Chapter 528: Chapter 528: Slaying the Wraith with Warm Wine (Part 2)

Zhang Yuan silently landed on the official road outside Changye County Town after spanning several dozen yards in a single leap.

The night sky was clear, with a crescent moon hanging high in the heavens, casting its cold brilliance upon the earth, illuminating the desolate fields.

The distant Chaotic Burial Mound was vaguely visible.

And a hundred paces in front of Zhang Yuan stood a person in white.

The man appeared to be in his early twenties, wearing a long robe, with a simple scholarly headscarf, his features delicate and refined, looking every bit the part of a weak scholar with no strength to truss a chicken.

But his face was deathly pale with dark circles under his eyes, his pupils filled with a dead silence.

Under the moonlight, there was not even a shadow!

Even at a distance of a hundred paces, Zhang Yuan could sense the sinister aura emanating from him.

The White-robed Scholar!

This was a powerful anomaly.

And Zhang Yuan’s sudden appearance made the White-robed Scholar’s eyes twitch, and his expression quickly shifted from wooden to lively.

It seemed as if he had suddenly "come to life".

He offered a slight smile, took a few steps forward, and saluted Zhang Yuan from afar, speaking, "Sir..."

However, what met this anomaly was the sudden thrust of Zhang Yuan’s long halberd!

In an instant, Zhang Yuan darted forward several dozen paces, the Overlord Halberd materializing in his hand, turning into a streaking rainbow, carrying fierce Gang Qi flames, aiming right at the White-robed Scholar’s chest.

Though this strike did not carry the Divine Nest Host Power, it still harnessed ninety percent of the Primordial Gang Force, the tip of the halberd spewing a flaming aura several feet long, tearing through the veil of night.

The White-robed Scholar, clearly not expecting such a swift and sudden attack, let out a beast-like roar from its throat at the oncoming Gang Qi flames.

Roar～

With a soul-stirring howl, the body of this anomaly suddenly swelled, its once-pale skin turning iron green, muscles roping and tendons twisting, shredding the clothes upon it, with ten fingers morphing into sharp black claws.

It raised its arms fiercely, gripping the long halberd stabbing toward it.

The flames around the halberd tip mercilessly scorched the hands of this anomaly, immediately emitting thick gray smoke.

The indestructible Overlord Halberd was astonishingly held back by brute force!

But in the next moment, the Profound Soldier Long Halberd thrusted forward abruptly, with the Primordial Gang Qi concentrated at the tip exploding violently, shredding the White-robed Scholar’s arms instantly.

Thunk!

The Overlord Halberd effortlessly pierced through the chest of this anomaly!

Yet the White-robed Scholar did not immediately perish, its eyes suddenly turning blood-red, its mouth letting out another roar.

The anomaly’s mouth grew unusually large, even surpassing the size of its original head, taking over its entire face.

Its mouth was filled with countless sharp teeth, spewing a large amount of black Evil Qi from its throat!

But at this moment, a bright yellow talisman flew in through the air, sticking right onto its mouth.

Condensing Evil Talisman!

A burst of spiritual light exploded suddenly, enveloping the head of this anomaly.

Then a second, a third.

Realizing its doom, the White-robed Scholar struggled desperately to free itself from the halberd impaling it, its body and limbs twisting and contorting fiercely, its head swelling and contracting, hideous and terrifying.

But under the effect of the High Tier Condensing Evil Talisman’s power, the Evil Qi and Evil Power within this anomaly were rapidly drawn out.

Its body shriveled quickly like a punctured balloon, turning into an empty human skin hanging on the halberd in the blink of an eye.

At the same time, an extremely dense Evil Qi condensed into an infant!

Zhang Yuan shook his right hand holding the Overlord Halberd, and the White-robed Scholar hanging on the halberd shaft burst into intense flames.

In the blink of an eye, it burned clean, completely erasing the last trace of this anomaly in the human world.

Simultaneously, he stretched out his left hand, capturing the newly condensed Evil Infant in his palm.

This Evil Infant, both in size and color, had reached the standard of the Fifth Grade, even approaching the level of the Sixth Grade.

It was worth Zhang Yuan expending three High Tier Condensing Evil Talismans.

And the quality of the Evil Infant is closely related to the anomaly’s tier.

The strength of the White-robed Scholar should have been between Tier Five and Tier Six, which an ordinary Mage really couldn’t handle, and even if they did, they’d end up as fodder.

If a Tier Five expert came, nine times out of ten they’d also fail to subdue it.

But encountering Zhang Yuan at the peak level of Tier Six, this anomaly stood no chance of causing any waves.

The problem was, if it had devoured more human flesh and soul essences, it might have even destroyed Changye County Town.

Then what level would this anomaly reach?

As Zhang Yuan placed the Evil Infant into the storage space, he had an ominous premonition.

Such a major anomaly appeared in a small county town.

Coupling this with the recent surge of anomalies across Daqian, one can’t help but speculate.

This is the prelude to chaos!

Zhang Yuan suppressed his emotions and focused his gaze on a floating speck of spiritual light before him.

This speck of spiritual light was only the size of a fingertip, quietly suspended before him.

Like a candle flickering in the wind, teetering on the brink of extinction!

Zhang Yuan remembered that this speck of spiritual light emerged after the White-robed Scholar’s skin had burned to ashes.

His heart stirred as he reached out to grasp it in his palm.

The next moment, a segment of memory abruptly surfaced in Zhang Yuan’s mind.

It turned out that the White-robed Scholar was once a young scholar in Changye City. Though his family was poor, he had a great talent for learning, his literary grace renowned throughout the county.

As such, he caught the eye of the county magistrate’s daughter, and they secretly formed a romantic relationship.

But the Changye County Magistrate, upon discovering their affair, was furious, refusing to marry his beloved daughter to a "useless" scholar, and ordered his servants to bind the scholar and bury him alive at the Chaotic Burial Mound outside the city.

Normally, a body needs to be burned to ashes after death to prevent becoming an anomaly.

But the murderous servant, guilt-ridden and lazy, failed to retrieve and burn the body.

As a result, the scholar’s corpse was tainted by evil and turned into an anomaly.

It wandered around the county’s outskirts, constantly consuming living beings to strengthen itself, all for revenge on the county magistrate.

Furthermore, it wished to see the magistrate’s daughter one more time!

This White-robed Scholar, despite falling into anomaly, retained a bit of the spirituality accumulated from years of reading various treatises day and night.

That’s why it would question passersby about the content of The Four Books and The Five Classics, creating a peculiar incident.

Understanding the origin of the matter, Zhang Yuan shook his head, then concentrated his Divine Soul Power into a blade, extinguishing the newly acquired spirituality within his sea of consciousness.

To prevent it from polluting his mind.

The memory of the White-robed Scholar faded with it, leaving no further impact.

Yet, Zhang Yuan’s heart still harbored a trace of unrest.

He looked around, his eyes radiating a terrifying brilliance, the long halberd in his hand vibrating with a hum.

Resonating with his fighting spirit!

Zhang Yuan’s eyes turned crimson, and he ran his hand over the razor-sharp halberd blade, instantly adding a bloodstain to the index finger of his left hand, from which a drop of bright red blood seeped out.

In the next moment, he slapped his palm toward the sky, shattering this drop of blood into countless particles, scattering them in all directions. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

Soon, wisps of black smoke rose from the barren fields around him.

A multitude of anomalies were lured out by the scent of blood!