The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 402 - 381: The True Form of Gui Ji_1

Chapter 402: Chapter 381: The True Form of Gui Ji_1

Along the murky, elongated river.

A white serpent had submerged its body in the river water, raising its head to exhale thick clouds of poisonous smoke, engulfing the cultivators of Black Valley and Raging Sun Sect.

"Hiss, hiss!"

The cultivators surrounded by the toxic smoke became dizzy and disoriented once their spiritual power strong shields were eroded.

At this moment, the snake, whose body spanned dozens of feet, appeared to them as a beautiful woman with a face as fair as flowers and a moonlit grace.

Or transformed into the images of their doting parents and children, their beloved ones in this life.

The cultivators from the Spirit Condensation Realm and Hollow Profound Realm, bewildered, willingly walked into the net as moths to a flame, falling into the gaping maw of the great serpent.

Those frail bodies, in less than even a moment, turned into skeletons.

Their flesh and blood slid into the serpent’s entrails, while their bleached bones were spat out.

By the side of the river, piles of the humans’ skeletons had built up, instilling despair in those who still lived.

By the time Pang Jian, riding his sword boat, arrived in front of the serpent, which had just advanced to level eight, it had acquired a dazzling human face.

Its complexion was flushed red, its eyes filled with a mad killing desire, completely devoid of spiritual intelligence.

Below its neck were still serpent scales, suggesting that its advancement and transformation were not skilled, even inferior to the deceased Violent Blood Bear.

"Pang Jian!"

The surviving members of Black Valley and Raging Sun Sect, while scrambling to flee, became confused upon seeing the approach of the sword boat.

They couldn’t understand why Pang Jian came at this moment.

They were far from the foot of that mountain, and had not seen Pang Jian’s slaughtering. Their perception of him was still based on preconceived notions.

"That’s a level eight ferocious beast!"

An elder from the Raging Sun Sect shrieked a reminder.

"I know."

Pang Jian casually threw out the Hunyuan Ball; spiritual power, icy alien power, Thunderous Lightning, and the power of stars and moon were delivered and gathered together.

The fist-sized iron ball, merely enlarged by several dozens of times, was wrapped in silver-white lightning, shooting out sharp ice edges, suddenly radiating a brilliant light.

This grayish-green iron ball turned into something resembling a gigantic hedgehog and dashed straight towards the fierce mouth of the great serpent.

The serpent’s blood-red vertical pupils suddenly reflected pain and rage intermingled, as its tail that was immersed in the river suddenly shot out, rolling up the dark muddy water to meet the Hunyuan Ball.

"Whoosh! Whoosh, whoosh!"

The already sparse filth alien power of Fragment Land, due to the extraction and refinement by its bloodline power, surged into the murky river water like madness.

The Hunyuan Ball, when hitting the river water, had much of its impact force reduced by the eerie strength of the water and was even dragged into the river wrapped by the serpent’s tail.

The river, filled with bloodlust, harbored untold filth and extreme poison, which, under the serpent’s power, corroded the Hunyuan Ball.

This object, exchanged with merit points and reaching the level of sacred artifacts, lost the mental connection to Pang Jian as if it became a stubborn rock submerged in the riverbed for millions of years.

"Quite some tricks."

Pang Jian nodded slightly.

A streak of green sword light burst forth suddenly, forming a ring in the air, encircling the serpent as if a circle of light wrapped around the void around it.

Within the ring of light, a dazzling and stupendous tableau emerged.

There were appearances of sun, moon, stars, countless dancing heaven demons, unknown demon fiends and demonic eyes emerging, powerful Thunderous Lightnings twisting that could annihilate worlds, and surging geothermal fires that could burn everything.

Chaotic Sword Skill displayed with the Origin Demon Sword was full of myriad mysteries, a magical vision the great serpent had never before beheld.

No matter how hard the serpent struggled, no matter what bloodline secret skill it used, the sword-light formed ring of light kept shrinking.

Its head, which had formed into a human face, was ultimately caught by the slowly tightening ring.

"Puff!"

Fresh blood spurted from the neck covered in snake scales, as its head and serpent body split apart, and Pang Jian, upon closing in, grasped it, making it disappear in the storage ring.

"Whoosh!"

The spiritual power strong shield around Pang Jian swelled several times over, wrapping him in a thick layer of rock-ice, as he landed at the murky bottom to clutch the Hunyuan Ball in his hand.

"Besides this bloodlust, the other filth powers are quite familiar."

Muttering to himself, Pang Jian returned to his sword boat and headed towards his next target.

After losing its head, part of the white serpent’s body was exposed outside the river, while another portion remained in the water, as the poison smoke nearby quickly dissipated.

"This serpent’s entire body is a treasure, and he didn’t thoroughly search it?"

The surviving disciples of the Raging Sun Sect and Black Valley, shocked yet tentative, moved closer; they collected their companions’ relics, the precious snake skin, snake bones, and snake meat from the large serpent.

After a while.

Another similar ring of sword light surrounded Bian Que, another fifth realm ferocious beast transforming, and cut it down mercilessly.

"Compared to the Ice Armor Eel Dragon, these two fellows were far too weak, seemingly not even on the same level."

Pang Jian commented inwardly.

The Violent Blood Bear, the white serpent, along with Bian Que, were all level eight ferocious beasts forcibly matured by bloodlust, and their actual combat power was only slightly above level seven.

Recalling the terrible might of the Ice Armor Eel Dragon, he knew false power couldn’t bring about real threats.

"Over at Liou Youyu’s side, that Ghost Clan warrior named Gui Ji, is the genuinely troublesome one."

The sword boat soared through the Brocade Cloud Fragment Land.

...

"Mr. Wu, how about that?"

Zhou Qingchen cleaved another Golden-arm Ape dead with a single slash and turned his head to Wu Xuanfeng, whose gaze followed the sword boat, speaking in a grave tone, "Now, does he deserve the title of Direct Disciple of the Sword Tower Master?"

Wu Xuanfeng nodded hastily, "He does! Of course, he does!"

The rest of the Individual Cultivators also watched the Sword Boat with shining eyes, chattering with excitement. "Mr. Zhou, you said that despite his strength, why didn’t he make it into the top one hundred of the Soul Wandering Realm?"

"Is he really just entering the Soul Wandering Realm?"

"Judging by his current combat strength, he’s on par with Zhu Wenle."

The last Individual Cultivator remembered what Pang Jian had said earlier, that Zhu Wenle might not live to return to Brocade Cloud Fragment Land, and couldn’t help feeling emotional now, "Zhu Wenle really is dead, what he said was indeed correct."

"The battle is not over yet!" Zhou Qingchen snorted coldly.

The group of Spirit Condensation Realm Individual Cultivators following him nodded slightly and continued to hunt nearby Ferocious Beasts with him.

...

At the foot of the majestic mountains.

Using Zhu Wenle’s body, Gui Ji controlled the huge fan, and in concert with the leaders of the Astonish Rainbow Army and the Zhu family members, they arranged themselves into an Array, surrounding the Flying Fish Ship.

After Pang Jian left, more of Gui Ji’s Soul Fires floated out, entering the minds of the living.

This caused the soldiers of the Astonish Rainbow Army and the Zhu family members who came from Bright Heaven Divine Kingdom, to become puppets under his control.

All the puppets shared a single source of thought—Gui Ji, who utilized the military tactics of the Astonish Rainbow Army with even more skill and finesse than the real Astonish Rainbow Army commanders.

"Whoosh! Whoosh whoosh!"

From inside the Flying Fish Ship, beams of sword light flew out, slaying the possessed soldiers of the Astonish Rainbow Army and the Zhu family members.

Liou Youyu, with the Mysterious Heavenly Divine Mirror floating above his head, frowned and shouted, "People of Sky Water Swamp, leave this place at once!"

"Understood!"

Yu Huan ran as fast as her legs could carry her.

"Hm!"

After fleeing dozens of miles, she saw the Sword Boat anchored midair, but Pang Jian was nowhere to be seen.

"Where is Pang Jian?"

Asked the people from Sky Water Swamp.

"I wasn’t paying attention."

...

Deep underground, surrounded by a halo of black and yellow light, Pang Jian strolled leisurely toward the towering mountains.

Utilizing the burrowing gift of the Mysterious Turtle shell, his underground vision fully activated, he had long ago locked onto a location within the mountains.

In a short while, he transformed his burrowing talent into Pass Through the Mountain.

A black and yellow blood light soared upward from beneath the high mountain, reaching the interior of the mountain belly in a moment.

Inside the mountain, with the Heart of Winter in hand, he slowly approached a cold ice cavern.

In that cavern, hung with giant Ice Crystal spikes, a well-dressed Ghost Clan male was sitting with hands together, exhaling and inhaling Soul Fires.

Cluster after cluster of Soul Fires flew from the minds of six native Ghost Clan warriors into his mouth.

Six level seven Ghost Clan warriors, with their thin and small bodies, were all frozen within the Ice Crystal spikes, watching in despair as he devoured their souls.

"Don’t blame me, everyone. A brutal war naturally involves sacrifice, and I had no choice," said Gui Ji in his true form, continuing to swallow the Soul Fires of his own clan while speaking. "Even in the Heavenly Ghost Realm, I have a high status, and I have children to feed. Getting accidentally pulled into Purgatory while following my leader was a pivotal point in my life, I must survive and return to the Heavenly Ghost Realm, I cannot die in Purgatory for no reason."

"Since we’re all from the Ghost Clan, I hope you’ll understand. Please don’t hate me," he rambled, shaking his head.

Suddenly, he felt an intense coldness surging up from the ice rocks beneath him.

"This intense cold..."

Gui Ji’s expression changed, and he quickly looked down.

Below the transparent ice, someone was floating a crystal clear heart, slowly rising up and even grinning at him.

That smile sent chills down his spine and suddenly reminded him of just what that crystal clear heart was.

"Heart of Winter!"

Gui Ji’s face turned pale with fright.

"Crack! Crack crack!"

The Ice Crystal spikes hanging down were moved by some force, all stabbing toward the casting Gui Ji.

Gui Ji, who had allocated most of his energy and Soul Power to control Zhu Wenle and the Astonish Rainbow Army commanders, had never expected his rear to be compromised, let alone Pang Jian holding the Divine Object "Heart of Winter".

As the spikes pierced his body, he let out a piercing scream, calling back his Soul Fires.

Bundles of eerie green Soul Fires appeared in his mind one after another, and with a terrifying aura, he cried out, "Heavenly Ghost Devour Soul!"

A huge gaunt ghost shadow emerged behind his head as he manifested a vision of one of the revered Alien Gods of the Ghost Clan, aiming to erase Pang Jian’s Spiritual Soul consciousness and possess him, just as he had Zhu Wenle.

"You’ve never been to The Frozen Land," said Pang Jian with a wry smile.

His golden Spiritual Soul suddenly flew out from his brow, first tearing Gui Ji’s conjured Alien God into shreds, and then snuffing out Gui Ji’s clusters of Soul Fires.

Gui Ji, a level eight Ghost Clan member, along with six level seven Ghost Clan warriors, became his trophies in the Brocade Cloud Fragment Land.

A moment later.

Liou Youyu looked on bewilderedly as the bones of Zhu Wenle and others plummeted from the sky when the Sword Boat suddenly appeared.

Pang Jian held up a head and said, "This is the true body of Gui Ji."

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ps: Here are three more Chapters, hoping for a monthly ticket, ha~