The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 154 - 139 Dark Ghost, Hong Jian!_1

Chapter 154: Chapter 139 Dark Ghost, Hong Jian!_1

Above the Stone Hall.

"Zhu Yuanxi, without evidence, if you dare to slander our Yin Spirit Temple again with baseless accusations, don’t blame me for being rude!"

Upon the White Tower, Dong Tianze, having heeded his senior brother Wang Yisen’s advice, scowled and snorted coldly.

After showing off his might on Ice Rock Island and using it to clear his own suspicions, he had planned to leave.

Wang Yisen nodded slightly.

The Individual Cultivator Ling Yun let out a sigh of relief.

Positioned at the edge of the Stone Hall, he saw Dong Tianze, this harbinger of doom, preparing to leave, and he glared at Zhu Yuanxi, signaling for him not to make another sound lest Dong Tianze found another excuse to speak.

Bowing his head, his eyes cast a gloomy gaze downwards.

The quiet mocking and disdainful remarks from the Individual Cultivators that lacked respect towards him, he had silently taken note of them all.

Once the Heavenly Spirit Tower left the Three Immortal Islands, he would give those Individual Cultivators a taste of their own medicine at the upcoming market.

—He was never a magnanimous person.

Just at that moment.

"Ghost Leader!"

A heart-wrenching howl suddenly erupted!

This howl, as if filled with boundless grief and frustration, was deeply moving.

Dong Tianze was taken aback for a moment.

This bottled-up, familiar-sounding voice... he found it somewhat... familiar.

He, who had intended to depart on the Heavenly Spirit Tower, looked down puzzled, and saw someone emerge from a thick stone pillar beneath the Stone Hall.

That person, it seemed, had been hiding beside the pillars under the hall all along, not daring to reveal himself.

It was a youth with a sickly yellow complexion...

"Hong Jian!"

Dong Tianze inwardly cried out in his heart, his facial expression turning extremely odd as his gaze flickered chaotically.

Wang Yisen inwardly swore at the impending disaster, sensing that Dong Tianze, the younger one, might not be able to handle what was to come.

Following the cry of "Ghost Leader," Dong Tianze’s facial expression and eyes changed. Unable to maintain his tranquil composure, it was certain others would notice something was amiss.

"Ghost Leader?"

Individual Cultivator Ling Yun, Zhu Yuanxi, and a crowd of Individual Cultivators all had their attention drawn.

Then.

They saw the yellow-faced youth who had captured everyone’s attention throw a series of silver balls toward several people in front of the Stone Hall responsible for collecting Spirit Stones in exchange for entry tokens.

They were all under Individual Cultivator Ling Yun’s command!

"Boom!"

The silver balls suddenly exploded, transforming into a sea of thunder clouds that engulfed several practitioners of the Meridians Channeling Realm and Marrow Cleansing Realm.

"Nine Heavens Mysterious Thunder!"

"Who is this guy? He actually dared to attack the people of Individual Cultivator Ling Yun!"

"Damn it, he almost got me too!"

A group of Individual Cultivators cursed as they hurriedly dodged, looking at the frenzied, out-of-control youth with eyes as if observing a madman.

"Where did this brat come from?!"

On the other side, two Marrow Cleansing Realm Individual Cultivators, who were also Ling Yun’s underlings, approached angrily after the explosion of the lightning balls.

"Bang!"

An ash-colored smoke was casually dispersed by the hands of the sickly yellow-faced youth.

The ash-colored smoke twisted and instantly solidified into a fierce ghost with a ghastly face and sharp fangs, using the poisonous mist to envelope the newcomers.

The two mid-stage Marrow Cleansing Realm Individual Cultivators, as if their souls were gnawed by the ghosts in the smoke, began to bleed from all orifices and screamed terribly.

"Poison Ghost Poisonous Fog!"

"This is the Yin Spirit Temple’s Poison Ghost Poisonous Fog!"

Individual Cultivator Ling Yun and Zhu Yuanxi were both shocked by this scene and looked sternly towards the sudden appearance of the yellow-faced youth.

Seeing more of his men rushing toward the youth, Individual Cultivator Ling Yun shouted coldly, "Wait a minute!"

His other three Marrow Cleansing Realm subordinates, who were descending beside him, promptly halted.

"Who is he calling Ghost Leader?"

Zhu Yuanxi demanded with a stern face.

The deaths of Ling Yun’s followers did not concern him at all, but he keenly captured the main point, "Ghost Leader is a title used only for the leader of the Dark Ghosts, could it be..."

He looked in surprise at the yellow-faced youth.

"Ghost Leader!"

"Hall Masters Zhao and Meng were tortured to death by Zhu Yuanxi and Ling Yun, those two dog thieves, you must avenge them!"

The yellow-faced youth’s eyes were bloodshot as he looked up at Dong Tianze in the White Tower, roaring, "Ghost Leader, the Ghost Altar I communicated with you through belongs to Yang Yuansen, it’s missing an invisible banner, and I saw your face!"

"You are our leader of the Dark Ghosts, our Ghost Leader! So, please, take up our cause for justice!"

Beside a stone pillar.

With her peerless beauty concealed, Luo Hongyan’s clear eyes were full of astonishment as she watched the moment’s spectacle with Pang Jian.

She shook her head gently and sighed, "Has he... grown up too fast? How did he become so devious without me realizing..."

Dong Tianze gritted his teeth and did not respond.

He had never imagined that Hong Jian, whom he thought had died long ago in the Sky Fortune Fragment Land, would appear on Ice Rock Island and recognize his identity through the Ghost Altar.

"Don’t you dare admit it!"

Wang Yisen hissed behind Dong Tianze.

He felt that Dong Tianze, who had been recognized by the youth below, seemed to have a hard time lying while looking someone in the eyes.

"Dong Tianze!"

"He’s actually the Dark Ghost Leader?"

The Individual Cultivators exploded into an uproar.

"Young man, who are you?"

Zhu Yuanxi curiously gazed down at the troublemaking youth, sensing an unexpected windfall.

"The Dark Ghost, Hong Jian!"

The yellow-faced youth declared with powerful anger, fearlessly looking up at him and yelling furiously, "You dog thief, you killed two of my Dark Ghost Hall Masters, do you dare to come down and fight me one-on-one?"

"Hong Jian!" Zhu Yuanxi exclaimed with great joy, nodding repeatedly in approval, "We’ve searched for you for so long, and finally, you’ve decided to show your face!"

In Sky Fortune City and Cloud Marsh, the two assassination attempts against the disciples of the Blood Moon were not carried out by Pang Jian as he appears now.

However.

The Blood Moon Gate disciples who had seen Pang Jian’s true face were not on Ice Rock Island, as they had taken a ferry to Cloud Island.

"Dong Tianze, what else do you have to say?"

"Let’s not even discuss the Nine Heavens Mysterious Thunder, the Poison Ghost Poisonous Fog has always been exclusively possessed by your Yin Spirit Temple! If he is not Dark Ghost Hall Master Hong Jian, wielding the Poison Ghost Poisonous Fog, then how else did he come by it if not from your Yin Spirit Temple?"

Zhu Yuanxi accused furiously.

Dong Tianze’s skin twitched.

The person who traded with him at the Ghost Altar was now pointing fingers at him below, and both the Nine Heavens Mysterious Thunder and the Poison Ghost Poisonous Fog were handpicked by him.

Now, with both the witness and the evidence present, he found it embarrassingly difficult to deny...

With his twisted, murderous nature, he would rather kill everyone than do as Wang Yisen had suggested.

"Ghost Leader! You must avenge them!"

Pang Jian accused Zhu Yuanxi and the Individual Cultivator Cloud Ascetics of their misdeeds in a deeply resonant voice, demanding, "Ghost Leader, don’t you want to know how we got up here?"

Dong Tianze irritably rubbed his forehead.

Below his forehead, a splendid phoenix mark was concealed.

With his current cultivation in the Innate Realm, coupled with this magical mark, he was confident he could kill Zhu Yuanxi!

He should be able to meddle with the Cultivator Cloud Ascetics too!

"Brother Wang, forgive me for I simply cannot tell barefaced lies, so..."

Dong Tianze took a deep breath, his eyes flashing with ferocity, and whispered decisively, "In the Great Stone Hall, let’s not leave a single survivor on the entire Ice Rock Island. Every Individual Cultivator who heard him call me Ghost Leader, not one shall be spared."

"As long as every living soul on the island is eradicated, I can cover up the matter of presiding over the Ghost Altar on behalf of my master."

Behind him.

Wang Yisen, who served as a protector of the Yin Spirit Temple, rose from his seated position, sighing heavily with a heavy heart.

"You are truly a complete madman. Whether it’s a blessing or a curse for our Yin Spirit Temple to have taken you in, I really don’t know," said Wang Yisen with a sense of pathos.

Despite being a realm above Dong Tianze, the mere thought of this young wolf’s plan now filled him with fear of Dong Tianze.

"Thank you, brother," replied Dong Tianze, taking out the Evil Artifact Ghost Howling and swallowing a Pill that replenished Qi and Blood.

In response to Zhu Yuanxi’s interrogation and the fury of the crowd of individual cultivators, Dong Tianze, who had been clenching his teeth and staying silent, finally spoke slowly and deliberately, "It was me."

"I am the one who, in the capacity of Dark Ghost Leader, engaged in the trade of materials with him. What are you going to do about it?" Dong Tianze’s gaze grew increasingly fierce by the moment.

"You actually dare to admit it? The Yin Spirit Temple has done so many shady things over the years and never dared to confess!"

Zhu Yuanxi began to laugh bizarrely, oblivious to what was about to unfold.

He felt that the young Dong Tianze, who had spoiled the grand scheme and plans of the Yin Spirit Temple, might even give him the chance to gain great merit.

Now that Dong Tianze had admitted it, and many individual cultivators had heard, the Raging Sun Sect, Red Mountain, and Star River Alliance could no longer pretend ignorance!

The Blood Moon and the Yin Spirit Temple are mortal enemies, and if he could leverage the power of those several factions to eliminate the Yin Spirit Temple from the Third Realm, Zhu Yuanxi would certainly be heavily favored by the Blood Moon!

"This is bad..."

The feather-crowned Individual Cultivator Cloud Ascetics, the moment Dong Tianze admitted his identity, felt his temples throbbing violently.

"Bang!"

The feather crown on his head suddenly exploded.

Individual Cultivator Cloud Ascetics was shocked and looked toward the Heavenly Spirit Tower, sensing a pressure targeting his soul emanating from the fifth floor of the tower and dominating above his head.

Had the feather crown not blocked some of it, his soul would have been struck and shattered unaware!

"Zhu, you’ve ruined my grand effort!"

Knowing what had happened and what was about to happen, Individual Cultivator Cloud Ascetics glared fiercely at Zhu Yuanxi, his heart aching, and hurriedly flew from the high reaches of the Stone Hall far into the distance.

Seeing that only a somewhat stunned Zhu Yuanxi remained above the Stone Hall, Pang Jian stomped on the ground, shooting up from below the hall, straight towards the upper chamber like a sword.

After landing.

"Swoosh swoosh swoosh!"

He waved his hands, and dazzling moon blades formed, shooting at Zhu Yuanxi from all directions.

Dong Tianze, who was about to take action, secretly praised him for launching a fearless attack on Zhu Yuanxi.

In his heart, Dong Tianze also felt a slight guilt toward those who had died.

After all, he had presided over the Ghost Altar several times as the Dark Ghost Leader.

Zhao Ling, Meng Qiulan, and other Hall Masters from the Lower Realm had always been utterly respectful and did not dare to neglect him in the slightest.

In the depths of his heart, he felt that since he was the Ghost Leader, those of the Dark Ghost were his subordinates.

The deaths of Zhao Ling and Meng Qiulan had left him with an unpleasant feeling when he had first learned of them.

The new Hall Master, who had traded with him at the Ghost Altar and now sought to avenge his old friends by daring to challenge Zhu Yuanxi with a lower level of cultivation, made Dong Tianze feel admiration.

"Wang, Cloud Ascetics is yours to deal with; I’ll take care of the others."

After dropping this line, Dong Tianze leaped off the Heavenly Spirit Tower. With a swing of Ghost Howling in his hand and an ear-piercing shriek, the souls of those killed by Pang Jian directly flew towards him.

"Whoosh!"

A sea of Black Gold blades was also drawn out by Dong Tianze, sweeping over to where the individual cultivators had gathered.

In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen cultivators were submerged by the Black Gold blade sea, their souls absorbed by Ghost Howling after death.

Dong Tianze was amassing battle strength by indiscriminate slaughter!

"Dong the madman wants to kill us too!"

"It seems for the sake of concealing the truth, he is going to eradicate everyone on Ice Rock Island!"

"Run for it!"

The individual cultivators who had come for the trade cursed in terror, scrambling to flee in every direction.

At this moment, they finally believed Dong Tianze’s words.

It was indeed him, Dong Tianze, who had plundered those Cloud Sails en route, leaving no survivors to testify against him!

This madman really is capable of anything!

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