This crack is somewhat unusual, like a pair of scissors cutting through a piece of cloth.

With a sizzling sound.

The cloth tore.

This is, after all, a real illusion.

Therefore, there's no need to be too surprised that such an illogical situation would occur.

In this realistic fantasy world, even a toilet could turn into a person named John.

It's also reasonable that the crack could be a door.

Five people walked out of the door.

The leader was a gaunt old man with skin as white as a corpse, sunken eyes, and strangely dark red pupils.

"Who?...Who did this?!"

He swept over the shattered remains of the corpse rats scattered on the ground, over the rat mountain that had been razed to the ground, and over the food that had been treated and placed aside!

Finally, his gaze fell on Mingxi and Jin Yuanbao.

"You...you all!"

"Mingxi!"

The moment they recognized Mingxi, all five of them turned pale.

Although they had lived in the land of nightmares for a long time, they had not shut themselves off to the point of deafness.

The girl in front of me is none other than Mingxi, the most ferocious being in the world today and the strongest in the alliance!

"...How...how could she be here?!"

The man in blue standing next to the red-eyed old man looked ashen-faced as if he had seen his dead father come back to life.

No one could answer him. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

The others didn't look well either.

The moment they saw Mingxi, their first instinct was to turn and run.

Some people are indeed action-oriented, but when they try to turn around and 'open the door,' they run into an invisible wall.

"Oh no, it's a spatial blockade!"

He looked at Mingxi in horror, and the faces of the four red-eyed old men twitched several times.

They realized they had been surrounded and trapped. Yes, even though the other party was only one person, they had indeed been surrounded and trapped.

Mingxi looked at the five people in front of her with an icy expression.

She raised her hand and pointed to the middle-aged woman next to the red-eyed old man, "Descended member, Corrupted Bones."

Then, pointing to the person who sensed the space was sealed off, he said, "Descending member, midnight."

Finally, the finger slowly settled on the slender figure in blue, "Descending member, it ◈ Nоvеlіgһт ◈ (Continue reading) is secret."

The red-eyed old man and the remaining person couldn't help but stretch their backs, waiting for her to call out their names.

"...and two shrimp soldiers and crab generals."

Mingxi wasn't operating around the world for nothing; she arrested and interrogated those who needed to be arrested, and she gathered quite a bit of intelligence about the arrival.

In addition, she has the backing of a great nation.

With her extraordinary memory, remembering names was a natural and effortless skill.

The red-eyed old man, now a mere shrimp soldier or crab general, silently twisted his ego.

This is outrageous!

Why doesn't he deserve to have his name?!

Even if this person is Mingxi, you shouldn't humiliate him like this!

"You're asking for it—!!!"

A black beam of light shot out from beside him.

It was his pet beast, a Mianmao Skeleton, a Ghost-type Venerable-level extraordinary creature.

What is being released is skill corruption.

But the beam of light was blocked ten meters away from Mingxi.

It is a gold ingot.

It didn't even use any skills; it simply hovered there quietly, taking the full force of the attack—an attack that would have given even a high-level pet a hard time.

The black beam of light struck its wings, but it couldn't even corrode a single feather.

The red-eyed old man was stunned.

"This is... God-level?!"

The four people next to him all took a step back at the same time.

"What's the panic?!"

A new voice came from the deeper void.

The sound carried an eerie resonance, as if it came from countless dimensions simultaneously.

Those who hear it will have the illusion that their soul has been stripped away.

Mingxi frowned slightly.

The next second, a wider crack appeared in the space.

A person walks out of it.

He was tall and slender, with a handsome face that was almost otherworldly, and his black robe moved without wind.

His eyes are the most striking feature.

His dark, crimson pupils reflected a burning ghost town, as if countless wailing souls were floating and sinking within them.

The moment he appeared, the entire illusionary realm trembled slightly.

Mingxi raised an eyebrow. Good heavens!

Wow, that's amazing!

When did we become able to come and go freely inside this Nightmare Land?

Although Mingxi was not surprised at all to see this person appear.

“The True Ghost Lord”.

Mingxi's voice was cold and calm.

The man before me is named Gui Xun, one of the five Ghost Lords and the de facto ruler of the Great Sili Kingdom.

This person has always been known to the public as a gentle, refined, and self-disciplined gentleman. Who would have thought that such a big shot was actually a member of the Descending Organization?

This world is fucking insane.

Although she was delusional, Mingxi had indeed foreseen it.

After all, the Ghost Nightmare Tower was heavily guarded, and she was only able to enter by relying on her own strength and her pet beasts, allowing her to move in as if it were empty.

But what gives these people the right to do so?

Moreover, they need to enter and exit frequently over a long period of time.

If the Great Sili Kingdom were truly united, it would be impossible for so many infamous corpse rats to have been cultivated in their most important Ghost Nightmare Land without anyone noticing.

So, ever since she learned that the Ghost Nightmare Land was the breeding ground for Corpse Witch Rats, Mingxi knew that there was a problem within the Great Sili Kingdom.

And it's a big problem.

The only person with such immense power to bore through the interior of the Nightmare Land could be one of the Five Great Ghost Lords.

The only thing Mingxi hadn't expected was that this person would be Guixun.

Indeed, reputation is often just an illusion; one must see for oneself whether what lies beneath the surface is a human or a demon.

Mingxi looked at Guixun.

Gui Xun was also looking at her.

The two stared at each other for three seconds.

Then, Gui Xun laughed.

That smile was indeed very gentle and elegant, even carrying a hint of appreciation.

But combined with his eerie eyes, it only made people feel terrified.

"Mingxi Guozhu," he said, his voice surprisingly pleasant, "I have long admired your name."

Mingxi's voice was calm, "No need to hear so much about it. I'm just surprised that someone who was a perfectly good Ghost Lord must be so unhappy that they actually went to become someone's lackey. What a heavy taste."

Gui Xun's eyes turned slightly cold, but he did not deny it.

He raised his right hand and waved it gently.

Behind them, the red-eyed old man and the other four people stepped back with a sigh of relief.

“You lackey?” he repeated the word, his smile deepening. “And how do you know that this coming isn’t mine?”

"laugh!"

Mingxi smiled. "You mean you're the one who descended to earth as the Holy Lord?"

"Don't I look like it?"

Mingxi clicked her tongue lightly:

"Although the Descent is a garbage dump, its size means that not just any garbage dog can operate it."

She gave Gui Xun a half-smile, her eyes growing increasingly disdainful. "It's obvious you're not qualified."

In fact, Mingxi didn't care at all who the Holy Lord of Descendants was, nor did she think that the Holy Lord of Descendants should be some great figure.

She said that purely out of boredom, to disgust this ghost master.

Who told her to be such a person who hates evil so much?

"hehe."

Gui Xun was indeed quite angry.

Although he is indeed not the Holy Lord.

Gui Xun didn't want to argue. He looked around at the few remaining corpse rat remains, at the rat mountain that had been almost leveled, leaving only the huge fleshy tumor, and at the people who had been rescued.

Even though they had been treated, they still looked like soulless piglets.

"Don't you feel sorry for these people?" he said softly. "They really are pitiful."

He said "pitiful," but there was no pity in his tone, only a condescending and amused one.

"Oh, so you feel sorry for them?" Mingxi asked.

"pity?"

Gui Xun laughed, "Why should I pity them? They were pigs I raised in life, and they died as dead pigs I raised! Their purpose in existence was to become food and nourishment!"

I pity them as much as I pity the food.

"Don't you think that their natural extinction is more in line with the balance of this world?"

Gui Xun seemed to have developed a speech disorder, and once he started talking, he couldn't stop, "It's you people who are desperately trying to save people, desperately trying to prolong your own lives, and desperately fighting against death, who are disrupting the balance of this world."

He pointed to the survivors.

"They should have died long ago."

But because of your so-called 'kindness' and 'benevolence,' they come back to life.

Then what?

Do you think they can return to normal human society?

Besides consuming vast amounts of resources, occupying living space for normal humans, and making the world more crowded, chaotic, and unjust, what other purpose do they serve?

"Your so-called salvation is nothing but another form of selfishness."

Mingxi remained expressionless.

"So, you chose to kill?"

"No, I chose balance," Gui Xun corrected. "The corpse rats eat people, and after people die, they become nourishment for the corpse rats, which are then devoured by something even stronger."

This is the natural cycle.

And I'm finding a balance!

"You're feeding live people to rats, is that for the sake of natural balance?"

What outrageous remarks?

Mingxi felt like her brainstem was about to get wet.

“Of course.” Gui Xun’s tone was matter-of-fact. “Humans reproduce too much, live too long, and consume too much. Someone needs to... control them.”

Mingxi's brain has dried up again.

Then, she smiled.

That smile was completely different from Gui Xun's gentleness; it was cold, angry, and filled with murderous intent.

“You’re right,” she said. “There are indeed many bad things and many mistakes in this world.”

Gui Xun raised an eyebrow.

"But the problem isn't that humans want to live."

"The ones who are wrong are you madmen who think you can control life and death!"

Mingxi's gaze grew even colder.

"It seems I don't need to ask you why you joined the Descent."

This person's thinking was flawed from the start; he's either a superhuman or a born pervert.

She raised her right hand.

The path through a thousand mountains is condensed in the palm of one's hand.

Behind him, nine golden ingots simultaneously released their oppressive aura.

Gui Xun looked at her, and also at the nine pet beasts behind her, his eyes darkening slightly.

No matter how calm and relaxed he appeared, it was impossible to deny the genuine nervousness he felt inside.

The person before me is, after all, Mingxi!

"You think you can kill me so easily?"

He quickly formed hand seals, and the pet space rapidly became ethereal, with four enormous phantoms appearing around him.

They are Gui Xun's four strongest pets.

Each one is stained with countless lives; each one is an executioner of his "way of balance."

The first one stepped out from the left, its body resembling a dragon or a serpent, its entire body covered in jet-black scales, and with each breath, corrosive black mist seeped from the gaps in its scales.

It hovered in the void, its dark golden vertical pupils fixed on the gold ingot.

Abyss Demon Dragon!

A supreme-level pet beast with both water and demon attributes.

It is said to be an extraordinary creature brought out by Gui Xun in a certain secret realm of Dharma Fall. It is extremely skilled at using abyssal energy to corrode everything and once fought against a team of a hundred beast tamers on its own.

The second one emerged from the right side; it was smaller in size, but its aura was even colder.

It resembles a giant raven, but its feathers are an eerie grayish-white, as if covered in a layer of deathly ashes.

There were no eyeballs in their eye sockets, only two flickering, eerie blue flames.

Soul-Devouring Netherworld Sparrow!

A supreme-level pet that combines the Ghost and Flying attributes.

A ferocious bird that feeds on the souls of the dead, after being subdued by Gui Xun, was specifically tasked with executing certain'superfluous humans' to him.

It is actually quite similar to the corpse rat; every time it eats, it means the end of a human life.

The third pet was not as flamboyant as the first two, but its imposing presence was no less.

It resembles a giant black bear, but its body is covered not with fur, but with jet-black metal plates.

With each step, deep cracks are left in the ground.

Greyhill, a Saint-level pet of both Fighting and Steel types, is a war behemoth contracted by Gui Xun from the Nightmare Land. In a battle, it once destroyed the turtle shell of its opponent's fortress, Chi Yuan, with its bare hands.

You should know that the fortress Chi Yuan is a supernatural creature known as having the best defense in the world!

Greyhill doesn't need fancy skills, just pure brute force.

The fourth one appeared last, and it was also the most bizarre.

It has no fixed shape, like a constantly wriggling and changing black shadow, occasionally a few slender tentacles peek out from the shadow, and at the tips of the tentacles open pale eyes.

Visengel, a Saint-level pet with both Grass and Poison attributes.

Guangguang: "Master, this is not an ordinary Visenger. The smell of corpse poison on this pet is very strong. It must have been feeding on the excrement of corpse rats and ghost orchids for many years, and was thus maliciously cultivated into a body of evil desire."

The body of evil desire is also a special type of constitution.

However, this kind of physique only appears in extraordinary beings, and it is one of the few known special physiques that can be artificially cultivated.

This constitution causes extraordinary beings to continuously emit malevolent desires, which are then unknowingly absorbed by the humans and other extraordinary beings around them.

This, in turn, affects their minds and amplifies their desires and malice.

Clearly, this is not a special constitution of 'kindness'.

"This Gui Xun is really sick! And really ruthless! He actually deliberately cultivated his pet beast into a body of evil desires."

Mingxi was truly impressed by Gui Xun. You see, extraordinary beings who awaken their evil desires will gradually be influenced by their own evil desires over time, eventually turning into ferocious beasts completely controlled by their evil desires.

Until it goes mad and dies.

For a beast tamer, having a beast with a malevolent nature is a disaster.

No beast tamer with a sound mind would intentionally cultivate their pet into a creature of malevolent desires.

This person, however, insisted on doing something that would harm the enemy a thousand while also harming himself eighteen thousand.

Tell me, what's he after?

Before Mingxi could figure out what Guixun was planning, the four pet beasts opposite her had already surrounded her from four directions.

Gui Xun stood with his hands behind his back, a faint, cold smile playing on his lips.