Chapter 72: When the Fog Rises, Run Fast

Janghwa?

Hongryeon?

Are they flower names?

Zhang Cheng didn't understand,

The next moment!

As the Mysterious Judge's figure disappeared from the Divine Ghost Killing Arena.

The girl named Jeon Ji-hyun suddenly launched an attack, she stared at Zhang Cheng with fierce eyes, her slender fingers extended sharp nails,

cold ice wrapped around them.

She kicked her legs and rushed toward Zhang Cheng at an extremely fast speed.

Under the messy hair was a ferocious and terrifying face.

This is... a sneak attack?

"Small tricks."

Facing Jeon Ji-hyun's surprise attack, Zhang Cheng not only didn't retreat, but stepped forward abruptly,

rushing to Jeon Ji-hyun's front as fast as an arrow off the string.

In his arm, the giant strength of the Yin Marshal Ox-Head burst out, grabbing the girl's arm.

Crack!

Directly crushed her arm!

Then Zhang Cheng's muscles bulged, using his foot as an axis, like a shot put athlete, throwing Jeon Ji-hyun out entirely.

Hit the wall around the challenge platform.

Boom!

Dust flew at the scene!

Not over yet, Zhang Cheng took out an old revolver from his arms.

SSS-level artifact—Dark Baptism!

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

The surrounding dark matter gathered at the muzzle, Zhang Cheng raised "Dark Baptism", aimed at Jeon Ji-hyun, and pulled the trigger!

Shoo shoo shoo—

Instantaneously.

Countless bullets flew toward Jeon Ji-hyun, the power so terrifying that it even penetrated the challenge platform; if the Mysterious Judge hadn't repaired it in time, I'm afraid the audience seats would have collapsed.

Gun smoke filled the challenge platform.

Vision blurred rapidly.

All the audience's eyes focused on the challenge platform.

Could it be... the Xiao Han Nation contestant just hung up like this?

Not so.

This is too casual, right?

The audience looked puzzled.

The next moment, a dazzling red light erupted from the smoke.

A black shadow crawled up from under the wall, swaying, her hands hanging naturally, walking forward with her head down.

Approaching Zhang Cheng step by step.

When she was only ten meters away from Zhang Cheng.

The smoke gradually dissipated, and under everyone's gaze, Jeon Ji-hyun actually inserted her hands directly into her chest, and then something extremely unreasonable happened.

She tore her body apart.

From the navel to the nose as a line, split into two, becoming perfectly symmetrical halves!

"What the hell is this?"

"Too unscientific!"

The audience widened their eyes, their jaws dropping.

Subsequently.

Even more incredible things happened.

The body torn into two halves, the cut turned into viscous liquid,

constantly squirming and growing, soon growing arms and legs...

Half a stick of incense later.

Jeon Ji-hyun split into two.

Two identical people appeared on the challenge platform!

This, clone technique?

A bit too weird!

The Long Guo audience twitched their mouths.

Jeon Ji-hyun's strange behavior made them unbelievable, even weird novels wouldn't be this weird!

Zhang Cheng on the challenge platform looked at all this, his expression unchanged.

"To summon stronger creatures, not hesitating to pay the price of flesh and soul."

"I'm really curious, what kind of sacred being can be summoned with such strict summoning conditions!"

As soon as the words fell.

The next second.

Altar rune-like strange magic arrays unfolded under the feet of the two Jeon Ji-hyuns simultaneously.

Countless blood surged from the magic array, flooding the challenge platform, and huge blood-colored lotuses bloomed under their feet, surrounding them.

The blood-colored lotus shape was strange, the petals covered with dense white sharp teeth, and tentacles with bone spurs extended from the closed lotus heart.

The surrounding energy was frantically absorbed by these two blood-colored lotuses.

After reaching a certain critical point.

The lotus bloomed.

Revealing two strange figures.

One wearing a blood-stained short skirt, short hair, black eyes hollow as if without eyeballs.

The other also wearing a blood-stained long dress, eyes white as if blind, head tilted, face wearing a strange and terrifying smile.

Janghwa and Hongryeon.

They don't refer to flowers.

But people.

Dead people!

At this very moment,

Janghwa and Hongryeon stood in a huge blood-colored lotus.

Following their order, the sharp teeth on the lotus petals flew toward Zhang Cheng like flying arrows.

The thick and disgusting tentacles at the lotus heart also grew wildly, like extremely greedy demons,

longing to swallow Zhang Cheng's flesh and blood, dripping with greedy saliva!

Two life-taking killing moves,

surged in an instant!

Witnessing this scene,

Pu Linyuan, the person in charge of the Xiao Han Republic, bloomed with a satisfied smile,

"Hmph, Janghwa Hongryeon has always been an extremely terrifying existence in our Xiao Han Republic's ancient legends."

"Coupled with Jeon Ji-hyun, this natural evil seed, the power they master is not only strange, but exceptionally powerful!"

Janghwa Hongryeon,

originates from a horror story in the Xiao Han Republic's folk.

Legend has it that in ancient times, there were two sisters named Janghwa and Hongryeon.

They originally lived happily, but after their biological mother passed away and their father remarried, life fell from heaven to hell.

The stepmother was vicious, viewing Janghwa and Hongryeon as burdens,

so she designed to put a skinned rat into Janghwa's quilt, and framed her for being pregnant with a wild child.

Even more hateful, the father actually believed this absurd lie,

and then set a poisonous plan, causing Janghwa to lose her life in the pond.

Hongryeon, who learned the truth, was heartbroken and also threw herself into the same pond.

Afterward, blood-colored giant lotuses bloomed in the pond, and the two sisters' ghosts wandered the world, causing harm for generations...

If it only stopped there,

their strength wouldn't be so powerful.

What made their power surge,

was Jeon Ji-hyun.

This natural evil seed girl.

At the age of five, while her parents were sleeping, for no reason, just with one thought, she ended their lives with a kitchen knife.

Due to the Xiao Han Republic's laws, the five-year-old Jeon Ji-hyun was not sentenced,

only diagnosed as a severe mental patient and imprisoned in a mental hospital.

However, when she was nine years old, under the cover of night, she set fire to the entire mental hospital,

hundreds of patients, doctors, and even volunteers serving in the hospital,

a total of more than nine hundred lives, all perished at her hands!

This time, Jeon Ji-hyun was determined to be a natural evil seed,

meaning she had an independent will from birth, killing for fun, a child without any sympathy.

And sentenced to death.

As a result, at the critical moment, Jeon Ji-hyun successfully summoned the SSS-level Janghwa Hongryeon...

This natural evil seed was thus preserved.

"This arena match, our Xiao Han Republic has an absolute advantage!"

Pu Linyuan, who knew the power of Janghwa Hongryeon, was full of triumphant smiles at this moment.

On the arena,

Viscous and disgusting tentacles and countless sharp teeth were rushing toward Zhang Cheng.

Just as they were about to touch Zhang Cheng...

Crack!

The surrounding air was like glass, cracking with spiderweb-like traces, and continued to spread.

The sound of shattering rose, the space was like broken glass, scattered all over the ground.

The killing moves that were originally attacking Zhang Cheng also shattered with the collapse of space, losing all attack power.

At the same time,

A strange blue-black airflow centered on Zhang Cheng, spreading wildly.

It contained astonishing strange power, directly destroying the blood-colored giant lotus under Janghwa Hongryeon's feet, a terrifying chill permeated, changing the surrounding scenery, even the color of the sky was different from before, everything changed...

Huh?

What's going on?

Janghwa and Hongryeon stepped on the ground barefoot because the giant lotus was destroyed.

But the moment their soft soles touched the ground, even as strong as they were, they felt a bone-chilling cold.

Looking down,

The original arena had turned into blue stone bricks at some point!

The blue stones covered with moss were stained with viscous and disgusting substances, like the

It looked like a pile of rotting flesh.

What is this?

Rose and Red Lotus shared the same question in their hearts.

They looked up,

And suddenly discovered,

The arena... had changed its appearance!

The original spectator seats no longer existed,

And Zhang Cheng, who had been opposite them, was also nowhere to be seen.

Everything, absolutely everything, had vanished.

The sky, which had been clear just a moment ago, was now hung with a crescent moon, and the faint moonlight spilled down, barely illuminating the surroundings.

To the left,

Was a high wall that stretched beyond sight;

To the right,

Was likewise an endless high wall.

They were trapped in a narrow alley between these two high walls!

The high walls were built of old bricks and stones, and due to years of neglect, the roof tiles were in a state of utter disrepair.

A thick, disgusting liquid coated the walls, and the sound of it dripping made it seem as if someone were constantly pouring fresh blood from the top of the wall into the night.

In the few areas that had not yet been contaminated,

A line of large characters was carved—

When the fog rises, run!

Run?

Run from what?

Why run?

What is here?

Do we need to run just because we see fog?

The sisters couldn't help but ponder.

Clang!

At this moment, a sudden sound rang out.

Rose and Red Lotus shuddered almost instantly.

Although they were SSS-Rank summoned creatures, their mental age remained that of young girls, and they would feel fear when faced with the unknown.

The sound came suddenly,

And the sisters followed the base of the wall, moving forward cautiously step by step.

The younger sister, Red Lotus, had been timid since childhood; she clutched her sister's skirt tightly, curled her body up, and followed along with extreme care.