The King of Curses

Chapter 216: Coffin Mountain Giant
Thunder rumbled, and thunder from heaven illuminated the dark mountaintops.

The coffin lid standing on the mountain peak was blown away, and the Yin Qi condensed inside was burned up by the dazzling electric light; the strange black wind shadow disappeared without a trace.

After everything settled down, Song Yutang's full chest rose and fell rapidly, and he took several deep breaths before slowly calming down.

She tidied up the scattered hair behind her head, tied it up again with a hairband, turned around gracefully, and walked towards her companions.

"you made it."

Jiang Yunmei, who was sitting on the ground, smiled happily at her.

The opponent's forehead was covered in sweat and his expression was full of fatigue. Although he did not fight fiercely with the ghosts, it seemed that he had consumed as much energy as himself.

She was on another battlefield and helped herself - at this moment, Song Yutang deeply realized this.

"Thanks for your help, Senior."

Song Yutang thanked him sincerely.

"By the way, how did you find out?"

“…Actually, I should have noticed it earlier.”

Jiang Yunmei shook her head.

"I was limited by my past thinking. Teacher Cen said a long time ago that the essence of supernatural powers is the use of true qi or spiritual perception, but I still unconsciously understood it in a way that I could hear with my ears... After I broke through this limitation, some things became 'clear at a glance'."

"That's it."

Song Yutang nodded. She didn't actually understand the specific content, but she could understand the other party's feelings at the moment because she had a similar experience.

Spells are a manifestation of talent and have rich possibilities. The key lies in imagination and action; as the saying goes, "Everything depends on human effort."

"Although we won, it seems that the matter is not over yet."

Jiang Yunmei looked up at the still gloomy sky. The road under her feet shook unconsciously in her field of vision, proving that the "mountain" was still alive.

"I heard from Master that if the core ghost is defeated, the space of the haunted house will collapse. It seems that the coffin we just destroyed is not the place where Jiang Qi is sleeping."

"If Jiang Qi's real body is not here... then where is it?"

……

The sleeves on both sides of Cen Dongsheng's arms were burned completely, revealing his arms emitting white steam, with golden-red skin and strong muscles.

His arms hung at his sides, but his steps were still steady. He stepped on the ghostly guards who had turned to ashes and once again came to the entrance of the palace.

Behind the man was a valley whose original appearance was no longer recognizable, and was full of potholes like the surface of the moon. If one looked down from high above, one could see dozens of hectares of land sunken, as if a large piece of ice cream had been dug out.

When he stepped into the palace, he felt the Yin Qi surging inside, symbolizing the gloomy anger of the owner of the haunted house.

Cen Dongsheng didn't care. He just stared at his arm, watching the skin color recovering quickly, and judging the condition based on the growth and healing of the sore muscles and bones.

"Well... I still have about 70% of my combat power."

Repeated use of overloaded moves can easily lead to rapid accumulation of fatigue, so before officially facing Jiang Qi, he took a short rest.

Cen Dongsheng felt that he had to thank Jiang Qi for creating this "stage" for him——

Precisely because his opponent was a ghost army that seemed huge in scale but was powerless to resist high-level spell-binding masters, he could use moves like "Tiger Roar" so unscrupulously without wasting his true energy.

If these things are allowed to enter the human world in the future, they will undoubtedly cause shocking damage to ordinary people and society.

As undead, the number of this army will grow like a snowball - this is something Cen Dongsheng has witnessed with his own eyes.

And now, this group of evil ghosts from hell were all confined in an empty haunted house and were killed by him alone.

The remaining ghosts have all gone into hiding; a hundred years of accumulation will ultimately not amount to anything.

Perhaps even Jiang Qi himself did not take them seriously... because he probably could not imagine that there would really be a time when 100,000 ghosts would openly invade the world of the living.

……

After crushing the ghost guards one by one, Cen Dongsheng walked towards the throne high above.

Most of the palace's dome collapsed, and a large area of ​​dark sky could be seen.

"You came."

Jiang Qi did not sit in his seat, but stood in the night, looking up at the mountain made up of countless coffins. The cold wind blew up his black robe.

"I forgot to ask your name last time."

Cen Dongsheng smiled.

Jiang Qi's attitude at that time seemed sincere, but he didn't even bother to remember his name, which showed the arrogance and indifference of this ghost. It's different now, because the curse master has shown the strength that it has to pay attention to and even fear.

"My last name is Cen, Shanjin Cen."

"Mr. Cen, if you want to vent, you can take care of my subordinates and my territory. That should be enough."

"There's still a culprit here, how can I let him go?"

"…It seems that you are determined to fight me to the end."

Jiang Qi turned around with a hint of a sarcastic smile on his lips.

"Your teammates are going to look for my true self, right?"

"you can see?"

"Oh, because that's what I told you to find."

"You set a trap?"

"A trap... I guess. My most loyal guards are there. But I can't get in touch with them anymore. It seems your colleagues are doing a good job."

"It's really good."

Cen Dongsheng nodded slightly.

He had his own judgment of Song Yutang's strength: if they were to compete head-on in a fight, he would of course be the winner; but if the other party was determined to escape, or simply wanted to delay time, he would not be able to catch up.

The effect of "super reaction" is extremely powerful. With this ability, Song Yutang can see through any action clearly. As long as his thoughts are not wrong, he will not lose to others in terms of details.

During the last "master-disciple exchange", he had reminded the girl to choose her strategies flexibly, so he was relieved.

Besides, there is Jiang Yunmei. The spell-forbidden masters who are good at spiritual perception are the magic weapon to fight against the unknown. They can keenly distinguish the strength of Yin Qi, seek benefits and avoid harm, and ensure the safety of teammates.

Cen Dongsheng himself is simply thick-skinned and has the ability to revive with full health, so he can venture into the dangerous terrain alone; in fact, a combination like that of Song Yutang and Jiang Yunmei is the right way to go.

"Your strongest guard lost, but you are still alive, which means..."

"——It means that my descendant's words were all lies to you."

Jiang Qi laughed oddly.

Liar?

Jiang Zhifeng?

"No wonder, it appeared too coincidentally, and died right after giving the key clue. The timing was also too clever."

Cen Dongsheng sighed

"So, it was deceived by you, or it was arranged by you from the beginning."

If you think about it carefully, Jiang Zhifeng was silenced in front of them. If Jiang Qi could always monitor and control the ghosts transformed by his supernatural power, it was obviously not a coincidence that he allowed Jiang Zhifeng to leak information to them.

"It's both. Zhifeng followed my orders to contact you, but he didn't expect that he would really be reduced to ashes. Haha, its expression at that time was really pleasant. It still wanted to harm people after death. This is karma."

The ghost Jiang Qi made no secret of his malice towards his own descendants. His laughter grew louder and louder, like the cry of a crow, hoarse and creepy.

"If we talk about retribution, you will be the next one to be reduced to ashes."

Cen Dongsheng clenched his fists.

"It doesn't matter where you put your body. At worst, I'll turn the whole haunted house upside down. You can't hide. Jiang Qi, do you have anything else to say before I scatter your ashes?"

"Don't bother with that. It's been in front of you from the beginning." Jiang Qi flew into the air, spinning. The black robe behind him spread out like a crow feather soaked in water, with a glow flowing through the blackness.

"As the saying goes, 'You cannot see the true face of Mount Lu because you are inside it'..."

The coffin mountain behind it rose up with a loud bang, and the giant in the darkness raised its head.

"I'll show you this."

……

"If Jiang Qi's real body is not here——"

“…I still think it’s right here.”

"But didn't you say that the coffin is where the Yin Qi is strongest?"

"wrong."

Jiang Yunmei shook her head.

"I mean on this mountain, apart from the mountain itself that came to life."

Song Yutang was slightly stunned. Of course she understood the meaning of this sentence.

"You mean this whole mountain beneath us... Is that possible?"

“After removing all the impossible, what remains is the answer.”

Jiang Yunmei answered in a deep voice.

"At first, I just thought that the mountain itself was Jiang Qi's accumulation over the past hundred years. Now that I think about it, if I want to protect my body, the best way is to concentrate all my strength on that 'coffin'..."

……

"Want to fight me? Come on."

Jiang Qi's figure flying into the air was like bubbles on the water, which were blown away by the wind.

But soon, a powerful Yin energy rose up into the sky from the depths of the night, and even the voices of ghosts became mighty, as if they came from the sky.

Jiang Qi merged with the "living" Black Mountain; or perhaps, the mountain was the coffin it prepared for itself.

Over the past hundred years, it has not only cultivated a large number of ghost legions, but also built a "shell" for itself that contains a vast amount of Yin Qi.
“This amount…”

Cen Dongsheng looked surprised and exclaimed.

"Amazing."

To go from an ordinary spell-binding master to a magical sorcerer, what is needed is the "quantity" of true Qi and spells, and the "quality" to climb one step further after reaching the great success realm.

What ordinary ghosts need to be promoted to evil spirits is the same level of "quality"; and the breakthrough method adopted by Jiang Qi is the simplest and most brutal, that is, time.

All the negative energy accumulated over hundreds of years was concentrated on this one ghost.

Like magma gushing out from broken ground, the momentum was accumulated to the extreme, causing the entire haunted house space to boil.

Precisely because it has not yet reached that state and is only a thin line away from evil, so if we only talk about "quantity", it is actually the most prosperous time.

As soon as he entered the haunted house, Cen Dongsheng noticed the mountain; if a mountain could really be brought to life, the cost would be unimaginable, so he guessed that there was another secret involved.

But the answer is “no”.

The owner of this house has managed to accumulate this amount of Yin Qi, thus obtaining the means to do so with astonishing efficiency.

The whole mountain began to "stand" up shakily. In the darkness, a giant with countless coffins on his head opened his weird scarlet eyes, like the track of an airplane flying at night.

"I see……"

Cen Dongsheng laughed softly.

"That's the 'coffin' you prepared for yourself."

……

The mountain-like monster, the rolling ridges are the outlines of its hands and feet;
Every swing would cause a surge of wind and clouds, creating a huge vortex in the air and making a loud noise.

The two girls standing on the mountain felt it most clearly. They found that the ground beneath their feet was shaking violently and tried to stand firm.

"Should we make an enemy of this mountain? What should we do now..."

Before Jiang Yunmei opened her mouth, Song Yutang had already grabbed her hand tightly.

"You can still do what you just did, right?"

She looked at her companion with keen eyes.

"See the enemy's weakness."

"……Let me try."

"Well, tell the Master the result, and we will act when the time comes."

Song Yutang looked at the shadow swaying in the dark night and said softly:

"The only thing that can cause damage to an enemy of this size is Master's move... We can't do anything to the mountain itself for now, but our goal of finding the main body remains unchanged. Now we are even more certain that it is hidden somewhere in this mountain."

"Next, it's time to decide the winner."

"You are really calm."

Jiang Yunmei laughed.

"Okay, then please be my bodyguard for a while. I will do my best to find the real person hiding in the mountains."

*
Cen Dongsheng heard the news sent by his teammates from the mountain, and he agreed with their judgment.

Try your hand on the other person's coffin first.

"boom!"

The man used his wind-controlling ability to fly a hundred meters into the air and waved his fists.

The shadow of the mythical beast fell on the dark mountain in white. The shock wave bloomed like a lotus, sweeping up rubble all over the sky and creating a depression more than twenty meters deep.

Just when Cen Dongsheng was planning to press on with the victory, a "rumbling" sound came from the giant's body, and rocks from other places surged up from all directions to fill the wound.

After actually trying it, he realized that the huge size would greatly reduce the damage, so he chose to stop for the time being;

The opponent's attitude also changed. At first, he tried to reach out and catch this "flying insect", but soon found that it was meaningless, so he simply focused on defense and regeneration.

"Has it turned into a war of attrition again..."

At this time, Cen Dongsheng found that his arms felt heavy and he couldn't lift them. The consumption of his true energy exceeded his expectations. Even with his amazing patience and true energy among the top-class spell-binding masters, he felt exhausted.

If he was in good condition, he might have used the "Tiger Roar" repeatedly and smashed the mountain in front of him with pure violence; the problem was that Cen Dongsheng had already eliminated tens of thousands of evil spirits before, so it seemed unsustainable at this time.

"Some trouble."

……

Jiang Yunmei's voice was like a downpour of sweet rain, ringing in his ears in time.

"I've discovered... the opponent's weakness... but it keeps moving inside the mountain...!"

"I need to...destroy the shell... sooner..."

Then, Song Yutang's voice came to my ears.

"Master, I'll ask my senior to find you right away."

"…How do I find it?"

"She jumps down, and you catch her."

(End of this chapter)