The Lord of Void and Real
Chapter 457

Chapter 457: Chapter 453: Ghost Soldiers Chapter 457: Chapter 453: Ghost Soldiers Shen Luo swung his ax again, and the stone door collapsed with a loud thud, revealing a stone chamber that was over a dozen feet in size.

He kept his attention on any possible danger in the surroundings, stepping inside and quickly assessing the situation. The interior was similar to a study, with two bookshelves and a desk on which numerous books were piled.

The quality of the paper these books were made from was excellent; despite many years passing by, they had not decayed.

It seemed as though nobody had entered this stone chamber for decades; both the bookshelves and the desk were covered with a layer of dust.

Shen Luo casually picked up one of the books from the desk, shaking off the dust to take a look. His face quickly showed disappointment.

The content of the book was not about cultivating skills or spiritual materials, but about construction and mechanical traps. The book recorded the methods for creating various types of traps and mechanisms as well as blueprints for some siege equipment, ships, and chariots.

He randomly flipped through a few other books and discovered that they were also related to mechanisms.

“Given what Fang Yuegong said, the master of this ancient tomb was a master of mechanisms, could it be that these books were left by him?” Shen Luo pondered to himself.

He promptly searched the room further, and the result was that, other than books, there was nothing else inside. He was somewhat disappointed.

However, there could be many valuable things among these books. But at the moment, he didn't have time to take a closer look. As he had two storage magical tools that were quite spacious, he simply put all the books inside.

After doing this, he was about to leave. He glanced outside, showed a pensive expression, then turned around and walked deeper into the room, reciting the Technique of Taming Beasts and Summoning Spirits.

A moment later, Shen Luo walked out of the stone chamber with an additional bronze armguard in his right hand.

The others were all busy breaking down other stone doors and searching for treasures inside.

Seeing this scene, Shen Luo turned around and came to the front of another stone door, swinging his short axe to force it open.

A moment later, all the stone doors in the great hall had been broken open by the group, and everything inside had been plundered.

Shen Luo was the fastest, having gone inside three stone chambers. Although he didn't find anything valuable in the first and second chambers, he found a jade-green crystal the size of a human head in the third chamber. The crystal was dazzling to the eye, and its material seemed very similar to his jade-green ruyi.

However, unlike the jade-green ruyi, this crystal exuded an unusually cold yin qi, even more so than the Yin Sha Xue Ice he obtained earlier.

He could not immediately identify the origins of the object, so he simply stored it away directly.

After having explored the dozens of stone chambers, the six individuals seemed to understand one another and didn't inquire about each other's discoveries. They were about to continue deeper into the great hall, heading toward the passageway.

At that moment, a roar came from the depths of the passageway, causing everyone's faces to change as they all looked in that direction.

The sound was initially somewhat fuzzy, but as time went on, it became louder and clearer. After a few breaths, it seemed to be approaching their location, the enormous sound causing the whole great hall to hum in response.

The six of them hastily took out their magical instruments, focusing their gaze on the rumbling passageway.

A dense black fog suddenly surged out of the passageway in front of them, rolling toward the six like a furious wave. Inside the black fog were ghost soldiers, wearing armor and wielding various types of weapons such as swords, guns, and long halberds.

Each of these soldiers bore numerous scars. Some were missing limbs, others had blood streaming from their heads, and still others had their guts hanging out – it seemed as if they had all died on the battlefield. After becoming ghostly creatures, they took on the appearance they had before their death, looking quite horrifying.

All the soldiers formed a roaring river that filled the entire passageway. The sight was dense and numerous and one could not possibly count how many there were.

Shen Luo's pupils contracted. Judging from the Yin Qi emanating from these soldiers, they were at least at the 7th or 8th level of the Qi Refining Stage, with a few others, tall figures seeming to be officers, remarkably reaching the Grain Avoidance Stage.

“These are the vengeful spirits of soldiers from the previous dynasty, more powerful than ordinary ghosts! Quickly, form a Cloud Array!” The scholarly robed old man shouted loudly, waving a white flag to provoke them.

The others also hastily activated their arrays and a white halo of light enveloped the six of them.

The moment the Cloud Array was formed, ghostly soldiers emanating black qi lunged at them, stopping less than thirty feet from the group. Smelling the scent of living flesh and blood around them, these Ghost Soldiers revealed greedy expressions and pounced upon the six.

Whoosh! Seven or eight halberds of dense yin qi swung towards Shen Luo.

Shen Luo pinched a jade ruyi over his head to expand rapidly, forming a shield in front of him, its green light shining brightly.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

These Ghost Soldiers were shaken apart, and a few ghostly creatures retreated unsteadily.

Shen Luo's short axe flew from his hand, self-illuminating with green lightning, drawing a fan-shaped arc in front of him, cleaving these ghosts in half.

Green arcs of electricity wrapped around these ghost creatures. These ghost creatures exploded, turning into strands of black qi that dispersed.

The power of lightning is the natural nemesis of ghosts. The green lightning on the short axe is even more potent than the Small Thunder Talisman. When faced with these Qi Refining Stage ghosts, it naturally obliterated them.

In the midst of the ghostly howling, two more ghostly creatures pounced at them from the side.

Shen Luo used the same method as before, using the jade ruyi for defense before slaying them with the green short axe.

Even though the remaining individuals could resist the ghosts using the power of the array, they were far from accomplishing this with as much ease as Shen Luo.

The lightning axe in Shen Luo's hand swept back and forth, shifting rapidly and unpredictably, effortlessly slaying ghost after ghost. In the blink of an eye, he had killed at least twenty or thirty of them.

At that moment, a towering figure wrapped in black fog suddenly shot out from the denseness of the black qi, closing the distance to Shen Luo in a split second. A dazzling halberd appeared above Shen Luo's head, slicing down towards him.

An overwhelming killing intent erupted from the halberd, forming a strange battlefield, trapping Shen Luo within.

“Ghost at the peak of Grain Avoidance!”

Shen Luo's complexion shifted, but his eyes also shimmered with excitement. He pinched the jade ruyi activation spell and prepared his Qiankun Bag, ready to capture the ghost.

The jade ruyi grew rapidly in response to his activation spell, emitting a dazzling green light. In a flash, it expanded to the size of a millstone to meet the attack. The red gemstone embedded in the ruyi glowed brilliantly, contrasting beautifully with the jade green light and enhancing the power of the jade ruyi.

There was a loud “clang”!

The halberd struck the jade ruyi, and a cloud of dense black qi surged out from it. This eclipse the light of the jade ruyi and sent it flying outwards.

An immense force was transmitted to Shen Luo, causing his blood and qi to roil, and his mana to stop momentarily, leaving his Qiankun Bag unceremoniously pulled out.

However, thanks to his top-grade jade ruyi, the imposing tall figure retreated backward, with the black qi around him dispersing, revealing the figure of an extremely tall ghostly creature. He was clad in a vivid armor, holding Fangtian Battle Halberd. Clearly, he had been a general in life.