Two Realms Shuttle Gate: Don't Call Me a Demon!

Chapter 244: Chapter 160: Human Skin (Fourth Update)

The child, who emitted a chilling and eerie aura, opened his mouth wide for a silent scream that seemed to shatter one’s brains.

Pale arms crawled out from Su Jie’s flanks, swiftly covering the child’s entire body.

Spiritual Power spread over the Corpse Hands, forcibly controlling the child and preventing his escape.

The child kept opening his mouth, emitting howls unlike any human sound.

Several pale corpse hands twisted into a braid, but more hands quickly covered them, the numbers and strength obviously mismatched.

“Let me take a look, just a small Fierce Ghost.”

Su Jie squatted down and peered through the dense gaps between the corpse hands to see the struggling child inside.

Su Jie was far from unfamiliar with such beings.

Back in Nanyang City, when he was still weak, he had personally experienced the terror of such fierce ghosts.

“Is this a ghost monster?”

Xiao Fengyuan appeared next to Su Jie, looking at the trapped child and feeling a very cold Spiritual Power.

Generally speaking, Spiritual Power is warm, like the sun during daylight, and even Demon Cultivators prefer to absorb the purple qi and the early morning spiritual energy of the rising sun.

Encountering the cold aura of Spiritual Energy like that from this child ghost was a first for Xiao Fengyuan.

“The strange and violent deaths at Han Mansion, were they caused by this child? Since there’s a Fierce Ghost, does that mean the Heavenly Soul Sect is involved?”

Ning Xinyue speculated, making her guess.

“It probably can’t be separated from the Heavenly Soul Sect, but this one Fierce Ghost isn’t enough to influence the vast Han Family. There are likely other Fierce Ghosts lurking here.”

Su Jie stood up, his left hand suddenly clenched into a fist.

Hundreds of pale corpse hands pressured inward toward the center, instantly crushing the child Fierce Ghost into nothingness, his essence dissipating into the cold spiritual air.

All that was left at the scene was a withered and tattered rag doll, the image of the child Fierce Ghost.

Crack!

With a stomp from Su Jie, the entire rag doll was crushed, disappearing into smoke and clouds.

Although the Fierce Ghost possessed eerie abilities, which to ordinary people might seem an unkillable horror, this principle didn’t hold true for Cultivators. After all, strictly speaking, a Fierce Ghost is a product of Spiritual Energy. Since it’s Spiritual Energy, a Cultivator’s Spiritual Power can naturally harm and deal damage—it’s only a question of how much.

Almost immediately after Su Jie had killed the child Fierce Ghost, they heard urgent footsteps from outside. @@novelbin@@

“Hero Xu, Hero Xia, Heroine Zhu, something’s happened… someone else… someone else has died; you must come quickly to help.”

Several servants ran over, panting and with faces filled with shock and fear, as if they had witnessed something terrifying.

“Lead the way.”

The three exchanged looks, and Su Jie took the lead in speaking.

He still had to maintain his disguise, so for now, he had to follow and see.

Exiting the guesthouse where they had been staying, the nearby area was already stirred up, and a number of able people, aroused from their slumbers, ran towards a certain courtyard.

This courtyard housed the servants, but now, not a single living person remained.

The bodies of the servants hung eerily, like bats, head down and feet up from clotheslines.

Upon a closer look, each servant was actually a human skin, every bit of flesh, bones, and organs inside was completely gone, and the skins were inflated with air to retain a lively and full appearance. Their eyes sometimes moved, giving the impression that they were still alive, which was exceptionally horrifying and chilling.

“What is this, haunted… haunted!”

Some capable people and odd talents were pale as ghosts, this truly challenged their physiological limits.

“Not good, this Han Mansion was indeed strange and dangerous, if only I knew I wouldn’t have been greedy for those few hundred pieces of silver.”

There were also people filled with immense regret, originally thinking it was an easy job, but this first night was so horrifying, far beyond what the rumors suggested.

“Taking people’s money to eliminate disasters for them, if you aren’t going to do the work then step aside for me, the Chen brothers are not easily scared.”

Some wanted to take the opportunity to show off, mustering their courage to walk into the side courtyard, intending to inspect those floating pieces of human skin.

“Hey, I advise you it’s best not to touch those.”

Su Jie watched their reckless behavior and spoke up to warn them.

“Hmph, even if there really are malevolent ghosts, the two of us brothers can cut it into pieces.”

The two ungrateful men drew their steel pattern knives and cautiously approached, using the tip of the knife to lift a piece of human skin.

The accident happened just then, this action seemed to have touched some taboo.

The human skin suddenly billowed, enveloping the two brothers. In the instant they touched the human skin, their flesh dissolved in the blink of an eye, their clothes immediately caved in emptily, turning into two thin pieces of human skin.

“Mommy!”

“Ghost, ghost!”

“Quick, use thunderbolts, use fire, ghosts are most afraid of these.”

A group of capable people and odd talents was terrified by this hair-raising scene into chaos. Some began to retreat, while others started to use methods they had heard in rumors, like Palm Thunder and the Fire Control Technique to burn those pieces of human skin.

However, these actions completely ignited the human skins. All skins fluttered up and flew towards these able people.

Any able person who came into contact with these pieces of human skin, whether they were martial arts experts or relatively powerful Loose Cultivators, would see their flesh obliterated, becoming weird pieces of human skin.

In an instant, hundreds of pieces of human skin filled the sky, like the doomsday of ghosts.

The watching servants and maids of the Han Mansion were so frightened that they faltered and trembled, their screams and cries echoed through the night.

Su Jie retreated with measured steps, avoiding a piece of skin that flew past.

That piece of skin turned back halfway through and came flying at Su Jie again. Su Jie deftly dodged without a trace, always seeming to narrowly escape, but in fact everything was calculated.

“A bunch of rats, all of you back off, don’t make a mess.”

A thunderous commanding voice came from the sky. Yu Wenjing descended from the heavens, his eyes emitting divine light, with his overwhelming spiritual power bearing down like mountains, causing the air to congeal.

With a single hand formed into a claw and a press, five fiery dragon pillars descended from the sky, annihilating many of the floating human skins.

“How dare such trivial ghosts be so presumptuous, take this.”

Xiao Guanglian, riding a Spirit Feathered Phoenix, threw out a Golden Turtle Seal. One of the Four Directions Divine Beasts, the Xuanwu, materialized and immediately shook many skins to death, tearing them into myriad tiny pieces.

One after another Righteous Disciple arrived, these human skins might have caused chaos among the able people, but facing these peak disciples of the Righteous sect, the tide of battle instantly turned.

“How could this be, this shouldn’t be happening! There were only a few deaths each day before, how come so many died all at once today.”

When all was settled, Han Jinghuan and other members of the Han Family finally arrived late on the scene, witnessing what had happened, every single one of their faces turned pale.

With quivering lips, Han Jinghuan was the first to sense that something was wrong; such a large number of deaths overnight had not happened in the Han Mansion before.