Immortality Path: From the Blind Man at the Pharmacy
Chapter 229 - 137, 138. Merging into Extreme Joy World (Major Chapter - Subscription Request)

Chapter 229: 137, 138. Merging into Extreme Joy World (Major Chapter - Subscription Request)

The first time Song Cheng encountered the Human Skin Ghost, he was completely engulfed into the world of Reappear, utterly devoid of any power to resist, but now... he watched the scene before him with unprecedented clarity.

Beauty, wildness, crawling, cages, Beast Tamer...

This was so-called Extreme Joy World.

What was clad beneath the human skin was a tamed soul, a being that should have remained human, but had been twisted into a monster because of the nobles’ bizarre hobbies.

Without a doubt, the past of this Human Skin Ghost was countless times more tragic than that of Yune.

The so-called Extreme Joy World was merely built upon the suffering of others.

Extreme joy, indeed, necessitated extreme suffering.

Without Hell, how could there be an Extreme Joy World?

The village square, which was empty before, suddenly bustled to life, a crowd materializing from nowhere, hastily gathering around, whispering to each other and staring toward the direction of the cages with shining eyes.

The small ox cart was abruptly piled high with black cloth cages, the covers of the cages being lifted one by one to reveal the various colors of "Extreme Joy"... the various shades of "Sorrow."

At once, the stimulated crowd burst into an uproar, some laughing heartily, others exclaiming "Brilliant, brilliant!" and still others beginning to critique and shout, "Me next, me next!"

The elegantly dressed mustachioed man pinched his moustache and then smilingly said, "Delicacies, everyone loves to eat; beauties, everyone loves to play with; since everyone has come to Extreme Joy World, they must follow the rules of Extreme Joy World..."

With that, he clapped his hands and said, "The first event, demon-subduing. The ones in the cages are..."

At that moment, Song Cheng felt little joy, only anger.

"Enough."

He spoke, "I already know."

However, nobody paid him any attention, and everyone continued clamoring.

The first cage opened, and the woman tamed into a leopard cautiously stepped out, looking around left and right, her demeanor both charming and full of wildness.

The well-dressed man pulled out a bottle of perfume, uncapped it, and the fragrance dispersed like a cloud of mist, enveloping the area and stirring up strong desires in the onlookers.

To satisfy desires, is that not what Extreme Joy is?

Just as the scene devoid of moral boundaries was about to unfold, a voice suddenly hammered down like a heavy mallet, hitting the "pause" button hard.

"Great Dark Heaven."

With a single word, darkness surged like a torrential flood, emanating from Song Cheng and sweeping outwards in all directions.

This was his forbidden power.

It was also within the domain of Reappear.

This point, he had specifically researched.

Like his elder sister-in-law, they practiced over and over, but it was always illusion, not Reappear.

The reason he could practice Reappear was solely because he bordered on becoming an evil spirit.

His eighth layer in the Ninefold Ghostly Tower had mutated due to the "blessings of the Drowning Ghost, the Ghost Hair" and the "glimpses of the Human Skin Ghost."

The flood’s "rushing" noise of Reappear scattered the gathered guests.

The mustachioed man cried out in horror, "Where is this flood coming from, where?" and after shouting twice, he suddenly turned his gaze toward Song Cheng, his eyes displaying a vindictive hue, then he bellowed with a hoarse, angry voice, "Kill him! Kill him!!"

Instantly, the guests loosened by the dark tide glowered at Song Cheng with resentment, and then they either splashed or swam toward him.

But they only rushed for a few moments before they felt a surge of blindness.

They were blind.

Within the "Great Dark Heaven" of Reappear, everyone was blinded, and the water kept rising.

Song Cheng himself did not understand what was happening.

This power, it was the perfect example of "use it, don’t understand it."

The guests of Extreme Joy World, having lost their sight, soon began to choke on water, were scattered by the torrent, while the iron cages, due to some supernatural power, floated to the surface of the water and drifted with the waves.

Some drifted far away, while others... were approaching Song Cheng.

Song Cheng keenly perceived the shifting powers at this moment.

After a moment, he pondered thoughtfully.

"Reappear" was like a technique.

"Power" was from Mysterious Level Grade C against Mysterious Level Grade D.

And it was because his power was stronger than the Human Skin Ghost’s that he was able to scatter the guests of Extreme Joy World, to scatter the cages... otherwise, it might have been him running around while those guests of Extreme Joy World chased after him to capture and thrust him into a cage.

Then, does the stronger side always win?

Song Cheng fell into thought.

Soon he shook his head.

Not necessarily.

Because the restraint between two instances of Reappear might be even greater than that of techniques.

A technique is just a movement, a trajectory; whereas Reappear is an event, even a natural phenomenon...

For Song Cheng, this was a completely new world, a completely unfamiliar world.

In this world, ordinary Martial Artists could not even begin to comprehend it, not even Yu or his elder sister-in-law.

Once Song Cheng grasped the knack, he simply willed his Divine Soul to descend into the eighth layer of the Ninefold Ghostly Tower and then fully propelled "Great Dark Heaven"...

Indeed, when he powered it fully, the speed of the water in this "Reappear World" suddenly increased a lot, those iron cages that were closing in a moment ago got "washed away," tumbling in the water and dispersing to the peripheries.

Song Cheng in this dark water, was quite at ease.

However, everything once again presented itself through the lens of Heart’s Eye.

This meant, here... he had become blind again.

Song Cheng moved like a fish, his form lunging toward the nearest cage.

He saw that despite the crevices in the cages, his water never seeped into them.