The Immortal Emperor Returns

Chapter 61 Killing with One Strike

Chu Xun narrowed his eyes slightly. Looking at the roaring Ghost Infant, he sighed lightly.

Ghost Infant was not born like it was now. Not long after it was born, its soul was sealed by a secret method, and it was refined through an evil method.

Having been fed with fresh blood, its bones became as solid as iron as it grew.

Plus it could not be reincarnated because its soul was sealed, it had a lot of grievance. As a result, it was like a ferocious beast and possessed strong combating power.

Without intelligence, Ghost Infant was bloodthirsty.

“Swoosh!”

Ghost Infant jumped lightly, showing its great leaping ability and speed. It climbed onto the roof like a gecko and looked down at Chu Xun and Elder Gui, with its bloodshot eyes full of bloodthirsty desire.

“Swoosh!”

Though the roof was made of stone, Ghost Infant pierced into it with its claws like piercing tofu.

Seeing the scene, Elder Gui’s hair stood on end. If the claw had hit a man, the man would be seriously wounded even if he did not die.

“Swoosh!”

Ghost Infant charged downward at Chu Xun, causing a small pit on the stone floor. It then scratched toward Chu Xun’s head with its sharp claw, which was shining with black light.

“You’re miserable. You’re lucky that I’ll reincarnate you!”

Chu Xun’s voice was cold.

“Swoosh!”

A sword light appeared out of thin air and pierced through Ghost Infant’s body before disappearing in the blink of an eye.

The sword light was so dazzling that Elder Gui closed his eyes subconsciously.

Evil Taoist, who had dived out, suddenly stopped and felt uneasy.

“Boom!”

Ghost Infant fell onto the ground from mid-air in two parts. As black gas rose in the air, black blood flew from its corpse and corroded the ground, leaving several pot holes on the ground.

Evil Taoist was dumbfounded, and his eyelids twitched.

He did not know from when Chu Xun held a wooden sword in his hand. The sword seemed nothing unusual, but it was exactly this sword that killed the iron-like Ghost Infant with one strike.

Elder Gui was shocked. It appeared to him that he had made a wise choice to follow Chu Xun’s lead.

Evil Taoist looked at the wooden sword with greedy eyes, but soon, he shuddered in fear as he knew he met a tough opponent this time. He fled through the broken stone door without hesitation.

Chu Xun’s expression turned cold.

“Swoosh!”

A sword light suddenly appeared quietly.

With his upper body stretching out the door, Evil Taoist saw in horror that his lower body was separated from his upper body and was left inside the door. He was cut into two parts by the waist.

Elder Gui’s teeth shivered, and he felt a chill up his spine. He started to look at Chu Xun more respectfully.

Elder Gui’s eyelids jumped when he saw the wooden sword disappear from the thin air. The longer he had been with Chu Xun, the more mysterious he thought he was.

Chu Xun walked to the young girl and poked between her eyebrows.

“Puff!”

The young girl exhaled heavily as if she had just been saved from being drowned. After that, she cried bitterly for she was really frightened.

“You’re safe now. Go home quickly, girl.” Chu Xun did not know how to comfort her; thus his tone was a little gruff.

However, the girl ignored his words and cried for ten whole minutes before she lowered her voice. She stepped down from the table while her body was still trembling and ran outside staggering.

Before Chu Xun could let out a sigh of relief, he saw the girl run back.

“Thank you, brother!”

The girl bowed toward Chu Xun and ran away quickly.

Chu Xun was stunned for a while. Amused, he shook his head and looked down at the Hellish Python on his wrist, saying, “Jiu You, it’s your show time.”

With the voice, Hellish Python moved. It slipped from Chu Xun’s wrist onto the ground, moved toward the inner place of the basement, and finally stopped in front of a wall.

Chu Xun walked to the wall and punched it.

“Boom!”

The stone wall collapsed. As Chu Xun had expected, there was another space behind the wall.

Chu Xun walked in with Elder Gui, and his steps suddenly paused.

It was a space of one hundred square meters, and mummies in different postures could be seen everywhere.

Judging from the height and bones of those mummies, they should all be women.

“Bastard.”

Elder Gui gnashed his teeth in anger.

Judging from the postures of those dead women, they must have been tortured badly before their death.

There were two naked corpses in a corner, whose skins were black-ash with cadaveric ecchymoses on it. They might have died not long.

A cold light flashed within Chu Xun’s eyes. If he had found the place earlier, he would not have killed Evil Taoist so easily.

“Where is the Jade Card that I gave to you?” Chu Xun suddenly looked at Elder Gui and asked.

Elder Gui was stunned and replied in a low voice of embarrassment, “I gave it to Young Miss.”

As Chu Xun shook his hand, a Jade Card appeared in his palm. He threw it at Elder Gui.

The moment Elder Gui caught the Jade Card, several white shadows around him retreated in awe.

Those white shadows were the spectres of those dead women, who were murdered. They had strong grievance and would exist for a long time while they fed on the souls of the living beings. For Elder Gui was a normal man, he could not see those spectres, but as a cultivator, Chu Xun could see them clearly.

The Jade Card was made of Warm Jade, which was the nemesis of the spectre.

“The dust will come back to dust, and the soil will return to soil. The man who murdered you has already died, so you could go to him to take revenge. I, Chu Xun, would like to sow a good karma and send you on the way.”

Chu Xun waved his ten fingers and made a palm print quickly. At last, he forced a drop of blood out of his fingers pointed forward in the air.

“Reincarnation Formation, start.”

As his voice fell, the air was stirred, forming a visible white vortex in the air.

Reincarnation Formation was used to reincarnate souls of the dead.

Though being a level one formation, Reincarnation Formation could help the souls of the dead enter reincarnation. It only worked on the souls and was harmless. To a cultivator, this kind of formation was of no use. During one’s cultivation, one had to fight against God’s will and everything in the world, acted according to his mind, and killed frequently. As a result, no cultivator would bother to reincarnate those who they killed.

It was the first time for Chu Xun to use this formation, which he learned during his spare time.

“Woo...”

Gruesome crying voices sounded in the whole room, and gusts of chilling wind blew in the air. Countless white shadows flew up to the mid-air and bowed toward Chu Xun in the distance before they disappeared.

Elder Gui felt so terrified that his hair stood on end.

After the last white shadow entered the Reincarnation Formation, Chu Xun raised his hand and uttered a word “back”.

The white vortex disappeared into thin air.

At the moment, Jiu You moved inwards and stopped at the foot of a wall. It stood up and went through the wall, leaving a hole as large as a little finger on the wall, from where light shone through.

Elder Gui was dumbfounded again. He felt lucky that he did not have a heart disease; otherwise, he would have been attacked by it many times.

Chu Xun’s expression changed. He walked to the wall in a faster speed and crashed the stone door hidden in the wall with a punch. When the dust fell, he saw an open space.

It was still a space of more than one hundred square meters. The place was well decorated and was equipped with all kinds of furniture. From the looks of it, the place should be Evil Taoist’s residence.

All of a sudden, Chu Xun moved to Jiu You in the blink of an eye and lifted it by the tail quickly.

In Jiu You’s mouth was a small grass that emitted green light and a strong aura of spiritual energy. Beside Jiu You was a jade pot, in which was a half culm.

It was Ice Coagulation Grass!

Chu Xun looked heartbroken as he watched Jiu You swallow the Ice Coagulation Grass roughly.

“Celestial-eyed Elixir Grass.”

There was a half culm in another jade pot as well, and on the culm were bite marks. With a fallen red leaf beside it, the grass was withering quickly.

“Jiu You, look at what you’ve done!”

Chu Xun was heartbroken. Ice Coagulation Grass, a spiritual herb of low level, was very useful to him, and it was more so of Celestial-eyed Elixir Grass, which was the principal medical material of making Essence-gathering Elixir. However, Jiu You swallowed the grass like Zhu Bajie swallowing the ginseng fruits.

“It’s clever of you, little thing. No wonder you behaved so actively. You knew there were treasures here, didn’t you?”

Jiu You climbed onto and wound around Chu Xun’s fingers swiftly. After that, it rubbed Chu Xun’s palm with its little head flatteringly.

Just as Chu Xun relaxed its body subconsciously, Jiu You suddenly raised its head high and flew away like a lightning.

Looking toward where Jiu You headed to, Chu Xun saw a black stone on the table near the wall.

“Obstruse Stone.”

Before the voice fell, Chu Xun rushed to the table at an incredibly fast speed, grabbed the Obstruse Stone, and put it in his Storage Ring.

“Crack!”

Because Chu Xun took away the Obstruse Stone, Jiu You bit the table out of inertance, leaving a hole on it.

“Roar!”

Jiu You roared at Chu Xun in dissatisfaction.

Chu Xun caught Jiu You and threw it away as he was annoyed by the roar.

The poor Jiu You thus hit the wall and was pinned into it.

As a top monster, Jiu You’s flesh was as solid as steel, so the strike was just like a scratch. Jiu You waved its tail and landed on the ground, leaving a snake mark on the stone wall.

Elder Gui, who walked in behind Chu Xun, saw the scene and had a strange expression on his face.

“Swoosh!”

Jiu You rushed to Elder Gui and slapped him on the shoulder with its tail.

Elder Gui was caught unguarded and fell onto ground.

Elder Gui was confused and felt very angry inside. He wondered if he was wrongly punished. “Isn’t it Chu Xun who threw you away like throwing rubbish? Why did you vent your anger on me?” he thought.

However, Jiu You raised its head high and complacently as if it were saying, “You’re unlucky to see what you shouldn’t, so you only have yourself to blame.”

Chu Xun was focused on Obstruse Stone. His wooden sword was just the prototype of a fairy weapon, but now, with Obstruse Stone, he could build the wooden sword into a real fairy weapon.

It seemed that Evil Taoist was ignorant about the value of Obstruse Stone, judging from that the stone was placed on the table casually.

Chu Xun looked around and found no more precious thing. It was a pity that the Ice Coagulation Grass and Celestial-eyed Elixir Grass was swallowed by Jiu You; otherwise the trip would be really worthwhile.

Chu Xun wondered if it was from the Ghost Yin Sect that Evil Taoist got the Ice Coagulation Grass and Celestial-eyed Elixir Grass. No matter it was or not, Chu Xun thought he needed pay a visit to the sect when he was free. After all, spiritual herbs were so precious on earth and were exactly what he needed.

He wondered what Evil Taoist would feel when he knew that the treasures he left behind caused his sect to fall in the later on.

Jiu You moved to Chu Xun and touched his leg flatteringly. After that, he moved forward and stopped at the foot of the wall in front of it.

Elder Gui despised Jiu You in secret and thought it a sycophant who bullied the weak and feared the strong.

Chu Xun immediately understood that Jiu You found another secret chamber as this place was full of secret chambers.

“Boom!”

With the booming sound, the stone door hidden in the wall was exploded open, and a chilling aura spread away.

When the dust fell, Chu Xun looked forward with a smile. He finally found what he wanted.

When he stepped into the stone room, he was immediately surrounded by cold air. In the middle of the room stood a stone altar with the height of a man. On the altar was a crystal box about fifty centimeters in length, width, and height.

There was a frog-like animal about the size of a child’s palm in the box. The animal had gem-like eyes and was as transparent as glass all over. As it opened its mouth slightly and with its breath, it exhaled gusts of white smoke.

It was exactly the male Infinite Ice Toad.