Chapter 828: Chapter 695: Decaying City Ancient House, Ghost Emperor Breaks the Seal

Chu Mu would only sleep close to dawn, usually for an hour or two.

Today, Chu Mu had barely laid down when Jia Jing hurried over and said that Miss Shan urgently wanted to see him.

Chu Mu washed his face and headed to the Soul Hall Main Hall.

Miss Shan was wearing a black dress, her hair a bit messy, and her face still covered with tiny beads of sweat. Seeing Chu Mu, she hurriedly came forward and said, “Zhou Jinglong has disappeared!”

“Why are you telling me if he’s gone?” Chu Mu felt baffled. He and Zhou Jinglong had only met for a day, so his disappearance shouldn’t involve him.

“How can you be like this!” Miss Shan said angrily, her tone deepening, “Yesterday, you mysteriously went to the Mysterious Tracks and didn’t patrol with us. This time, Zhou Jinglong, who was in our group, disappeared, and you’re still so careless.”

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“Did he go missing inside the Immortal City?” Chu Mu asked.

“Yes, yesterday, we accidentally triggered a sealed Oath Beast while dealing with an escaping Peak Monarch. There were quite a few Oath Beasts, so he helped me divert them. Those Oath Beasts were only Monarch Level, so I thought Zhou Jinglong could easily escape and leave the Immortal City. The elder with the Sin Mark said Zhou Jinglong didn’t come out, and I only learned about it this morning…” Miss Shan said.

“He might have lost his way in the Immortal City or encountered the Xuan Zhen Zhe. We’ll find out when we go in,” Chu Mu said.

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Because Zhou Jinglong was suspected to be missing, Chu Mu and Miss Shan had specifically selected ten World Guards to enter and search for him when they entered the Immortal City this time.

Miss Shan led Chu Mu to where they had split up from Zhou Jinglong when they encountered the Oath Beasts yesterday to begin their search.

“Mo Ye, can you smell anything?” Chu Mu asked as he stood at the intersection of black walls.

“Woo woo woo woo~~~~~~~~” Little Mo Xie seemed to have discovered something and ran ahead of Chu Mu.

Chu Mu and Miss Shan hurriedly followed, obviously Mo Xie had found something.

Following the scent, Chu Mu found that he was gradually leaving the ordinary Immortal City and entering a more heavily dead qi area.

In front of Chu Mu was a raised black land.

On the land were some extremely ancient courtyards that gave the impression that zombies would jump out from inside.

Blood stains were scattered between the gloomy old houses and the small paths, dripping along the road into the largest old house that was almost completely enveloped in shadows.

“Chu Chen, we should just stop going any further.” Miss Shan lowered her voice and stopped Chu Mu.

“What’s wrong?” Chu Mu asked in confusion.

Ghost Shadows seemed to drift behind the black walls and in the windows of the houses, making the Immortal City feel less like a dead city and more like one full of unseen, living creatures.

“Didn’t you see the red pattern on the ground?” Miss Shan pointed down and said.

“I saw it, but I don’t know what it means,” Chu Mu said.

“This is a sign of extreme danger. All the seals in the Immortal City have been marked, and this kind of mark is a signal that even the patrolling officials like us cannot step into. This is because a very powerful creature may be sealed inside,” Miss Shan said in a low voice.

“But it’s sealed, what’s there to fear?” Chu Mu was also bold when it came to skill.

Chu Mu ignored the timid Miss Shan and continued to follow the bloodstains left behind yesterday.

Seeing Chu Mu leaving, Miss Shan hurriedly rode her Soul Pet to catch up, not daring to stay alone in the gloomy ancient houses.

“Chu Chen! Chu Chen!” Suddenly, Miss Shan called out.

“What’s the matter now?” Chu Mu asked impatiently.

“Seal… Seal…” Miss Shan pointed at the ring on her hand, her face panic-stricken.

Chu Mu glanced at the ring, which was the one that could detect whether there were fluctuations in the seal. Chu Mu also had one.

At this moment, Chu Mu released his Soul Sense to detect through the ring on his hand.

However, what surprised Chu Mu was that a strong seal fluctuation unexpectedly appeared among the faint guiding light lines he couldn’t tell when. This fluctuation was even stronger than the one of Xuan Zhen Zhe!

This meant that a creature stronger than the Emperor Level Xuan Zhen Zhe was about to break free from the seal!!!

Almost at the same time, Little Mo Xie jumped on the eaves of the ancient house, proudly gazing ahead.

Its nine tails swayed in the shadows as the demon qi on its body was released, and its silver fur danced. The dark red Sin Mark seemed to appear and disappear!

This was Mo Xie entering a combat state, its demonic, enchanting eyes staring at the direction indicated by Chu Mu’s ring!

“How can this be?” Chu Mu was shocked. The seals in the Immortal City were basically very stable, and they shouldn’t have moved without reason!

Miss Shan’s face also turned pale with fright, as the fluctuating seal, as indicated by the ring, was right behind the largest ancient house ahead!

“Conceal your aura, and we’ll sneak past.” Chu Mu said to Miss Shan.

“We… we’re going past?” Miss Shan looked blankly at Chu Mu, thinking that Chu Chen was too reckless. The seal was so strong and unstable that it was likely that the sealed creature would break free. Going there would be like courting death. Instead, they should immediately go back and report the situation.

Without wasting any words, Chu Mu immediately jumped onto the ancient house under the cover of Little Mo Xie’s demon spirit aura and began to slowly approach the location of the seal.

“Awoo~~~~~Awoo~~~~~~~~~~Awoo~~~~~~~~~~”

At this moment, a large area of ancient houses around them suddenly let out ghostly howls and wails!

These sounds were like cold chisels piercing one’s eardrums, extremely harsh to listen. Miss Shan’s whole body trembled, and she didn’t dare to retreat for a moment, so she had to grit her teeth and follow Chu Mu closely.

As a low-grade Emperor level demon spirit, Mo Ye could somewhat help Chu Mu hide. Chu Mu cautiously sneaked through the ancient house filled with the aura of ghost-type creatures and hid behind a half-collapsed wall.

Miss Shan, pale-faced, twisted her plump body and followed, looking somewhat inelegant.

“Zhou Jinglong is dead…” Chu Mu said calmly.

“Dead?” Miss Shan’t face changed, almost exclaiming, “How is it possible? He was a Soul Emperor!”

“You take a look forward, but don’t use your soul sense, or else you will be detected.” Chu Mu leaned against the half-wall and said to Miss Shan.

Miss Shan crawled to the edge of the wall, her eyes peering through the broken hole in the wall.

However, the next moment, her face turned pale, her eyes wide in shock.

Miss Shan was trembling all over, and it took her a few seconds to soften her body and lean back like a dead person, looking extremely lifeless.

Miss Shan’s mind was filled with Zhou Jinglong’s gruesome death – his body was severed into two halves, with the upper half lying ten meters away from Chu Mu and Miss Shan’s hiding place while the lower half was some thirty meters away, soaked in blood.

From the hole in the wall, Miss Shan could see Zhou Jinglong’s bloodstained face – his eyes were still half-open, staring at the wall. Although he had been dead for a while, when Miss Shan looked over, it seemed as if the half-corpse of Zhou Jinglong knew they were hiding behind the wall, seeking their help.

“He… he was a Soul Emperor… and… and now he’s dead!” Miss Shan’s mind went blank.

A Soul Emperor, who had been cut in half, with his corpse left like it had been gnawed by wild dogs – it was hard to imagine what had happened here.

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“It was so careless that it was discovered by the patrolling personnel. Hopefully, it won’t alert any troublesome characters, or else our plan will fail again.” A sharp man’s voice came from behind the wall.

The dense Yin Qi in the ancient house area served as a natural camouflage. Chu Mu’s soul sense couldn’t spread too far, and it seemed that the other party couldn’t detect Chu Mu and Miss Shan hiding behind the wall either.

“Don’t worry, what needs to be done is almost done. We’ll leave here today.” Another colder voice floated out.

The conversation between the two turned into soul sense, and after a while, they left in a certain direction.

Before they left, Miss Shan also secretly peeked out and quickly shrank back in.

“Have you seen them before?” After they left, Chu Mu saw Miss Shan looking surprised and immediately asked through soul sense.

“I only recognize one of them. He is the master of the Business Association, Hao Ting, a Four Thought Spirit Emperor. He tried several times to enter the Immortal City under various pretexts, but our side always refused him.” Miss Shan whispered.

“Hao Ting?” Chu Mu immediately frowned.

Wasn’t Hao Ting the one mentioned by Lord Yu, who had a change of heart? He was the mastermind behind Shen Yicheng, the one who stole the Eternal Spring and instigated the conflict between Soul Hall and the Elemental Gate.

So he was a subordinate of the defecting girl marionette. Did that mean the puppet girl was resuming her old ways and continuing with her plan for the Immortal City? This woman acted too fast – it was hard to imagine she could manipulate things all the way from Wanxiang City!

“Never mind them for now; the seal up ahead is about to break!” Miss Shan hurriedly said.

“I know.” Chu Mu nodded.

“What!? You know, but you’re not leaving!” Miss Shan was almost in tears.

“Awoo~~~~Awoo~~~~Awoo~~~~~~~~~~~~”

“Awoo~~~~~~~~~~Woo~~~~~~~~~~~~~~”

Suddenly, the ancient house area filled with even more horrifying ghostly wails!! These sounds were like cheers for the arrival of their emperor, causing Miss Shan, who was trapped in the ghostly ancient house, to curl up in fear!

With the oppressive presence of a ghost-type Emperor and the roars of countless ghost-type Monarchs, Miss Shan was only a Soul Lord. How could she resist such fear?

“They… they’re cheering for the arrival of their ghost emperor!” Miss Shan said in a trembling voice.

“I’ll seal the big ghost back. You deal with those little ghosts!” Chu Mu said to Miss Shan.

“You… what are you doing? That big ghost is a low-grade Emperor!” Miss Shan saw that Chu Mu was actually going to seal the Great Ghost Emperor and yelled even louder. Was Chu Chen crazy? Didn’t he know that a low-grade Emperor could easily kill a quasi-Emperor?!

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