Transmigrating over ten thousand years late, I was forced to become a mighty presence

Chapter 397: Chapter 182 Disaster Begins_1

Tai Province, Luoshan County.

Traversing the lands of Luoshan County, Shen Yuan’s gaze swept across the villages at the edge of the plains.

In the sprawling villages, not a soul could be seen, the streets were covered with dust, and the neatly-built brick houses bore a sense of dilapidation, looking empty and deathly silent.

Along the way, he had seen countless such villages, and even towns.

When signs of ghostly chaos first appeared in Tai Province, Great Xia’s Imperial Court promptly realized the danger lurking within these small towns and villages.

There were no cultivators in these small towns and villages; it would take just one Essence Refining Stage wandering soul to easily instigate widespread panic and slaughter hundreds of people.

The Imperial officials organized a massive effort to evacuate residents from various places, concentrating them in the larger cities nearby.

With cultivators from the Imperial Astronomical Bureau stationed in the large cities, although it was impossible to ensure 100% safety, they could at least prevent widespread calamity caused by malevolent spirits.

In the early stage of evacuation, some ordinary people refused to comply with Great Xia’s official arrangements and stubbornly remained in their villages.

However, as Yin spirits truly appeared before everyone’s eyes, those once adamant residents ran faster than anyone. In the face of genuine ghostly threats, the evacuation work proceeded extraordinarily smoothly.

It must be said that this move by Great Xia’s Imperial Court was indeed effective.

Shen Yuan had traveled from Luo Province and had seen many Ghost Objects blocked from entering densely populated cities.

A multitude of formations and the protection of cultivators prevented the numerous Ghost Objects from wandering into the cities to wreak havoc.

Shen Yuan merely needed to patrol outside the cities to effortlessly dispatch more than a dozen Qi Transformation Stage evil spirits.

Everything seemed to be developing in a positive direction.

But it was not until Shen Yuan entered Luoshan County, where Fengdu City was located, that everything in front of him started to change drastically.

In Shen Yuan’s view, the whole Luoshan County seemed to be gradually peeling away from the present world, so out of place with the surrounding counties.

Thick Yin energy continuously rose from the ground, corroding every person who set foot in Luoshan County.

It was as if a huge ghostly claw made of Yin energy was outside the world, gradually dragging the entire Luoshan County into the Yin World.

“To drag the entire Luoshan County into the Yin World, it really is a grand gesture!” Shen Yuan couldn’t help but sigh in amazement.

Before coming to Tai Province, he already knew that the kingdom of Hell was making moves but had not expected them to forcibly peel away a county from the present world.

To employ such a method when the Spirit Energy Tidal Surge was not yet fully revived would surely cost even the 10th Hall Yama a hefty price.

But correspondingly, such an environment greatly aided the kingdom of Hell’s invasion of the Yang World.

Firstly, anyone within the environment of the Yin World who dies will inevitably give birth to Ghost Objects.

As the core of Tai Province, Luoshan County was already an economically prosperous area with nearly ten million people; under normal circumstances, the daily natural death toll was in the hundreds.

Under the catalysis of such a dense Yin energy, a large number of evil spirits would surely be born from the corpses of those deceased humans.

Add onto this the death and injury that evil spirits bring about – the people killed would once again become evil spirits. The population of Ghost Objects within Luoshan County was virtually endless, no matter how many were killed.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Just the act of dragging Luoshan County into the Yin World was enough to give Great Xia’s Imperial Court a headache.

Moreover, the methods of the kingdom of Hell are certainly not limited to this.

Shen Yuan’s eyes carried a hint of emotion as he glanced at the wandering giant evil spirit beside the desolate road.

This evil spirit was shrouded in thick Yin energy, its greedy gaze as if searching for the breath of living flesh and blood.

With a wave of his sleeve robe, Heaven and Earth’s Primordial Elemental Qi turned into shackles, dragging the giant evil spirit before Shen Yuan.

Shen Yuan examined the terrified evil spirit in front of him closely, lightly tapping his fingertip on the spirit’s forehead. The next moment, a wisp of illusory Yin energy flew out from the top of its head.

Reflected within the illusory Yin energy seemed to be a phantom image of an ethereal city, with the words “City of Wrongful Death” prominently written above the city gate.

“The thickness of the Yin energy on this evil spirit doesn’t seem like something that the Primal Chaos Realm could breed in just a few months.

Now a look indeed proves so; this evil spirit is actually from the City of Wrongful Death in the kingdom of Hell.

The Biancheng King, one of the sixth of the 10th Hall Yama, it seems he too is unwilling to fall behind the Samsara King, choosing to directly intervene in the affairs of Luoshan County,” Shen Yuan mused.

His gaze passing over the phantom image of the City of Wrongful Death, with a slight thought, the shackles made of Heaven and Earth’s Primordial Elemental Qi brutally crushed the giant evil spirit.

This was not only the evil spirits continuously emerging within Luoshan County; there were also countless evil demons accumulated by the kingdom of Hell over many years.

Even if the present environment only allows low-level Ghost Objects to enter the borders of Luoshan County, the threat to ordinary people remains lethal.

Furthermore, the characteristics of the Ghost Objects grant them immunity to physical damage, rendering the most relied upon firearms and firepower of Great Xia’s Imperial Court unable to pose any threat to them.

Once the army of Ghost Objects takes shape, the cultivators stationed by the Imperial Astronomical Bureau in Luoshan County City will definitely be inadequate to resist, and then they can easily swallow the entire Luoshan County.

When the people of Luoshan County City are slaughtered to the last and transformed into millions of evil spirits, the entire Tai Province will be engulfed by this army of Ghost Objects.

With this thought, Shen Yuan’s look became even more grave.

He turned his gaze toward the east, toward a great mountain range that spanned the end of the plains, his sight settling on an ancient city beneath the mountains.