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Chapter 621 - 339 Red Sleeve Qiluo_1

Chapter 621: Chapter 339 Red Sleeve Qiluo_1

"This is a Phoenix feather."

Mu You took out three fiery red feathers from his ring and distributed them to Lin Xue and Shadow Wolf.

Among the three Phoenix feathers, one of them was obtained earlier by Mu You, unused until now. The other two had just sprouted from Huo Huo. Despite Little Phoenix’s young age, he had managed to grow these two qualified feathers, which Mu You had coaxed off of him the day before.

Now, each person held a Phoenix feather. It served as an insurance policy in this non-resurrecting realm. As these resurrection tools shared cooldown time, they could only be activated once a day. More than that would have no effect.

Mu You then took out the fragments of the map to have a look.

The direction of the arrow had changed indeed!

The arrow pointed to a certain direction on their left, jittering slightly.

This implies least that Red Sleeve had indeed entered here. Distance-wise though, it’s hard to discern from this one map.

Mu You instinctively summoned the Battle Eagle, intending to send it to fly in that direction for reconnaissance.

However, as soon as the Battle Eagle appeared, and before it could even take off, Mu You noticed something strange about its condition.

The Battle Eagle was hovering in midair, swaying to and fro. Its wings flapped desperately as if trying to stabilize itself but were constantly being pulled upward by a mysterious force until it was fifty meters high. Suddenly, the Battle Eagle let out a mournful cry and blood spurted from its body. In an instant, it exploded into a mist of blood in the sky and disappeared.

"What happened?" Those on the ground hustled to avoid the dripping blood, simultaneously looking bewilderedly up at the sky. But they saw no abnormalities, only a black sky that looked the same as anywhere else.

"You’ll understand if you use your heart-eye," Vivian said at this moment.

Mu You hurriedly closed his eyes to calm his mind. After several seconds, he opened his heart-eye.

What met his eyes gave him quite a shock.

Countless ghostly shadows filled the space around them. They had humanoid upper bodies with ghostly faces, but their lower halves were just smoke. They densely floated above the ground and in midair, almost occupying all the space around them.

Further up (above fifty meters), there were invisible spatial turbulence. The Battle Eagle just now was flown into this turbulence and was instantly killed by it.

"What are these?"

What Mu You was asking about were the ghostly shadows around them.

These things were not ordinary ghosts because they were neither visible nor tangible and did not have any energy. If he hadn’t activated his heart-eye, Mu You wouldn’t have noticed their existence at all.

However, they reminded him of the Silent Beasts in the Red Rose Library.

"These are soul-devouring beasts," Vivian said, "You can perceive them as the souls that were once devoured by the Grim Reaper. They were all released and formed into these apparitions after the Grim Reaper’s downfall."

"Soul-devouring beasts have a natural fixation on living creatures. They will tail behind the creatures when they encounter them, waiting for their death and then feast on the dead’s soul."

Vivian also looked around and shook her head, "But don’t worry. Soul-devouring beasts have neither body nor shadow. As long as we don’t die, they can’t touch us. Similarly, we cannot attack them either."

"Neither body nor shadow?"

Mu You was taken aback by this, "How about the Battle Eagle just now?"

Just now, the Battle Eagle’s abnormality was clearly due to some matter that forced it into the high altitude turbulence to die.

"I was talking about common soul-devouring beasts, but there’s a very small chance of mutant soul-devouring beast appearing. They are also untouchable under normal circumstances, but they can switch between being physical at any time. This gives them the ability to attack living beings in the physical world..." Vivian hadn’t finished when Mu You suddenly directed his heart-eye to a place high in the sky.

Among the countless grey ghostly shadows, there was one blood-red shadow that was noticeably larger than the other soul-devouring beasts. It glared at the trio beneath it with deadly intent, emitting a strong killing aura.

This was presumably the mutant soul-devouring beast Vivian mentioned, and the culprit behind the Battle Eagle’s death.

Looking at its expression, it seemed to desperately want to attack them but hesitated, seemingly fearful of something. It kept lurking around ten meters away from them, not daring to come closer.

Mu You carefully observed its behavior and found that it seemed to be avoiding Lin Xue - or more accurately - her sickle.

So, it was afraid of the Grim Reaper’s legacy. If they had not entered hand in hand with Lin Xue, they might have been attacked by it a long time ago.

With this thought, Mu You took out his magic wand and tried to distance himself from Lin Xue.

About fifteen meters later, the creature could no longer endure the itch and lunged aggressively at him, snarling and baring its claws.

Mu You did not rush. He waited until it rushed in front of him and raised its claws to swing at his face, then he suddenly made a move. He easily grabbed its physical form and slammed it to the ground. The tip of the magic wand flickered with the light of a thunderstorm, and a surging red lightning struck the ghostly shadow.

The ghostly shadow let out a horrific shriek. Its body instantly shrank down a size and became extremely weak. Its face showed fear as it struggled desperately to return to its intangible state again.