Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 662 Longing for My Love's Return...

The moment Xiao Ran stepped out of the Netherworld, a large knife slashed at her almost right in front of her nose.

If Xiao Ran had been any faster, this cut would probably have resulted in nose amputation.

"The city is broken?"

Xiao Ran was shocked; he could feel a heavy, oppressive feeling creeping over him.

It was as if all of his spells, professional skills, and even cursed objects were being suppressed.

Fortunately, after he emerged completely from the underworld, he looked around and his heart finally relaxed.

Although a steady stream of ghostly soldiers rushed up the city walls, the city had not yet been breached.

At this moment, some ghost soldiers also noticed Xiao Ran who appeared out of thin air, and dozens of ghost soldiers turned into a wisp of black smoke and rushed towards Xiao Ran.

Seeing this, Xiao Ran released her mental energy.

Instantly, a surge of spiritual energy formed a shockwave in the air, scattering the Yin soldiers.

At the same time, the [Guillotine Blade] also appeared in Xiao Ran's hand. The moment the blade was in his hand, blood smoke rose from Xiao Ran's body like wolf smoke.

The surrounding ghostly soldiers, under the smoke, were terrified. Before Xiao Ran could make a move, they were immediately frightened by the smoke and scattered.

Most importantly, the oppressive feeling from before has completely disappeared.

This is the passive skill Xiao Ran gained after his strength exceeded 100.

Iron Furnace: With strength as great as iron and blood as fierce as wolf smoke, it is immune to negative status effects such as curses, spells, and Taoist magic against ghosts below grade C!

Xiao Ran hadn't expected this passive ability to have such an effect. It seemed that with this passive ability, even if she faced a murderous army formation, she might not be unable to break through.

Xiao Ran's appearance immediately brought a look of surprise to the faces of the group who were engaged in a fierce battle in the distance.

"Brother, help me!!"

Huang Le's shout was the most prominent. Xiao Ran looked up and saw that Huang Le was sitting with his back to the butcher, while dozens of ghost soldiers surrounded the butcher.

Although the butcher was not afraid of these ghost soldiers, now that he had lost his handy bronze bell, his attack methods had become very limited. These ghost soldiers were scattered and seemingly chaotic, but they had their own battle formation, making it impossible for the butcher to hit them. He could only be forced to run around in circles.

In this state, the butcher also began to show signs of fatigue, and many wounds began to appear on his body. After all, even a lot of ants can kill an elephant.

Actually, Huang Le was hiding in the back and would occasionally launch surprise attacks with the rifle that Dai Long gave him, which gave the butcher a chance to catch his breath.

Seeing Xiao Ran appear out of nowhere, Huang Le was so excited that tears almost streamed down his face. If Xiao Ran hadn't come back, he probably wouldn't have been able to hold on any longer.

With a single step, Xiao Ran appeared beside the butcher in an instant.

"cut!!"

As Xiao Ran swung his broadsword, the surrounding void seemed to be torn apart with that strike, and space itself twisted into a jumbled mess.

The dozens of ghost soldiers who were originally surrounding and attacking the butcher were torn to pieces in an instant.

"what!"

The power of this strike surprised even Xiao Ran herself; her swordsmanship had unknowingly reached a profound level.

"Could it be..."

Xiao Ran's mind stirred, and he leaped up, wielding his broadsword. Before the blade even touched the ground, the void was already cracked with fine, spiderweb-like patterns.

Xiao Ran's body was enveloped in a blood-red haze that surged upwards into the heavens. As his blade flashed, it tore open a crimson abyss in the sky, and billowing corpse energy burst forth, transforming into various spells that crashed into the void.

"cut!"

The moment the guillotine fell, everything around seemed to fall into an eerie stillness.

The blade light transformed into a ten-thousand-foot-long ribbon, sweeping across the area, and dozens of ghostly soldiers were annihilated into ashes before they could even utter a scream.

"happy!"

Xiao Ran let out a long roar. His swordsmanship was profound and possessed supernatural powers. After breaking through his four attributes, he obtained an innate body, allowing Xiao Ran to easily take that final step.

With Xiao Ran joining the battlefield, the precarious situation was immediately reversed, and in a short while, the Yin soldiers rushing up from the East Gate were all wiped out by Xiao Ran.

He then looked at the curse he had set up and realized that his curse had stopped.

Upon closer inspection, he saw three iron nails embedded in his curse spell. The nails emitted a chilling, ghostly aura that intertwined with the corpse energy of the curse spell, preventing him from activating it.

“Yesterday there was a strange black rain, and after that the power of this curse gradually weakened until it turned into this,” Huang Le explained to Xiao Ran.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Ran immediately realized where the problem lay. He raised his palm, gathering immense spiritual power in it, and then slapped the bronze bell hanging on the city tower.

"Boom!!"

With a deep, resonant chime, the ghostly aura covering the bell was instantly shattered. Without the obstruction of this ghostly aura, the bronze bell once again emitted a series of ringing sounds.

As the bell rang out like thunder, the three nails that were originally embedded in Xiao Ran's curse could no longer suppress Xiao Ran's curse and were all blown away.

Now the curse spell, which had been almost completely stopped, began to operate again. The ghost soldiers that were swooping down were immediately controlled by the curse spell and were constantly twisted into scriptures amidst the huge chimes.

"You stay here and guard it," Xiao Ran said, and then went to support the West Gate. The West Gate was on the verge of collapse. The altar under Dai Long had broken several times. It was only thanks to Liu Mu and several beginners who risked their lives to hold it up and repair it that it was barely able to stay afloat.

However, Dai Long on the altar was clearly exhausted. The talismans he threw out turned into streaks of lightning, but he was already showing signs of being unable to hold on against the charging ghost soldiers.

Xiao Ran arrived just in time, his figure flashing as he appeared out of nowhere, the [Decapitation Blade] in his hand emitting a tearing sound as it cut through the air.

The blade slashed down like splashed ink, and endless corpse energy poured down, as if the void was submerged wherever it passed.

"The Mirror of Evil!"

Xiao Ran then pointed her finger into the void, unleashing a long-lost technique from the Corpse Dissection Record.

The sprayed corpse energy suddenly solidified, and then reflected the appearance of these ghostly soldiers in their previous lives.

He then became entangled with these ghostly soldiers, forcibly pulling them into his body.

"Is everything okay?"

Xiao Ran turned around and came to Dai Long and the others' side. Seeing Xiao Ran return, Dai Long and the others breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's...it's alright. Go...go and support...him."

The direction Dai Long pointed was the North Gate, where Jin Chanzi was located.

Even with the Three Pure Bells, Jin Chanzi's side is probably in a tough spot.

"rest assured!"

Xiao Ran reassured Dai Long and told them to rest well before asking Liu Mu, "How long was I gone this time?"

Six days!

Liu Mu gestured, and Xiao Ran belatedly realized that he had been trapped in the Ghost Willow Forest for so long.

It must have been that bastard Fu Zi who did this. He knew I was in a hurry to get back, so he deliberately messed with me.

"How's it going? Have you called for reinforcements yet? That General Gui has really given us a hard time today. Right now, Wu Man is the only one holding him off. If reinforcements don't come soon, we should prepare to retreat."

"Don't worry, although we don't have reinforcements, we do have the key to victory."

Xiao Ran signaled to Liu Mu to rest assured, then he stood up and fully released his mental energy, and a thought flashed between his brows.

In an instant, the entire battlefield situation became clear to Xiao Ran.

The entire City of All Beings has been surrounded, and the ghostly soldiers are flowing into the city like a river.

Even with Wu Man and the others desperately trying to stop them, if things continued like this, they probably wouldn't be able to hold out for much longer, and the fall of the city was already inevitable.

Xiao Ran's mental energy quickly locked onto Wu Man's direction.

At this moment, Wu Man, half-human and half-beast, was still using the [Soup Cauldron] to fight General Gui.

Both sides fought and retreated at the same time. Wu Man also had to turn around from time to time to deal with the ghost soldiers who rushed up the city wall. It was indeed quite tiring for one person to do two jobs. Most people really couldn't do this.

Seeing this, Xiao Ran stopped going to help Jin Chanzi.

Instead, he quickly took out the wine cup that Yao Huo had given him from his spatial storage.

This thing has a thin membrane on top, and inside is a yellowish soup.

"Whether it succeeds or not depends on you."

Xiao Ran couldn't figure out what kind of miraculous effects this thing had either.

He took a deep breath, and then, following the instructions of the demon, he waved his hand and threw the wine cup in his hand directly into the sky.

As the wine cup flew into the air, it seemed as if wings had appeared out of nowhere, and it quickly soared into the sky.

Xiao Ran looked up at the wine cup that had disappeared into the air, and couldn't help but feel nervous.

"Drip!! Tick-tock..."

Large raindrops suddenly began to fall from the gloomy sky.

"This is……"

Liu Mu stared at the dim, yellowish raindrops falling in front of him, momentarily stunned, then his eyes widened: "Waiting for my love to return!! Where did you get this stuff from??"

As Liu Mu exclaimed in surprise, more and more rain began to fall from the sky.

The ghost soldiers who were touched by the rain were stunned on the spot, and then white smoke began to rise from their bodies.

Before long, the entire city of all beings began to quiet down. The shouts of battle and the screams of the city's residents, along with the increasingly heavy rain, seemed to fall into a state of silence.

Guiwu, who was fighting Wu Man, was also like this at the moment. After the yellowish water droplets fell on his body and corroded his clothes and armor into smoke, Guiwu's eyes gradually became clear.

In a daze, it seemed as if I saw the changes in my life, from a naive boy to the stubble on my face when I was dying...

After swaying a few times, it collapsed to the ground uncontrollably, then turned into a wisp of green smoke and slowly dissipated into the air...

(End of this chapter)