Chapter 842: Trying to Go Dark the Moment You Hit a Little Trouble!

Bzzt-

It was almost a flash before his eyes, and Bai Yi couldn't even clearly see the Evil Spirit Conglomerate's movements. A thick stench of blood instantly rushed into his nasal cavity, his vision went black, and that Evil Spirit's hideous face had already appeared right in front of him.

Squelch-

The sharp bloody hand stabbed over in that split instant of lightning and flint.

But the pain of flesh being pierced didn't come. Or rather, he had long since grown numb to pain. It was only when he once again dazedly came to his senses that he saw that nearly transparent figure standing in front of him, watching that bloody hand pierce through her ethereal body bit by bit.

His pupils dilated violently.

Tears burst from his eye sockets. He reached out almost hysterically, wanting to cry out.

But he didn't even know her name.

He had seen many evil ghosts.

He had seen the mad Evil Spirit in Happy Home, had seen the endless stream of Flesh and Blood Humanoids surging forth to kill them in the Supernatural Administration's underground. But never before had he wept like this, because there were always those soul spirits who transformed themselves to protect others. They still held kindness toward every person, willing to give their lives again and again for others.

Even if it was just a stranger.

Under the violent devouring, that bloody hand savagely clenched tight, and her ethereal body instantly began to twist as it was sucked and consumed by that hand.

But she still turned her head in that instant, silently opening her mouth toward him.

As if using the last of her strength to gaze at him.

Run!

In an instant.

It was like intense pain swept through every corner of his heart.

The violent surge of Yin energy pushed his body heavily outward. His body crashed hard onto the blood-soaked Magic Circle beneath his feet. His pupils trembled madly as he urgently watched that girl's ethereal soul body being devoured bit by bit by that twisted evil ghost.

Cold.

An unprecedented cold.

Spread out bit by bit through his entire body.

In this moment, he truly wanted power more than ever before. Even if it meant paying with his soul, even if it meant turning himself into an evil ghost, he would spare no cost.

Hell!

If you can hear my voice.

Even if... even if...

"AHHHHH!!!"

He madly scrambled up, suddenly gripping the silver sword in his hand tight, and almost risking everything, he roared and turned around, suddenly extending his hand toward the hellish Rift behind him.

Just like those forbidden knowledge texts he had seen in the Supernatural Administration's archives.

If you truly want something at any cost.

Then sacrifice to the entire hell.

Using your soul and body as the price, send a call to all the Evil Gods in hell. No matter who it is, whether evil ghost or grotesque unknowable being.

Let me kill this Evil Spirit!

I am willing to pay everything I possess!

I beg you!

Any response!

And this mad scene of his even caused the Evil Spirit Conglomerate's expression to change, but by the time it realized what he wanted to do, it was already too late.

In that hoarse, blood-and-tears roar.

His hand unhesitatingly and madly reached toward the Rift behind him that was about to close.

But it was also at this moment.

Smack-

No one expected it. A hand suddenly shot out from that nearly closed Rift, grabbing Bai Yi's outstretched wrist like steel pliers.

In an instant.

It was as if the entire dark night fell silent for it.

A playful voice slowly drifted out from the Rift.

"If you really do that, it won't be fun anymore, kid."

Silence.

Bone-chilling silence.

Bai Yi tremblingly and urgently stared at that hand extending from the Rift, gripping his wrist. He watched the trace of corrupt flesh and blood bound in that palm, as if it had a life of its own, gurgling and crawling up onto that hand's wrist, merging in bit by bit.

In that moment, his entire being seemed to collapse all at once.

Hot tears streamed from his eye sockets.

This voice...

"Big Brother!!"

He almost lost all strength in an instant, his whole body collapsing as he crumpled down, wailing with snot and tears, his loud crying echoing through the silent dark night.

That Evil Spirit Conglomerate trembled as it watched that hand reaching out from hell.

It almost instinctively took a step back.

"Impossible!"

"This is absolutely impossible!"

It trembled as it retreated, the massive suppression making every piece of flesh on its body quiver.

How could such a Sacrificial Magic Circle possibly succeed?! How could he possibly complete such a massive summoning with just the sacrifice of a single small Evil Spirit? Unless the Demon he was summoning was weak enough that it didn't require any real offering at all.

But it almost instantly denied this thought, because the aura of flesh and blood calamity radiating from that hand made even it feel waves of shuddering.

Unless...

Unless this sacrifice had actually never been completed at all!!

And he couldn't truly descend into this world under these circumstances either. Instead, that Demon had supplemented more power for that Bai Yi on the other side to offer to hell, letting him climb to the front of this door that couldn't even contain his bulk!

Crack crack crack-

Booming sounds rang out one after another.

Right before its trembling gaze, tentacles extended out from the depths of that pitch-black Rift one by one, jamming themselves on both sides of the Rift, resisting its closure.

And then.

Another hand suddenly reached out, heavily clamping onto both sides of the Rift. Within the thick darkness of the Rift, a bizarre face with slightly upturned lips slowly emerged.

That face almost instantly overlapped with the countenance of that grotesque denizen of hell from beneath the Plague Doctor Mask in their memories.

It was that Demon!

He had really come!

In this moment, immense terror almost instantly swept through the Evil Spirit Conglomerate's eyes. Not only was it due to the fear he had once instilled in their Flesh and Blood Cult, but even more so, it was the instinctive dread and panic that beings of the Surface World's supernatural realm felt toward creatures of hell.

"Big Brother!!!"

Bai Yi almost wailed and sobbed as he crawled over.

But he had barely crawled over.

Smack-

A big slap sent Bai Yi spinning three hundred and twenty degrees in mid-air. He landed dumbly on the ground, his face swelling at an unimaginable speed.

He aggrievedly clutched his face, trembling as he said:

"Big Brother... why did you slap me..."

Lynn opened his Dead-Fish Eyes, flexed his wrist, and said:

"I hit you because I'm afraid you won't remember otherwise. Watched too many movies, have you? Don't go thinking about going dark the moment you hit a little trouble. Hell isn't something you can just come into contact with whenever you want, kid. One Flesh and Blood Dominator is already troublesome enough. If you really dare attract the attention of some other things to this world, skinning you alive would be letting you off easy."

Bai Yi aggrievedly huddled there like a three-hundred-pound son, obediently listening to his Big Brother's scolding.

In his entire life, aside from Evil Spirits, the thing he feared most was his Big Brother.

No.

Even Evil Spirits weren't as scary as his Big Brother.

Wuwu.

Lynn slowly raised his head, his Dead-Fish Eyes open, his gaze falling on that twisted Evil Spirit trembling and retreating in the distance.

"Where's my sacrifice? That very pretty Evil Spirit mm you mentioned."

Bai Yi instantly trembled, his whole body going rigid as he widened his eyes and forcefully swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

Then he pointed at that Evil Spirit Conglomerate.

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"Just now... just now he ate her..."

That Evil Spirit Conglomerate's entire body trembled.