Chapter 589: Corpse Ghost in the Underground Cemetery

The blood-red halo of Priest Ao Gu Si appeared at the entrance of the cemetery, and there was only one continuous shadow, representing that he had only been here once within 24 hours. However, Xia De could still only see the figure of the priest entering the cemetery in the fog, but could not see the figure of the priest appearing again.

"Strange, did the priest climb over the fence and run into the mountains?"

Xia De followed the priest's figure into the cemetery. He was not particularly worried about evil spirits. Theoretically speaking, unless it was an evil spirit formed by relics or other external factors, it posed no great threat to a Third-Ring Shushi like him.

After all, even if a soul with resentment turned into an evil spirit, it only had the power of a soul. It made no sense that the power of human resentment was more powerful than the power gained by Ringed Shushi through risking danger to study ancient texts, touching relics of the past, and chasing crazy Ancient Gods. Although Ringed Shushi is a subjective power, it is also very reasonable.

Because the priest had already obtained the location of the tomb from Miss Michelle of the "House of the Blind," he didn't go to the gravedigger to check, but targeted the tombstone inscribed with "Matilda Fox" and walked on the stone slab road between the tombstones, and successfully found it.

The tomb was located under a large pine tree with lush branches and leaves in the center of this cemetery area. Priest Ao Gu Si's figure stayed here for a long time. Xia De was unwilling to pry into other people's privacy, but those overlapping blood-red halos undoubtedly pointed to Priest Ao Gu Si, who sat down and looked at the tombstone, and what kind of mood he was in at that time.

"He didn't catch her hand when he was young. This is a lesson for me. I must hold on tight..."

【But your hands don't seem to be enough.】

Her voice suddenly appeared, almost scaring Xia De, who was a bit sentimental.

"Don't underestimate me too much. Also, are you sure this fog is okay?"

These white mists spreading from the mountains and forests were actually more exaggerated than the smog caused by industrial development in Tobeisike. Not only was the water vapor extremely heavy, but the visibility in the fog was even worse than Xia De thought.

【At least it's okay for now.】

Xia De nodded, bent down to straighten the bouquet of slightly withered white chrysanthemums placed in front of the tombstone, and then prepared to continue looking for Priest Ao Gu Si's whereabouts.

His eyes swept around, and a transparent soul actually floated in the fog not far away, but was restricted by the body and could not go far. Xia De didn't care about this kind of harmless soul, and it would soon leave.

After Priest Ao Gu Si's figure climbed up from the ground, he didn't return along the original road, but walked toward the small church in the center of the cemetery area, probably wanting to ask about the daily management of this tomb.

But the priest didn't reach the church. After Xia De followed his figure back to the stone slab road of the cemetery area along another small path between the tombstones, and hadn't walked a few steps, Priest Ao Gu Si's figure actually made a movement of being startled and then defending.

"What?"

Xia De realized that he might have approached the truth.

Priest Ao Gu Si, who encountered an attack, didn't linger, but turned and ran toward the entrance of the underground cemetery area further away. The red halo clearly depicted the figure of the priest when he was running away. He had to admit that although he was a bit old, his agility was still quite good.

"What attacked the priest?"

Xia De didn't follow directly, but looked left and right, returned to the tombstone cluster again, and found the soul he had just seen.

His gaze stayed on a tombstone inscribed with "Joel Pound," and the cause of death written on the tombstone was that he died of heart disease at the age of 47.

Joel Pound's soul was exceptionally transparent, and his expression was relatively peaceful. Although he didn't know why he stayed, this kind of soul was harmless.

"This gentleman, may I ask, did you see anything strange appearing near here yesterday afternoon?"

Xia De walked over and asked very politely. There were not many people in the cemetery in the afternoon, plus this mountain forest fog, so Xia De didn't have to worry about being seen talking to "air."

That soul still possessed basic rationality, but just glanced at Xia De and didn't speak with a blank expression.

Xia De raised his finger, his expression became a bit serious, and moonlight appeared on his fingertip:

"Sir, did you see anything strange yesterday afternoon?"

Seeming to be a bit afraid of the moonlight in Xia De's hand, Pound's soul spoke:

"Lend me your body for a day, let me re-experience a healthy life, and I will tell you."

Xia De's face appeared with a threatening expression, the chain in his sleeve shot toward the soul's forehead, but stopped abruptly at a distance of only a little finger from the soul. The sharp metal at the end of the chain pointed at it:

"You, speak."

【Sin Chain】's terror and filth could be clearly felt even by the living, let alone a soul. Pound was obviously frightened and turned to run, but was bound by his own body underground, so he couldn't run away:

"I know! Yesterday afternoon, an old gentleman wearing a priest's robe came here, and then encountered a monster that jumped out of the grass. It looked like a human, covered in rotten brown flesh, with a strange head like a triangular cone, and it was crawling on the ground. Oh, that thing was really terrible! Just looking at it, I had a feeling that my soul was shaken."

"Corpse Ghost?"

Xia De frowned. This was the lowest-level undead creature that Ringed Shushi would learn in the first year, lower-level than skeletons. The upper and lower limits of this kind of low-level undead creature were very different. If Priest Ao Gu Si encountered a very powerful corpse ghost, it was indeed possible that he couldn't handle it.

"But how could there be a corpse ghost in the public cemetery? And, Priest Ao Gu Si, who is proficient in death power, would actually be harmed because of a corpse ghost?"

Xia De said goodbye to the soul that was frightened by him and continued to follow Priest Ao Gu Si's footsteps. Priest Ao Gu Si went straight to the underground cemetery area, but the door leading to the underground was locked, so the priest's figure broke the lock without hesitation.

The gravedigger had replaced the lock, and the lock blocking Xia De now was new. He opened the new lock and entered the underground cemetery area, which was colder than the ground although there was no fog.

Although after the adventure in the 【Dark Domain】, Xia De's eyes could see in the darkness, this kind of vision was not clear, so he still lit the moonlight on his finger. Of course, there were gas pipes in the underground tomb, and there were ancient gas lamps on the walls. But Xia De didn't want the old gravedigger who looked after this place to be frightened because he saw the gas meter managing the gas pipes in the tomb suddenly turn.

The air underground was exceptionally stuffy and had a smell of decay. Following the priest's figure, who was fighting and retreating, he arrived at the deepest part of the cemetery area. From the metal plate hanging at the corner of the passage, this area was the first batch of underground tombs opened in this cemetery area more than thirty years ago.

The priest didn't enter any tomb, but retreated to the wall under the unlit kerosene lamp at the end of the passage. Afterwards, the red halo that Xia De had been following disappeared.

"Hmm? The effect of 【Blood Echo】 ended?"

Xia De turned to look behind him. Those figures with clear trajectories still existed, but the last figure did indeed disappear under this wall.

"Hidden wall? Midehillburg has two exits for the 【Space Labyrinth】?"

Scorching steam gushed out of the narrow tomb passage, and spirit runes flashing with four-colored light floated on the Fate Ring. The light of 【Space-Time】 shone on the plain soil wall in front, but nothing happened.

However, something seemed to be reflecting light on the ground illuminated by the spirit light. Xia De bent down to pick it up and found that it was a brass pendant with a missing top ring. The brass-colored missing top ring was the holy emblem of the Orthodox God 【Mr. Dawn】. This pendant should have been left here by Priest Ao Gu Si. Xia De had seen him wear this ornament.

"It seems I didn't go to the wrong place, but why did it disappear? Is there a mechanism? Or, does it need a secret word to open this wall? Or, does the priest actually know spells like 【Wall Passing】 or 【Earth Travel】?"

Xia De squinted his eyes, letting the last figure left by the priest become a continuous movement. The figure retreated to the soil wall, turned his back to the soil wall, and made a movement similar to casting a miracle. Afterwards, the priest disappeared abruptly, and the last movement was still casting a spell, as if the priest was erased from the world by a huge eraser.

"What exactly happened? Are there traces of elements?"

【Outsider, you need to put your hand on the wall to... something is coming.】

Xia De turned to look in the direction he came from. The deep tomb passage had no light and shadow, but he also heard footsteps.

That was obviously not human footsteps, but rather like an animal crawling on all fours, running at high speed. The sound came from the adjacent tomb passage. Xia De's movements just now seemed to have awakened something sleeping here.

As the series of footsteps got closer and closer, Xia De's right hand drew a cross in the air, letting the cross stay in front of him.

Under the illumination of the cross light, in the tomb passage in the distance, a terrible monster covered in rotten flesh, crawling on its hands and feet, with a swollen head and protruding yellow teeth, finally appeared.

"Sure enough, it's a corpse ghost."

Because of 【Unfortunate Hair】, Xia De would attract evil spirits or undead creatures more strongly in the next period of time. This was probably why the gravedigger here didn't encounter an attack when dealing with the damaged door lock, but Xia De was attacked as soon as he came.

"Was it this that attacked Priest Ao Gu Si yesterday?"

Thinking in his heart, Xia De kicked his foot, kicking the cross moonlight staying in the air toward the front.

The tomb passage in the underground cemetery was narrow, and the arc light drawn by Xia De's hand almost blocked the entire passage. But when the monster coming from afar met the cross moonlight, it actually darted forward, drilling through the gap of the cross.

"So agile?"

It was only a few leaps, and the terrible monster exuding the smell of corpse rot had already darted in front of Xia De. Not only was the appearance itself terrible, but when seeing it at close range, a feeling of fear without reason appeared directly in Xia De's heart. This was the innate fear power of the undead.

But for Xia De, who had once faced the Terror Castle, this fear influence was not great.

First, he threw a moonlight casually, forcing the agile corpse ghost to dodge, and then Xia De pointed his finger forward:

"Silver Moon!"

The exploding moonlight appeared in the cold tomb passage. This moonlight itself had sacred attributes and had extraordinary lethality to undead creatures.

Sure enough, in the holy silver and even near-pure white light, the corpse ghost covered in black smoke retreated rapidly. The vocal organs of this creature were completely damaged, so it couldn't express its anger and fear with screams. But this silence made it look even more terrifying.

"Feilian..."

He wanted to use 【Felliana's Witch Light】 to melt the other party's limbs, but the closer this miracle was, the greater the power, and Xia De didn't want to get close to the terrible thing on the opposite side at all.

"Laglai's Leap."

He had prepared the spell materials long before entering the underground cemetery, so before the moonlight on his fingertips faded, he stepped forward and appeared behind the retreating corpse ghost.

The moonlight in his hand was getting closer and closer to that terrible thing, and this seemed to have stimulated the other party's ferocity. It turned around and bared its rotten mouth at Xia De, and then, ignoring the terrible injury of black smoke all over its body, it pounced toward Xia De. ===== CHAPTER 590 =====

"Leagle's Leap."

He had prepared the spellcasting materials long before entering the catacombs, so while the moonlight on his fingertips had not yet faded, he stepped forward and appeared behind the retreating ghoul.

The moonlight in his hand drew closer and closer to that terrifying thing, which seemed to have incited the creature's ferocity. It suddenly turned around, baring its rotting mouth at Xia De, and then, despite the terrible injuries with black smoke rising from its entire body, lunged toward him.