Upgrade Specialist in Another World Chapter 785
Four corpses adorned the path ahead of Bai Yunfeiâs group as they walked forward to inspect them.
The look of tensions didnât fade away from Bai Yunfeiâs face even after a cursory examination of the corpses. If anything, he looked even more pensive by the results.
âThere wasnât even any resistanceâŠFour Late-stage Soul Exalts were killed without even being able to protect themselves besides the last oneâŠâ
Jing Mingfeng muttered in confusion and shock.
Yue Feng looked skeptical as well, âBut the more important thing is how they died. I canât even make any sense of itâŠâ
The only strange thing about these corpses was the tiny hole that was somewhere on their bodies. Of the four corpses, one of them had a hole through their forehead, and another had it through their throats. Their death was at the very least not very hard to imagine, but the other two had only one hole going through their left shoulder and right part of the chest!
Not even commoners would die from a wound like that. It wasnât even a fatal blow. But somehow, two soul cultivators had seemingly died without even being able to do a thing. Bai Yunfei and the others wouldâve thought otherwise if not for the fact that they witnessed the last person being killed by that black beam of light through his chest. There hadnât been any other wounds besides that.
Zheng Kai crouched down next to the dead metal-type soul cultivator and touched at the metal shield. He stared briefly at the item before inspecting the chest area of the soul cultivator. âNot only did that black beam of light pierce his mid-earth tier shield, but it also went through his high-earth tier armor as well. Not even his elemental energy was able to stop the thing. WeirdâŠwhat is that thing? How can it be so strong?â
He sent an inquisitive glance over to Bai Yunfei.
Bai Yunfei shrugged. âNo point asking me. I might be a crafter, but Iâm not able to see everything about a soul armament at a single glance. With that said though, the soul armament in that black beam of light is most likely a high-heaven tier with a special ability in it.â
Everyone gasped. âFor the love of everything, OlâBai, can you not just say things like that as if youâre talking about the weather? High-heaven tier?! The soul armaments that even the strongest disciples and scions of the Ten Great Schools and Five Families can hardly use? The treasured heirlooms any whos-who?â Jing Mingfeng asked.
âHaha, itâs just a guess, it might possibly be a mid-heaven tier.â
âNo matter what grade it is, thereâs one thing for certainâŠSomeone out here in the mist is easily capable of killing Late-stage Soul Exalts with a power none of us understands. Heâs killed these people and didnât even bothered to take their things, but why? Did he hate these people? It doesnât seem like itâŠâ Yue Feng conjectured.
âFurthermore, didnât it seem like he realized we were right before he was transported away? Iâve been thinking about it this entire timeâŠâ Yu Li brought up.
âExactly!!â Exclaimed Yue Feng, âWe were at the very edge of his range right before he disappeared. Think about it, we were barely able to sense him at first, and yet he was able to sense us?! Doesnât that meanâŠhis soulsense is as strong as the six of us combined?!â
âDear heavens, stop it with the scare tactics. The strongest people here are Peak Late-stage Soul Exalts and nothing else,â Jing Mingfeng spoke in exasperation, âeven if someone were to have obscenely powerful soulsense because of their training, it being that strong is a little too much, isnât it?â
âThen why do you think he turned around and looked like he was saying something before he was transported away?â
âIâŠâ Jing Mingfeng scratched his head as he tried to think of an answer, âAlright, fine. Maybe itâs true what youâre saying, butâŠdoesnât it seem intimidating? That thereâs someone like that in here with us in this mist? Who is he? Why is he killing these people? If itâs for the Extreme King Pills, arenât we also considered prey for him? What if he attacks us? Would we even be able to defend ourselves from that black light?â
A chilling air descended upon the hearts of the group as everyone thought back to how the black beam of light tore straight through the metal-type soul cultivator. If they were ambushed, would their defenses hold?Â
No one had a confident look as they debated the answer.
âWe donât know if weâll ever meet this person again, letâs try not to scare ourselves.â Bai Yunfei spoke to change the topic. âHeâs already been transported away, who knows where he is? We just need to keep going forward.â
âYunfeiâs right!â Zheng Kai nodded his head, âIf we just keep going forward, weâll make it to the top of the mountain. If we can get the Extreme King Pills and leave, it doesnât matter to us who is killing who.â
And so the group was decided. They took the space rings of the four corpses before Bai Yunfei burnt them into ashes. Now that their mental tribulation was over, they continued onwards.
What they saw mustâve weighed heavily on their minds, however. An hour after the group left the sight, they reached one of the more dense parts of the mist and accidentally crossed over into a very faint spatial barrier. By the time Zheng Kai realized their error, it was too late.
The group was transported away to another place, and the collective mood of the group was at a low. They didnât even know where they were, and if they were heading up the mountain or down anymore. Without any clues to tell where they were, the group conferred with each other for a bit before deciding to try and head down the mountain to rest.
Still, this mountain wasnât built so that they could leave the mountain if they wanted. Unlike the last two times, the group was unable to be transported to the bottom of the mountain even after just wandering around the place. As such, they were forced to wander the mountain for even longer.
It wasnât until another hour that the group was finally transported to the base of the mountain and made their way out from the mist.
Though they made their way out from the mist, the looks on everyoneâs faces looked quite unhappy for some reason.
At some point in their âmeanderingâ around the mountain an hour prior, the group came across two things, in particular, that was especially worrisome.
First off was the fact that they had come across three other groups of soul cultivators ho fought them. A battle was to be expected with how restless people were getting in the mist, but the chaotic flux of soulforce and elemental energy from these battles were somehow affecting the maze itself. Bai Yunfei and the others werenât very sure if itâd change the layout of the maze by changing locations of the barriers or anything, but it was still a very worrisome thing they didnât want to have happened.
The other thing was that the group would come across several âspecialâ corpses every so often. As different as the corpses were, their deaths were always the same in one wayâŠthey had holes in them inflicted to them by that mysterious black beam of light and shadowy figure! With so many deaths in the mist, Bai Yunfeiâs group grew all the more confident that this shadowy figure was here in the mist to try and kill everyone it came across!
It was with luck that the group was able to make it back to the stone forest of last time. Back in their last resting spot, the group sat down and began to recollect their soulforce. They werenât even in the mood to drink any tea or eat any snacks, they were all too busy recuperating.
âThereâs even fewer people nowâŠâ
It was Yu Li who spoke up first to break the silence.
There werenât even thirty people left here at the base of the mountain. Though people were still going up and down the mountain, the area looked especially sparse with the people coming down from the mist looking haggard and heavily injured.
There were plenty of people standing away from the base of the mountain trying to rest. At a glance, all of these people looked especially grim. And from the eyes of the others, some of these soul cultivators looked deeply terrified about somethingâŠ
It was as if something called âhorrorâ was slowly being spread about the areaâŠ