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Chen Yuan narrowed his eyes, staring at the battle high in the sky.

Although the night sky was dark, the dazzling light from the fight made the entire city as bright as day.

Chen Yuan and the others immediately hid under the shade of the trees, concealing their presence, and continued to observe the Night City ahead.

After the battle in the sky, within a few breaths, battles broke out at various locations along the city wall.

Clearly, countless teams or independent cultivators involved in this mission took the opportunity to act.

Taking advantage of the moment when someone was discovered, they tried to sneak into Night City, but unfortunately, they were also discovered.

Before long, the battles ended. All the cultivators from the Great Xiang Empire who were trying to enter Night City were killed or even assimilated, becoming corpse soldiers or ghost cultivators of the Dark Night Netherworld Kingdom.

Chen Yuan and the others' pupils contracted sharply, their hearts churning with turmoil.

"Damn, the Dark Night Netherworld is too monstrous. At this rate, the more they fight, the bigger their army becomes."

Wang Hu touched his bald head and spoke with a look of trepidation.

"Although the higher-ups of Night City have all left, the Purple Mansion Ghost Generals who remain are all extremely powerful, making it really difficult to infiltrate them."

Li Taiyi rubbed his longsword with his sleeve and spoke with a solemn expression.

Everyone fell silent.

A moment later, they all looked at Chen Yuan and Zhu Xin.

Clearly, Chen Yuan and Zhu Xin are the leaders of this team.

"If it were before, we would have had to do the same thing as those previous Wuxiang Guards who died, and force our way in."

At this moment, Zhu Xin spoke up.

"Do you have a way to get in now?"

Zhong Yue's deep voice rang out, and he looked at Zhu Xin in surprise, then suddenly slapped his forehead, "Oh right, how could I forget something!"

As he spoke, he glanced at the glutinous rice on one side.

The others all looked at Nuomi, their eyes narrowing.

They all thought of Nuomi's most precious treasure—the human skin umbrella!

"That's right, it's a human skin umbrella. Let the human skin umbrella take us in."

Zhu Xin spoke, her gaze shifting from Nuomi to the night city ahead, "Use human skin umbrellas to carry us into the city!"

Everyone's eyes lit up, and they immediately felt that it was feasible.

When the human skin umbrella carried them deep into the Cangming Mountains, no evil spirits could enter its domain.

That way, it might also isolate the ghosts and spirits in Night City, preventing them from getting close to him.

At the same time, with the help of the human skin umbrella, they can go wherever they want.

One is the teleportation portal, and the other is the place where the coffins for raising corpses are stored.

As for the rest, all that can be done is rampage and destruction.

After hearing Zhu Xin's idea, everyone looked at Nuomi with anticipation.

Nuomi tilted her head and muttered a few words under her breath, seemingly communicating with the mysterious woman.

Nuomi quickly nodded and said, "The fairy sister said it's possible, but there's no need to go through all that trouble. She can help you turn into ghosts."

Turn into a ghost!

Chen Yuan and the others were taken aback, and a sense of dread crept into their hearts.

"Isn't this basically like drying us out to death so we can become ghosts?"

Li Wei muttered.

Nuomi shook her head and explained, "The fairy sister said we don't need to dry you to death."

"It's just about letting a layer of deathly aura surround you, isolating you from the life force of living beings."

Li Wei and the others immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Then the human skin umbrella flew out of Nuomi's body, opened with a bang, and hovered above everyone's heads.

hum!

The umbrella made of human skin slowly rotated, releasing wisps of black mist that hung down like ribbons, enveloping everyone.

Instantly, a thick aura of death enveloped everyone, and even their skin turned bluish-black.

Their eyes were the same, with only the whites remaining and grayish pupils.

Chen Yuan was shocked. Sensing the aura around him, he was surprised to find that the layer of black energy permeating his body was concealing his heartbeat and life force.

If you don't pay close attention, you probably won't realize that they are not dead.

"Let's go, it's our turn."

Zhu Xin spoke first and walked forward.

"Fly in?"

Li Wei asked curiously.

There were no city gates in the night city ahead.

But the city walls were covered with red lanterns.

Inside the lantern, green will-o'-the-wisps flickered.

"Fly straight in."

Chen Yuan said.

The others nodded and followed behind him and Zhu Xin.

When the group flew to the city wall, they instantly sensed an invisible force blocking their path.

However, once they detected their presence, they let them in.

The group imitated the ghostly figures in the city, floating in mid-air and flying into the city.

As they entered the city, countless gazes swept towards them.

After sensing the deathly aura emanating from them, they naturally withdrew it.

"Those gazes and perceptions from before were incredibly powerful, making my soul tremble."

Wang Hu spoke in a low voice, his voice trembling slightly, indicating he was a little nervous.

"Don't be afraid, you're already inside, there's no use being afraid now!"

Chen Yuan spoke in a low voice, then flew forward with a normal expression, even landing on the street.

Wang Hu followed closely behind.

Zhu Xin, Li Wei, and others also landed on the street.

They were infiltrating living beings, too conspicuous to fly in mid-air.

Their ability to fly after being disguised as corpses makes them even more eye-catching.

So they simply left on the street.

Countless ghostly figures filled the void, a chaotic dance of demons.

The ghostly figures on the streets are numerous and countless.

However, most of them are corpse cultivators with physical bodies.

Some were rotting corpses, some were just skeletons, some were dried corpses, and so on. They came in various shapes, some humanoid and some animaloid.

However, they came and went in a hurry, seemingly busy with their own things.

Some were patrolling the night city, constantly sniffing, as if trying to catch the scent of strangers.

Some were wandering around frantically, still searching for the Wuxiang Guards who had infiltrated earlier, or the cultivators of the Daxiang Empire.

Upon discovering Chen Yuan and his group of unfamiliar beings entering, a large group of armored skeleton soldiers stepped forward, sniffed their scent, and frowned.

Although they sensed something was wrong, the death aura emanating from Chen Yuan and the others was too dense. After confirming that there was nothing unusual, they quickly dispersed and searched other areas.

In mid-air, there were also some powerful ghost generals patrolling the air, and some even searching for some ghost spirits with cultivation on the streets, driving them towards the direction of the decaying wooden door, letting them enter the wooden door and teleport them to the outside of the Western Frontier City.

These spirits with cultivation, or rotting corpses, skeletons, and the like, mostly lack intelligence. When driven away, they instinctively let out sharp screams, causing endless wailing sounds in the streets, like ghosts howling and wolves howling.

"Let's split into two groups."

Seeing that the ghost generals were about to fly towards them, Chen Yuan immediately whispered, "A group of people go find the coffins for raising corpses and destroy the places where those powerful ghost generals, ghost commanders, and ghost cultivators reside."

"Another group is going to destroy that teleportation portal!"

These words were met with nods of agreement from everyone.

"Chen Yuan, you, Zhong Yue, Li Taiyi, and Wang Hu, go and find the coffin for raising corpses."

Zhu Xin immediately instructed, "With your Heavenly Light Daoist Technique and Li Taiyi's Righteous Qi Sword Technique, destroying the core source of death at the Corpse-Nourishing Coffin and cutting off its control over those Corpse Generals shouldn't be a problem."

"Li Wei and Nuomi also know the Heavenly Light Daoist Technique. Together with me and Gu Chen, the four of us will destroy the Ghost Gate that allows teleportation."

As Zhu Xin spoke, she looked at Nuomi again, "Little Nuomi, you will fly the human skin umbrella into the sky above Night City and devour all the ghosts here. This will not only strengthen the power of the souls inside the human skin umbrella and enhance the stored souls, but also strengthen the dark power and help us attract the attention of those Purple Mansion Ghost Cultivators."

As soon as Zhu Xin finished speaking, Chen Yuan and the others' eyes lit up.