han Ruyan, who had passed away, even stronger, and the ghost that would be formed even more fierce.
Just as Su Jie and his group entered the bamboo grove, Zou Minzun and Gongyang Ji, two Hidden Realm Elders, who had been waiting there, appeared, blocking Su Jie and Yu Wenjing’s party from the front and the back.
