Divine God Against The Heavens

After the wandering souls had stopped moving, Zhang Tao smiled complacently and walked over and glanced at them. They were all wearing clothes and one can see 'Sky Ghost' characters written on the back of their clothes. From this, one could easily guess that these wandering souls were once living people who belonged to the Sky Ghost Race.

"Go to where you're supposed to be!" Zhang Tao then pointed at the wandering souls and again said.

Suddenly, all the wandering souls seemed to have heard the order and left.

Seeing that the wandering souls had left, Zhang Tao muttered with a reluctant look in his eyes, "What a pity. If I could capture all of them and bring them back, I would have been able to make use of them after leaving this world."

Then he looked behind and said to the young man who was following him in a deep voice, "Be careful, if you run into something even more powerful, I won't be able to do anything about it."

That young man was just about to ask Zhang Tao how he did everything just now, but Zhang Tao's words made his words stop when they reached the tip of his tongue. Now that he thought about it, if it weren't for Zhang Tao's berating, those wandering souls would have already pounced over. Although he had a way to escape, he did not want to use it unless it was a last resort.

"Brother, what should we do?" That man hurriedly asked.

Zhang Tao pondered for a moment and then he once again strode forward. This was a tunnel leading to who knows where. Those wandering souls were the souls of some disciples of the Sky Ghost Race. He could still deal with them, however, if he is to encounter some powerful wandering souls, who knows what will happen.

Everyone soon left the dark tunnel. After leaving the passage, Zhang Tao and his companion appeared in an empty space. It was a wide open space, but it was connected in all directions as if there were many tunnels connected to it.

It was still pitch black here, but there were screams coming from all directions, making people feel as if their bodies were seeping through. On the walls, there were quite a few torture instruments and one could vaguely see traces of blood. Many cages could be seen in this space as well.

Zhang Tao's eyes flashed with a strange light, but the young man following behind him wiped the sweat off his forehead and said: "Brother, I could feel my heart throbbing from the moment I stepped into this place. Why is that?"

"Because there are many powerful wandering souls in this space." Zhang Tao said before walking in front of a cage and pulling open the iron door.

"Ah, ghosts, so many ghosts!"

"Senior Brother, why are you pointing your sword at me? I'm Feng Qian!"

Suddenly, waves of panicked screams came out from the depths of this space, causing people to shiver from the bottom of their hearts.

Zhang Tao's face sank as he suddenly caught a glimpse of some dried-up bones in the corner. These dried bones were all hidden in the darkness. It was deathly still, and on the surface, there was already a layer of dust that no one cared about. Zhang Tao pushed away the dust, revealing the clothes on the surface of the dried-up bones.

"His muscles and bones were completely shattered, and even his soul wasn't able to fly out. It looks like he died in an instant." Zhang Tao examined every corpse and muttered.

He was very calm, but the young man behind him couldn't stay calm any longer. He wanted to say something but at this moment, the sound of messy footsteps approaching echoed.

"Is there anyone over there? Help!"

Zhang Tao turned his head and saw a few cultivators madly running over. These cultivators' clothes were full of holes, and they looked to be in a very sorry state.

In this space, a strong pressure suddenly descended on everyone. These cultivators had no way to display their powers like the outside world. Moreover, their techniques couldn't do anything against these souls that didn't have physical bodies.

A few young men ran over. Most of them were Martial Saints.

The young man stuck his head out and looked behind the group of people. He immediately exclaimed, "Heavens! What the hell is that thing behind you?"

He saw that behind the group of cultivators, there was a group of red evil spirits following them. There were numerous figures. Unlike what Zhang Tao and he encountered in the dark tunnel, the evil spirits had a much stronger aura, so much so that no one could resist them.

When this group of people saw Zhang Tao and the young man, the happy expressions on their faces turned into disappointment.

"Ahhh, save me! Senior, save me!" A female martial artist running at the back suddenly exclaimed in surprise and was grabbed by the group of evil spirits.

Puchi~

In just an instant, this female martial artist was torn into pieces by countless hands as a bloody mist filled the air. The rest of the martial artists trembled and immediately rushed over with all their might.

"No, they're almost catching up!" One of them exclaimed. The other people's expressions also changed as they started taking out treasures from their spatial rings and prepared to use them as a last resort. Everyone had become so desperate that it looked as if they were being eaten alive by some kind of ferocious demonic beast.

Suddenly, Zhang Tao casually tossed out the corpse he was inspecting a moment ago toward those evil spirits.

"Clank!"

With a crisp sound, the skeleton fell to the ground. All of the evil spirits stopped in their tracks when they heard this sound. Their bloodthirsty eyes stared at the corpse in fear.

The atmosphere was very delicate. A group of nearly crazy evil spirits was staring at the skeleton, not daring to move at all.

"Look, they're not moving!" A cultivator exclaimed in surprise. The remaining cultivators saw all of this and couldn't help but be overjoyed as they hurriedly retreated to Zhang Tao's side.

"There are still a few more skeletons here. They should be scared of them. Let's throw them all out!" Someone suggested. This sentence received the support of the vast majority of the people. They threw out the skeletons one by one and placed them around.

This area had actually become a temporary safe zone. The skeletons were like a secure barrier that prevented any evil spirits from taking even half a step inside.

The young man who was following Zhang Tao all this while frowned and asked Zhang Tao in a low voice: "Are those Evil Spirits afraid of these skeletons. Why is that?"

Zhang Tao smiled and replied: "It's because these skeletons are the corpses of Gods. As for those evil spirits, they are just wandering souls of some Rulers and Exalted Rulers. When they were alive, they were massacred by someone, causing immense hatred and resentment to be born in their hearts. After many eons, some of these wandering souls turned into evil spirits because of the hatred and resentments in their hearts."

Although Zhang Tao answered the young man, the young man didn't understand many things.

"What Ruler, Exalted Ruler? What God?"

He was completely unaware of these terms and what they represent to a martial artist of the Divine Realm. He was born in the Great Star Continent and knew nothing about the outside world.

.....

"Fortunately, I almost thought I was dead."

"All of our treasures were useless against them. The protective talisman personally crafted by my Master was only able to last for a single breath of time before shattering."

"It is a pity that Junior Sister Meng fell into the hands of those evil spirits."

The few cultivators who escaped death sighed endlessly, at the same time rejoicing that they were still alive.

At this time, Zhang Tao asked, "What exactly happened?"

All the people were still in a state of shock as they quickly told everything that had just happened.

"We followed the sect elders and entered inside a mountain cave. We didn't expect to be transported here by a formation as soon as we entered. As soon as we landed on the ground, we met those Evil Spirits."

One of them again said with lingering fear, "The sect elders lured away a few powerful Evil Spirits so that we can escape. But there are too many of them, and any treasure is useless against them. We were still hunted by them."

Zhang Tao's expression was grave as he looked at the group of evil spirits, his eyes flashed with a trace of solemnity.

Naturally, the other young man didn't know what Zhang Tao was thinking. Seeing Zhang Tao's expression change, he was also instantly shocked in his heart.

"Brother, why don't we find a way back?" The young man guessed that the situation is not good after seeing Zhang Tao's change in expression. He leaned closed to Zhang Tao and whispered into his ear.

He had seen Zhang Tao's methods to deal with wandering souls, but these evil spirits were clearly not something those wandering souls could compare to.

If even Zhang Tao couldn't do anything about it, then he really would die here today.

Thus he asked Zhang Tao to find a way and escape.

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[Author's Note: Many of you guys might be wondering why everyone is still inside the Ancient Ruin even more than thirty years have already passed (Ye Xiao has spent more than 30 years inside the Inner World of Ancient Samsara God).

The answer is the time difference between the outside world and the pocket dimension is simply too huge. The Inner World of Ancient Samsara God is located on the Eighth Floor of the Tower that exists in a pocket dimension where the rest of the Sky Ghost Race's people is living in secret. This caused the time difference between Inner World and the outside world to be far apart.

Although Ye Xiao has stayed inside Inner World for more than thirty years, in the outside world, it has just been a few hours!]