Lin tian walking for a long time .
Looking at the sky .
Night had already fallen .
He had travelled around 20km And was very far away from Great ruins .
In fact He had already crossed Grand city gates .
Looking at night .Lintian had desire to stay inside grand city .In some comfortable inn.
But he realised he didn't had money .
Finding someone related to "Treasure search union "at night was no go .
Plus thinking about leiting's words .He decided to continue walk .He didn't knew if this distance was far enough or he still had to walk more .
Honestly Venturing deep inside city should be far enough he thought.
But than denying himself he continued walking.
Honestly he was afraid of night . Afraid of being not able to see anything at night.
Afraid of ghosts and Afraid of unknown.
There were so many things he was afraid of related to night .Thinking something his legs trembled .
Maybe I should find a place to sleep.
I know merchants who travel long distance have made resting stations after every 10 km. But where can I find them in these endless darkness .
Regardless of the night horror he continued walking .
"I have heard that .life and death are preordained.i am so young .so it must be not my time of death .Atleast I won't die no matter what comes my way "He consoled himself .
"But losing a arm or two is worse than death . That's definitely a no go "
Thinking negative thoughts he continued walking in the night .
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In the ruins .
"General all preprations has been done .what is your next order "
"The order is to start breaking the barrier outside .Starting from now .pour everything in breaking the barrier."
"But genral hasn't it only been 2 hours .there is still time pending . Shouldn't we wait for decision from human side "
"I already know what decision they will make .That is to oppose us .The reason I gave them time was .we needed to make preparations.And it was same with them ."
"Since our preparation are done .no need to wait for them to be ready .Move out and start breaking spell "
"Yes General "
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On the humans side .it was as Leiting said .
Humans were readying themselves.
The decision was made just in half an hour .
No one .Not a single force agreed to set Ghost army free in world .
No one will believe in a Ghosts promise .Heck they wouldn't even believe in a their closet ones alive .Let alone a dead whose homes they had plundered .
Looking at the force one human said .
"Aren't we underestimating Ghost army too much just by this level of preparations."
"It is indeed not much .But ancestors beleive their army is probably weak by now . These warriors are just to test their strength.
Besides stronger ones will be on standby near .In case we need them "
"Ohh .so In a way we will be leading Expendables."
"That's right .but don't let them know .They are probably thinking of fighting valiantly.Earning merit and making their names . Don't pour burning oil on their enthusiasm "
At this time a messenger came to them .
"Sir Ghost general and his army has started attacking the barrier already.Ancestor had ordered for all of you to move quickly."
"Got it ."
"Everyone pick your weapon .we are moving out now "
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Outside the great ruins .
Many camps following "Treasure search union " had packed everything.And were ready to move anytime .
Today's night was destined to be busy and to not get a wink of sleep .
Suddenly they saw many fire blasts shoot out of ruins .just when they were worried It will reach them .A barrier appeared some distance away from entrances .Blasts striked at barrier causing it to shook .
After that some big dirt hands formed and started punching barrier relentlessly.
Swords and knife made out of energy striked at barrier .but barrier was unharmed.
An hour passed .The assault on barrier never stopped for a sec.
"General you are really anxious and stubborn.To not even wait for human side decision "
Leiting smiled and said ."we were just checking it's durability.we were really curious if there is change to barrier formation in 100s of years .so what decision your side made .Have they decided to remove this annoying barrier "
"General the decision our side had made is to send you Ghosts to your hellhole.if you refuse there is always option of death ."
"I am not surprised .Than I guess I have to personally take part in this "leiting's figure started rising in air .
After he raised his spear it started expanding in size .after it became 100 feet long and 5feet wide.leiting imbued his power inside .
The spear seemed to be engulfed in some kind of fire .
Leiting released it .
Despite being big .The spear was anything but slower .
The barrier upon impact with spear shook .Infact the impact caused tremors big enough to spread 5kms wide .
The spear after impact turned into normal size.
'i need 5 more attacks like this to break barrier 'leting said to himself .
"Amazing Ghost general .To think ones power can shook this grand barrier .Some more attacks attacks and it will be gone . Unfortunately I can't let you do that "
"Attack Everyone these are the enemies of world we can't let them come out "Old figure ordered .
The warriors following behind him attacked the ghosts attacking the barrier .
The old figure himself went to confront the gold general .Moves after moves were exchanged.
After some time later .
Human warriors corpses were sprawled on front of ruins .more than 20 humans had died .And some ghost dispersed in heaven and earth.
The old figure that confronted Ghost general had its mouth bleeding .
"Where is your strong defenders .I don't believe you brought these many weaklings just to stop us ."leiting
"We are just testing your strength .And now we know you aren't much strong.
Ghost general you should just stayed inside ruins .But now I am afraid you can't even leave as a ghost "The old figure brought out a shooting flare .lighting it up it flew to the dark sky .
With a blast ! It exploded and coloured the sky red for a while .
Uniformed footsteps sounded .
Than a marching army of 500 hundred appeared in others view .The army consisted of strong warriors from every local clans sect .
Just with a look leiting knew .
This warriors were powerful.Better trained and experienced.
Upcoming battle wasn't going to be easy .
Still leiting thought.
If I had blood it would be boiling now for the excitement of battle .But still I am excited for upcoming battle .
"Bring it on no matter how many you appear .we will just deal with you all "Leiting laughed .
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Lin tian had traveled a long distance.
He really didn't want to walk anymore .
From yesterday to till now .He felt he had travelled around 150 kms .
He really didn't want to walk anymore .But the fear of night .stopped him from staying at one place for long .
But he had been feeling a gaze on himself for a while .Someone seems to be following him .He thought.
But even after he ran .he didn't feel gaze averting from him .After he stopped no one came to capture or talk to him .
He had heard one shouldn't look behind when walking at night .So he really didn't wanted to see back .
'what could it be 'He thought.
After walking some more He saw a ball of fireflies on the road .The ball of fireflies seems to be flying up and down .
But when lintian reached near them .They started to head into forest.
They seem to be gesturing him to follow.
Lintian was shocked by this phenomenon.But there was no way .He would follow fireflies in the dark night . Without any living person in his sight .He continued on his way .
But the fireflies came back and blocked his way .They seemed to have formed a net to capture him .
"I will just turn back "
Lintian turned back .But the fireflies blocked his way again.
Lin tian swiftly decide to run .
After he ran some distance.His foot bumbed into a rock and he fell down .
Fireflies caught up to him .and started hovering above him .
Lin tian stood up .But the fireflies were circling around him .some fireflies were entered the forest to guide him . lighting his path .
"Fine I will follow"
Lin tian with a dread and ominous feeling . Followed the trail of fireflies .
On the way he didn't encounter any beast .
Though he was never afraid of beast at day time .He couldn't say the same at night .
Lintian was most afraid of poisonous beast biting him .In these place He wouldn't even find a cure or help .
Thinking so he was careful .
Finally after siding some bush .
He saw a clean area .
Shocked by the beast he saw .He didn't move for a while .
He didn't encounter a ferocious, poisonous or some powerful beast .What he was seeing was a deer .
A snow white dear .The fireflies the dark background and the moonlight pouring on beast reflected . Everything highlighted it's beauty and rarity .
It had small antlers barely an inch .
Moon like clear eyes and cute face.Blue hues on its body .
Everything about this beast spoke of a defenseless beast .
But lintian was instantly on guard . His back ramrod straight.There was just something off about this beast .
The moment he laid his eyes on the deer .His instincts told him .
'Its an enemy .'
Lin tian had never got defensive feeling from any other beast.So it was strange .He got it from a cute , rare,defenseless deer .If any one saw it .The desire to possess it will be born within them .But lintian was on guard .
The deer kept looking at him as though evaluating . Though he had to say every action of this deer was cute .
But lintian didn't dare get close . waiting for Deer to do something.Lintian just kept looking at him carefully.
Maybe it was same for deer .He also just looked without doing anything or moving from his place .
For some time they were in stalemate.
Than deer nodded at lintian and it's figure started disappearing.Like a white fog dispersing in moon light it was not there anymore.
Lintian heaved a sigh of relief .
Turning back he followed fireflies out of forest .which seemed to blinking their tails .As though dying out .
Lin tian didn't wanted to walk more .so since he had already confirmed there was no beast near here .
He found a spot near some steps inside forest .He decided to sleep with a tree as his support.
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Above the ruins .
Human warriors were panting .Their numbers had decreased by third .And half of them were injured.
On the other side they had only killed 20 ghosts .which was miniscule compared to their losses .
More importantly they wouldn't be able to hold for long .Even though they had used pills and other tools to recover their stamina and strength.To heal their injuries They had even used precious healing pills They were reluctant to use before .
But looking at figure floating in sky .They knew they were not opponent of his .Ghost general still hadn't used any trump cards .He never came to fight with them .
If he had attacked them all of them would have been in grave .
Warriors were wondering when the old ancestor leading them crashed down . Because of injuries He was unable to stood up again .
Seeing him they had accepted their fate .
They saw Ghost general raising his saber .
It became big and seemed to be absorbing power of heaven & earth .once it was charged Ghost general released it Aimed at the barrier.
But before it could hit the barrier .
A barrage of attacks deflected it .
Its power dispersed .
Leiting waved his hand and the spear flew again to his hands .
"Come I was just waiting for you all .
Fighting them is not interested at all .Not much enjoyable "Leiting guffawed.
Various old figures descended from the sky .
They numbered 30 in total .
Each of them held some respectable position in big forces .
"General why are you making it hard on us .We are already old and can't move around much "
"Than I won't make it hard for you .Tell your Ancestors to not watch this show .why don't come with the same vigor they had when robbing my palace .
Tell them to remove this annoying barrier .if I removed this myself .I don't think I will be able to stop myself from taking revenge "To the newcomers leiting looked like insurmountable figure .
"General that can't be done .we are ordered to send you to afterlife ."
"Send me to afterlife .Are you even capable of."leiting
"Guess we can only find out after fighting."
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Outside the ruins .
All the camps had already started moving .
They could feel instinctively the battle was only going to be become big .
Tremors spreading from the battle had already started to catch up to them .
It was better to move as fast as possible.
Hua bo was sitting on a mountain faraway .
Observing the battle .
'it was as the brat said .This is indeed a big battle .And if Human failed to stopped them .This will indeed become a disaster '
He had to make his next plan .
To where he could move after Leaving this area .