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Chapter 1184: The Ghost Mountain Range, the Disha Branch Hall

The Ghost Mountain Range, located in the northwest of Zhongzhou, can be considered a relatively famous dangerous place. It is said that many wars broke out here a long time ago, and countless skeletons are buried under the soil of the mountain range.

There is an extremely strong natural cold here, which causes cold fog to cover the depths of the mountains all year round.

In this kind of cold fog, the soul's perception will be affected. If some reckless people with weak strength break into it, they may be trapped to death.

However, this desperate place that everyone avoids is one of the twenty-four Earthly Evil Branch Halls of the Soul Palace, and there are powerful Heavenly Venerable-level warriors in charge here.

Zhongzhou is vast, with rich resources and many dragons and snakes rising from the land. As one of the strongest forces in Zhongzhou, the Soul Palace has naturally deployed many means in this center of the world, including multiple branch palaces in all directions of Zhongzhou.

There are three main halls in the Soul Palace, divided into Heaven, Earth and Man, and respectively presided over by three Dou Sheng powerful people: the hall master, the deputy hall master and the great elder.

Below the three halls of Heaven, Earth and Man are the branch halls of Earthly Evil, with a total of twenty-four in Zhongzhou. The branch hall of Earthly Evil in the Mountains of Dead Souls can only be said to be relatively low in ranking, as the nine great celestial masters of the Soul Hall are not usually present there to preside over it.

In the forest filled with cold fog, the white mist obstructs the vision. In this environment, the visibility is extremely low. Even if it is soul perception, it cannot extend beyond a hundred meters without such extremely powerful soul consciousness.

"Whoa..."

In the misty forest, where low animal roars were occasionally heard, there was suddenly a slight sound of breaking wind, and figures covered in black robes appeared one after another, gazing into the depths of the mountains from afar.

These figures finally stopped on a steep slope deep in the Ghost Mountains. The fog here was quite thin. At the end of the slope was a huge valley surrounded by mountains on all sides.

Inside the valley, there was a huge black palace that was a hundred feet in size. It was like a crawling prehistoric beast. In the darkness, there was a terrifying and chilling aura. The space around the black palace seemed to have a different kind of distorted color.

Within this spatial barrier, some dark shadows sitting cross-legged can be vaguely seen on some stone pillars surrounding the huge black palace. These figures are all surrounded by black mist, and an eerie air permeates the air.

"Puff puff puff puff..."

Suddenly, a subtle sound was heard in the cold fog, and large black shadows fell to the ground. They were some black birds only the size of a palm.

These birds were very small, hidden in the cold fog, and even people with extremely sensitive souls would find it difficult to spot them. They were all spies arranged by the Soul Palace, and as long as there was any movement, they would send messages via sound waves.

At this moment, after all the spies were removed, a figure covered in a black robe, who looked exactly like the Soul Palace guardians, slowly came to the outside of the dark palace.

"Five Dou Zun, dozens of Dou Zong, nearly a thousand Dou Wang Dou Huang, one of whom is a five-star Dou Zun. This Disha branch hall should be able to bring me great gains!"

"A horse cannot grow fat without night grass... Killing people and setting fires will earn you a gold belt... If you want to quickly accumulate wealth and resources, the fastest way is of course to rob. Robbing and killing the Soul Palace, I am probably the only one in this Douqi Continent who can think of such a good method..."

As the black-robed figure spoke, dots of light spread, and in the distorted space, a space barrier appeared, quietly turning into nothingness, blocking the space.

In the depths of the huge black hall, there is a huge square. On the square, a tall black stone pillar of hundreds of feet stands upright. On the stone pillar, there are countless strange runes. A series of dark chains extend from the stone pillar, crossing each other. Outlined in the middle of this square.

At the end of these chains, there were suspended balls of faint light, inside which were souls with painful expressions and phantom bodies.

"Respect the elders!"

A man in a purple robe, with a group of figures surrounded by a strange black mist, was inspecting the hall. Wherever the man in purple robe passed, the figures in black robes who were doing their work bowed their heads, full of respect and humility.

The purple-robed man inspected the area and found nothing wrong, so he nodded in satisfaction. "Lin Guardian, you've done a good job here."

One of the black-robed figures bowed hastily, his voice filled with humble flattery.

"Thank you for the compliment, elder."

"Star-Picking Celestial Lord has just arrived at our Ghost Branch Hall to take charge. He is the Celestial Lord's envoy representing the main hall. We in the Ghost Branch Hall must..."

"Boom!"

The purple-robed elder was explaining things to his many guardian subordinates when suddenly there was a loud rumbling sound and the entire huge black palace began to shake.

"what happened?"

The purple-robed elder's face changed instantly, and many dark shadows also took action, trying to find the source of the incident. After a moment, the alarm finally sounded.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

Suddenly there was another loud bang, and along with a shrill scream, the entire huge hall was violently destroyed. The black hall that had never seen the sun all year round suddenly became bright, and the roof of the hall was blown off.

The black shadows retreated madly like a tide, but a figure stepped forward, and countless chains swept out. Wherever they passed, every figure shrouded in black mist would instantly explode into a ball of blurry black mist, and their souls would return to their origin.

"Who are you? How come you know my Soul Palace's techniques and come to attack my Soul Palace's people?"

The purple-robed elder watched his men being beaten to pieces one by one, and immediately stepped forward and shouted angrily. Sand and rocks flew in the valley, and pressure spread down from the sky. Some alert Soul Palace guardians quickly retreated.

"Destroy your people!"

The black-robed figure responded calmly, not taking the purple-robed elder seriously at all.

"You are just a low-level Dou Zun, you dare to come to my Soul Palace to cause trouble, die now."

The purple-robed elder attacked angrily, and the commotion here naturally attracted the attention of other powerful men in the Soul Palace. Three figures with murderous aura flew out from the depths of the huge palace, and four Dou Zuns surrounded them from all sides.

The purple-robed elder took the lead by throwing out a majestic black mist, which roared across the sky like a black snake. The other three also attacked at the same time, and the inky black chain mist swept around and surrounded them.

"Ha ha……"

As the black-robed figure chuckled, countless figures identical to him appeared, each of them blasted out similar soul-locking black chains. Countless chains crisscrossed the void, densely piercing through the huge black palace and the valley where it was located.

The black mist figures that were trying to avoid it instantly shattered into the origin of souls.

Most of these figures shrouded in black mist were powerful warriors who were captured by the Soul Palace and then corrupted and surrendered. They were originally dead and only had their souls left. Now that they were blown up, naturally only groups of soul power were left.

However, there are still some living people among them, including these Soul Palace elders, all of whom have physical bodies, so there is also some blood mist and broken bones.

(End of this chapter)