CH 329

329: Separate Spaces

“I’m just a grievance, a grievance that is about to disappear. . . ” The mysterious voice replied.

Grievance? Feng Wu and the others were confused and it showed on their faces.

“If that’s too hard to understand, you can think of me as someone’s obsession. A hundred years ago, a tragedy happened on this island. It was a great tragedy that shocked the world and left everyone dead.

At that time, the only heir to the Gaodun family, Yanaimo Gaodun, invited her entire class to this island for a vacation. Two months passed without any communication from the group.

Mr. and Mrs. Gaodun became worried, so they sent several masters to investigate. Updates from the masters immediately stopped once they reached the island. They would never be heard from again.

At this, the Gaodun’s travelled to the island to personally look for their daughter. They did this against the advice of all their servants. Naturally they were never heard from again either.

With all three Gaodun’s gone, the Gaodun empire, including the industries run by Mrs. Gaodun’s mother in the royal family, fell apart.

It became widespread knowledge that no one who entered the island ever left alive. And so it eventually became known as Death island, a forbidden place no human should set foot on.”

“How did those who came before die? You didn’t kill them, did you?” Jier was curious.

“Of course not. They died under the influence of the strong grievance here.” The voice sounded a little angry at the question. “Yanaimo slaughtered the native inhabitants of the island for her own selfish greed. The grievance from the villagers were originally sealed by the masters sent by Mr. and Mrs. Gaodun.

But later, in order to take revenge, the surviving villager used the sea god’s key to seal everyone’s abilities and turn them into ordinary people. Then she used the secret tunnels in the castle to kill everyone.

After accomplishing that, she tried to use the sea god’s key to rescue the souls of the villagers. Little did she know, they had become fully corrupted by all their resentment and were now evil souls who’s only desire was to destroy.

So when the girl opened the seal, they swarmed out and immediately killed her. The corrupted spirits went on to kill every single living thing on this island.”

“Why have we never seen any of the evil village spirits?” They had been on the island for so long, but the only spirits they saw were the servants and Yanaimo’s school group. If things were as the mysterious voice said, then the island should have been full of evil spirits.

Ink was really curious where all the evil spirits went and why they hadn’t seen any.

“You are not in the same space. Of course you wouldn’t see them,” replied the voice.

“Not in the same space?” Ming Xi raised his eyebrows. That explained it.

“Correct. The Bohai nation invited three powerful magicians shortly after the incident with the Gaodun couple. One was a powerful dual magician specializing in space and necromancy. The other two magicians died upon entering the island because they lost all their abilities. He was the only one who survived.

Through great effort, he was able to separate the island into two parts: one outer part with the evil spirits and one inner part with the castle. He tried to enter the castle, to find out the truth. Little did he know, the castle had become a dangerous place.

Although the souls in the castle weren’t evil, they weren’t much better. They were trapped in a loop, destined to repeat the events before they died, over and over and over again.

The magician was dragged along with them and forced to play one of their roles and was killed later. He has remained trapped on this island ever since. . .

After he died, his soul tried to enter the castle again but failed to do so. His desire to know what happened created me. From the moment my consciousness formed, I knew my mission was to unravel the mystery of this island, why there so many resentful evil spirits on the outer perimeter and why had everyone in the castle been killed.

I’m just a mass of grievance and obsession, not a real soul, so I couldn’t very well investigate it myself. There was no way for me to interact and understand what happened.

I have encountered many who have landed on this island over the past one hundred years. They all wanted to find out the truth, but every one of them died and turned into the evil spirits you see on the outer part of the island.

You guys though. . . don’t know if you’d call it good luck or not, but you encountered the black tornado. The tornado has a special field around it that circumvents the energy field of all living things, so your souls ended up here. It was a very weak field because of the sea god’s key, but you ended up here nonetheless. You could be considered lucky because of that, having landed on the island instead of like those unfortunate creatures who perished from the black tornado.

But you can also be considered unlucky because you did end up on the island.

Now that the truth has finally been revealed, all the poor souls trapped here are no longer forced to repeat the tragedy of a hundred years ago. They can reincarnate. No wonder the girl gave you the sea god’s key. If you hadn’t solved the mystery, she would have had to keep reliving the events forever.”

Many masters had died on the island over the past one hundred years. Some died mere steps away from solving the mystery. Ming Xi and his group had entered as souls, but were able to solve the mystery. They really did have exceptionally good luck.

“Now that my mission is complete, I will disappear soon. The island is no longer blanketed by the power of the sea god’s key. You should be able to return to your physical bodies if you close your eyes and imagine returning. But before you do, I hope you can promise me one thing. When you go back, please find a necromancer to purify the grievances of the villagers. Unlike those in the castle, they are confused and are unable to reincarnate.” The sigh that came from the voice was full of melancholy.

“Don’t worry. We’ll find a way to purify the souls.” Jier glanced at Feng Wu. It wouldn’t take her more than a few minutes to do it.