Repugnant Gateway

Chapter 525 – Copper Mirror

An Zheng kept a distance from the stream as he walked up. He didn’t know if the strange person he saw just now wauman, or perhaps a demon beast. Although that thing did not attack An Zheng at that moment, he did not have good intentions towards anything here.

Along the way, An Zheng discovered that the good old man was becoming more and more dispirited. He was unable to sense what had happened to good old man and was worried that something was wrong with him. After walking for more than ten minutes, he brought the good old man back into the Blood Pearl Bracelet’s space to rest.

And just before, when An Zheng had gotten lost in the peach forest.

The stars in good old man’s eyes flowed, the stars formed a galaxy that no one could see, and in the blink of an eye, it was already tens of miles away. And the direction that the Milky Way Galaxy was going, was precisely the mountain that An Zheng wanted to go to right now.

What was in the mountain, was the Milky Way still there?

felt that the mountain was not far from him, but he had walked for at least an hour before reaching the foot of the mountain. When the peach forest extended all the way to the top of the mountain, An Zheng realized that even if it was halfway up the mountain, it would still be the same aeach. Although the peach blossoms were beautiful, but walking all the way here, with eyes like this, it was hard to not feel disgust.

Standing at the foot of the mountain, An Zheng’s attention was focused on the peach-coloured grey color that was hidden halfway up the mountain.

In the hut.

As if a voice was guiding An Zheng, An Zheng felt that he had to go to the thatched cottage.

There was actually a small road on the mountain. An Zheng followed the path and walked up, walking for around a few hundred meters before the mountain turned steep. And in the surrounding peach trees, every single one of the peach trees made An Zheng’s heart turn cold. Every peach tree here was different from the ones below, because every peach tree was bound to the spirits of the dead.

Some had lost half of their heads, some were completely twisted, some had a large hole in their chest, some had an empty stomach, some lacked arms, and some only had half their bodies left. These vengeful spirits were bound to the peach tree by some strange force. No matter how much they struggled, they couldn’t break free. They looked at An Zheng and roared. Although they did not make a sound, An Zheng felt like his brain was about to explode.

This was no paradise, but hell.

As they walked up the mountain, they saw at least a few thousand peach trees. Every peach tree had this type of vengeful spirit. The missing person was a vengeful spirit on a peach tree. In the end, the number of ghosts bound on a peach tree was enough to make one’s scalp tingle. When An Zheng passed by a peach tree, the branches of the peach tree were filled with Hanged Ghost, all of them sticking out their tongues, reaching out their hands to grab An Zheng.

When he finally arrived outside the thatched hut, An Zheng saw that the door was open.

He stood outside and called out, “Is there anyone here?”

No one replied to his question. It seemed as if there was a gust of wind blowing through the hut. The half-open wooden door creaked, and then it opened even wider. The inside of the house was pitch black. The opened wooden door was like the gaping maw of a demonic beast, waiting for An Zheng’s attack to stab into it.

An Zheng had experienced many dangers and chased countless evil beings. However, he didn’t have much contact with such monsters. At one point in time, An Zheng firmly believed that there was no such thing as a ghost in this world. But now, even though An Zheng knew that this was an illusion, he still started to doubt his certainty before.

The door board was gently shaking as though it was waving at An Zheng.

An Zheng remained silent for a good while, before finally deciding to take a look inside. Even now, they did not meet Chen Shaobai and the others, so they did not know if they had encountered any dangers. If anything in this room was the control of this illusion, then they had to go in. An Zheng summoned all thirty Holy Fish Scale and with a wave of his hand, he pointed ahead. His Heaven’s Eyes flew out of the Blood Pearl Bracelet and into the thatched cottage.

An Zheng was very worried, very worried … This was because when he walked a short distance away, he could already tell that this hut was the cottage that the Old Bull had been guarding for a long time. It was rumored that the white-bearded Old Taoist who once lived in this thatched cottage was the ancestor of the entire world’s Dao Sect. And the power sealed in this environment, was the self that Old Taoist denied once again on the path of cultivation. No one knew how powerful this energy was.

What made An Zheng even more worried was … After his Heaven’s Eyes flew into the thatched cottage, it was like a stone sinking into the ocean. No message came back. An Zheng tried to summon back his Heaven Eyes, but to no avail. Heaven’s Eye had lost contact, as if it had disappeared withourace.

An Zheng took a deep breath. In the palm of his left hand, the power of Purple Lightning and Red Sun started to fuse as a mini Heavenly Thunder of Nine Suns coiled around his palm, ready to be flung out at any time. His right hand held onto the Broken Army Sword tightly. An Zheng took a step forward. There were only three steps, but every step he took, An Zheng felt his heart tremble. He had never been a timid person, but everything that had happened today was too strange.

Entering the room, it was so dark that people had the urge to turn around and run away. The outer room was like a small living room. There was only a row of chairs in the room, and An Zheng could feel an aura similar to the peaches outside from the chairs. Apart from the chairs, there was a long table in the north wall facing the door. There were a few things on the table, a fruit dish, and of course only peaches. On the left side of the plate was a white porcelain bowl, and inside the bowl, there was actually white rice that was emitting steam. To the right of the peaches walate of meat, though no one could tell what it was.

In addition to these three items, there was also an incense burner. Inside the incense burner, there were three joss sticks burning, and smoke was still rising from them.

Above the table, a painting was taped to the wall. When An Zheng saw the picture, he had practically swung his sword out.

It depicted a mountain. Below the mountain was a small stream. Next to the stream saetite person. His long hair draped over his shoulders, making it hard to tell if he was a man or a woman. As for this person, before An Zheng came up, he had seen him by the stream.

Fortunately, it was jusainting.

Just as An Zheng was about to enter the house to take a look at the situation, a gust of wind blew in behind him, causing the painting on the wall to slightly tremble. Then, the person on the painting turned around. Under the cover of his long hair, he could still clearly see his face that was devoid of anything. However, An Zheng could still feel that there waair of terrifying eyes staring straight at him.

It still seemed to be laughing.

An Zheng took a deep breath, telling himself to remain calm. The good news is that the thing can’t get off the top of the painting. The furnishings outside were very simple, it was just these things. After An Zheng looked carefully, he decided to immediately enter the room. If there was nothing important inside, he would immediately leave.

Just as he was about to step into the room, he felt someone tug on his sleeve. He turned around and saw nothing. Lowering his head, he saw that that thing had actually come down!

Lying on the ground like a fish, he raised his empty face and “looked” at An Zheng. It stretched out its pale white hand from its sleeve and grabbed An Zheng’s sleeve, pulling bit by bit.

If An Zheng was a little more timid, he would have been scared to death by now. That thing came down soundlessly, but even with An Zheng’s current sixth stage of the Lower Completion Stage, he was not aware of it at all. Furthermore, An Zheng currently had thirty Holy Fish Scale s forming a defensive array outside of his body, how the f * ck did it get in?

Creak creak creak sounds came out, as if it was saying something to An Zheng.

An Zheng shook his head: “I don’t know what you’re going to say, what are you trying to do?”

The thing seemed to become restless and started to pull on An Zheng’s sleeve forcefully. However, it seemed to be unable to stand up, and could only lie on the ground, so its strength was not great. However, this thing had a hook like thing on its fingers, grabbing it inside An Zheng’s clothes, and unable to shake it off. However, An Zheng relaxed a little. It seemed like this thing was not really a threat, just that it looked a little too terrifying.

An Zheng walked forward, ready to enter the room. As if seeing that An Zheng was going to go in, the thing started to go crazy. That face that was originally as smooth as an eggshell suddenly twisted, as if something was about to come out. An Zheng suddenly flung the thing, and a hole appeared in his sleeve witipping sound. An Zheng immediately turned around and entered the room. He then felt a surge of berserk energy that seemed to have exploded behind him.

The door between the inner room and the outer room was like a layer of enchantment. The creature lunged forward and twisted against the invisible door. But when An Zheng walked in, there were no obstructions. It was just a door frame, there was no door board. was inside, but it was baring its fangs and brandishing its claws, looking like it was very angry.

No matter what, it was still a good thing that it could not come in.

An Zheng turned around and realized that the furnishings in the house were even simpler than the ones outside. There was only one kang, and beside the kang was a chair and a wooden table. The kang was covered in dust, and there wahick layer of dust on the mat.

Then, An Zheng noticed that the dust seemed to be a little strange. He walked over to take a look and saw a layer of shallow marks on it, as if someone had been sitting here for a while.

There was a bronze mirror on the table, the only thing in the room. The walls were also gray, and so was the mirror. Nothing could be seen. An Zheng mysteriously walked over and picked up the copper mirror, and then used his sleeve to wipe off the dust on the mirror.

He looked in the copper mirror, and suddenly a hand reached out from inside the mirror, grabbing An Zheng’s neck with force. An Zheng had difficulty breathing in that instant. His hand was green like a dried up corpse, but it was extremely powerful. An Zheng moved backwards, the hand in the copper mirror pulling An Zheng forward, unable to stop him.

An Zheng’s breathing became more and more difficult, even his face had turned purple.

A red light flashed in the bronze mirror and an eyeball appeared.

There was only one eyeball.

It was an indescribable eyeball. The black color occupied the most important part of the eyeball, and there were a few red, hook-like spots coiled around it. If he was just looking at it, he wouldn’t feel much fear, but An Zheng felt that death was in those eyes. That hand did not want to grab An Zheng in the copper mirror, but to grab An Zheng.

Life force was venting out from An Zheng’s body. That was An Zheng’s life force. A pale green light floated out from An Zheng’s body and rushed towards the copper mirror like floodwaters. That eye seemed to have turned into a big, bloody mouth that greedily absorbed An Zheng’s life force.

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”

An Zheng roared, and tried his best to escape.

But no matter how he struggled, no matter how he resisted, his life force still flowed out likide, unstoppable.