Transcendent Dawn

Chapter 709: Chapter 0709: Shattered

“Huff, huff…”

Inside an abandoned building.

Bai Yi was panting heavily, running for his life.

“This world… I must have really atrocious luck to have ended up here!”

Just like Li Xiaozhi, he was originally an extraordinary player from the Blue Star World, who had successfully passed one of the Three Thousand Worlds and earned the right to ‘transmigrate’ to this deadly world.

Although this world had decent technological developments, it was saturated with ‘death’!

One could be ‘cursed’ just by picking up a phone call, looking at a picture, or touching something, leading to inexplicable death! The forms that these deaths took were bizarre and diverse.

After witnessing a person being twisted like a candy cane, Bai Yi found himself swearing inwardly in his heart.

“The Lord God is playing me!”

“Just because the world I successfully passed was a mysterious one, it doesn’t mean that I like such a world.”

Bai Yi, who had faced several life-and-death crises within a few months of transmigrating, understood the eeriness and terror of this world!

Not only were there inexplicable curses, evil spirits lingering after human death were also pervasive.

The only hope was the extraordinary people – Spirit Exorcists! They were the only ones who could fight back, but such struggles were mere attempts at survival.

At this point, he was just an ordinary man being chased by a Necromancy!

Drip, drip!

The sound of water drops could be heard in his ears.

Bai Yi’s expression changed drastically because what was after him was a water-related evil spirit.

In front of him, several puddles appeared. The thin layer of water covering the ground was a sight more terrifying to Bai Yi than any kind of horrific ordeal.

He had seen with his own eyes how a few strangers had stepped into puddles less than a centimeter deep, only to be completely submerged, as if dropping into a deep pit.

“I have no choice!”

After glancing behind himself, Bai Yi cautiously tiptoed to go around the puddle.

“Huff, huff…”

His breathing was heavily labored, his back pressed against the wall.

Drip, drip!

The sound of water continued.

Suddenly, Bai Yi felt a chill on his forehead. He couldn’t help but shiver and looked up.

At the position of the ceiling, a damp patch of water had somehow formed.

“Damn…”

About to throw it, he gritted his teeth and pulled out a silver talisman from his pocket, “Disperse!”

Muttering an activation spell, he felt the talisman in his hand heat up as if it was a hot iron, and he hastily flung it.

Sizzle! @@novelbin@@

The silver talisman fell on the ground, producing a wisp of white smoke.

The coldness around him disappeared quickly. In the puddle on the ground, a pair of eyes seemed to glance around before swiftly vanishing.

“Spirit Exorcism Charm… It can only dispel ordinary spiritual bodies, and its duration is very short. The more powerful the spirit, the shorter the duration it can dispel…”

Muttering to himself, Bai Yi quickened his pace.

This was the last life-saving talisman on him.

Utilizing its final power, Bai Yi finally escaped the building, which appeared to be a hospital from the outside.

He sprinted out of the hospital’s main gate, traversed the dark and empty streets, and reached a shanty house in the suburbs.

“Who is it?”

There was no light in the shanty house, but as soon as there was a knock on the door, a vigilant voice was heard.

“It’s me… I’ve brought the medicine.”

Bai Yi replied.

The door was pulled open, revealing two pairs of alert eyes.

Bai Yi darted in and pulled out a box of medicine from his pocket: “Quick, give it to your sister…”

Opposite him were two children about thirteen or fourteen years old. Although young, they were surprisingly mature.

After wordlessly expressing their thanks, they took the medicine to a comatose woman lying on a bed in the back.

The other kid brought over some bread and water.

The intense physical exertion had left Bai Yi famished, so he started eating voraciously.

While continuing to eat, he couldn’t help but smile bitterly in his heart.

‘My display of kindness this time has really been costly.’

‘But when I first arrived, if it weren’t for their shelter, I would have been dead… Little Ogi even saved me once. Let’s consider this as repayment.’

“Little Star, Little Ai… I’ve looked around, and sadly, we can’t stay in Anxi City… We must leave when the next ‘train’ arrives.”

After eating, Bai Yi stated in a solemn tone.

Having struggled for a while now, he had already learned the language of this world.

“But my sister hasn’t woken up…”

Little Star hesitantly replied.

“We have to carry her if we must!”

A grim look appeared on Bai Yi’s face.

In this world, it seemed that the geography was fragmented. The cities where humans lived were connected only by a fixed ‘train’ system.

Now, Anxi City had fallen, and it wouldn’t be long before it became a ‘Dead City’!

While he mentally mapped out the next course, he started his daily prayer: “Great Spirit Lord… you are the traveler of endless worlds, the protector of spirituality… please heed my prayer…”

Little Ai, silently watching him nearby, occasionally blinked. Only after Bai Yi finished his prayer did she ask, “You always pray to the divine, but they don’t answer you…”

“Well…”

Bai Yi was momentarily flustered, “Maybe the signal is poor… We should try a few more times… Success will surely come eventually.”

Although he was previously an atheist, after experiencing the rebirth of spiritual energy in the Blue Star and bearing witness to ‘miracles’, his worldview had long been shattered.

Now, he viewed this as his last hope.

‘Speaking of which… I really need to become an ‘Exorcist’. The talisman I previously had was obtained from an Exorcist. Although they can’t deal with more powerful evil spirits and would still die if they encountered a ‘curse’… but it’s better than being a regular human…’

Bai Yi was once fortunate to acquire several valuable items from the corpse of an Exorcist, yet he had no methods to become an ‘Extraordinary’.

Now, all those good things had been used up.

Just at that moment, he suddenly felt a chill.

It felt as if a terrifying entity had cast its gaze upon him.

This sensation was not unfamiliar, but rather it brought with it a familiar warmth, making Bai Yi almost want to tear up.

“It’s the Spirit Lord!”

He hastily continued his prayers and felt a cold stream of air spreading from his fingers, soon enveloping his whole body.

“Is this… a divine blessing?”

Bai Yi stared at his hands, which were now producing a dense white flame, and various pieces of knowledge that suddenly appeared in his mind, “I have… become an Exorcist!”

Crack!

From the side, there seemed to be the sound of something shattering.

He looked up and saw a girl who had just woken up, staring at him.

“Little Ogi… you’ve finally woken up?”

…

“Curses and evil spirits, huh?”

High in the sky, Su Lu’s incarnation watched quietly, “This world… The Material Realm actually fragmented, sparsely inlaid in the Spirit World… It can only be connected by ‘trains’, implying that everyone has been tainted with a bit of the Spirit World property, hence why they become spirits upon death, unable to dissipate their grudges?”

“Fortunately, these are only ordinary Necromancy instead of the indestructible ‘Cursed Spirits’ cursed by the Demon – such spirits can be exorcised by Exorcists… Otherwise, I fear humans would face even more despair.”