Chapter 86.2

Editor: Kat

Proofreader: Junyans

‘Pft, it’s been just over a thousand years. And now, the current Gusin can’t even understand the language I use?’

Wei Xun walked over and took the wolf’s head. It took only five minutes in total. The devil who was murmuring a string of ‘&%#@*&￥#@——’ whispered in his ears again, but it didn’t pretend to be a king, and it didn’t trick Wei Xun into saying its name. Its tone was arrogant, hostile, and filled with contempt.

‘You came here to destroy my remnant soul? It’s a pity, you’re about to become my blood and soul.’

Wei Xun said, “Do, la, la, lai, la, la, mi, la, la, fa, la, la.”

‘Che, you’re speaking gibberish.’

The devil’s tone became even more contemptuous. It playfully said, ‘The current gusin’s strength is so insignificant, I think you are seeking your own death-——

‘Can’t you even understand the language of the abyss?’

When Wei Xun interrupted it, the devil was surprised at first, but then it understood his words. ‘As early as thousands of years ago, the abyssals unified the Abyss language. You have been trapped here for too long, and what you’re saying is already out of date.’

‘You’re so young, yet you have such a glib tongue and you only know how to make up some lies.’ The devil didn’t believe him at all, and asked while sneering suspiciously, ‘If you are not a Gusin, then how can you touch the holy relic without being affected?’

‘Holy relic? Are you referring to these?’

Wei Xun held the gusin thangka in his left hand and the nine-eyed dzi beads in his right hand. With a tone that grew increasingly sympathetic, he said, ‘What era is this? Are you still afraid of them? The demons in our territory, the abyss, are not afraid of them.’

‘There is no abyss in this world, you are just—’

Wei Xun summoned Xiaocui’s true physical body and held it in his hand. ‘Insect of Evil, come and show this senior what you can do. Look, this is the insect I assimilated with the power of the abyss demon.’

‘Farara greets you,’ Xiaocui said flirtatiously.

But it did not reveal her real name. Even if Wei Xun summoned Xiaocui and the three mantis brothers’ true physical bodies a thousand or even ten thousand times, it would not be as convincing as using this form of Xiaocui to greet him. One must know that the Insects of Evil had existed on Qianzong Mountain since the time of the Xiangxiong Kingdom, and they could be controlled by the gusin warlock.

It was impossible for the devil sealed in the nine-story 卍 crystal tower to not recognize Xiaocui’s new form.

The devil’s shadow was silent again, but it soon spoke. It was still suspicious and disbelieving, but less hostile.

‘Is there really an abyss where demons can live?

‘That is not the corpse of the Xiangxiong King, right?’

Wei Xun did not directly answer the devil’s question. ‘This corpse had its head separated. A golden eagle head was used to suppress it, and the head was sealed with gold and silver Buddhist scriptures. That means it was a man bearing great sins…and you were sealed on the sinner’s human thangka… This should be the corpse of the sinner.

‘Why? Could it be that you have been sealed for too long, and you have been fused with the thangka for such a long time that you cannot break away from your human skin? You wanted me to take this wet corpse down the tower because only by recovering the human skin that belonged to the corpse you are possessing can the resentment on it be washed away, and you can get rid of your shackles completely?’

Wei Xun never stopped thinking. What he said at this time was the most probable answer he had just thought of. However, Wei Xun said it in a firm tone as if he had known the truth for a long time, and he was calm.

‘Are all the abyssal demons like you?’ The other party also avoided answering, and asked in a low voice, ‘What is your purpose?’

‘The Garuda crown,’ Wei Xun crisply replied, ‘I heard that the Garuda crown was left in the nine-story 卍 crystal tower, so I wanted to look for it. You have to know that I’m an archaeologist.’

‘Hehe, an archaeologist? A demon who is an archaeologist? This is the funniest joke I’ve ever heard,’ the other party said with a hoarse smile, ‘There are truths and lies in your words. You’re cunning and evil. Now I kind of believe that you are also a demon.’

‘When the kingdom of Xiangxiong was destroyed, the last gusin took the body of the Xiangxiong King and hid it in the Dragon God Waterway, but they didn’t know that I had woken up. I killed the gusin and devoured the Xiangxiong King. The Garuda crown, and even the bone flute made from the Garuda’s right wing, are both in my hands.’

A visual illusion was revealed in front of Wei Xun. The illusion depicted the scene at the bottom of the crystal tower. On the illusory, luxurious throne, a tall shadow sat there. It was wearing a dazzling Garuda crown on its head.

He had no facial features, his eyes were just empty holes, and his entirety exuded a terrifying and bizarre feeling, as if it wasn’t a human being, but an empty sac.

Suddenly, the shadow split down the middle, and inside it was actually the bloody skeleton of a human being! It was the real remains of the Xiangxiong King, the noblest bloodline of the royal Xiangxiong family, but it was swallowed up and imprisoned by the devil, and the king would never be allowed to be reincarnated.

The devil provocatively stated, ‘But, do you dare to come down and take them?’

‘Wow, sexy!’ In pleasant surprise, Wei Xun first affirmed the demon’s aesthetic sense, and then he smiled sincerely. ‘I think I am very compatible with you, and you are more in line with the abyssal demon’s talent acquisition plan. How about this? You will give me all the treasures, like the Garuda crown and the Xiangxiong King’s monetary possessions, and I can apply for the abyss’s green card for you.’

‘Abyss, green card.’

Although the devil tried his best to remain calm and in control over the situation, Wei Xun’s every step was beyond his expectations, and Wei Xun did not follow the devil’s expectations at all. Especially when Wei Xun said a bunch of new words that the devil had never heard before, there was a hint of doubt in the devil’s tone.

‘Yes, with an abyss green card, you can immigrate to our dark abyss and become a free abyssal demon.’

Wei Xun was spouting off complete nonsense, but he was smiling and couldn’t help licking his lips.

Wei Xun was hungry.

Perhaps it was because most of the Yang Energy in his body was being supplied to the young fox, or perhaps it was because he was getting closer and closer to the devil’s shadow, but Wei Xun only felt that he was cold and hungry, and desperately needed some warm, delicious food to warm himself up. Something to warm his stomach and soul.

During the time they had the conversation, he wandered all around the seventh story, and after confirming that there was nothing valuable except the wolf king’s skull, he continued on to the eighth story.

The eighth story of the crystal tower was very close to the deepest story. The color of the crystals on this layer had changed to bluish-white, like the unchanging ice on the snow-capped peaks. Wei Xun didn’t know if it was an illusion, but the temperature of this layer was much lower than that of the other layers. When Wei Xun exhaled, he could almost see a faint white mist.

However, the beauty in front of him made Wei Xun temporarily ignore the burning hunger.

On the black stone mural of the eighth story of the nine-story 卍 crystal tower, there were three special human figures. The reason why they were said to be special was because, unlike the gusin warlocks and the warriors of Xiangxiong, these three figures had some strange curved lines drawn on them.

Wei Xun didn’t understand what the lines meant at the time, but now he did.

They were a human’s internal organs.

The eighth story of the nine-story 卍 crystal tower was the little Tagzig Olmo Lung Ring in the legends, which was said by the descendant of the eagle flutist to contain a crystal corpse with divine power.

The three transparent crystal coffins were placed in the center of the eighth story facing outwards. In the middle of them was a miniature crystal mountain that was half the height of an average human. However, the crystal mountain had turned black and was no longer transparent and sacred, but the corpses in the crystal coffins still retained their original forms.

Wei Xun walked up to a crystal coffin and halted. There were many creatures in nature that were transparent and had their internal organs visible, such as glass fish, glass tree frogs, and so on, but when this sense of transparency fell on the human body, it would make one feel that it was terrifying, yet eerily beautiful.

The three crystal corpses were all young females. They were like human figures carved out of clear crystals.

Wei Xun turned on his flashlight. It was a pity not to record such a beautiful scene. Under the light of the flashlight, the crystals look increasingly beautiful and captivating. As the silver light flowed over the crystal corpses, it was as if they were still alive. Only when one looked closely would one find that they were soaked in some kind of light silver liquid, like mercury.

Wei Xun noticed the water marks in the crystal coffin. This liquid might have filled the crystal coffin once, but after a thousand years, only a thin layer remained. The parts of the corpse outside the liquid were a little white, and they were no longer pure and translucent.

Even so, compared to those bluish-black mummified corpses, the crystal-like corpses were several times more magnificent and beautiful, and they naturally had a sense of sanctity. Even Wei Xun, a person who had no interest in dead corpses, couldn’t help but think of collecting them.

‘Can you—’

‘No,’ the young fox said solemnly, ‘They are alive.’

‘Alive?’

This actually made Wei Xun more interested in them. After asking the young fox for a clearer idea of what was going on, he realized that when the young fox said “they are alive,” it did not mean that these corpses were still alive after a thousand years. Rather, it meant that they were parasitized and controlled by some kind of power, just like the mutated hairy human skin, and hence they were considered “alive.”

‘These were my maids, and they could still be considered barely acceptable to my standards.’

Wei Xun stared at the crystal corpses for a long time. The demon who seemed to be thinking and pondering just now finally spoke again, with a proud tone, ‘The Xiangxiong King and the gusin devoted all the available manpower in the entire dynasty to building this crystal tower to seal me, but they never imagined that after a thousand years, those saintesses, warriors, and priests who used to suppress me would all become my maids, guards, and playthings.

‘This crystal tower is indeed a rare relic, and it is now completely under my control. If you help me escape and act as my guide to the abyss, I can hand them all over to you.’

The demon used a casual tone with Wei Xun, a threat implied in his words as he continued, ‘What is sealed here is just my shadow, and the power of my body is a hundred times stronger. If you help me, then when I arrive at the abyss, I will treat you well.’

‘Is this an agreement with the devil?’

Wei Xun chuckled and turned off the flashlight.

‘It’s an agreement with the devil.’

The devil said happily, ‘My name is Rakshas Tal.’

‘My name is……’

Wei Xun wanted to say III-9, but he found that he was stopped by some invisible force. Under the agreement with the devil, he could not tell lies, otherwise, the other party would find out.

‘My name is…the person that topped the Rising Star Tour Guide Leaderboard.’

‘What a strange name.’

This was another word that the devil did not know. Rakshas Tal judged, ‘As long as you destroy the wet corpse and the skull on the ninth story of the crystal tower, I will be able to unseal myself and fulfill the agreement with the devil.’

However, I have never seen what an ancient devil looks like.’

Wei Xun regretfully glanced at the crystal corpses inside the crystal coffin on this story and walked to the last story. ‘Can Senior satisfy this slight curiosity of mine?’

‘Certainly, the great Rakshas Tal is the most forgiving devil among all demons,’ the other party said happily, a hidden meaning in his words, ‘Or you can also admire the Garuda crown that will soon belong to you first.’

‘Your esteemed self is indeed the most generous devil I have ever met.’

Wei Xun sighed, walked down the black stone stairs, and reached the ninth story of the nine-story 卍 crystal tower.

The ninth story was also the last story. The devil’s skin was sealed under the nine-story crystal tower. Obviously, from the outside, the crystals on this layer should also be milky white and flawless, but the inside was shockingly reddish-brown. Numerous shriveled and decapitated corpses piled up on the ground, and the amount of mummified corpses were so high in numbers that there was almost nowhere to stand on the ground.

The blood of the ancient slaves stained the ninth story red, and the scene of the mummified corpses piling up very much appeared like what the young fox discovered previously, the secret passageway at the ruins that was full of mummified corpses.

It had been a thousand years, and the bloody scent was so strong that it wouldn’t dissipate. This scent should have dissipated long ago, but Wei Xun still seemed to be able to smell the bloody scent of evil. The heads of these mummified corpses were chopped off, and their skins were also peeled off. They were densely attached to the bottom of the crystal tower, while the blood of the corpses was still warm, acting as the last seal. The cold wind blew, making one feel chilly.

If there was a draft of wind here, it meant that there was a secret passageway to the outside nearby.

T/N: Here comes the late chapter update! :] Apologies for it.