The Master of Beasts-Chapter 806 - 259: The Haunted Black Forest (Part 2)

"It's not that I believe in this, but there's really something off up ahead!"

Hints of spirit light flickered in Meng Ze's eyes, his fragmented golden pupils constantly moving, giving off an eerie feeling.

"This place isn't clean!"

"Huh? Not clean?"

"Meng Ze, you must be joking with me. You yourself are a Nightmare, and you say this place isn't clean? What's up, are you going to tell me there are underworld ghosts here?" Feng Cang joked.

Meng Ze quietly looked at Feng Cang, his palm closing in the air, releasing an invisible black thread that spread out.

"Eee eee eee"

A big-headed doll, tightly bound, was pulled over by Meng Ze.

"A Ghost Baby?" Chen Jiuge exclaimed in disbelief.

"It is a Ghost Baby!"

Meng Ze speculated, "This Heavenly Gift Realm should be similar to the True Realm. Although the rules differ slightly, all the things that should exist in heaven and earth should be present!"

"For instance, the Underworld!"

"But that doesn't make sense! Even if the Heavenly Gift Realm has the existence of the Underworld, isn't this still not the underworld? Could it be you made a mistake, and these are just beings formed from the resentment of prematurely deceased children?" Bai Li shook his head.

"No, Meng Ze is right. This is indeed a Ghost Baby!" Song Bei countered.

"Moreover, underworld ghosts can appear in the Yang World; Yin Yang Communication inevitably creates nodes for traversal, especially in a growing world like the Heavenly Gift Realm, which will have even more loopholes!"

"It seems this place isn't simple at all!"

"Aksu!" 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

"At your service, sir!"

Chen Jiuge frowned, "Do you know what's going on with this Black Forest?"

A trace of embarrassment appeared on Aksu's face, "Sir, I've only been to the Nine Dragon Tribe once, and that was a few hundred years ago. When I first came here, it was not like this!"

"Hmm? It wasn't like this?"

"Yes, sir, this was once just a territory of wolf packs, and one only needed to inform the Wolf King when passing through. This Wolf King was a plant-eater and had a very gentle temperament!" Aksu explained.

"Grass-eating wolves? Interesting, it seems they've been driven away or exterminated!"

"Elder Meng Ze, are there more entities like the Ghost Baby?" Chen Jiuge inquired.

Although having a strong physical body and abundant Qi-blood can deter these ghosts from approaching, relying solely on Qi-blood to wear them down is not easy at all!

Especially now that our divine skills are suppressed to the extreme, encountering a large number of ghosts or powerful ones can be quite troublesome!

"No, but I sensed a place heavily laden with Yin Qi!"

Under Meng Ze's guidance, they soon arrived deep within the Black Forest.

"Is it here?"

"It is here!"

"The trees here seem even stranger. Can they absorb light?" Feng Cang noted a difference.

"Light?"

Chen Jiuge took out a Fluorescent Stone, emitting a faint halo from its surface, but the scattered light barely illuminated anything.

"Normally, my Fluorescent Stone should light up an area tens of meters wide, but now it barely reaches a meter. It does seem like it absorbs light!"

Watching the trees twist under the light, Chen Jiuge felt a wave of confusion.

"The source should be this well, let me see what's wrong with it!" Jialouluo grinned, striding forward.

"Wait!"

"Boom!"

Meng Ze's warning came too late; Jialouluo's fist, as large as a cooking pot, had already slammed into the well's stone wall.

"Dong dong dong"

The sound of fists colliding with stone resonated within the well.

"How is this possible?" Jialouluo looked at the undamaged well in disbelief.

"If this really is a passage between the underworld and Yang World, then it's quite normal for it to be like this!"

"Even an ordinary well could transform into a precious treasure under such special Yin Yang passage conditions!" Song Bei explained.

"Woo woo woo"

A faint wailing sound emerged from the well, strands of black mist floated out, gathering over the well, until a cloud about a meter in diameter appeared.

"Pop"

The black cloud trembled, and a Ghost Baby dropped from it.

"Eee eee eee"

"This... this..."

Chen Jiuge didn't know how to describe it, how this resembled something unsavory; the Ghost Baby's entrance seemed a bit disgusting.

"It seems to be just a small passage, only able to admit the lowest level Ghost Babies!" Song Bei, seeing this, breathed a sigh of relief.

Meng Ze remained serious, "That's not certain. The Yin Qi here is so dense, if it were just Ghost Babies, this place should be full of them!"

"There's absolutely a big one here!"

"Roar!"

Speak of Cao Cao, and here he comes.

A deformed monster about three stories high came running toward them.

Folds of sagging fat rippled in waves as it ran, occasionally slapping against the numerous bulges covering its body.

No, those aren't bulges, they're the heads of Ghost Babies!

"What is that thing, it's so disgusting!" Bai Li retched.

Chen Jiuge felt physically uncomfortable as well; the monster was truly disgusting!

It seemed to be composed of many Ghost Babies, their bodies fused into one, but not their heads. Compared to the three-story body, the small Ghost Baby heads were like lumps.

"Eee eee eee"

The myriad of cries mixed together, unsettling the cultivators present.

"I can't stand it anymore, why should I, as a Loose Cultivator, follow him!"

"Go to hell!"

This Loose Cultivator charged at the monster with blood-red eyes, easily piercing his sword into the monster's body. Then arm, then body, and finally disappeared from sight.

"Was this devoured?"

Jialouluo shook his head, "No, it should be a type of Physical Body Divine Power, but with traces of devouring law!"

"Can you discern its method?" Song Bei frowned.

The monster's aura was strong, nearly equal to the four present. If it was just a native creature, the superior cultivation techniques and martial skills would ease their worries.

But this monster was clearly unusual, as the vanished Loose Cultivator had demonstrated its other peculiar abilities.

"Unclear, but it's at least not comparable to those Fierce Beasts we've encountered before!"

As they conversed, more Loose Cultivators charged at the monster.

Strangely enough, the monster didn't actively attack Chen Jiuge and the others, only letting the Ghost Baby heads make noises to disrupt these Loose Cultivators' minds, leading them to attack first and then get consumed.

"We can't wait any longer. If we do, though we might be fine, these Loose Cultivators will be wiped out!"

The minds of Loose Cultivators are darker, more complex; the Ghost Baby's cries are like demonic sounds to them, unlike the tougher-bodied natives who are hardly affected by the noise.

"Let me do it, you guys cover me!" Meng Ze licked his lips, showing interest in the monster.

"Be careful!"

"Rest assured!"

Meng Ze's true form was a Nightmare, but to evolve, Nightmares usually had to devour powerful beings. Not to belittle cultivators like Chen Jiuge, but...

In truth, the talent of a powerful Spiritual Beast is more suited for consumption than that of a Human Cultivator, and Meng Ze must have devoured some formidable Spiritual Beasts as well.

"Swoosh"

A purple halo appeared in Meng Ze's palm, and in the blink of an eye, Meng Ze, originally standing in front, was now before the monster, inserting his purple palm into its body.

"Gurgle gurgle"

The monster's fat quivered, seemingly trying to engulf Meng Ze like before but failed!

"Rip"

His hand moved, tearing open a massive wound, from which black blood spurted.

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle"

The ground corroded from the black blood, and the monster's cries became more frantic, Meng Ze was tense and focused, and then... the monster fled!

"It ran away?"

Watching the monster vanish in a blink, Meng Ze was stunned, as were the group covering from behind.

"What just happened?"

"Not sure, but since it fled, we should hurry as well. This Black Forest isn't vast, we can escape by nightfall at full speed!" Chen Jiuge said, shaking his head.

"That might be wise; less trouble is better!"

The only one feeling regret was Meng Ze, "I wanted to test its capabilities to see if it's worth devouring, such a pity!"

"Let's go!"

Thousands quickly traversed the Black Forest, finally emerging from the eerie place by nightfall at their fastest speed.

"Alright, in a few more days, we'll reach the Nine Dragon Tribe!"