Chapter 159: The Purification Plan (3)

It also unleashed its own Ghost Domain, connecting it directly to a supercomputer. Thus, the every move of all nations could not escape its surveillance. Once these nations cultivated enough ghost fusionists to absorb the heavenly change's black fog, it would use its Ghost Domain to lend them a helping hand.

By then, hundreds of seven-star ghosts would be enough to trample the entire Blue Star.

Naturally, as a ghost, selfishness was in its nature. It would certainly not exert itself for the survival of its kind. In fact, it had been secretly absorbing the heavenly change's black fog all along. When the time was ripe, it could use the energy of the black fog to reach the peak of the seven-star level.

As for those newly advanced seven-star ghosts that finished sweeping away the human race, once they lost their utility, they would simply become rations to help it break through to the eight-star level.

*Produce a few more ghost fusionists; you are all about to submit to my feet!*

A morbid smile hung on Sun Lang's face as he continued to monitor the situation across various nations. When certain countries encountered difficulties in ghost fusion, he would even inadvertently provide assistance via the network to accelerate the birth rate of ghost fusionists worldwide.

...

Meanwhile, Wu Zui, who was at the Twin Star Towers, had no idea that a certain creature had dug such a huge pit for the human race using the heavenly change's black fog. Having walked in the stairwell for quite a while now, he had not found any passage to leave.

Instead, the longer he walked within this triangular stairwell, the more footsteps began to echo both above his head and beneath his feet.

Moreover, those footsteps were exceptionally familiar, as if...

*As if they belonged to none other than myself!*

Wu Zui suddenly realized who those familiar footsteps belonged to.

The moment he recognized the source of the footsteps, the sounds from both upstairs and downstairs simultaneously grew urgent, as though they were being pursued by something. Wu Zui immediately summoned the Asking Heart Sword and stood ready, the red sword's glow casting a crimson hue across his face.

The footsteps grew increasingly dense, but this time, the sounds were hurtling directly toward Wu Zui. Soon, two figures identical to Wu Zui appeared. They similarly brandished Asking Heart Swords, launching an attack on Wu Zui from both above and below.

Wu Zui knew well that when facing multiple opponents, rather than injuring ten fingers, it was better to break one. After his embryonic domain blocked the attack from upstairs, Wu Zui used the Asking Heart Sword to deliver a swift decapitating blow to the figure charging from below. The karmic fire ignited its body, instantly reducing it to ashes.

Immediately afterward, Wu Zui turned to deal with the enemy from above.

However, right after slaying the figure below, a series of fine wounds appeared across Wu Zui's body, faint charred marks lingering on them. A long gash even opened up at his neck, blood gushing out continuously.

When the blood dripped onto the ground, it was rapidly absorbed by the floor.

Wu Zui quickly applied healing ointment to himself, then cast his gaze toward the figure that was watching him with a half-smile. Seeing that his opponent showed no intention of attacking, a bad premonition welled up in his heart.

*Don't tell me I have to suffer whatever injuries they take?*

Thinking of this, Wu Zui couldn't help feeling a headache coming on. It seemed that the ghost inside the Twin Star Towers must have already broken through to the six-star level and touched the edges of the rules. Otherwise, if it were merely a five-star ghost, it wouldn't have kept Wu Zui bogged down for so long.

Thinking up to this point, Wu Zui took out the black-leather book, which now had only half of its pages remaining. An endless suction force erupted, directly pulling the figure that was preparing to watch a good show into the book. Immediately afterward, a distorted black smoke appeared on the pages of the black-leather book.

Wu Zui did not suffer any sympathetic damage; leveraging the rule-based power of the seven-star ghost within the black-leather book, it was easy to sever the eerie and unpredictable ability of the Twin Star Towers' ghost.

Once the two ghost servants bearing Wu Zui's appearance were dealt with, the abyss below transformed back into the original grand hall. Yet Wu Zui's posture remained with one foot treading on the very first step, while his other foot still rested on the floor of the first-floor hall—looking as though he had not moved an inch the entire time.

Moreover, not a single scratch could be found on his body.

This startled Wu Zui, who had all along believed he had walked a long distance and sustained injuries. For this ghost to be able to interfere with his perception made things quite troublesome. Fortunately, Wu Zui had come alone; otherwise, incidents like accidentally injuring teammates could easily have occurred.

*The ghosts here appear even stronger than estimated.*

With this thought, Wu Zui did not dare to let down his guard. Holding the Asking Heart Sword in his right hand while controlling the illumination-providing karmic fire with the other, he cautiously stepped up the stairs once more...

At this moment, had any awakener looked at the Twin Star Towers from the outside, they would have noticed that a massive sealed space had completely and silently enveloped the towers. Judging from the surging resentment energy pulsing from above, the ghost here was undoubtedly going all out as well.

Wu Zui had broken through its dead-end traps twice; given that ghosts were entities overflowing with negative energy, it must be furious right now!

Still trapped in the stairwell, Wu Zui remained unaware of the external surging resentment energy. However, from his perspective, since the ghost inside the Twin Star Towers had failed in its consecutive attacks against him, its next assault would surely be even more ferocious.

Wu Zui's guess was correct. At this moment, all the ghost servants within the Twin Star Towers had flooded into the stairwell, and soon the exits on every floor were occupied by them. Clearly, the ghost intended to launch an attack using a massive horde of ghost servants to create an opportunity for a fatal strike.

The gathering of the ghost servants was perceived by Wu Zui almost instantly, as those converging entities made no effort to conceal their aura whatsoever. Perhaps they had been sent out precisely to consume Wu Zui's magnetic energy and distract him.

Looking at the countless ghost servants, Wu Zui raised his left hand slightly, whereupon the silhouette of the black-leather book materialized in his palm. Floating above his hand, the book flipped through its pages rapidly on its own without any wind.

A moment later, a red page—completely different from the other yellowish pages—was revealed. This page was condensed from Wu Zui's blood and magnetic energy. If wielded by the black-leather book ghost itself, this single page could trap a peer seven-star ghost.

Even with the black-leather book having lost its sentience, Wu Zui could still use it to fend off attacks from seven-star ghosts. Right now, however, it had an even greater purpose. The red page detached itself from the black-leather book and flew outward, and in the blink of an eye, the ghost servants in the stairwells of every floor began to be sucked into the red page one by one.

A moment later, a scroll filled with countless twisted ghost shadows was freshly forged, with all those ghost servants naturally imprisoned entirely within the black-leather book. At that very instant, a blazing blue light erupted from Wu Zui's body as a ferocious ghost claw—hovering just an inch behind the back of his head—was violently blocked.

Simultaneously, the Asking Heart Sword in Wu Zui's right hand swept backward in a flash, cleaving a distorted ghost shadow exuding a chilling aura directly into two halves. At the severed wound of the ghost shadow, a wisp of flame ignited, only to be promptly extinguished by the black substance overflowing from the ghost's body.

Having extinguished the karmic fire, the severed ghost shadow gradually merged back into one.

"Jie-jie."

The ghost shadow emitted an eerie chuckle before fleeing downward. Wu Zui immediately chased after it with his sword, but the ghost shadow was exceedingly agile, vanishing from his sight around a corner.

Yet, under Wu Zui's perception, the aura belonging to the ghost had not dissipated. Consequently, Wu Zui searched the vicinity where the ghost shadow had disappeared, but unfortunately, he found nothing. Realizing that the ghost shadow had survived a strike from the Asking Heart Sword without dying, his brows furrowed even deeper.

This ghost was actually not even afraid of the karmic fire on the Asking Heart Sword; that was utterly impossible!

*Could it be... this is not its true body!*

Wu Zui thought of this possibility immediately. Even Lai harbored a deep dread toward the Asking Heart Sword. Could a mere six-star ghost possibly be more formidable than Lai at the peak of the seven-star level? If that were truly the case, Wu Zui would have been finished the moment he stepped inside.

With this in mind, Wu Zui searched for the exit to leave the stairwell. The ghost servants here had already been completely cleared out by him. He estimated that the true body of that ghost was not located here at all. The ghost shadow that had chuckled at him earlier was nine times out of ten a decoy designed to lure him away.

Wu Zui searched along the walls of the stairwell, and a moment later, he found a door whose color blended seamlessly with the wall. He pulled the door open and stepped out of the stairwell.

Outside the stairwell was an office area belonging to a company, but at the moment, it was completely deserted—and naturally devoid of ghosts. Amidst the dead silence, the seemingly safe office area appeared to conceal terrifying murderous intent, as if a fierce ghost might leap out at any second.

The embryonic domain shrouded Wu Zui, the pale blue glow helping to calm his mind.

Wu Zui searched all the way upward through the office area. However, that ghost seemed to have been cowed by the power of the Asking Heart Sword and showed no intention of striking whatsoever.

Nor did Wu Zui find any trace or clues.

As time ticked away, Wu Zui arrived at the top floor of the Twin Star Towers. If there were still no traces of the ghost here, then that fleeing ghost shadow was most likely its true body. For a ghost that didn't fear the Asking Heart Sword to just slip away like that, Wu Zui felt he had truly been acting like a fool.

Once the top floor search was complete, there were no humans, no ghost shadows, and not even any ghost servants. It seemed Wu Zui had guessed wrong?

Unreconciled, Wu Zui looked out of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the top floor toward the outside of the Twin Star Towers. The sealing magnetic field was still active; logically speaking, that ghost should still be inside the Twin Star Towers.

"Where on earth are you!"

Frustrated, Wu Zui struck the wall beside the window with his fist. A soft sensation greeted his hand—not the hard texture that a concrete wall ought to have. Yet in the very next fraction of a second, the wall hardened once more.

But it was already too late!

Realizing something, Wu Zui directly thrust the Asking Heart Sword into the wall, and the karmic fire erupted explosively within the structure. The nearby walls began to melt away like candles encountering fire, chunks of black substance peeling off and falling.

A moment later, amidst a burst of roars, the entire Twin Star Towers writhed and twisted as if it were a living creature.

As it turned out, this six-star ghost had actually assimilated the entire Twin Star Towers! No wonder Wu Zui had been unable to find its true body. All those spooky things wandering around outside were merely its ghost servants; no matter how many he killed, it would never harm the ghost's true body!