Repugnant Gateway

Chapter 1022 – The Road to Death

The few Assassins who had killed countless were actually scared to the point of rolling and crawling. What they had encountered at this moment was something they would never dare to imagine in their lives. The bottom half of the four Soaring Assassins had been bitten off by something after falling into the snow. Everyone thought that there was an even more terrifying demon beast underneath. However, who would have thought that after walking for a few hundred meters, they would actually see four people standing upright in the snow.

Ma Jue’s face changed, he walked over with big steps and swept with Mo Dao: “Pretending to be mysterious!”

The saber’s aura was awe-inspiring as it swept out and crushed the lower half of the four short stumps that were stuck in the ground. The lower four halves of his body had already been frozen solid. After being swept by the saber Qi, they shattered and scattered all over the ground.

An Zheng stayed at the back of the group. After calculating that the time it would take to hide his Turing Crystal Core was almost over, An Zheng had two, so he was not worried.

After Ma Jue shattered the four lower half of their bodies, there were actually nothing else that appeared, but everyone was still in shock. Ma Jue looked very calm, but in reality, he was also a little afraid. It was just that he didn’t want to show it in front of his subordinates. He waved his hand and signaled the convoy to continue walking forward. An Zheng noticed that the assassins who brought the materials with them were walking in the middle of the group. It was obvious that the uses of those things were important, not the people.

Previously, An Zheng had heard that the materials these people brought included gunpowder, oil, a type of rune and the Flying Dragon Claw. As for what exactly the wyvern’s claws were, An Zheng did not know.

The moonlight was getting paler and paler. As one walked on the snow for a long time, their eyes would change. An assassin who was running wildly suddenly fell to the ground, waving his hands around.

“Why can’t I see anything? Where are my eyes? Are my eyes still there? “Who can tell me if my eyes are still there?!”

However, the people of this era did not know what had caused this change. Someone cried out in alarm, saying that he must have been struck by an evil spirit. Ma Jue didn’t even think as he killed the cultivator with one slash.

“Don’t scatter. This place is very strange, let’s all gather together.” Don’t be afraid, it’s just the demonic beasts playing tricks on us here. If they were really strong, then they wouldn’t use such methods to scare people off. ”

He ordered, but his hands were trembling.

After running gingerly for about half an hour, they finally saw the Ice-Sealing Mountain. It was an entire mountain range, and the Ice-Sealing Hall was located at the highest point. If a cultivator were to climb up from the bottom of the mountain, they would be unable to do so within an hour given their physical strength and speed. The main reason was that this place was sealed in ice, and it was extremely difficult to travel without borrowing any strength.

Fortunately, there was a flight of icy stone steps leading up to the main hall.

“If you bring something with you, you can die, but you can’t throw it away.”

Ma Jue instructed six or seven assassins who were flying high to scout ahead, leaving three people behind in the palace. He then led the remaining people to protect the cultivators who were carrying the resources on them. Even though the ground was extremely slippery, even if they were cultivators, they were completely unaware of what was happening in this place. No one knew when the danger would arrive.

At this moment, the pathfinders in front suddenly saw a black shadow standing on the stone steps twenty to thirty meters away, looking down at them from above. The black shadow looked blurry, but everyone could feel its sinister gaze.

“Who is it!”

Someone shouted loudly and subconsciously threw over a magical equipment. The shadow flickered a moment, then began to back away. Although the moonlight was not very bright, these cultivators’ eyesight far surpassed that of ordinary people. Thus, they could all see that the black figure was indeed walking backwards, as if he was extremely familiar with the stone steps behind him. Every step he took was accurate. Furthermore, the stone steps were not straight up to the top, but meandering. This shadow did not turn around, but did not take a wrong step.

At the beginning, no one dared to approach the shadow with extreme fear, but after walking for two or three minutes, they realized that the shadow was only constantly retreating without attacking. The courage of the cultivators in front gradually grew as they accelerated in pursuit of the shadow.

“Catch him and see what it is!”

“Fuck, I’m so scared that I’m about to wet my pants. Grab that bastard and chop him into pieces.”

Seven or eight pathfinders in front of them chased after them, but as they did, the black shadow only continued to speed up. He kept retreating towards the top of the stone steps. His posture was extremely strange. He chased like this for four to five minutes, but the distance between them did not decrease at all.

“F * ck!”

The cultivator at the very front cursed. He stomped his foot on the ground, and with his right hand, he swung out a long whip towards the black shadow. The long whip was more than ten meters long, and after he violently pulled himself closer, the long whip perfectly wrapped around the black shadow’s neck. With the power of the long whip, it actually managed to pull the shadow back.

Upon seeing the shadow, they all became excited and rushed over. Under the moonlight, the black shadow began to struggle violently. It raised its empty sleeves as if it was going to untie the whip from its neck. After being frightened for such a long time, how could these Soaring Assassins give up after capturing someone? However, just as they were about to grab onto the black shadow, the black shadow broke free from the shackles of the whip and sped up. It seemed like there were eyes behind him, accurately seeing every step of the staircase.

“Just half a meter away!”

One of the cultivators cursed as he sped up his charge. His feet slipped and he almost fell, but he still managed to grab onto the black shadow’s sleeve as he pounced forward.

“Everyone, come here!”

The six or seven people behind him immediately rushed up. The black shadow seemed to be very strong, dragging the cultivator with it as it ran up. Everyone was in hot pursuit. Suddenly, someone cried out in agony, his voice echoing in the air. Not long after, a muffled sound could be heard, as if something heavy had been dropped onto the ground.

Ma Jue’s face changed, but when he rushed over, he realized that there was no other way. At some point, the stone steps had already turned in another direction, and the shadow had brought the cultivators chasing him all the way to the edge of the cliff. The stone steps they saw were fake, and one after another, they fell off the cliff. However, they didn’t know why these cultivators with extraordinary skills couldn’t even think of saving themselves when they were falling. Judging from the sound, they were at least several hundred meters tall, which was enough for them to react to.

Ma Jue looked down. Under the moonlight, he could vaguely see the cultivators who had fallen to their deaths lying on the ground, and some of their corpses had even fallen with their limbs twisted.

He felt a chill behind him and quickly turned around. When he turned around, he saw that his pale face was almost touching his own. The dark figure stood behind him, not even a centimeter between their noses. It waerrifyingly white face, with long hair covering the left and right sides. Under the hair, there were eyes that emitted a chill that caused one’s hair to stand on end. The moment Ma Jue turned around, the black figure smiled, revealing the sharp teeth in his mouth, as if there was still blood left.

The black figure suddenly reached out and pushed Ma Jue, causing him to fall down uncontrollably. He saw that the shadow in the sky turned intuge, bat-like object that pounced towards him. After being pushed, Ma Jue felt that it became difficult to circulate his Innate Qi, and his four limbs seemed to be unable to listen to him. However, Ma Jue was still a super expert after all, so he forcefully threw Mo Dao away in the air. His hand grabbed Mo Dao’s hilt the instant he moved, and then borrowed the power of the flying blade to send him flying horizontally.

With a bang, Mo Dao heavily stabbed into the cliff and Ma Jue’s body swayed left and right. The black figure pounced over, but failed to grab Ma Jue. After letting out an extremely mournful howl, it circled around once before flying back again. Just as the black figure was about to approach, a ball of exploding Cultivation Power burst out from Ma Jue’s palm. Likeavy cannonball, he directly shot through the black figure’s chest. The shadow shook a few times, then spun and fell. It fell to the ground and shattered into phosphorous flames.

Although Ma Jue had killed the black figure, he still felt a lingering fear as he struggled to climb back up the cliff. The remaining Soaring Assassins were all anxiously waiting, and two of them even ran away due to the heavy pressure of their fear. Ma Jue was no longer in the mood to kill others to establish his dominance.

The group walked along the stone steps that wound around the mountain ranges, and along the way, no one was in the mood to talk. The silence was terrifyingly silent. The footsteps were so clear, so sharp. An Zheng followed behind the group and realized that these people had a certain understanding of the Frozen Land. No matter how panicky the team was, they didn’t change their route. They obviously knew how to climb up the mountain. Maybe someone had come here before, or maybe they had remembered the route when Tan Shanse came into contact with the Emperor Zhuo Qingdi.

Their preparations weren’t considered to be insufficient, at least the materials they brought with them were very targeted, which meant that they had some understanding of the things inside the hall. Rather than following the group and randomly searching for it, it was better to just follow behind it. An Zheng was not interested in any Frozen End Spirit Stones, he just wanted to get to the Frozen End hall as soon as possible to save Fang Zhiji. An Zheng could feel that the aura of the Emperor Zhuo Qingdi’s life vein was getting weaker and weaker.

After walking for another ten minutes or so, the stone steps finally reached their end. In front of them was an arch, also carved from ice. Behind the arch was the huge building built on the top of the mountain. The palace was built on an unimaginably large scale. Under the moonlight, it looked like a super beast that could wake up at any time by lying on the top of the mountain.

He did not know why this place was constructed into an arch. It was just like the one that was placed at the wedding ceremony. It was not very big and could accommodate three to four people side by side. Ma Jue waved his hands, indicating three or four of his subordinates to go over and take a look first. Those few people came closer to look for help, and carefully approached. They let out a sigh of relief as they passed through the arch, then turned around and waved their hands. “No problem. The palace is in front of us, and we can see the lights inside.”

Lights on?

Hearing their shouts, An Zheng’s heart sank, he knew that the situation was bad. They were just separated by an arch, why could they see the lights, and not An Zheng? In that pitch-black palace of ice, where were the lights?

Witowl, the arch suddenly moved. That wasn’t a door, but a huge mouth. Teeth appeared in an instant, chewing on the cultivators that went in. The sound of bones being crushed caused waves of pain in one’s ears. Blood ran from his mouth, and bits of bone splattered. In the silence of the night, the sound of chewing bones was perhaps the most terrible sound in the world.