442: Chapter 442: Deadly Aura 442: Chapter 442: Deadly Aura “Selena, you’ll never truly understand the relation between him and .
Perhaps even I cannot fully grasp it,” Ji Qian squeezed out a faint smile.
This young woman had experienced too much that wasn’t ant for her age, including encounters with things beyond the common human reach.
eting Ye Shikai entangled her in a complicated affection that couldn’t be cut off or unraveled.
In the eyes of a Westerner like Selena, one-night stands are a normal affair where two people simply take what they need without psychological burden.
The sa goes for breakups; once a relationship is over, why should one still cling to another?
“Lady, since you care so much about the Netherworld King, why not approach him, pursue him?” Selena asked.
“Selena, in eastern traditions, pursuing a married man is highly dishonorable.
I cannot do that,” Ji Qian shook her head.
She was a proud woman, unable to bear the disgrace of being labeled a ‘mistress’.
“But this is the West, where it’s customary to boldly pursue what one desires.
If two people enjoy each other’s company, why fret over so much?
What’s more, the Netherworld Empress isn’t a cultivator nor does she hold any significant power; she’s just pretty and sowhat business-savvy.
I don’t believe she can compete with you.”
“But he won’t see it that way,” Ji Qian bitterly smiled, seemingly mocking herself.
The two fell silent.
“Lady, can’t the gem magic wand dispel the Corpse Qi?” Selena abruptly spoke, breaking the chilly atmosphere.
“There’s no way.
Once Corpse Qi enters the body, it becos a part of it.
The gem magic wand can only delay its spread, not expel it,” Ji Qian said softly, her years living on the edge made her unafraid of death, and sowhere in her heart, she mockingly thought that if she died, it would save Ye Shikai a lot of trouble, at least he wouldn’t be tornted between two won anymore.
“Thump, thump, thump,” at that mont, footsteps suddenly sounded outside, and almost at the sa ti, a sharp blade was gripped tightly in Selena’s hand.
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“Aphrodite, are you sure you know the way?
But why do I feel like we are just going in circles?” In the dark alley, four shadows flickered as the annoying alarm sound blared through the sky, seemingly alerting every soldier in the city, searching from house to house.
The four could only keep running.
“Of course, but now there are soldiers everywhere, so of course we have to take a detour,” Aphrodite led the way, slightly complaining.
“With all this commotion tonight, other cultivators hiding in the city will probably be stirred too.”
“Stop, wait a mont,” suddenly, Ye Shikai shouted, pointing to a side alley.
In the narrow, dark mouth of the alley, a pair of legs protruded.
“What is this?” Ye Shikai slowly approached the corpse.
As the four of them took a closer look, everyone broke out in a cold sweat.
It was a male corpse, with massive decomposure, and the face was so rotted it was unrecognizable.
From the clothes, it seed like an outside cultivator that had been killed by the night watch soldiers after entering the ruins.
“Judging by the looks, it must have been dead for over twenty days, and probably under high temperatures,” Nightmare inferred from the state of decay.
“That can’t be possible.
Since the ruins were opened up, it’s only been three or four days; how could the body have decayed to this extent?” Ye Shikai curiously asked.
“Those soldiers are very strange, their ability to not die indicates they definitely have other thods,” Aphrodite said with a serious face.
“Everyone, follow .” Ye Shikai suddenly lifted his head, as if he rembered sothing, and ran directly towards one side without heeding the three people behind him.
“Master, where are you going?” Soul Destroyer and Nightmare looked puzzled but still followed him.
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“Isn’t this the sa room from before, Hades, do you have a death wish?” The four of them lay on the rooftop, Ye Shikai took out night-vision binoculars, and looked distantly at a house—it was the sa one they had stayed in earlier.
“Shut up.” Ye Shikai said impatiently.
Around the room, there were several soldiers patrolling; Ye Shikai dared not be careless, these soldiers couldn’t be hurt or killed, even stealth assassinations were ineffective, thus they must avoid them.
“Master, what should we do?” Nightmare, as Ye Shikai’s confidant, had already vaguely guessed his intention.
“We’ll sneak into our forr room in a while, we have to be quick.
Aphrodite, be ready at all tis to cast an Illusion Technique if anything happens,” Ye Shikai said indifferently.
Aphrodite, no matter how annoyed, could only obey his command, as she needed his help to achieve her goal.
“Whoosh, whoosh.” A sound of wind passed through the air, and several dark shadows flashed by; the patrolling soldiers looked up into the sky, and finding nothing amiss, continued on.
Ye Shikai slowly walked inside the house, careful not to make any noise.
In front of him lay a corpse—the submarine’s driver, who had been pierced through the skull by a soldier’s arrow during the recent fight, a great pity.
“Master, are you going to…” Nightmare asked curiously.
Ye Shikai turned the body over, and everyone was shocked; the face had decayed so much it was unrecognizable.
If not for the Netherworld Palace’s emblem on his clothes, they’d hardly dare to recognize him.
“Master, why has he turned like this?” Soul Destroyer exclaid in surprise.
Yes, why is that—just twenty minutes after dying, the body lay there like a pile of mush.
“It’s as I thought, those soldiers are no ordinary beings.” Aphrodite suddenly realized and murmured.
“What do you know?”
“These soldiers have been dead for ten thousand years.
In this city filled with corpses, they have attracted so filthy substances, sowhat similar to Corpse Qi,” Aphrodite explained to the trio.
“I don’t quite understand,” Soul Destroyer scratched his head, puzzled.
“Ah, to put it simply, it’s like a person who has stayed at Chaotic grave for too long; the Corpse Qi around will cling to him, making others shun his bad luck, which in your Huaxia’s terms, is akin to Feng Shui.”
“You an, these soldiers have heavy Corpse Qi.”
“A normal corpse would completely decay in just over a year, but these Undead Soldiers, whose flesh doesn’t decay over ten thousand years, and with Atlantis filled with buried corpses, have the best breeding grounds for Corpse Qi.
These soldiers are imrsed in Corpse Qi all year round, how could it not be heavy?” Aphrodite explained, and the trio finally completely understood.
“Then, what would happen if living humans have Dead Qi enter their bodies?”
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