I Don't Agree to the Terms-Chapter 1094 - 575: The Fish Is Caught, Yet It Seems a Dark Conspiracy Was Hooked as Well

"The aura of a strong presence, appearing in a small world already covered in frost."

The Hunter King, riding an eight-legged horse, heard the barking of two soul hunting dogs and quickly locked onto a world about to meet its demise, where an impressive strong presence had unexpectedly appeared.

This was a very unusual occurrence.

To become a strong presence, one must surely require a large amount of resources, and the likelihood of such a presence emerging from a small world is extremely slim.

"My lord, are you planning to personally intervene?" asked one of the ghost hunters, somewhat puzzled.

"Leave it to you all; this time it would be inconvenient for me to act." The Hunter King's gaze shifted to another white celestial body, named Frost by the Elf Clan.

"Understood!"

A seasoned ghost hunter swiftly departed, penetrating the black celestial body and heading toward the coordinates given by the soul hunting dogs through the magic tide radiation zone.

"When will the entanglement of the dual-star celestial body finally end?" the Hunter King murmured quietly.

Others only saw the ghost hunters hunting the souls of the strong, unaware that to stabilize the dual-star celestial body, sufficient fuel is required; otherwise, if gravity fails, the entire world cluster would instantly collapse, consumed by the magic tide.

The entire world cluster is maintained by this dual-star celestial body.

Fortunately, there are rumors; those who become fuel and burn out will become torchbearers. They are immortal, passing on the flame, calling themselves the undying.

Ghost Hunter is merely an external designation for them.

By continuously delivering the souls of the strong as fuel, they not only maintain the stability of the dual-star system but also inhibit the spread of Destructive Frost.

Now, the Destructive Frost in the entire magic tide radiation zone is actually just weakened Frost. If it were truly the Destructive Frost, there wouldn't be any survivors; the world would freeze upon contact with Frost, and in at most three days, everything would fall into silence.

By then, the entire world cluster would become a graveyard of worlds, with numerous worlds that died due to Frost converging, transforming into an immensely terrifying calamity.

After all, while the world dies, the dual-star celestial body still exists, carrying the vast graveyard of world corpses along and continuously infecting other worlds.

He maintained the entire world cluster for countless years, witnessing small worlds perish unable to resist Destructive Frost, and witnessing new worlds being reborn and evolving on these corpses post-Frost.

By now, he stopped caring about the death of individual worlds. As long as the entire world cluster remained intact, when the dual-star orbit returned, new worlds would already be born over the ones that died.

If he softens for one world, by the time it affects the whole world cluster, it would be too late. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

With the movement of the dual-star celestial body, he steeled his heart long ago. As long as most worlds could be preserved, sacrificing a few was deemed worthwhile.

As for the sacrificed worlds, he couldn't help them; under the Destructive Frost, all beings were truly equal.

Besides, even if he wanted to help, he was powerless, for tied up with balancing the two celestial bodies, he had no resources left to assist others.

Nowadays, he rarely intervenes, mostly guarding against issues with the two celestial bodies.

...

Waves appeared in the sky, Gu Shanhai squinted his eyes.

"They're here, I've been waiting for twenty-nine days. If they hadn't come, I'd be leaving by tomorrow." Gu Shanhai saw a squad of ghost hunters break through the world, arriving at this realm.

They swiftly locked onto the Heart Demon Dao Soldiers.

"The technology is decent, but somehow these ghost hunters seem not quite right," said Gu Shanhai, a little puzzled. Theoretically, ghost hunters should be the souls of the strong, strong presences that Gu Shanhai acknowledged. In this world cluster, their prowess was indeed recognized.

But regarding the soul aspect, Gu Shanhai couldn't bring himself to agree.

Given their structure and form, if they were souls, then the heart demons within the Heart Demon Dao Soldiers should count as souls too.

"Ashes, a pile of ashes left after being burned." The first thing Gu Shanhai thought of.

Though the strength remained, it would forever be stagnant.

A normal soul is like a tree planted in soil, gradually growing.

A damaged soul is like a felled tree, if lucky, might be grafted to live a second life.

But these ghost hunters were different; not even charcoal, purely burned into a heap of ashes, not just unable to strengthen, Gu Shanhai felt amazed they were even alive.

Simply challenging Gu Shanhai's curiosity.

"Artificial creations, not innately so, suggesting that the ghost hunters' essence isn't actually expanding power or forming calamity."

"Instead, they're searching for fuel to keep something burning."

The fuel naturally being the souls of the strong.

"So, are these ghost hunters considered living or dead?" Gu Shanhai pondered this question, living they certainly weren't, a heap of ashes, yet calling them dead was even less reliable. These ghost hunters clearly retained everything from their past, without any abnormalities.

"Let's catch one first."