Chapter 50

"Damn it! He's just one person, and he dares to be so arrogant! Chase after him, kill him, and avenge Huang Ye!"

After the situation became clear, Tong Hao, filled with anger, took the lead in chasing after the direction the Ghost Sect disciple had fled.

The two people near him, who seemed to have a good relationship with Huang Ye, also followed in grief.

"Don't chase after him! Everyone come back!" An Ying shouted to stop them.

Tong Hao, who was at the front, turned around and showed his dissatisfaction with An Ying for the first time, "Why? Are we just going to watch Huang Ye be killed and do nothing?!"

"You won't catch up to him," Pan Tao interjected. "The disciples of the Ghost Sect are best at fleeing and hiding, their movements are like ghosts. Not to mention you, even if An Ying and I went after him, it would be useless."

"Let's bury Huang Ye first," An Ying also felt disheartened.

The Ghost Sect disciple had deceived them all by wearing the clothes of Huigou, passing through undetected.

If it weren't for Nie Tian's ability to remember the appearance of every person from Huigou and immediately attacking that person, he could have killed at least two more people in a short time.

As the leader, she had failed to notice this, leading to Huang Ye's death by ambush, which made her secretly blame herself.

"Listen to her, bury Huang Ye first, don't waste your efforts," Pan Tao tried to persuade Tong Hao and the others. "You don't understand the Ghost Sect enough. If you really chase after him and get separated, I'm worried about what might happen to you..."

Clearly, he didn't want Tong Hao and the others to suffer the same fate as Huang Ye.

At this moment, Nie Tian looked calmly at the direction from which the Ghost Sect disciple had come and suddenly said, "The place he came from should really have people from Huigou killed."

"It should be like that. The clothes he was wearing were from Huigou," Pan Tao also said.

"Should we go and check?" Nie Tian suggested.

Pan Tao's expression changed, and he nodded, saying to An Ying, "Nie Tian and I will go and check. Regardless of what we find, we'll come back quickly. There shouldn't be more Ghost Sect disciples nearby, otherwise, he wouldn't have come alone."

An Ying thought for a moment and said, "Be careful."

"Sure, we won't go too far," Pan Tao promised.

Then, he and Nie Tian left the group and headed toward the direction the Ghost Sect disciple had come from.

After they left, Jiang Miao suddenly said, "Nie Tian... is actually quite good. On this journey, although he seems to only care about eating and drinking, he always notices the slightest abnormalities at critical moments. Without him, I would have died long ago when we encountered the earth lizards."

She then looked at Guo Qi, "He also saved Guo Qi just now."

Guo Qi lowered his head and said apologetically, "It's my fault, I wronged him."

"Nie Tian..." An Ying muttered, nodding lightly, "His observational skills are indeed better than ours, there's no denying that. Without his warning, the Ghost Sect disciple could have killed one or two more people."

"It seems like not handing him over to Huigou was the right decision. He really helped us," Jiang Miao added.

The others all showed a look of shame, as if only now could they rationally evaluate Nie Tian.

Nie Tian, who was being secretly discussed, carefully searched along the direction the Ghost Sect disciple had come from.

The Ghost Sect disciple had deliberately created the illusion of being covered in blood, so as he ran, a lot of blood had dripped from his body.

Through the bloodstains along the way, Nie Tian and Pan Tao easily found the scene of the incident.

The battlefield was in a snowy valley about a mile away. Two Huigou trial participants were already dead, lying in the valley.

One of them was naked, a girl around fourteen or fifteen years old.

Pan Tao only glanced at her and his face turned cold. He whispered to Nie Tian, "She was also violated by the Ghost Sect disciple before she died."

Nie Tian's eyes darkened, and he forced himself not to look at the girl's tragic state, saying, "The Ghost Sect disciple deserves to die!"

"Their thumbs were also cut off, it's indeed the Ghost Sect's method," Pan Tao sighed, digging an ice pit to bury the two bodies.

"Ten people from Huigou entered the Qinghuan Realm, but we've already seen four of them dead," Pan Tao said after silently finishing the task. "There might be more deaths from Huigou, we just haven't encountered them. It seems Huigou has suffered heavy losses. I wonder if Yuan Feng is still alive."

"The appearance of a Ghost Sect disciple in this ice region means others are likely here too," Nie Tian hesitated for a moment and suggested, "In my opinion, we need to quickly join forces with the Xuanwu Palace and Lingyun Sect to deal with the Ghost Sect disciples. We have no idea how many Ghost Sect members are in this ice region."

"Yes, now that the Ghost Sect has appeared, the trial of killing a second-level spirit beast is no longer important," Pan Tao agreed. "Let's go back and tell An Ying about our findings. We should leave this ice region as soon as possible and try to join forces with the Xuanwu Palace and Lingyun Sect."

"That's the best plan."

The two agreed and returned along the same path, soon arriving where An Ying and the others were.

"Did you find anything?" Zheng Rui asked anxiously.

"In a snowy valley, we found two more bodies from Huigou. They... died even more tragically, I won't go into details," Pan Tao casually narrated, then said to the solemn An Ying, "Nie Tian and I discussed it and think we shouldn't stay in this ice region for too long, as we don't know how many Ghost Sect members are here."

"Join forces with the Xuanwu Palace and Lingyun Sect, right?" An Ying nodded. "When you left, we discussed it and made the same decision."

"Everyone, get ready, and immediately cross this ice region to head for the desert where the earth lizards are."

"The Xuanwu Palace and Lingyun Sect might not know the earth lizards are here. They might have gone to the desert to kill the earth lizards. We'll find them," An Ying said.

"Good!" Everyone agreed.

Huang Ye's death and the tragic deaths of four Huigou trial participants had instilled fear of the Ghost Sect in them.

No one knew how many Ghost Sect members were in the area. If they encountered a large group of Ghost Sect members, they could all be killed.

Joining forces with the other three sects and using the combined strength of the four sects to fight the Ghost Sect disciples was undoubtedly the wisest decision.

"Let's go," An Ying issued the order with a low mood.

After that, the group no longer dared to split up, and they moved in a straight line toward the desert in the direction she pointed.

"There's a body, also from Huigou!" Zheng Rui, at the front of the group, was the first to see a girl's body nailed to an ice tree with a spear.

The girl was also naked, and she had been dead for some time, her body covered in a thin layer of ice.

Below her, there were dried bloodstains, the blood frozen in the thin ice.

Her eyes were wide open, her face filled with fear and despair. Anyone who saw her could tell what she had experienced before her death.

"Damn the Ghost Sect!" Jiang Miao cursed, her voice tinged with sobs. "They all deserve to die! They deserve to die ten thousand times!"

The other girls in the group, seeing the cold body, seemed to tremble, whether from anger or fear.

"Let's bury her and continue on, don't stay here for too long," An Ying's face was cold, and she gritted her teeth. "Don't worry! We will come back! When we return, we will avenge her and kill all the Ghost Sect disciples!"

Pan Tao said nothing, silently burying the girl's body.

Afterward, the group continued toward the desert, and no one had the interest to speak, remaining silent the entire time.

Nie Tian could feel their deep hatred for the Ghost Sect, knowing they would eventually vent it by using the blood of the Ghost Sect disciples to honor the tragic dead.

After an unknown amount of time, they finally crossed the ice region and entered the scorching desert.

Although they were still in the Qinghuan Realm and not far apart, the desert and the ice region they had passed through were like two different worlds.

As soon as they entered the desert, everyone was drenched in sweat, feeling as if the sand beneath their feet was being scorched by flames.

Not long after entering the desert, Pan Tao suddenly shouted, "There's a body!"

Nie Tian rushed forward and saw a young man in Lingyun Sect clothing lying shriveled in a sand dune.

The young man seemed to have no blood left in his body, dry and shriveled like a mummy.

"This, this is!" Pan Tao bent down to check and suddenly turned to An Ying, "The Blood Sect! It's the Blood Sect's method!"

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PS: Watching the Dota 2 Spring Major, I wasted some time, so the update is a bit late. Sorry!