Lanke Chess Edge

Chapter 444: The Situation Is Urgent, Slay the Plague Demon

Ji Yuan and Chang Yi flew at a considerable speed, but the deathly atmosphere stretched over a vast area, so they could only fly to the nearest location to investigate.As they drew closer, they could see the outlines of some towns and villages in the distance, but the human vitality was weaker than normal.

The night wind howled in the air, and the colorful clouds streaked across the sky in the darkness. The two people in the clouds observed the earth with their supernatural eyes and naturally noticed the peculiar ghostly light.

Chang Yi had more experience than Ji Yuan in this respect, and could immediately assess the situation.

“This is bad, Mr. Ji! This is a ghost born from the evil energy of heaven and earth. In addition, there must have been many corpses here, and the underworld has failed to handle them properly. The ghosts here have become a plague demon!”

The patches of ghostly light on the distant land all represented malevolent ghosts. They could even see underworld officials and deities throwing out techniques to fight them, but they were vastly outnumbered.

A ghostly green mist hung over the town before them, giving off an ominous feeling. Ghosts roamed the town, occasionally stealing wisps of yang energy from the inhabitants and emitting sharp cries that sounded both joyful and pained.

The glow in the night sky was extremely conspicuous. Although it was invisible to ordinary people, ghosts and spirits were very sensitive to it. Many ghosts and spirits had already looked up at the sky, but they couldn’t see anything aside from a single a colorful cloud.

Ji Yuan and Chang Yi circled the town and gained a general understanding of the ghosts’ activities. They no longer hesitated.

“Mr. Ji, you can just stand by and watch; I, Chang, will take the lead!”

As he spoke, Chang Yi had already formed a hand seal and cast a technique. His arms moved swiftly, his wrists twisting and turning, and in an instant, many beams of light flew downwards, instantly igniting any plague demons in their path.

A team of underworld officials, led by the judge, was fighting against hordes of plague demons. However, the approaching cloud in the sky was unsettling, and the spirits were also uneasy and unsure of what was going on.

“Your Honor, what is that glow in the sky? Could it be that someone is coming to our aid?”

“It’s still unclear, but a glow does not necessarily indicate a righteous cultivator; demons and evil spirits can also emit it, so we must be careful!”

As the judge answered, he swept his judge’s brush across the air, striking down the plague demons one by one and shaking their souls. Then, an underworld official would slay them with a single strike.

These plague demons were numerous and extremely malevolent, with a heavy, fierce aura. Often, after killing one, the evil energy wouldn’t dissipate, and instead would spread to other plague demons, potentially even spawning exceptionally powerful ones. Dealing with them required extreme caution.

Although ordinary plague demons weren’t particularly difficult to kill, after a prolonged struggle, even the ghosts and gods of the underworld felt exhausted. Everyone knew that plague demons were troublesome to deal with and had no energy left to control the situation.

Worse, the fiery Yang energy of ordinary people living together had little effect on the plague demons. The poisonous energy carried by the evil spirits had little effect on ordinary people living together, but once this poisonous energy spread, it could easily cause a plague. Infected people’s Yang energy could be devoured by the plague demons before death, agitating the group.

Furthermore, the corpses of these dead were even more greatly afflicted with the disease after death, becoming a breeding ground for the spread of plague; even without plague demons, people could still contract the disease.

These patterns had been gradually discovered over time, but the underworld currently had no capacity to do much about them now. Aside from sending messages to doctors, officials, and nobility in their dreams to offer advice on how to treat the plague, their main focus was on eliminating the plague demons. If the plague demons weren’t eliminated, every other action would be in vain.

Just as the ghosts and spirits were discussing the glowing clouds in the sky, beams of light suddenly appeared, sweeping across the area around the ghosts and spirits. The ghosts and gods were unharmed, but all the plague demons were set on fire.

“Aaaah…”

“Ugh…”

The plague demons, whose roars had remained unchanged no matter how they were hacked at, were now struggling and thrashing about in agony, letting out uncontrollable screams. Those plague demons that weren’t burned to death immediately set more and more of their brethren ablaze as they moved toward them.

The ghosts and gods instinctively stopped attacking and moved away from the plague demons. Then they looked up at the sky and saw two immortals standing on the clouds. One of them was making hand seals and casting a technique. The dazzling but extremely dangerous rays of light were emanating from his hand.

Soon, most of the plague demons in the city were engulfed in the flames brought about by the rosy light. At that moment, Chang Yi changed his hand seal and raised his hand upwards.

All the plague demons below burst into flames in an instant, and were burned to ashes in the span of just two breaths.

Besides observing the plague demons below, Ji Yuan also paid close attention to the entire process of Chang Yi’s technique. Chang Yi’s technique was a feast for the eyes, practically an art form. If it weren’t for the current situation, Ji Yuan probably would have been in a better mood and wanted to learn more.

“Thank you for your spiritual assistance, Immortal Masters. May I ask which immortals you two are? We are local underworld spirits and deities, and we have been battling these plague demons for several days. However, this place is only one of the areas ravaged by the plague demons, and there are many other places where they roam…”

The judge clasped his hands and explained the current situation to the two immortals on the clouds, hoping they could lend a helping hand. His expectations soon became reality.

Ji Yuan and Chang Yi returned the greeting simply, with the former saying:

“The name ‘Plague Demons’ is quite fitting for these creatures. They were likely brought about due to the evil energy from the earth veins. We will naturally try to resolve it. We also ask the underworld spirits to search again to see if there are any that have escaped.”

After finishing his explanation, Ji Yuan turned to Chang Yi.

“Mr. Chang, let’s split up and search for these demons, and try to get rid of them all. These demons, as the embodiment of plague, are far more harmful to this world than ordinary demons and monsters.”

Ji Yuan’s experience from his previous life told him that these kinds of ghosts were actually quite troublesome. While ordinary demons could be eliminated, these ghosts might have already spread plague, and could even be carried to more distant places, becoming human-borne instead of supernatural.

“We’ll do as you say, sir!”

Chang Yi responded, and in the next moment he and Ji Yuan transformed into two streaks of light and flew away in different directions, having no time to chat with the ghosts and gods below.

In this small region in the northwest of the country of Yuanzhao, the plague had clearly already spread. There were an enormous number of plague demons.

Ji Yuan was not as skilled in eliminating plague demons as Chang Yi, but he still had his own efficient methods. Wherever he went, he directly used the sword energy of his immortal sword to kill the plague demons. He didn’t care whether it was like using a cannon to kill a mosquito, he only knew that this method was absolutely effective.

The area ravaged by the plague demons was actually much larger than Liao Daqiu and the others had imagined. In the past few days, they had only heard about it in terms of “the surrounding counties” or “neighboring towns,” as if it were just a few counties. But Ji Yuan and Chang Yi flew across the region tonight, the area of which could be counted as a prefecture. Although they didn’t know the regional names of this country, Ji Yuan even wondered if he had been traversing the equivalent of half of Ji Province to slay demons.

Fortunately, Ji Yuan’s supernatural eyes were special. At this moment, relying on his pure spiritual power, he constantly observed heaven and earth in all directions, his eyes wide open. If there was even the slightest hint of something amiss, he would instantly fly over there, draw his sword, and strike. No demon could survive the sweeping strike of his sword energy.

At first, he might exchange a few words with the ghosts and spirits he encountered, but later Ji Yuan simply ignored them completely. It wasn’t that he was aloof, but rather that he didn’t have time to chat with them.

After tossing and turning for half the night, a flash of divine light appeared in the sky. Ji Yuan arrived in Dahe County this time and saw that the county was also plagued by evil spirits. Ignoring the gaze of the underworld gods and ghosts, he directly drew his sword and slashed.

The clear ringing of a sword sounded out. Ji Yuan swung his sword a few times. All the ghosts, gods, and plague demons only felt a blinding white light before they sensed a piercing sharpness. Before long, it was all over.

The constant howling and wailing of the plague demons also disappeared.

This region had been already on the verge of being overrun by the plague demon’s rampage, but now it was almost over. Ji Yuan stood on the cloud and looked around. With his spiritual eyes, he could hardly see any place left where the plague demons’ ghostly energy gathered. He was just about to breathe a sigh of relief when he suddenly noticed a ghostly light.

Like many counties here, Dahe County did not have a City God. At this moment, there were two Nighttime Patrol Officers and a team of underworld officials currently present in the county. When they saw Ji Yuan using his sword technique to exorcise ghosts, they immediately clasped their fists and bowed.

“Thank you, Immortal Master. We are… uh…”

The Nighttime Patrol didn’t continue; Ji Yuan had already vanished before their eyes, stepping on clouds and turning into light, leaving no words behind.

The last glimmer of light in Ji Yuan’s eyes was in the direction of Maotan Village. Riding the clouds, he quickly approached Maotan Village and even heard shouts of battle. Previously, the battles between the plague demons and the underworld ghosts and gods were usually quiet, with most of the noise being from the plague ghosts.

‘Military spirits? No, not entirely!’

Upon approaching Maotan Village, he discovered that this small village was surprisingly free of plague demons; they had all been kept outside the village, and a force of several dozen armed ghosts were fighting against them.

Although the plague demons here were insignificant compared to those of the previous towns, this scene was still somewhat unbelievable, especially since Ji Yuan even saw a ghost formation derived from battle formation techniques.

“Kill! Brothers and sisters, don’t be afraid! We’ve already died once, what’s there to fear!”

“Kill…”

“Archers in the rear, once you’ve run out of arrows, throw down your bows and charge with your swords!”

Despite the presence of male and female ghosts in the rear ranks, the spirits, which should have been shrouded in a gloomy aura, they displayed an indomitable spirit upon receiving the military command.

“Kill…”

The archers threw down their bows, drew their swords, or picked up their spears from the ground, and charged toward the already precarious front.

The local Land God, who was throwing out spiritual techniques to assist, was extremely anxious. Although there was no longer a continuous stream of plague demons coming, there still seemed to be hundreds of them outside the village.

Even with these remaining plague demons, the surviving spirits of the cemetery were likely to be overwhelmed, and the Land God himself was nearly exhausted.

The sound of a sword echoed across the land, followed by a flash of sword light. Many ghosts instinctively squinted. When they could see their surroundings again, the plague demons had disappeared, leaving only wisps of eerie light dissipating.

The Land God stared blankly at the village entrance, momentarily confused. Then, as if sensing something, he suddenly looked up and saw a white-robed immortal holding a sword standing atop a radiant cloud in the sky.

T/n: “using a cannon to kill a mosquito” is my new favorite phrase

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