Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Sole Hunter

  After Chu Cheng walked far away, You Quan's eyes flickered and he took out a small pile of gold coins, more than before.

  He threw all these gold coins into the light group representing "Chu Sheng".

  "Are you crazy? This is all your property! You've worked so hard as a pawnbroker for the Yin spirits, toiling away for years, and finally earned 200,000 gold coins! Now you're betting it all on 'Chu Sheng'?" Yin Wu's face turned pale with shock.

  He and Yūsen were once both human, but later simultaneously transformed into yōkai.

  The past is deeply hidden in their hearts, and they have just woken up to become acquainted with each other, understand each other, and become good friends.

  For many years, they have been supporting each other.

  Yuquan is clever and intelligent, with extremely high innate talent. The two of them form a small but perfectly coordinated team.

  They have been accumulating for so many years just to enter the Spirit Tower.

  For humanity, the Shadow Tower crisis presents both danger and opportunity.

  For them, the Spirit Spire is a sacred place of cultivation, with only benefits and no drawbacks.

  Now, Youquan has spent all his savings, how can he not be anxious?

  "Yin Wu, if you believe me, then do the same as me and bet all your gold coins on 'Chu Sheng'." You Quan said sincerely to Yin Wu.

  "Why?" Yin Wu was puzzled: "All along, I've been listening to you, because you're smarter than me. But this time, I need you to give me an explanation, a sufficient one!"

  Yuquan looked at Yinwu and stared for a long time before suddenly breaking into laughter.

  "If I said it was just intuition, would you believe me?"

  Yin Wu was taken aback for a moment, then looked at You Quan, and also stared for a long time.

  I believe!

  Yin Wu took a big step forward and threw all the gold coins at "Chu Sheng".

  Then they smiled at each other and left together.

  After a moment, one of the five people who had been standing in the corner suddenly spoke up.

  "Master, that person is Chu Cheng!" It was a woman's voice, soft and gentle.

  "Hmm. You guys think Chu Cheng will survive?" The person known as "Young Master" said calmly.

  "Of course it's impossible! With his little strength, he's just a waste, can't even beat our household's slaves, how could he possibly survive?" The woman said disdainfully.

  "Not necessarily!" Another voice rose, also a woman's, but unlike the previous one, her voice was extremely cold.

  "Huh? Qing Meng, you and Tao Yao have different views? Why?" The young master was very interested.

  "Intuition!" Qing Meng replied.

  "Intuition? A woman's intuition? Qing Meng, you've cultivated the Mysterious Dream Divination Technique, and in the midst of obscurity, you can see the direction of things in the form of 'dreams'. Your intuition is more reliable than most people's careful thinking." Young Master said lightly: "However, this time you're wrong."

  "Why?" Qing Meng's voice was still cold and clear.

  "Because, I want him dead!" The young master's voice suddenly became extremely cold: "Jiugongzi and Huang Tiancang, unexpectedly didn't know why, knew my deployment, dodged the assassination of the dark spirit killer, and actually left here! Now, Dongfang Ye is unconscious, Hong Weilian is hiding, my prey, only Cold Storage Feng and Chu Cheng are left!"

  "Young master, what are you going to do?" The soft and charming voice of Tao Yao rose up.

  "Nature is giving them two, making it a bit difficult for them to die!" The young master's eyes flashed with cold light: "Tao Yao, Qing Meng, you two are both beyond the ordinary realm of threefold, one with five drops of blood essence and one with six drops of blood essence. You go and fight, kill Leng Cang Feng! Pursue the soul, seize life, you two are both at the first level of the Seven Treasures Realm, Taiyang Tonggu! You participate in the unique hunt, as prey, strike and kill Chu Cheng!"

  "Yes!"

  As soon as the words fell, Taoyao, Qingmeng, Zhuihun, and Duoming all dispersed, leaving only "Young Master" alone.

  "Refrigerate the edge, Chu City, I must have you dead! You are my prey, how can you not die?"

  "Red William, no matter where you hide, I will find you. And you are far stronger than Cold Storage and Chu City. You are my true prey!"

  The young master slowly removed the mask from his face, revealing a handsome face.

  He is Sun Yan!

  Three thousand years ago, Jin Youwang and his three thousand imperial guards, along with the Great Emperor of Gods and Ghosts, engaged in a great battle at this location. The heavens collapsed and the earth split open, revealing a deep chasm hundreds of miles wide.

  Afterwards, Jin Youwang was defeated in battle and he and his three thousand imperial guards were sealed away by the Great Emperor of Gods and Ghosts at the deepest part of the abyss.

  Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it's already been a thousand years.

  Two thousand years ago, the Dark Emperor emerged with boundless power and established the ancient Dark Path to protect countless dark spirits.

  The Chu State, and even the entire Qin Empire, many yin spirits rushed to hear the news. The ancient way of yin spirits flourished from this, and gradually gained recognition from humans, becoming a trading world shared by both yin and yang spirits.

  For thousands of years, the living and the dead have been killing each other due to their past hatreds and differing stances.

  Thus, the Emperor of the Netherworld established the Arena of Life and Death to provide a stage for resolving grudges. There is also the establishment of hunting grounds to punish those living spirits who violate the ancient laws of the Netherworld.

  For a whole thousand years, the hunting grounds have been opened tens of thousands of times, and countless lives have died on the hunting grounds.

  And among them, the number of times hunting was initiated was also in the hundreds.

  In nearly half of these hundreds of cases, the prey emerged completely victorious and the hunters were wiped out.

  In less than half the cases, within the specified time, neither the hunter nor the prey died out. According to the rules of the hunting ground, "both die", all must die.

  There was only one time when the hunter emerged victorious.

  But this time's hunt was different from the past, and there were actually five hunters.

  Five hunters, four of whom were renowned, which also led to this gamble. Those who bet on the victory of the four hunters accounted for nearly a third, an unprecedented phenomenon.

  In previous bets, it was always a bet on how high a percentage of hunters would be killed by the prey at the cost of their own deaths.

  Of course, one-third of these people either bought "Cangying" to win or bought "Fenghuo Liancheng" to win, or bought "Du She", "Tucheng" to win.

  What about Chu Sheng?

  Joke!

  A mere two drops of blood essence, a waste with hair that hasn't even grown fully, and you think you can survive?

  What a joke!

  The hunting ground is too big and if you want to watch a single hunt, spectators can't enter the hunting ground.

  What's wrong?

  The Yin Spirit Emperor, with his mighty power, built a grand viewing hall.

  On the four walls of this vast audience hall, countless images appeared, and in each image, a living being appeared, tracking everything about them at all times.

  Among them, in the largest five images, there appeared five hunters.

  The first was a cold and gloomy woman, playing with a python as thick as an infant's arm. This python had lived for at least a hundred years, its vital energy strong and powerful, no less than that of a three-realm cultivator who had transcended the mundane world.

  She was the "Venomous Snake", first entering the Yin Spirit Ancient Path, with an unknown origin, only knowing that she was a Seventh Treasure Boundary First Layer, Sun Copper Bone. As for her true strength, no one knew.

  The second is a robust and sturdy Han Chinese man, holding a butcher's knife. He once joined the bandits in the Wei State and participated in the massacre plan, slaughtering an entire city, among which he personally slaughtered more than 10,000 people.

  This person looks fierce and intimidating, one look and you can tell he's not someone to be trifled with.

  The third one is a lean man with an eagle nose.

  He is "Cangying", from Shanyang City's Cangying Knights, and also the one with the highest evaluation among all people, level 14.

  This man is ruthless and venomous, whoever opposes me will be killed, showing no mercy.

  Fourth, the youngest in age and lowest in cultivation, only having reached the stage of Departing from Mortality, with seven drops of Blood Essence condensed.

  However, he was the master of two life-and-death battles, and had killed three Seventh Treasure Realm cultivators in total on the life-and-death stage. He was also the only one among the five hunters who had participated in a hunt before, that time as the prey, personally killing the hunter and surviving.

  In many people's eyes, he is the most terrifying one.

  And the last one was a short young boy, who looked like he was only twelve or thirteen years old.

  "Is that 'Chu Sheng'?" Many people were talking about it.

  "What about him? Geez, he's so small! His hair isn't even fully grown yet?"

  "That little brat, I don't even want to bother with him! One finger can crush him to death!"

  "Definitely! I don't even know who I offended, and yet I was thrown here to die!"

  "Poor thing!"

  ……

  Chu Cheng smiled and stood at the entrance of the hunting ground.

  He didn't know that at this time countless people were paying attention to him, and he had already become the focus of everyone's attention.

  But he knew that the other four hunters were all watching him.

  "Little brother, come here and let sister take a look. Pinch pinch your little face!" "Poisonous Snake" bent down, with a smiling face.

  Even if she was facing the only hunt, she was still indifferent, as if what was in front of her wasn't a hunting ground, but a bustling marketplace. And she wasn't there to kill, but rather to shop.

  "Sister, are you willing to protect me?" Chu Cheng timidly raised his head and looked at the "poisonous snake", behaving exactly like a twelve-year-old child.

  "Protection? She can't even protect herself! As for you, you're about to be torn apart!" Butcher City glared at Chu City with a fierce gaze, then stared at the body of the poisonous snake, especially the patch of snow-white on her chest, which was thought-provoking.

  "Tucheng, how can you scare the little kid? Little brother, don't worry, I won't be as cruel as Tucheng, I don't like killing people." The venomous snake played with the Red Lotus Snake in his hand: "However, my little treasure, prefers your kind, tender and delicate skin, must be very delicious!"

  "Ah! Big sister, you... we are just five hunters, shouldn't we work together to kill all the prey first? How can we afford internal strife? This will weaken our strength!"

  The venomous snake's eyes flashed with a hint of unusual color, apparently not expecting that Chu Cheng would see through it so clearly. However, she immediately let out a cruel smile: "Little brother, how can you join forces with us with this bit of strength? So, the four of us will join forces. As for you, once we enter the hunting grounds, I'll feed you to my little treasure as a snack. After eating you, it will become even more powerful and help sister kill people. What do you say?"

  "But, however, sister, I'm very powerful, your Red Viper Snake may not be my match!" Chu Cheng said timidly.

  "Are you awesome?" The venomous snake heard this and immediately covered its mouth, giggling secretly, with its branches shaking wildly.

  "I'm really awesome, sister! If you don't believe me, it'll be terrible!" Chu Cheng said seriously, staring at the venomous snake.

  "Alright, alright, I believe little brother is very capable, very capable, okay? Haha, I'm done! The venomous snake laughed with abandon, her snow-white chest occasionally exposed, causing Butcher City to stare at her intently, his eyes filled with **."

  "Alright, stop arguing, the hunt is about to begin." Fenghuo Liancheng said calmly.

  As soon as this was said, the venomous snake glanced at Fenghuo Liancheng with a hint of fear in his eyes and stopped speaking.

  Time is passing minute by minute, second by second, every second is a torment.

  Suddenly, a terrifying pressure came down from the sky, and a loud voice sounded like thunder.

  We will continue to provide you with high-quality service as always.