Chapter 38 Open Your Eyes, the Pupil of the Blood-Skeleton Bodhisattva!

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Accompanied by the thunderous pounding of their hearts, a graveyard gradually emerged from the mist.

Faint, intermittent sobbing seemed to linger around each tombstone.

Sun Qian and the others ran desperately forward, yet the tombstones behind them showed no sign of falling away. Instead, they drew closer and closer.

Even more horrifying was the sight of the tombstones beginning to tremble. One figure after another crawled out from within them.

The terrifying, bone-chilling aura seemed to solidify in that instant, pressing down on everyone until they could barely breathe.

“There are far too many of these things…” Wang Jian’s face was grim. At last, he understood why warnings of a heartbeat had come from within the Western Woods.

How many people from Nameless Village had died over the years?

What had happened to the village?

What exactly was this terrifying graveyard?

There was no time to think. With countless specters bearing down on them, all they could do was run for their lives.

This instance had already gone far beyond their capabilities. No wonder it was classified as an unsolvable instance. Even experienced players would find such a place perilous, let alone newcomers like them.

Everyone ran at full speed, but the specters were still faster. The distance between them continued to shrink.

Then, in a moment of carelessness, Su Yue Ning tripped over a branch and fell hard. Her knees and arms immediately erupted with sharp pain.

Feeling the icy presence behind her, she pulled out a Ghost-Blood Seal. But as she looked at the horde of specters, her expression turned grim. She had only a few seals, nowhere near enough to deal with so many enemies. No—even if she had enough, there were simply too many to use them all in time.

As the specters surged toward her, despair overcame Su Yue Ning. She felt certain that she was going to die.

But even in the face of death, she gripped a Ghost-Blood Seal in each hand and fixed her gaze on the two specters closest to her.

Even if she was going to die, she would still make one final attempt!

From the moment she became a ghost-hunter, she had sworn never to yield before the supernatural.

Whoosh!

A specter with a grim, icy face rushed to her side.

Su Yue Ning had no time to stand. She slapped the Ghost-Blood Seal in her hand directly onto the male specter’s leg.

Flash!

A burst of bloody light flared. The male specter, unable to keep its balance, immediately toppled to the side.

Then more specters closed in.

At that moment, every second seemed to stretch endlessly. Only a few seconds had passed since Su Yue Ning fell.

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Su Yue Ning pulled out another Ghost-Blood Seal, but three specters had already surrounded her.

It was over. She no longer had the strength to deal with so many of them.

Their faces were dark and sinister. Amid the icy currents of air, they reached out toward Su Yue Ning.

Just as she prepared to await death, Bai Wan suddenly rushed over and stepped in front of her.

He stood facing her with his back to the specters. Their hands had already reached out toward him.

Su Yue Ning’s eyes widened.

Was he trying to get himself killed?

But a moment later, she stared in astonishment as a blood-red eye suddenly opened on Bai Wan’s arm when the specters touched him.

“Get lost!”

Flare!

In that instant, an incomparably terrifying curse erupted from the eye.

The passive skill of a supernatural item of the highest quality—the Abyss grade—Blood-Eyed Bodhisattva had been triggered for the first time.

A blood-red eye appeared from nowhere in the void, as though a lofty deity were gazing down upon insignificant ants below.

A powerful bloody curse was unleashed. The three nearest specters collapsed to the ground in an instant, as if all their strength had been drained away. At the same time, a bloody domain seemed to form around Bai Wan, while invisible shockwaves surged outward like a tide.

The specters in the distance froze stiff, as though someone had pressed a pause button.

Two seconds later, the blood-red eye in the void closed, and everything returned to normal.

Su Yue Ning stared in shock at the unbelievable scene that had just unfolded.

What was that blood-red eye?

It had suppressed three specters in an instant, while those in the distance had also been temporarily immobilized.

Was it a rare cursed item? But even a rare supernatural item shouldn’t have been… should have been… this powerful, right?

Sun Qian and the others were likewise stunned for two seconds. They even forgot to run, their horrified gazes fixed on the blood-red eye that had appeared in the air.

The instant that eye emerged, they all felt a terror that came straight from their souls.

Sun Qian had seen others use supernatural items before, but never anything so terrifying.

Compared with every other supernatural item he had encountered, this seemed to belong to an entirely different dimension of power.

A blood-grade supernatural item?

No… It might be even higher than that…

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Sun Qian and the others looked at Bai Wan with an involuntary trace of awe.

What kind of divine powerhouse was he? For an ordinary player, obtaining even a single supernatural item would already require heaven-defying luck.

Yet this man had acquired something so terrifying while he was still in the novice phase. The gap between people was truly enormous.

Having temporarily driven back the specters, Bai Wan picked up Su Yue Ning and quickly carried her away from them.

“Can you still move your leg?” Bai Wan asked.

“Ah… yes, I can. I can… Just put me down.”

Only then did Su Yue Ning come back to her senses. She had survived.

Bai Wan set her down.

Her leg had only been scraped slightly, which did not affect her ability to run. She simply had not had time to get back up while the specters were chasing her so relentlessly.

“Thank you!” Su Yue Ning said gratefully. To save her, Bai Wan had actually used such a high-level supernatural item. It must have cost him dearly.

Of course, she had no idea that it had merely been the passive skill of Bai Wan’s Blood-Bone Statue—usable once every six hours and available twice for free in every instance.

That was the terrifying power of an Abyss-grade item. Even a passive ability that came free of charge possessed such overwhelming might. If activated deliberately, its effect would surely be even more astonishing.

Naturally, Bai Wan would not actively use the Blood-Bone Statue unless absolutely necessary. He had obtained the item by exploiting a bug, and the system had imposed restrictions on it. If he used the statue in one instance, the system would forbid him from using it in the next.

That restriction applied only to actively using its skills. Exploiting the passive ability for free, as he had just done, would not result in a ban during the next instance.

“No need to thank me. You’re my best friend, after all…” Bai Wan flashed Su Yue Ning a warm smile.

At those words, Su Yue Ning’s grateful expression froze.

Oh, right…

She had been so moved that she had forgotten the reason she was even able to enter this instance in the first place was Bai Wan’s fault.

Still, regardless of the circumstances, Bai Wan’s image in her heart had improved by the tiniest bit.

However, when she glanced at the specters behind them, which had already begun moving again, worry clouded her face.

Even the most terrifying supernatural item could only hold the specters back temporarily.

With so many of them behind them, how were they supposed to escape?

Bai Wan, meanwhile, checked the delivery countdown in his mind.

Ten minutes remained.

The Giant Sunlight Mushroom would arrive in ten minutes.

If they could endure for those final ten minutes, it would be time to strike back!

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