Chapter 154 - 145: Gates Open at Mount TongLu; the Assembly of Millions of Ghosts 3
Xie Lian could only feel waves of violent tremors rippling from all directions, and a peculiar stench that was hard to describe permeated the air.
Those yellow talismans all exploded!
And the ghosts and demons who had them stuck to their foreheads, the solid ones all had their brains blown out, blood and flesh splattering, and the hollow ones were blown out of shape, black smokes dispersing. Before the mountain bluffs was a field of howling and wailing. Hua Cheng released the hands covering Xie Lian's ears looking unaffected. Xie Lian rose to his feet, feeling slightly alarmed. He had inspected those yellow talismans one by one earlier and they were all the normalest of exorcism charms so how could it have such a shocking effect?
Just then, amidst the smoking skies came fluttering down a shredded paper, and with a swift hand, Xie Lian seized it to take a look, and instantly figured it out, "How cunning."
This was a sliver of a shredded corner of a yellow talisman. If it wasn't shredded it might not be noticeable, but there were actually two layers!
One sheet of paper covered the top and it was drawn with the more normal of spells, but there was another extremely thin sheet of charm paper, and although it's already been burnt to the point where the spell was no longer recognizable, but needless to say it must be the most vicious and aggressive of spells.
Clouds of dust flew and filled the air, things couldn't be seen clearly, and there were still many ghosts who were screaming like someone was taking this chance to ambush. Xie Lian instantly laid low, and a ghost was shouting, "WAIT! THE SLAUGHTERING HASN'T STARTED, WHY ARE YOU ALL MAKING YOUR MOVES NOW?!"
"YEA! DIDN'T WE ALL AGREE THAT SINCE WE'RE ALL GHOSTS, WE'LL PEACEFULLY FIND A WAY TO CROSS THE MOUNTAIN TO ENTER FIRST??"
A savage voice laughed, "Idiots like you deserve to be annihilated in the first round! There's never been any indication of when slaughter begins, and since we're all opponents anyway, obviously the faster you're done in the better! Think I'm gonna say hi before I make my move?"
"WAIT! WAIT! I'M BACKING OUT! WE'RE NOT AT MOUNT TONGLU YET! CAN'T I BACK OUT NOW??"
The clouds of smoke and dust cleared slightly, and once the ghosts could see clearly, they were all mortified, "HUH?! HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?!"