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Chapter 309: Chapter 263: Breakthrough to the Lower Realm! Wolf Map Blood Burning Technique!_3

Holding the Black Bead, he took it out from the jade box.

"Black Abyss Pearl, back then when I forced you out from my body, and now, covered in dust for so many years, it was my fault..."

"Haha, who would have thought that I, Baili Xinghua, having read countless books and dedicated myself to Xirong County for decades, still couldn’t escape my fate in the end."

"Maybe, I did choose the wrong path initially," he held the Black Bead, and suddenly, black aura spread over his palm, "you and I were meant to be one."

"Don’t you want to possess my body?" Baili Xinghua cried out crazily again, "Come on! Come on!"

It seemed as though responding to Baili Xinghua.

The Black Bead in his palm suddenly surged with black aura, wrapping Baili Xinghua in an instant.

Outside the room, in the shadows.

"Not good!"

Hu Han immediately realized the gravity of the situation, disregarding his hidden whereabouts, and rushed into the room at lightning speed.

Upon entering, he felt a bone-chilling cold strike his face, and upon focusing his gaze, the entire room was already occupied by black aura.

In the center of the room, Baili Xinghua, engulfed in black aura, stared straight at the rushing Hu Han.

"Why? Why do you always keep watching me?" Baili Xinghua’s voice was hoarse.

"Neither human nor ghost, my Regent’s Mansion is precisely watching people like you!"

Despite fear, Hu Han braced himself and blocked the door.

He had already notified other colleagues at the Regent’s Mansion, believing they would soon come.

Baili Xinghua’s ghostly appearance gave enough reason for the Regent’s Mansion to capture him.

"Neither human nor ghost? Hahaha..." Baili Xinghua laughed with a voice so hoarse it made one’s scalp tingle, "Yet what if I am human? You... are nothing but a walking corpse following orders!"

"You think... you... are really you?"

The laughter stirred the black aura, causing the entire room’s black aura to become agitated at this moment.

"Hmph, neither human nor ghost, spouting ghostly words!" Hu Han drew his weapon, "Today, I, Hu Han, will replace..."

"Ah—"

Black aura rolled through the room, screams incessantly rang out.

"What’s happening?"

"Seems like it’s the County Governor’s room!"

"Go take a look quickly!"

Guards, servants, and aides rushed over.

"Ah..."

"Help!"

"..."

The house collapsed, black aura soared into the sky. freeweɓnovēl.coɱ

In the Baili Mansion, the lives of hundreds were consumed by the black aura within moments.

Outside the mansion.

"Commandery Governor’s Mansion! Something major has happened at the Commandery Governor’s Mansion!"

"Black aura... black aura... evil!"

"Run quickly!"

"Ah—"

"..."

A few streets away, in the Commandery Mansion.

"Not good!"

Two Meridian Unlocking Realm breaths from the Xirong County Government instantly rushed out, heading straight for the Baili Mansion.

But when the pair arrived, the streets leading to Baili Mansion revealed not a single living soul.

Both looked simultaneously toward the rooftop, a hundred meters away, where a figure emitting black aura stood.

"Not enough... not enough..." Baili Xinghua lowered his head slightly, eyes filled with black menace, "Once I devour that kid, I’ll return to consume all of you!"

With his words, black aura surged, heading for the outside of the eastern city.

The two major Meridian Unlocking Realm individuals stationed in Xirong County chased to the city outskirts, but the black aura had completely disappeared.

"What was that ghastly thing? Evil?" one person frowned and said.

"It resembles it somewhat but not quite, evils only know how to devour, why would it flee upon seeing us?"

"..."

In the city, Baili Mansion.

Liu Bingmu from the Regent’s Mansion arrived with his men.

"Sir, there’s no sensing Hu Han!"

"Baili Xinghua is missing as well!"

"..."

...

At night.

In Pingzhong County, Shan County’s county city, on the street beside the County Government, in a tavern.

"Did you hear? Something major happened at Xirong County yesterday."

"What major event? Did the Blood Evil Sect attack the County Government at night again?"

"How is that possible, the Blood Evil Sect has already been wiped out."

"Then what happened?"

"I heard that an exceedingly malevolent entity appeared in the Commandery Governor’s Mansion in Xirong County, consuming over a hundred people inside, over a hundred outside, nearly three hundred people in total."

"A malevolent entity? Was it evil?"

"Not evil. I have a cousin who works and happened to be there; he said that the malevolent entity fled the city straight after devouring the three hundred people."

"Oh? Fled proactively, it indeed doesn’t look like evil."

"So you’re saying the County Governor at Xirong County got consumed too?"

"Yes, entire Commandery Governor’s Mansion, not a single person spared."

"Everyone should avoid going to Xirong County lately; first Blood Evil Sect night raids on the County Government, then malevolent entities, who knows what will appear after."

"We’re Escort Masters, we go where there’s work, how can we concern ourselves with this?"

"Right, how to earn more silver is what we should worry about."

"Shan County isn’t a good place either, hasn’t the County Magistrate Zhang Family been arrested by the Regent’s Mansion already?"

"..."

As they conversed, the martial artists gradually pushed the topic of Xirong County’s malevolent entity aside, turning their discussions from ghastly entities and evils to where the wine is cheapest and best-tasting, where the women are the most skilled...

Suddenly, the candle flames in the tavern collectively flickered.

Within a few breaths, they returned to normal.

"Shopkeeper, what’s going on? Such a big tavern can’t even afford decent candles?"

Some drunk patrons took this chance to act up.

"My apologies, my apologies," the tavern manager nodded and bowed, "not sure where the eerie wind came from, attendant, close the windows properly, don’t let it disturb our guests drinking."

"Got it."

"..."

"Eerie wind? I just saw a shadow flash by outside the window!"

"You’re drunk, surely..."

"..."

Tap tap tap!

Suddenly.

The recently closed window made knocking sounds, the candle flames flickered again.

"Shopkeeper, are you going to do business or not?"

"Attendant, didn’t I tell you to close the windows?"

"I did... ah—"

"Why screa... ghost!"

Swish swish swish—

Black aura rampaged within the tavern.

"Ah—"

"..."

Panic, screams, until an eerie silence fell.