Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 24: Terrifying Monster Shadow! The Madman who Blasphemes The Great Revered One!!!_1
The inn was dimly lit by flickering candlelight.
The aroma of liquor and meat wafted to the nose—strangely, no noise from inside could be heard from outside, yet within it was a clamor of "human" voices.
One after another, the patrons were drinking and eating meat in the inn.
Some were toasting and drinking in turns.
Some were spouting nonsense and boasting.
Fan Wu felt it was really hard to keep a low profile because just a few breaths after he stepped into the inn, all eyes turned toward him and focused on his presence.
He looked around inside the inn and could only sigh inwardly: ’There are indeed many!’
Why would he think that?
Because... the "patrons" in the inn looked just like humans, and at first glance, one might indeed believe they were people.
But who could see their respective supernatural attributes like Fan Wu could?
They could not hide their forms from Fan Wu!
The attributes piled up densely together.
It gave Fan Wu the feeling as if he was playing a web game.
[Puzzled Hungry Ghost—Life: 136—Power: 4—Skill: Corrosive Saliva]
[Gleeful Hanged Ghost—Life: 222—Power: 5.9—Skill: Noose of Self-strangulation, Invasion of Yin Energy]
[Headless Ghost—Life: 76—Power: 3—Skill: None]
[Riding Wind Ghost—Life: 178...]
[...]
Looking around.
There wasn’t a single living person!
Fan Wu even wondered if the Ghost Envoys of the Netherworld Division in this mystical and eerie world were simply slacking off and getting through their days.
Thinking that holding a secure job meant no work was necessary?
In the vast inn, there were at least thirty or forty ghosts, each having died in different ways and possessing varying levels of strength.
Beings like Green-faced Water Ghosts and White-Clothed Resentful Ghosts, which were quite powerful...
Surprisingly, there were quite a few of them inside this inn!
It seemed he had stumbled upon a haunt of ghosts and goblins.
"...This was careless," a familiar voice came from behind Fan Wu.
Xie Jiu, who had also stepped into the inn, saw the situation inside and said with a complex tone, "Just now, when I saw Daoist brother stepping in without hesitation, I thought this place was not as dangerous as I imagined."
"However, looking at it now... it seems different from what I thought. Daoist Fan, your courage is extraordinarily large! Knowing the dangers ahead are worse than a tiger’s den, yet you still walked in."
Xie Jiu’s tone carried no trace of fear, perhaps that was the way with the people of his Imperial Heaven Division.
After all, he was a government official dealing with various demons and devils.
Nevertheless, his tone was more solemn than usual.
You could hear that Xie Jiu was in a state of high alert.
His eyes were fixedly staring at the "guests" in the inn.
No other words were spoken.
At this moment.
All the "people" inside the inn had fallen silent.
The "guests" sat motionless.
But their heads had all turned towards Fan Wu.
In the inn, the heads of those "guests" with their backs to Fan Wu had even twisted a full one hundred eighty degrees!
Pairs of eyes stared straight at him!
The temperature dropped suddenly, as if entering an ice cellar.
Icicles formed on Xie Jiu’s eyebrows, and his breath turned to puffs of white mist.
Although all the doors and windows were tightly shut, chilly winds whistled through.
The candlelight flickered even more fiercely.
The warm glow of the candles, out of nowhere, turned a ghostly green!
An eerily hoarse voice, as if coming from all directions, yet as if coming from the deepest recesses of the mind, slowly said: "Leave the belongings... and you may go."
As the creepy voice fell, the cold wind inside the inn grew more intense, blowing Fan Wu’s Daoist robe and hair into a wild dance.
Patches of shadow on the ground slowly converged.
They formed into a giant shadowy figure standing in the center.
The black shadowy figure suddenly opened its many huge eyes!
Countless eyes covered its body, each one filled with an ominous aura!
Each of those bizarre pupils, at this moment, was fixating on Xie Jiu Yi.
They had locked onto Xie Jiu Yi entirely.
When his gaze met the eyes on the monstrous shadows, a terrifying sense of immediacy washed over him.
It was as if...
...his soul was about to be sucked in!
Of course, that was Xie Jiu Yi’s feeling.
By his side, Fan Wu didn’t feel much. At this moment, he was actually focusing on the attribute information of this strange shadow.
"[A special monstrous entity formed from the resentful spirits of the deceased at Chaos Burial Mound—Life: 788—Power: 13.5—Skill: Commanding Hundreds of Ghosts, Illusionary Array Barrier, Soul Devouring, Spiritual Possession...]"
That exaggerated attribute information was astonishing, with a Life attribute of 788 points, it was definitely the highest Fan Wu had ever seen.
The opponent’s Power attribute was also the highest Fan Wu had seen.
It far surpassed even Xuan Shizi, who had been possessed by The Great Revered One.
The Skill attribute was also dazzlingly diverse.
Upon seeing this attribute information, only one term came to Fan Wu’s mind...
—Elite BOSS!!
"Is this aura... the power of sacred offerings?!" Suddenly, Xie Jiu Yi’s voice rang out, carrying a trace of astonishment, followed by unprecedented solemnity.
Then, he immediately yelled out in a contralto voice, "Audacious! What kind of savage Demons and Devils are you, daring to masquerade as gods and mislead the people of Great Zhou into worshipping you without Imperial Court’s authorization?!!"
"You reckless fools, how dare you tamper with the items dispatched by the Imperial Astronomical Bureau... No, wait! How did you know the Imperial Astronomical Bureau was transporting this item, and that it would pass through here?!"
Fan Wu turned his head, glanced at Xie Jiu Yi with lowered eyes, then turned back to look at the shadow.
It appeared that these ghosts in the inn were not after him.
They were after the Imperial Astronomical Bureau.
Damn!!!
Sure enough, it wasn’t too good to get too close to the people from the Imperial Astronomical Bureau. He had done nothing and still got dragged into this mess.
Especially since this thing was clearly not easy to deal with.
Not to mention...
There were other ghosts inside the inn.
Even if they were not as exaggerated as the "Commanding Hundreds of Ghosts" described in the shadow’s Skill attribute, there were still about thirty or forty of them!
"Leave the items... and you may go," the eerie shadow said.
It was unclear if the shadow could not understand human speech or it was some other reason, but it kept repeating that same phrase.
And its voice grew louder and more clamorous.
"Leave the items, and you may go," the voice of the shadow grew gradually relentless and began hurrying, becoming more grating.
Fan Wu looked at Xie Jiu Yi.
This was the first utterance he made since entering the inn, "I think you should consider it."
He did not want to wade into this mess.
If Xie Jiu Yi handed over whatever it was, they might be able to leave this place.
However, no sooner had he finished speaking...
...than a disturbance came from the direction of the shadow.
All one could see was the unsettling mass of eyeballs on the shadow’s body beginning to spin chaotically... until one eye settled its gaze upon Fan Wu.
The rest of the spinning eyeballs abruptly stopped, rapidly turning in the same direction to look.
All of them locked onto Fan Wu!
Fan Wu saw very clearly at that instant those eerie eyes locked onto him... the whites of the eyes began to seep out streaks of crimson blood vessels.
As if they had encountered a sworn enemy.
Immediately after—
A piercing, hoarse screech...
Exploded!!!
"Blasphemer of The Great Revered One!!!!"
Fan Wu: "?"
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