Chapter 378: The Thing Behind the Door

Watching Ye Lin and Zhuge Ni singing in harmony, the crowd present felt vaguely that something was not quite right, yet they could not put their finger on exactly what it was.

Seeing Ye Lin appear, alive and kicking, fury burned in the depths of Ye Nangao's and Ye Zhenbei's eyes.

But with the great enemy of the Sang Kingdom currently before them, they could not afford to start an internal conflict and strike at Ye Lin first.

Slap!

Ye Nangao gave Ye Guanhai a direct slap, aiming his rage at this collateral branch member of the Ye family.

"You piece of trash, how do you still have the face to be alive?"

They had split into two groups; he and Ye Zhenbei went to seize the Spirit Mother, while Ye Guanhai took four Star-Crossing Realm experts to wipe out everyone in the Xie family and bring Ye Lin back alive.

As it turned out, not only did Ye Guanhai fail to accomplish the task, but he also got those four Star-Crossing Realm experts killed; how could Ye Nangao not be furious?

"I'm sorry... I was too stupid."

Ye Guanhai clenched his fists so tightly his molars were nearly crushed; he had never imagined that such a big figure as Ye Nangao could actually be a fake!

It was one thing that the fake Ye Nangao looked exactly like the real one, but he could even use dark arts; he was practically carved from the same mold.

Even Xiu Yi had slept with the fake star-light so many times without telling the difference, let alone him, who had never even slept with Ye Nangao—how was he supposed to distinguish them?

"If you weren't still useful, I would kill you right now! Get lost!"

Ye Nangao kicked Ye Guanhai over with a heavy blow.

"Zhuge Ni, what do we do next?" Ye Nangao looked toward Zhuge Ni.

"Go to the blood-colored altar; if nothing goes wrong, that is a very important part of the Sang Kingdom's plan this time," Zhuge Ni responded.

"Lead the way!"

After resting for a while, the five great families—Ye, Ji, Jiang, Xie, and Zhuge—officially formed an alliance!

The last time the five great families joined forces against an enemy was back during the Great War of Humans and Demons.

The group boarded the Jiang family's Dark-Winged Night Owls and headed toward the location of the blood-colored altar!

Along the way, there was silence; everyone was adjusting their state, for they all knew clearly that what they were about to face would inevitably be a world-shaking battle.

Since the Sang Kingdom people dared to sneak into the Heaven-Refining Secret Realm, they must have come prepared.

Ye Lin grinned and sidled up next to Zhuge Ni.

"Ni, we still have such great chemistry; you understand me with just a look. Truly worthy of being cousins~"

"I have no blood relation to you, so don't try to claim kinship. If you really want to claim kin, look at Ye Nangao and Ye Zhenbei over there. They are both sons of the current Ye family head; in terms of relations, you should call them cousins—that is true blood thicker than water."

Zhuge Ni's tone was cold; she had truly believed that the fake Ye Nangao was disguised by someone from the Sang Kingdom.

It wasn't until Ye Lin suddenly charged over like he'd been injected with adrenaline to fight the fake Ye Nangao to the death that Zhuge Ni realized something was wrong.

Combined with the beastly things Ye Lin did to Xie Zhanxin inside the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm, Zhuge Ni could conclude that the fake Ye Nangao wasn't some Sang Kingdom person at all, but Ye Lin acting out another play!

"Hehe, so, want to cooperate?" Ye Lin raised an eyebrow.

"Cooperate on what?" Zhuge Ni asked.

"After we deal with the Sang Kingdom people, I want all the Ye family members to stay in the Heaven-Refining Secret Realm! Also, the Spirit Mother inside this Heaven-Refining Secret Realm must belong to me," Ye Lin stated his demands.

Zhuge Ni's beautiful brows furrowed slightly.

"You take all the benefits? You call this cooperation?"

"Of course not; I have a benefit you cannot refuse."

Ye Lin slowly leaned toward Zhuge Ni's ear; Zhuge Ni feigned composure, but the hot breath Ye Lin exhaled still made her earlobes burn.

"I can help you break free from the Zhuge family! And tell you many truths about the death of Zhuge Qianyang back then! You know, as I am now, I am fully capable of that!"

Hearing this, Zhuge Ni's delicate body could not help but tremble.

Indeed, she could not refuse the condition Ye Lin offered, but soon Zhuge Ni calmed down, refusing to be led by the nose by Ye Lin.

"The condition is tempting, but cooperating with you lacks any sense of security. I even suspect that if things go wrong, you might kill me too," Zhuge Ni said indifferently.

"Don't worry, while I can't bring you a sense of security, I can provide you with a sixth sense," Ye Lin promised, patting his chest.

"A sixth sense?" Zhuge Ni was taken aback.

"Yeah, isn't it said that a woman's sixth sense is always particularly accurate?" Ye Lin continued.

Slap!

Zhuge Ni finally realized what Ye Lin was saying; although her eyes were covered by a black silk blindfold, she still landed a precise slap on Ye Lin's face.

Ye Lin clutched his face and looked at Zhuge Ni like a twisted-mouth dragon king.

"Can't we talk properly? Why do you have to hit people!"

"You have no filter; you deserve to be hit!" Zhuge Ni retorted.

"What's wrong with saying a few flirtatious words? I didn't touch you, so are we still cooperating?"

"We are!"

The night passed without incident.

The Dark-Winged Night Owl, which had been flying high, suddenly lowered its altitude and hid behind twisted, withered trees.

"We are very close to the Sang Kingdom people; if we keep flying in the sky, we will be discovered."

Jiang Wentian spoke in a low voice, and the group immediately became alert, leaping down directly from the backs of the Dark-Winged Night Owls.

The five great families added up to nearly seventy people, yet the moment they landed, they made no sound at all, not even crushing a single withered leaf.

The group moved silently toward the front, and before they had gone far, a massive, eerie blood-colored altar appeared before their eyes, as if they had walked into the depths of hell!

The altar was constructed from human bones, and blood-colored patterns flowed across the surface of every bone, flickering with an evil light under the red sky.

Even from far away, everyone could smell a thick, bloody stench.

A group of Sang Kingdom people kept hunting people within the Heaven-Refining Secret Realm, bringing them here, and after eating their flesh and blood clean, the remaining bones were used as materials to build the altar.

"The fake Ye Nangao said before he died that there were 23 Sang Kingdom people; that's all of them, they are all here," Xie Lihou said in a low voice after counting heads.

"Can you tell what that altar is for? That altar... gives me a heart-stopping feeling," Ji Yanyin's gaze was grave.

Zhuge Ni untied the black silk, revealing a pair of double pupils that resembled an endless starry sky, and looked toward the blood-colored altar.

The next second, Zhuge Ni's expression changed violently; she closed her eyes, and two lines of blood tears slid from the corners of her eyes—it was clear that peering into the blood-colored altar had caused her to suffer a backlash.

"Zhuge Ni, what did you see?" Ye Nangao pressed.

"A door!"

Zhuge Ni spat out one word, followed immediately by a sentence that made everyone present shudder.

"That blood-colored altar is a door! Behind the door are countless evil ghosts! It is an Asura hell!"