Two Realms Shuttle Gate: Don't Call Me a Demon!-Chapter 652 - 396: Murderous Intent on a Rainy Night

"Master Su, the ghosts you requested are within this Array Map,"

After the birthday feast, Xue Xin personally took Su Jie into a special grand formation.

This was a chaotic stone cluster located in a desolate suburb. All around it was deadly silent and eerie, sunlight unable to penetrate, making the interior dim and gloomy.

In the center of the formation stood a stone tablet, towering over a hundred meters tall, standing solitary.

Its surface was engraved with indistinct characters and symbols, bearing the marks of erosion over the years. Green moss covered the ancient inscriptions.

A cold breeze passed by, and if one listened carefully, faint whispers could be heard emanating from the tablet, as if calling from deep within the earth, sending shivers down the spine.

"This is the Heavenly Soul Array Map used by the Heavenly Soul Sect to train disciples. It has been passed down for over a thousand years. It not only attracts lone ghosts and wandering spirits from the wilds, but its unique Yin Veins Formation also allows new ghosts to be naturally born within graveyards and burial sites, most of which are in a wild Fierce Ghost state,"

Xue Xin explained the situation to Su Jie.

This was an important site for the cultivation trials of the Heavenly Soul Sect's disciples, typically off-limits to outsiders. Had the Heavenly Soul Sect not needed Su Jie for persuasion, they would not have brought him here.

"My dear, the rest is up to you,"

Su Jie, witnessing the scene, let Han Ruyan pick out the Fierce Ghosts.

Han Ruyan, who stood beside Su Jie, flickered with a strange light, and suddenly appeared atop the stone tablet at the center of the ghost array.

As her power erupted, the twilight environment burst into a spread of red wedding dress silk spanning the horizon.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

The nearby burial mounds collapsed thunderously, and one by one, bizarre figures appeared.

There were women with disheveled hair, wrapped in resentment, wearing drenched clothes, with muddy toes, and their eyes, obscured by black hair, emitted a dense and malicious intent to kill.

There were Fierce Ghosts over three meters tall, with ferocious complexions, moving heavily, dragging a large beheading sword that sparked along the ground.

The cries and laughter of infants sounded at the same time; children in tattered padded jackets, barefooted, shaking rattles in their hands, exuding a Yin Qi that did not belong to the living world.

Countless ghosts were in a semi-wild state, that is, they had not been contracted.

Han Ruyan held a red lantern in her right hand, swaying violently as if it would be extinguished by this invisible force.

However, soon, Han Ruyan slowly raised her head, her gaze directed at the terrifying specters below. As her power fully unleashed, the air solidified, and an indescribable sense of terror pervaded the atmosphere, giving anyone's skin an instant bout of goosebumps.

Each Fierce Ghost, stiff in movement, kneeled towards Han Ruyan under the invasion of her eerie power.

The grades of these ghosts were not high, all below third-grade. Faced with the Seventh-grade Fierce Ghost Han Ruyan, they simply couldn't withstand her forceful control and submitted to her.

"Enter!"

Han Ruyan threw out the brass mirror transformed by the Mirror Girl, along with a big red flower sedan chair, which landed amidst the horde of ghosts.

The controlled ghosts turned around, one by one entering the brass mirror and disappearing inside the flower sedan chair, brought under Han Ruyan's control.

The number of ghosts was just right, a full two thousand Fierce Ghosts.

"Elder Xue, please do the count,"

Seeing the scene unfold, Su Jie handed over a Storage Bag to Xue Xin, which contained the Spirit Stones to purchase this batch of ghosts.

"A pleasure doing business with you, Master Su,"

Xue Xin's Divine Sense swept over the Storage Bag and gave Su Jie a salute.

"It's nothing. Now that the transaction of the ghosts is complete, I shall take my leave,"

With a smile and a salute, Su Jie intended to leave.

"Won't you stay a few more days? The Heavenly Soul Sect hasn't had the chance to properly host you,"

"No need. I have some matters to attend to outside, so I'll leave now. We'll meet again in the future,"

Su Jie's gaze turned toward the horizon, his lips curling into a cold smile.

........

In the deep night, the sky blanketed by dense clouds shrouded the earth. Layers of dark clouds, like heavy curtains of lead, plummeted in a torrential downpour, as if the celestial river had overturned, leaving nothing but the roaring sound of rain between heaven and earth.

Nanyang Ridge, a mountain peak near Nanyang City. It wasn't very high, only one thousand seven hundred meters, but it was named for its proximity to Nanyang City.

This was also one of the main arteries leaving Nanyang City toward Jingzhou.

Atop the mountain peak, Su Jie wore a bamboo hat and a cloak, his expression as calm as still water, his eyes deep and dark.

The heavier the rain fell, the more Spiritual Power Su Jie released into the sky, brewing this torrential downpour. The rain was relentless, a display of Su Jie's use of Heavenly Might.

"They're here, Xiao Qian, get ready to act,"

Suddenly, Su Jie snapped his fingers and turned his gaze to the end of the road.

In the dark night, a caravan slowly emerged on the roadway.

There were three carriages in total, eight fine horses trotting on either side. The disciples dressed as merchants and guards had emblems of the Illusion Tower on their undergarments, indicating they were from the Chongzhou Demon Path.

Because they were in Qingzhou, they dared not travel with great fanfare and disguised themselves as a merchant caravan instead.

Boom!

Just as the caravan passed by the foot of Nanyang Mountain, the ground shattered, and a huge, ferocious insect head burrowed out.

"AMBUSH!!!"

The Illusion Tower's Demon Cultivators looked up in horror, only to see a colossal Centipede over three hundred meters long crashing down upon them.

More than a dozen people screamed. Before they had a chance to react, the Thousand-Handed Centipede's body fell, instantly smashing them and the horses into a pulp, creating a narrow, hundreds of meters long chasm on the ground.