Reverse flow of the Yellow Springs

Li Yelai and Yang Chen, who were at the front of the group, were attacked by the Ghost Blowing Lamp at the same time.

If it's a psionicist with third or fourth sense, they might still fall victim to this. They might even have to turn their backs to the opponent and try to elbow them to death.

However, Li Yelai, as a sixth-sense great spiritual power user, possesses two mythological forms, one of which, the Qilin, is the nemesis of all evil spirits and the natural enemy of all returnees!

As for Captain Yang Chen, not to mention his indestructible golden body, which makes him impervious to all magic.

The sheer terror of that blood and energy should be enough to instill fear in the returning travelers.

If there were a health bar displayed, Yang Chen's health bar would have been pushed over from three miles away.

These two returning players actually wanted to defend the champion one-on-one.

Both Li Yelai and Yang Chen were surprised and instinctively became wary.

Is he that brave? Does he have some hidden tricks up his sleeve, or some rules he doesn't know yet?
No wonder they dared to provoke a team; they shouldn't be underestimated!
Then, in the next moment, the champion's cape fluttered wildly, and a violent aura of bloodlust filled the entire ghost realm.

"Be on high alert! Heavenly soldiers clear the way, leave no one alive!"

"Yes!"

Immediately, a large number of golden beans scattered on the ground, and mimicking celestial soldiers appeared one after another.

At that moment, all the returning residents of the manor were alarmed.

Countless ghostly soldiers surged out of the manor, their yin energy surging wildly, and launched a direct attack on the humans.

The returning traveler, bewildered by what had happened, exclaimed in astonishment, "They've deployed ghost soldiers? Is this prey a bit too tough?"

Some of the returning creatures nearly collapsed, letting out a shriek: "Still troublesome? How many lives do you have?"

"Ember! What have you done?"

"Run! Run! It's the champion team!"

The voice contained resentment, astonishment, and fear.
These returning travelers naturally recognized the swaying cloak.

That's a human champion!

To drag human champions into the underworld as a performance for a banquet?

Did they even poop two in one go?

But why didn't I realize it? Why didn't I notice it?

Could it be that Lord Yu Huo is planning to collude with humans to kill us?

Those who returned had no room for thought.

Because the fighting and the screams started almost simultaneously.

They treat humans as playthings and prey, and revel in the cries of despair from those who return home.

At this moment, their wails and screams erupted.

The mimicking celestial soldiers transformed into a military formation, unleashing swords and axes, and firing volleys of arrows. They charged head-on into the ghostly army, shattering the manor's magnificent walls, and brilliant flames ignited the eerie gardens and lawns. Countless ghostly soldiers and generals howled and screamed in agony amidst the flames.

In mid-air, the dark gold substance, like a living fluid, defied the laws of physics and condensed out of thin air, transforming into dark gold spears that exuded a terrifying power.

Tearing through the air, it whistled down and unleashed a devastating bombardment on the entire manor!
Before the ghostly soldiers could even engage the enemy, they were instantly blasted apart by the dark gold spears.

Meanwhile, the champion teams entered the manor, treading over the burning ruins and the remains of the returnees, cutting with surgical precision! They brought destruction to the returnees!

The exquisite reliefs turned to dust, the dazzling crystal chandelier shattered into a rain of scorching glass, and the magnificent dome paintings were instantly torn apart by the shockwave.

Just moments ago, they were in their magnificent manor, discussing how to toy with humans and lure them into offending their chosen ones. They eagerly anticipated tasting the nectar formed from the intense obsessions of the living upon their deaths.

The next moment, extreme violence descended, turning the high-ranking returnees into twisted remains. The ghostly army was directly blasted apart, and many of the dead were slaughtered and annihilated without even seeing who their enemies were.

Deep within the manor, the returning nobles stared at Yu Huo in disbelief.

"You want to take down the champion? And you want to drag us down with you?" The marquis, clad in bone armor, had black blood flowing from his bloodshot eyes.

"Yu Huo! What's wrong with you?" Another marquis, dressed in a robe with a human face and a gaunt figure, roared in equal fury: "You have betrayed our king!"

"No, that's not right!" Even Yu Huo, the Duke sitting in the main seat and dressed in ancient Hanfu, was stunned.

He doesn't understand and doesn't comprehend.

He would host a banquet to invite the nobles to discuss important matters.

They allowed their lesser nobles to freely seize humans for their amusement. This was a custom at the banquet, and also a chance for those lower-ranking novices to feast.

But how did they end up targeting the champion team?

Without his permission, no human being could possibly enter his demon realm.

So, these humans were indeed let in by his subordinates.

This is his demon realm, but not a battlefield or military camp he created; it's his headquarters. Who would bring their enemy directly to their own headquarters?

Do those minor nobles who choose their prey not have eyes?
Damn it, it's a conspiracy!
This must be a conspiracy!

There exists a being that deceives itself and the senses of all those who return, leading the champion into the realm of ghosts!

Otherwise, he would have been able to detect it in advance and send the humans out of the Ghost Realm long ago. So how could the human champion suddenly appear outside the manor?

Who is it? Who is leading me to war against the human champion?
You'd better hope I don't find you!

While Duke Yu Huo quickly pondered, he issued the order: "Do not confront the champions head-on. Wait for my Yin Soldier Marshal to arrive and force them to retreat, even if it comes at a price."

Even if he were the Duke of Guizhe, he wouldn't want to fight to the death with the champion team.

He is willing to pay a price to clear up this misunderstanding.

But before he could finish speaking, the sharp longsword pierced out silently, penetrating their chests before the two returning marquises could react.

Then, sharp blades emerged from their twisted, decaying bodies, tearing through their rotting flesh and bones.

This was not a fatal wound for the returning ones, but the cold divinity contained in the blade was tearing them apart!
The Bone Armor Marquis roared in agony, then stomped forward, unleashing a forest of sharp bone spears that covered the entire room, even piercing through some minor nobles.

The marquis, clad in a robe with human faces, was screaming in agony. His frenzied roars and sonic waves blasted the heads of several nobles to pieces.

But they still failed to find the assassin. After the successful strike, the assassin once again disappeared into the shadows.

They were clearly the ones who returned without a trace, yet now they seemed to have encountered an even stranger being.

Where did the attack come from?

"A human assassin? Did you arrange this, Ember!"

The marquises were filled with shock and anger: "A trap? You want to seize my territory?"

"You need assassins to kill you?" Duke Yu Huo laughed angrily.

An assassin? Here? Right in front of me?

"presumptuous!"

Grand Duke Yu Huo roared, unleashing his raging divinity.

The entire ghost realm resonated with this. The earth trembled violently, and mountains and rivers shattered.

Dressed in ancient attire, Grand Duke Yu Huo suddenly waved his sleeve, and countless sharp blades slashed through the space, as if to cut down all the enemies in this space.

In that instant, Duke Yu Huo saw a tall figure flash past in the shadows.

Forced out? A top-tier assassin? How did they manage to get this far?
Grand Duke Yu Huo suddenly struck out with his palm, which sounded like the howling of countless wronged souls. The corrupting power filled the space and severely injured several nobles who had returned to the fold.

But the figure flickered and disappeared mysteriously from Duke Yu Huo's perception.

Disappeared again? Where? Grand Duke Yu Huo became alert, his divine power surging within him, yet he held back.

Some force compels him to be suspicious of everyone around him, even his own companions, those marquises who have returned.

The next moment, blinding golden light flashed in the ghost realm, and rainbow-like blood energy forcefully suppressed the ghost realm.

"A Supreme-level Returnee?" Yang Chen's eyes shone with golden light as he stepped over the manor ruins. "Rare indeed."

"Champion!" Duke Yu Huo transformed into human form, a long-haired man dressed in magnificent ancient robes. A cold, eerie flame ignited in his eyes, and his voice was icy: "This is a misunderstanding. You have already killed many Returnees. If you each take a step back, I will let you go!"

"Misunderstanding? Perhaps. After all, you might not be that stupid as to provoke two champions at the same time," Yang Chen sneered. "But those fellow humans you tortured to death don't think that way."

The Disaster Management Bureau has only one choice when faced with returnees who have harmed their own kind: Kill without mercy!

"You really think I'm afraid of you? You haven't reached your peak yet!"

Grand Duke Yu Huo sneered, and a surge of eerie white flames erupted, causing the temperature of the entire space to plummet. His shadow enveloped the earth, and the entire ghost realm resonated with it.

As the supreme ruler, there's no reason for him to be intimidated by a mere overlord!

Even if this champion is the dominant force, it is not a reason for him to regress!

Furthermore, the peak champion is challenging the supreme one, but this champion has not yet reached the peak.

"I'm indeed not at the peak of the Overlord realm, I'm almost there." Yang Chen grinned. "But..."

However, the next moment.

On the train to the underworld, streams of spiritual energy converged and worked together.

The psionicists who remained on the train unleashed their psionic power together, activating the energy field!

In that instant, Yang Chen's aura surged rapidly.

Behind him, it transformed into a golden giant a hundred meters tall!
That is the Xiemai Construct, a Xiemai Construct personally overseen by champion Yang Chen!

Yang Chen, who was already a hegemon, raised his aura once again, making him comparable to a supreme being!

Without the slightest compromise or hesitation, the golden giant smashed down with a punch, like a meteor falling from the sky!

"Stop! There's a conspiracy! There's a conspiracy! Are you willing to be used as a tool?"

Lord Yu Huo's eyes widened in fury, and he angrily attacked.

This is his core ghost realm; if it is destroyed, he himself will fall in level.

Ultimately, the enemy should never have been allowed into this core area!

"Who is it? Who is it?" Duke Yu Huo roared as he exchanged a punch with the golden giant.

The collision of the two forces nearly tore the entire ghost realm apart.

The entire ghost realm trembled, and the aftershocks caused the annihilation of a large number of returning souls and ghost soldiers.

Even if someone manages to escape the manor, they will still run into the champion team head-on.

He was indeed facing off against the champion, and he did his best to hold off the champion.

But humanity still has one champion!

Yu Huo's gaze swept across the distant battlefield and he saw the other champion leading his men to besiege Marquis Gui Zhe.

The Bone Armor Marquis's prized armor was cleaved in two by a single halberd strike.

The marquis in the long robe with human faces looked as if he had encountered some kind of fear; the faces on his robe were contorted with terror.

Some marquises were also betrayed and stabbed in the back while fleeing.

One by one, the nobles who had returned perished on the battlefield. They should have spread across this land, growing and developing quietly. With each battle and each tragedy, they should have grown stronger.

Why? Why?!

This made Duke Yu Huo's heart bleed, if he still had a heart.

These are his foundation, his accumulation over many years.

But now it was reduced to ashes in the battle.

His emotions—anger, madness, hatred—were more intense than ever before.

"Bastards, I'll kill you all!"

Grand Duke Yu Huo was furious, and his divine power contracted and condensed.

The ghostly blue flames transformed into fiery wings, and blood-red bone armor adorned his body. In his hand, a massive, door-like vertebra-shaped sword appeared.

Unleash your mythical form!
He has reached his peak!

Want to kill me? Then pay a terrible price!

However, Yang Chen on the other side abandoned his halberd and instead fought the greatsword of the vertebrae with his bare hands.

'boom'

The raging blood and qi transformed into ultimate power, forcefully repelling Grand Duke Yu Huo.

What Yu Huo Da Gong found even more unbelievable was that champion Yang Chen caught it with his bare hands!

There was only a bloody gash on his arm, but instead, a torrent of curses should have surged into the wound, destroying his flesh.

But a flash of golden light appeared on the wound, and the curse that should have been forming dissipated.

At the same time, crimson flames burned, and the wounds healed instantly.
"As a Duke of the Returned Ones, compared to the Supreme Beings of humanity, you don't even have a Supreme Weapon?" Yang Chen looked at his arm and laughed, "Looks like you're not doing so well either."

This was unacceptable to Grand Duke Yu Huo. Even if a hegemon had achieved strength comparable to a supreme being through the Harmony Meridian Array, his physical strength would still remain unchanged.

How was he able to withstand his dominant weapon?

But what he found even more unacceptable was yet to come.

"Don't mind me," Yang Chen chuckled. "I don't use weapons not because I underestimate you, but because weapons are troublesome to repair. My physical body is much more convenient."

"Aaaaaaahhhhhh!" Grand Duke Yu Huo went completely mad!
Will-o'-the-wisps surged and engulfed the sky, accompanied by the wailing of countless wronged soul

But Yang Chen's whole body radiated golden light, like a blazing sun, as he unleashed a series of punches and palm strikes.

It struck the vertebral greatsword again and again.

Until a crisp 'crack' echoed through the ghost realm as the greatsword shattered.
This plunged Duke Yu Huo into utter despair.
But no one knows.

In a corner of the ghostly realm, a figure silently watched the battlefield.

Just as Duke Yu Huo had guessed, this was indeed a conspiracy.

Grand Duke Yu Huo was supposed to hold the banquet a month later, but instead a family's caravan was dragged into the underworld, and the core member who was given high hopes died at the hands of the Returners.

On the contrary, it was the neglected young man from a minor branch who escaped from the ghost realm after going through many hardships and received the help of the returning ones.

This created a rare symbiotic relationship with the returnee, allowing him to gain opportunities and growth, and step onto a larger stage.

Unfortunately, with the emergence of variables, the fates of too many people have been altered.

So-called opportunities are no longer precise; they are better used to test the ability to detect variables. This led to the conspiracy of guiding the ghost realm to capture the Yellow Springs Train.

At this moment, the figure stared at the battlefield for a long time.

She spoke softly, "Didn't you manage to extract more of their trump cards and information?"

"What a piece of trash!" (End of Chapter)