Chapter 436 Caught

The Female Night Ghost walked leisurely toward them, stopping just outside the blue light. Lin Shen and Wei Wufu were only a little more than a foot away from her, clearly able to see the evil smile on her face.

The Female Night Ghost's lips moved slightly, and a humming or singing sound floated out from between them.

Listening to this voice, Lin Shen grew even more suspicious that she had been the woman combing her hair in the neighboring stone house, but now the song sounded anything but pleasant.

Her expression made Lin Shen feel as if her song were a prayer of thanks before a meal, and that as soon as her singing ended, she would hungrily devour them as if they were steaks.

Lin Shen suddenly realized that when he had overheard the woman humming, it had probably been this Female Night Ghost luring him over.

The two people killed by the Night Ghost were likely dispatched in the same manner.

As the darkness drew closer, the stone bricks, previously fixed in place by the blue light, fell to the ground with a clatter after escaping the blue light's range, sounding like a constant toll of a death knell.

Since Lin Shen was closest to the door, the blue flames were almost touching the tip of his nose.

The reason Lin Shen was so close to the door was that he had suspected from the start that Night Ghosts could move in darkness, which led him to guard the door.

The Female Night Ghost had walked up to Lin Shen and slowly stretched out her hand, as if wanting to caress his chest.

But her palm gradually turned blood-red, and it seemed as if blood would soon start to drip from it.

As soon as Lin Shen's chest was exposed beyond the range of the blue light, that bloody hand would unhesitatingly stamp onto it, leaving a bloody handprint on his chest.

Those who could see this scene had their complexions turn incredibly unsightly; Lin Shen was first, but they were next.

The blue light areas all around them were being compressed, and many people were already close to the darkness, though Lin Shen was the closest.

Lin Miao, standing behind Lin Shen, watched as his body gradually became exposed to the darkness, her eyes filled with a mixture of horror and anger, wishing she could shield him herself, but unable to move.

Wei Wufu was also struggling to break free from the control of the blue light, but he found it difficult to stir, the Power of the Blue Peacock was simply too formidable.

Just as Lin Shen's chest was exposed, the Female Night Ghost's bloody red hand pressed forward.

All of them watched, powerless to intervene.

Just as the Female Night Ghost's bloody hand was about to touch Lin Shen's chest, she suddenly stopped moving, her hand almost making contact with his clothes.

The Female Night Ghost's pupils contracted, her gaze filled with terror as if she had encountered something unimaginable.

Lin Shen withdrew the hand that had been pointing at the Female Night Ghost. His body, wrapped in a carapace, surged into the darkness.

The moment his body touched the darkness, it felt as if an inexplicable chill had seeped into the carapace, making Lin Shen's body shiver.

Lin Shen immediately took out the Nightglow Flower and activated its luminous ability.

Bathed in light, Lin Shen immediately felt the chill on his body fade away.

Seeing that Lin Shen was unharmed, Lin Miao and the others were both shocked and relieved.

Lin Shen studied the Female Night Ghost, whom he had immobilized with acupoint pressing, and looked behind her, indeed resembling the woman he had seen before.

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In the darkness, Kong Chuan's body shone with blue light, transforming into fan-shaped Peacock Feathers behind him, like a Peacock Display.

Each blue Peacock Feather eye emitted beams of blue light, shooting into the darkness.

The darkness seemed to have a ghostly figure flickering in and out of sight, the blue light clearly penetrating his body, yet it appeared to only hit an illusion.

After the figure disappeared, it reemerged in another location.

Kong Chuan continued to battle the night while incessantly attacking that ghostly figure, but to little effect.

He didn't want to get entangled with the figure, but as soon as he gave up the attack and tried to back away, the figure would appear behind him or in another hard-to-see spot, launching an attack and forcing him to respond.

Kong Chuan could only fight while retreating, trying to head back to the village to assess the situation, aware that something was amiss.

This ghostly being was simply trying to delay him, not engaging him with full force.

Kong Chuan felt extremely frustrated, as his adversary could move freely in the night, unaffected by the dark powers.

He, on the other hand, had to combat the force of the night, which put him at a significant disadvantage.

By now, Kong Chuan was already regretting his decision, understanding that if something had befallen Lin Shen, even if he remained unharmed, the mission to Giant Ring Star would be considered a failure, and he could no longer return to Sky Pinnacle Star.

With this realization, Kong Chuan released his power in a frenzy, his Peacock Feather emitting a divine brilliance that illuminated the surrounding hundred miles like the underworld.

But the ghostly figure suddenly disappeared, melting into the darkness.

Kong Chuan forcefully charged in the direction of the village, yet the ghostly figure reemerged in front of him, pressing a bloody handprint toward the sky filled with divine brilliance.

Boom!

The bloody handprint collided with the divine brilliance, immediately shattering, and the ghostly figure was hurled away.

Clearly, its strength was no match for Kong Chuan's, defeated by the Peacock Divine Brilliance.

Kong Chuan didn't bother to check if the ghostly figure had been killed, and continued rushing towards the village, when suddenly he heard a faint, ghostly lament as if from a wandering soul.

The sound was eerie, penetrating his ears and causing a moment of distraction in Kong Chuan's mind, which made the Peacock Divine Brilliance on his body dim slightly.

The ghostly figure silently appeared behind Kong Chuan and struck with another bloody handprint.

"Merely the Power of Sound Domain, and you think you can disturb my mind, courting death!" Kong Chuan's Peacock Display behind him erupted once more, with beams of light crisscrossing and falling, but he lost the trail of the ghostly figure, merely shredding the bloody handprint.

The figure was like a true specter, constantly appearing around Kong Chuan, with the singing voice now distant, now close, and bloody handprints striking from various strange angles, giving Kong Chuan no end of annoyance.

As Kong Chuan fought and retreated towards the village, he couldn't raise his speed, his heart growing increasingly colder.

Although he could sense that his Life Base was still combating the dark power, he clearly understood that his Life Base could only resist the darkness, which was compressing it. At this time, he didn't know if Lin Shen and the others had been swallowed by the darkness.

The figure was using only the Power of Sound Domain and the bloody handprints to harass him, refusing to engage in direct combat, leaving Kong Chuan to fight and retreat.

If he wasn't diverting much of his strength to resist the night, he wouldn't be so entangled by the ghostly figure.

Suddenly, the figure withdrew into the darkness and vanished. At the same time, the ghostly wailing stopped, and in the darkness, only the Peacock Divine Brilliance and the night power intermingled with a crackling sound.

Kong Chuan finally found release, but his heart sank to the bottom. Read new chapters at empire

The discontinuation of the ghostly figure's harassment likely indicated that they had succeeded, and Lin Shen had probably met with disaster.

Kong Chuan's insides were green with regret; he had placed too much trust in his Peacock Divine Brilliance.

Although the Peacock Divine Brilliance was indeed powerful, resisting the oppression of the night's power, the ghostly figure still didn't dare to confront him directly. But a failed mission was more distressing to him than death itself.