The Ascension of Contracted Spirits

Chapter 563 - 247: Night Trial·End_1

Spring warmth fades to blooming, summer comes to fall.

On this day, a steep mountain peak, about fifty thousand miles south of the Giant Frog Marsh, suddenly burst into a beam of white light.

In a flash, the peak was sliced in half, plummeting down with a roar that echoed through heaven and earth.

"Roar..."

All the wild Fond Spirits in the hills and fields leaped up.

No matter their size or age, they fled in panic, terrified that a moment’s delay might cost them their lives.

"Damn it, this compass is malfunctioning again!"

"Those old fogies in the Institute of Mechanics take so much salary every year, only to give us some defective products!"

In the void, the figures of three men gradually solidified.

They were at least tens of thousands of meters in the sky with no buoyancy, falling freely.

Upon closer inspection, the man on the left wore a phantom blue Robe, a pair of black sunglasses that covered half of his face, and held a dark blue staff in his hand. He was now muttering angrily.

The man on the right donned a purple cloak. His hands were invisible, but his eyes were tightly closed, as if he were sleep-talking.

Only the man in the middle, dressed all in black tight clothes, emphasized his skinny and elderly body, making him more shriveled.

"Xu Yan, is this your first mission?"

"Those old folks at the Institute of Mechanics like to withhold Spirit Stones."

"The withheld Spirit Stones are either used to drink alcohol or to fill in gaps in other projects, you’re not learning about this for the first time, are you?"

The man in the purple cloak mumbled like he was sleep-talking.

The Robe man with the cool sunglasses snorted coldly. He kept looking at the glowing disk-shaped object in his hands:

"Thank goodness, it’s just a few tens of thousands of miles. We’ll definitely get there within a day."

"By the way, whose highness’s trial area is this? We’re nearing the trial site, can’t we unfurl the scroll and peek at some information?"

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh——

During their conversation, the three kept plummeting.

Approaching ground level, the man in the middle snapped his fingers, and a Mark on his neck lit up.

In silence, an enormous figure, fifty meters tall, appeared beneath his feet.

Its head resembled a rat, and its body a giant. It had wings on its back and a long tail behind its buttocks, enabling it to fly.

The terrifying Dark Power, carrying the cold scent of metal, radiated outwards.

Along the way, all the running wild Fond Spirits suddenly fell to the ground.

It looked as though they had been drained of blood; their corpses were pale, without a hint of color.

"Huk!"

The Ancient Gold Ghost bared its sharp teeth, and a multicolored plasma - like feces - spurted out of its mouth.

It looked disgustedly at the corpses on the ground, suddenly flapped its wings hard, first pulling up its height then flying forward with force.

"What were you thinking, these lowly Mud-cast fetuses and Rainbow Light fetuses, not even worthy to be food, dared to taste their blood?"

The Robe man known as ’Xu Yan’, standing on the shoulder of the Ancient Gold Ghost, broke into a mocking laugh.

The Ancient Gold Ghost, as if provoked, let out a roar. The sound wave turned into a wave of air, nearly flipping all the clouds in the sky.

"Quiet!"

The elderly man in the middle, called "Ye Ji", activated the ring in his hand, and took out a long box as thick as his arm.

Holding a solemn expression, the man who was constantly sleep-talking suddenly shut his mouth, no longer making any noise.

The irritable Xu Yan, who had been grumbling, also fell silent and instead fixed a gaze at him.

"Ssss!"

Biting his finger, the long box sprang open.

In a blink, three shadows flashed, and a flower appeared on each of their shoulders.

This flower had a fierce appearance. A glowing gem grew in the bud, but the petals appeared like teeth, constantly oozing blood.

"Sssss!"

The roots extended, piercing the men’s clothes and easily lodging themselves into their flesh.

"When can this ’Soul Blood Shadow Flower’ be improved? It always feeds on human blood. We have to be careful to protect it. Why is it so delicate?!"

Xu Yan murmured under his breath. The flower on his shoulder seemed to respond, instantly turned its gem towards his face.

Xu Yan fell silent, gritted his teeth and tried to ease the piercing pain at the soul level.

"The flower lives, the man lives; the flower dies, the man dies."

"This is an important medium to witness the entire evaluation process. Dare to harm the Soul Blood Shadow Flower or fail to protect it from damage. None of the three of us will survive the trip back."

The man known as ’Shi Shou’, who is always sleep-talking, bit on his lips. A drop of purple blood squeezed out, which he smeared on the petals.

With a flash of neon light, the petals of the flower on his shoulder took on a touch of purple, inexplicably becoming more demonic.

"Tch, you have the ’Dream Barrier’, but I don’t."

Xu Yan took out a stack of dominoes and placed them next to the flower.

With a swish, the dominoes flew up and rotated around the flower like guards.

"Gold Ghost, though a remote place, we must not underestimate."

"Ye Ji", the elderly man, instructed his Contracted Spirit Fond Spirits and slowly unrolled the scroll, his black pupils filled with gravity.

Mysterious light flickered in Xu Yan’s eyes.

Shi Shou, who had shut his eyes this whole time, suddenly opened them and cautiously inspected the content on the scroll.

"What?"

"This dreadful place called the Giant Frog Marsh is actually the trial area of that lord?"

Xu Yan drew a sharp breath; all the air currents around him were in turmoil.