Repugnant Gateway

Its face was unsightly, white witinge of blue. It looked like it was poisoned, but also like it had been sick for a long time.

“So hungry.”

When it saw An Zheng walking over, it said these two words.

“People?”

An Zheng asked tentatively.

That thing tilted its head slightly to look at An Zheng, then opened its mouth and laughed, revealing the fangs in its mouth. And at the same time it laughed, An Zheng felt a mysterious force pulling his body behind him, pulling him towards that thing’s side. The creature’s mouth grew larger and larger, and the corners of its mouth all split open, revealing fresh red flesh that extended all the way to its ears.

From the looks of it, it wanted to swallow An Zheng whole.

An Zheng flung his hand and threw a piece of Holy Fish Scale, which spun like a blade and pierced into its mouth. With a kacha sound, it stuck there, almost slicing off the creature’s head. But even in this situation, the thing’s mouth still moved, as if it wanted to swallow the Holy Fish Scale.

An Zheng summoned out the Heaven Eyes Divine Vision to look at it, and the Heaven Eyes Divine Vision appeared in An Zheng’s mind.

The souls of those who died from starvation had gathered together. If it wasn’t a single person’s souls, at least hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands would die without dispersing. Their resentment was too great, causing them to become hungry ghosts. The power grade would be determined by the number of agglomerated spirits of the wrongdoers. The power of the hungry ghosts formed by the souls of the hundreds of people was the early stage of Sumeru Stage, and this hungry ghost was formed from at least tens of thousands of aggrieved souls, so its power was at the peak of the Captive Stage.

An Zheng sighed, the hungry ghost... This meant that there had been a great famine in this place a long time ago. Who knew how many people had starved to death? However, if it was just starving to death, it shouldn’t cause sucuge amount of resentment. Thus, this famine should be man-made.

This place was at the border between the State of Zhao and the Da Xi Empire, so the State of Zhao didn’t know about it. Even the most ordinary family in Da Xi would have two to three years worth of leftovers. In fact, even though Da Xi was ridiculously big, it had been a long time since she needed to pay for the food. With 200 to 300 grains, the granary of Da Xi City could be filled.

Therefore, this famine should be on the side of the State of Zhao.

After An Zheng made his judgement, he quickly denied it. Logically, there should be no civilians in State of Zhao near the Da Xi Empire.

The thing’s resentment was too heavy, even the sound of the Holy Fish Scale biting could be heard. The sound of the fangs and metal rubbing against each other made one’s ears go numb.

Heaven’s Eyes’ voice continued, “The hungry ghost’s battle prowess is ferocious, but it cannot move.” Only the groans could attract curious people or other spirits to approach and then be devoured by suction. The more creatures he devoured, the stronger the hungry ghost became. When the number of devoured creatures was the same as the number of dead people, the hungry ghosts would be reborn. After reincarnating, the hungry ghost is no different from a real person. However, it has no life or death, and its fighting prowess is extremely terrifying.]

An Zheng gave a cold snort, “Even if you have all once suffered grievances, hurting people now is also not something that you can be allowed to do.”

He pointed downwards, and the Holy Fish Scale began to spin rapidly. Like a knife, the blade sliced open the hungry ghost’s mouth, then his head. In An Zheng’s eyes, the battle power of Captive Stage was not much, it was just a set of Holy Fish Scalhat killed him. After the hungry ghosts were split apart, a foul stench drifted out. The smell of the surrounding area was extremely strong.

An Zheng held his breath and walked over to look at the hungry ghost’s corpse. Countless amounts of black gas emerged from within, and very soon, the hungry ghost’s body became shriveled.

[Wherever the hungry ghosts come from, there will be grievances. Whereveungry ghost does not move, a precious treasure shall be found.]

Heaven’s Eyes voice appeared again, brightening An Zheng’s heart.

Thinking about it, it made sense. The reason why these ghosts had not dissipated was because there were precious treasures here that had gathered them, which was why they had become hungry ghosts. If there was a famine and many people died, these people would not die of grievances, so they would not become hungry ghosts. Only after three conditions were met would suching appear.

The first was to die from famine. Secondly, there was injustice. Third, there was a supreme treasure not too far away from the Land of Death.

An Zheng waved his hand, and the Cultivation Power swept through the hungry ghosts’ incomplete bodies likurricane, “You all have been dead for who knows how many years. I am on the way here, so if I can find out why you all have starved to death, I will take revenge for you all.”

After the remnants of the hungry ghost’s body were blown away, An Zheng squatted down and looked at the big boulder. There was nothing where the hungry ghost had been lying.

An Zheng looked at good old man. The stars in his eyes flowed, as if he was also looking for his. Only then did An Zheng come back to his senses. Just now, the reason the good old man had An Zheng head over this way was not because of a hungry ghost, but becausungry ghost must have a treasure in its place. He just did not know what this supreme treasure was.

The stars in good old man’s eyes flowed faster and faster. After about ten seconds, his attention was attracted to the big rock that the hungry ghost was leaning on. good old man jumped down from An Zheng’s shoulder and touched the boulder with his claw. When it turned its head to look at An Zheng, the stars in its eyes had already begun to swirl like a nebula.

An Zheng took out the Broken Army Sword s and said in his heart that he would also like to cut the rock.

In order to ensure that the things inside were not destroyed, An Zheng chose to cut down layer by layer. No matter how good An Zheng’s eyesight was, he was still unable to see what was inside, or how big it was. Therefore, it could only be cut layer by layer. This rock was half a meter in size, who knew how much longer it would take to cut down like this.

An Zheng’s hands were abnormally stable, even the experienced Rock Cutting Master could not compare to him. Furthermore, Broken Army Sword were contemporary weapons and even though they did not write in the Purple-Rank, if we truly speak of it, after fusing with a few other weapons, the Broken Army Sword’s rank could already be considered high among the Purple-Rank.

good old man squatted there and watched quietly, as if he was also curious about what was inside. Its expression was especially focused. One could tell that the items inside must be very precious.

As the stone got smaller and smaller, An Zheng’s movements became more and more careful, and the layer of stone he cut off became thinner and thinner. Roughly ten or so minutes later, that half a meter big fist was only the size of a fist, but An Zheng still had not cut anything out. He was confused because he didn’t sense any aura of treasure from the inside.

On the other hand, good old man’s eyes were still as focused as ever. Seeing that An Zheng had stopped, it mewled twice to urge him on. Seeing the good old man being so confident, An Zheng packed up his expectations and took action again. It was not easy to cut the remaining fist-sized piece. The smaller the piece, the harder it was to cut.

Also, he had to worry if the things inside would be damaged, so he had to be more careful when taking action. An Zheng cut this fist-sized piece into halves for an entire hour, until only an egg was left, but he still did not find anything inside.

“good old man, are you sure there are treasures inside?”

good old man’s extremely understanding expression also nodded with certainty. He cried out lightly, meaning that it was fine if you cut it. However, An Zheng had gradually lost most of his interest in the egg. Even if it was full of treasures, a piece the size of a chicken egg was not worth paying attention to. Unless it was a Stellar Cast Iron the size of an egg, An Zheng felt that he had suffered a huge loss.

Time passed minute by minute, second by second, An Zheng became more careful. But the stone in his hand had become the size of an apricot, and there was nothing in it.

good old man continued to urge him, so An Zheng could only make a move again. A few minutes later, the rock was reduced to the size of a peanut. An Zheng turned his head to look at good old man, held onto that small stone and waved it in front of good old man: “Grandpa Cat, are you sure you aren’t joking with me?”

good old man had an expression of you being really ignorant, and was a little angry at An Zheng for not trusting him. An Zheng coughed a few times, thinking that even if he couldn’t cut anything, he would just treat it as teasing good old man. good old man had already slept all this way, so it was better to just treat it as an awakening.

A piece the size of a peanut, using Broken Army Sword was already extremely difficult. An Zheng took out the recovered ice spirit from the Blood Pearl Bracelet and was about to attack when good old man meowed and shook his head. An Zheng thought that this was to prevent me from using the Ice Soul. He had found an ordinary dagger that did not have any stats, so good old man did not stop him this time.

An Zheng thought, why does the good old man care so much about this? Could it be that there really ireasure inside this peanut sized stone? But even if it was a treasure, how much value could such a small amount of treasure have?

An Zheng squatted there and found a relatively flat rock to place in front of him. He placed a rock the size of a peanut on top of the rock and used his fingers to press down on it. There was no way to continue cutting now, so he could only scrape the powder downwards.

Another minute later, there was a slight cracking sound from the shell, followed by a small stream of quicksand flowing out. This quicksand was too little. If he held it in his hand, he would be able to blow it all away in one breath. An Zheng took the small stone shell and looked inside it. It was already empty, there was nothing inside.

An Zheng’s attention was focused on the sand, he thought, could it be that the treasure was exactly this much sand?

He squatted there, while good old man already jumped onto the rock and stared at the sand with sparkling eyes. It turned its head and screamed twice at An Zheng, meaning to say, you idiot, hurry up and put away this good thing.

An Zheng somewhat unwillingly found a small, clean jade bottle and put away that bit of quicksand. However, when his hand had just gotten close to it, the sand actually started to flow by itself, spinning around the rock as if it was hiding. An Zheng tried to catch it a few times but to no avail.

“Spiritual?!”

An Zheng was immediately filled with interest, thinking what was this thing? It was formed like sand, but it actually seemed to have a life of its own. He clawed back and forth several times before finally covering the sand with his hands. When he opened his palm, he found that the sand had disappeared. He was stunned for a moment. Then, he saw that the sand in his hand was like a small insect.

He wanted to put the quicksand into a bottle, but it turned around in an extremely naughty manner and refused to go in. An Zheng was stunned, what the hell was this? good old man jumped onto An Zheng’s arm, then knocked the jade bottle away with his little claws. An Zheng glanced at the good old man, and suddenly understood that the bottle that Flowing Sand despised was not good enough!

An Zheng glanced at Flowing Sand: “Why didn’t you dislike it when you were inside the rock previously.”

Even though he said that, An Zheng still chose to absorb the Quicksand into the Blood Pearl Bracelet.

Just at this moment, there was a sudden ding sound from within the Blood Pearl Bracelet, followed by the appearance of a Heaven’s Eyes voice.

[The treasure of heaven and earth, Swelling Earth, will be kept. A single Blood Pearl will be created. Swelling Earth, naturally a treasure with supernatural Purple-Rank. ”

An Zheng did not hear the rest of the words clearly, because his mind was in a mess …