Luck taken away? It doesn't matter, I quietly become a god

Chapter 483 The Parasite of the Nightmare Clan's Remnant Soul Appears

In the corner, a little girl, about seven or eight years old, carefully held a wooden bowl of water to her mother's lips, saying, "Mommy, drink some water..."

Upon seeing Rong Shu and several other strangers suddenly appear, the little girl hid behind her mother, peeking out with some fear.

The old village chief, who had been leading the way, stepped forward and comforted her, "Little Flower, don't be afraid. These are immortal masters. They've come to help our village..."

Xuanhe, Luori, and Qingniao began to investigate, focusing on the patients living on the mountain.

Yun Duan, along with Rong Shu and Chen Xin, explained to the two inexperienced youngsters: "You must be careful in the future. Mortals are not as strong as cultivators. Once they are parasitized by the remnant souls of the Nightmare Clan, they will develop different degrees of illness within two days. Ordinary doctors will not be able to see the problem."

"Since it is a parasite, it will inevitably absorb the essence and spirit of the parasite to serve as nutrients and strengthen itself."

"Just like the reef-eating lice and the black-shelled turtle in the sea, the black-shelled turtle's shell is indestructible, but once it is entangled by the slow-moving reef-eating lice, the lice's tentacles will firmly penetrate into the turtle's shell, accumulating over time and penetrating deep into the flesh. Not only can it use the black-shelled turtle's swimming speed to hunt, but it can also suck the black-shelled turtle's flesh and blood to reproduce, until the black-shelled turtle, carrying a huge number of reef-eating lice on its shell, can no longer bear the weight and dies in pain..."

Rong Shu recalled the information about these two types of sea monsters.

Isn't this equivalent to ordinary barnacles and sea turtles in the secular world?

Chen Xin frowned, looking warily at the patients: "Sister, you suspect that there are people among them who have been possessed by the remnant souls of the Nightmare Clan..."

"But when I scanned it with my initial Nascent Soul stage divine sense, I didn't detect anything unusual."

Before the six people even arrived at the mountain, they had already thoroughly explored the entire area inside and out with their spiritual senses.

I came to see the person in person just to be on the safe side.

"Just a reminder." Yun Duan smiled. "Among the Nightmare Clan, apart from the lowest-ranking Nightmare Slaves who follow the purest plundering instinct, draining one host and then draining the next, using simple and crude methods, the other Nightmare Clan members, even if they are just lowly Nightmare Servants, are extremely cunning and very good at disguising themselves."

"Rather than squeezing a hard-won host dry, they prefer to use the host to harm others. In this case, if the host of the Nightmare Clan is not here, even a Nascent Soul or Deity Transformation cultivator can easily be misjudged and mistake them for an ordinary patient or a strange person."

Chen Xin: "Then there's no way to see through the Nightmare Clan's scheme?"

Yun Duan: "Of course there are. At the city gates of the 108 border passes facing the Buzhou Domain, there is a mirror that reflects the sun and moon. Under the light of the mirror, the more powerful the Nightmare Clan is, the more they have nowhere to hide."

“Some array masters have also modified the Sun and Moon Revolving Mirror into a palm-sized mirror, making it easy to carry. As long as you hold a Sun and Moon Revolving Mirror, you can identify the Nightmare Clan.”

Upon hearing this, Rong Shu touched the heart-protecting bell he was wearing on his wrist.

Although she didn't have a Sun and Moon Revolving Mirror, the Heart-Protecting Bell contained an internal array set up by the Cold Mirror, which could also identify the Nightmare Clan. Although it was rather rudimentary, the search range was relatively small, and it could only be detected when the Nightmare Clan used their Nightmare Qi.

However, Rong Shu has been silently keeping the built-in array of the Heart-Protecting Bell active throughout the mission.

Fortunately, the defenses of the 108 passes are solid enough, and so far, the six have not actually encountered the Nightmare Clan.

This made Chen Xin, who was learning this 'truth' for the first time, feel a little unreal.

If it weren't for the fact that so many people from the Jixia Academy were mobilized, and that so many high-ranking officials from various forces in Zhongzhou had come to the border... Chen Xin would have thought that Yun Duan was just playing a trick on him again.

"Sister, have you ever seen the Nightmare Clan...?"

"I've met you." Yun Duan's eyes turned slightly cold, and her tone was no longer as light as before.

"What does the Nightmare Clan Chief look like?"

"...A group of faceless and shapeless monsters, indescribable. You'll understand once you've actually seen one."

While keeping an eye on Yun Duan and Chen Xin's conversation, Rong Shu also went to help investigate the surrounding area.

She walked around the thatched hut, but didn't notice anything unusual for the time being.

“Junior Sister Rong Shu, you are an alchemist, why don’t you take a look at the illnesses of these villagers first…” Qingniao called out.

"Okay, I'll come right away."

Just as Rong Shu was about to turn around, a faint sound suddenly came from the clutter in the corner.

It felt like something had stepped on the tender grass.

She turned around warily and saw a dark shadow flash by before her eyes. The shadow jumped behind a rock and hid.

"A cat? Is it a stray cat?" Rong Shu asked, somewhat surprised.

The little girl, who had just been very scared, brightened up when she noticed the tabby cat. "It's Kitty! Kitty, you're here..."

The little girl's mother explained, "Ahem, Master, that's a stray cat my daughter found recently. She really likes animals, so she kept it. But this cat is probably used to being a stray and doesn't come home very often..."

Before the little girl could touch the tabby cat, Rong Shu stopped her and walked towards the tabby cat.

A wisp of primordial spiritual energy, devoid of any attribute, secretly condensed at his fingertips, and he flicked it towards the tabby cat.

The tabby cat was constantly licking its fur, seemingly unaware of anything.

But when that wisp of primordial spiritual energy landed on the cat's back, the cat's eyes narrowed, its whole body flared up, as if it had touched something extremely terrifying, and it let out a shrill meow!

"Ding ding ding..."

At the same time, when they got close enough, the heart bell on their wrist rang.

In an instant, Rong Shu raised his left hand and activated the binding array that came with the Heart-Protecting Bell, covering the direction of the tabby cat.

There's something wrong with this cat!

"Protect the villagers!"

At this moment, under Rong Shu's divine sense, the seemingly ordinary tabby cat was found to have a twisted mass of blood-red malevolent energy coiled within its body.

Rong Shu was no stranger to this blood-red, malevolent aura—

It's nightmare energy!