Chapter 166: Tearing Down the City, Casually
The instant they stepped inside the city, it was as if an invisible veil had been ripped away. The royal city before them transformed completely — the once orderly streets were now a wasteland of rubble and shattered walls. It looked as though a great battle had just taken place. Except for the city gates, everything else had collapsed into ruins. Even worse, there wasn’t a single ghostly soul in sight.
“Look up there!” the old man suddenly shouted, pointing to the sky.
They lifted their heads and saw faint silhouettes flickering in the air — wispy shapes that appeared for mere moments before vanishing again.
“Those are remnants of souls—after the spirit’s complete destruction,” Yuan Jiang said grimly. Only when a soul was torn apart completely would such lingering fragments appear.
When they realized just how many of those ghostly traces hung above the city, all of them drew in a sharp breath.
“What… happened here?” the old man murmured, stunned.
Yuan Jiang’s face darkened like the bottom of a cauldron. “Someone slaughtered the entire city.” His voice was cold and heavy. “And not just any city — a royal capital of the ghost realm.”
The old man’s eyes widened in horror. “But the souls here were already dead! To slaughter them means… complete annihilation—soul and spirit both gone!”
“Then what about the Yama of this realm?” he asked anxiously.