Chapter 18: Slaying Immortals, Cultivating Immortality (Please Support and Follow)
“Trapped in a ghostly maze? Or...”
“Could it really be this unlucky? It’s not even dark yet!”
Zhou Chen held his breath, focusing his mind intensely, becoming one with his Luoxia bow and arrows. The moment he sensed anything suspicious, he could strike with overwhelming force.
He didn’t continue pressing forward but instead chose to remain still and calm.
Besides, he couldn’t move forward right now.
The silence around him was terrifying—he couldn’t tell if it was because night was approaching and no one was around, or if he had already entered a strange, eerie place.
Unconsciously, time seemed to slow down, and the surroundings twisted and shifted in bizarre, phantasmagoric ways.
Zhou Chen forced himself to stay calm, knowing that fear would only invite danger.
“I have the Thunderlight Ruyi Hand technique and the second level of Body Refinement cultivation. Even if I encounter something strange, I might still stand a chance!”
He kept reassuring himself.
Just as that thought crossed his mind, a cold and sinister aura suddenly surged in from all directions, as if he had plunged into an endless icy abyss.
Before his eyes, a sea of blood-red appeared, rippling like a vast blood ocean.
The crimson waters writhed and condensed into the shape of a woman clad in blood-red garments.
Tall and alluring, with a captivating figure that, if not for the terrifying environment, would surely have enchanted countless men with her mature, regal beauty.
“This thing probably isn’t human, and my arrows might not harm her...”
Zhou Chen knew that though he could coat his weapons with his vital energy, once the arrow flew, it lost the effect—he hadn’t yet mastered projecting his energy outside his body.
“Who are you?”
He restrained the urge to attack, feigning weakness, ready to wait for her to come closer so he could launch a sudden strike with his best technique against the supernatural.
“Little brother, don’t be scared. Let big sister take good care of you!”
The red-clad ghost woman smiled seductively, exuding irresistible charm, but Zhou Chen’s hairs stood on end as a bone-chilling coldness washed over him.
Too fast!
Before he could react, a pair of icy-cold hands gently rested on his shoulders.
In that instant, Zhou Chen felt as if his entire body had been frozen solid, stiff and numb, his blood seeming to congeal into ice.
Terrifying!
“A second-level Body Refinement warrior—big sister is fortunate today!”
The red-garbed ghost licked her crimson lips and leaned in to kiss Zhou Chen, apparently intent on draining his yang energy.
“Don’t come any closer!”
Zhou Chen’s face twisted in terror as he grabbed her hands.
She only smiled more wickedly, undeterred by his grasp.
Had Zhou Chen unleashed his vital energy before she closed in, he might have struggled a bit, but the invading yin energy paralyzed him, rendering him unable to exert much strength.
It was nothing more than a dying struggle.
“Yell all you want—the louder you scream, the more excited big sister gets... ah...”
The ghost’s teasing smile twisted into a grimace as Zhou Chen suddenly summoned his strength, and her expression changed to one of shock and horror.
Her whole body twitched as if struck by thunder, numbed from head to toe.
Thunderlight Ruyi Hand.
As expected, it did not disappoint!
[Charm Points +10]
“Damn!”
Zhou Chen’s eyes shone brightly, surprised to gain points from this.
He grew even more excited!
“Yell all you want—the louder you scream, the more fired up I get!”
Without mercy, Zhou Chen unleashed the full power of his Thunderlight Ruyi Hand, twisting first her left arm.
Crack!
The arm snapped instantly, dissolving into a wisp of burnt yin energy.
[Charm Points +10]
Then he twisted her right arm.
Crack!
Both arms were gone.
[Charm Points +10]
“Stop!”
Just as Zhou Chen’s hand moved toward the woman’s chest, an angry shout came from afar. Zhou Chen instinctively sensed a massive threat.
With terrifying speed, he grabbed his Luoxia bow, barely glimpsing who approached, and released an arrow without hesitation.
“How dare you!”
Qi You clenched a fiery talisman, ready to strike Zhou Chen, but Zhou’s rapid attack caught him off guard.
At the critical moment, Qi You unleashed the fire talisman, engulfing the arrow in flames and burning it to ashes.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Yet, as the arrow was destroyed, a layer of light appeared around Zhou Chen’s body, accompanied by roaring sounds.
After the first arrow, Zhou Chen clearly saw the attacker.
A shadowy old man dressed in black Taoist robes, standing on a flying sword—a cultivator of immortality, no doubt.
Without hesitation, Zhou Chen shot the second arrow immediately.
Then the third, fourth, fifth...
Nine arrows in rapid succession!
The black-robed elder’s life-protecting talismans instinctively activated, blocking four arrows before shattering. As he raised his flying sword to defend, the last four arrows pierced through his chest, forehead, and neck.
Two arrows struck the sides of his chest—no matter where the heart was, one arrow would hit it.
Pfft!
Blood sprayed as the elder collapsed to the ground.
He flipped his palm and pulled out a pill.
Whoosh!
Before he could swallow it, two arrows shot out, piercing both his wrists, pinning him to the ground.
Zhou Chen remained cautious, grabbing the numb-bodied red ghost and charging forward. With the Thunderlight Ruyi Hand, he pressed down hard on the old man’s head.
The force of a thousand pounds slammed the elder’s skull against the rock, cracking a huge hole.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Zhou Chen pounded with several brutal punches, smashing the old man’s head completely.
“Phew!”
Watching the man lie motionless, lifeless, Zhou Chen finally exhaled, his heart still pounding.
That was damn dangerous.
He had thought he’d encountered a strange ghostly entity.
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