131: Chapter 131 Seduction in the Castle: The Stunningly Beautiful City Lord!

Not far from where Gu Qingge and the others were, a dark, castle-like building suddenly rose from the ground, accompanied by a rising mist of bloody red.

"What's going on?"

Sensing the abnormality of the situation, Gu Qingge couldn't help but quickly look toward the source of the sound.

As he watched, he discovered that there seemed to be some mysterious creatures dwelling within the suddenly appeared dark castle.

And Gu Qingge and his group were not the only Cultivators who noticed this happening.

This grand and spectacular sight immediately drew the attention of the majority of the Cultivators.

"Why do I sense an unusual aura?" One Cultivator, sensing a hint of eerie power, couldn't help but ask the companion next to him.

"That dark castle... I seem to have seen it somewhere before.

It should be recorded in some ancient text, but I can't recall it at the moment," the Cultivator beside him replied.

Just then, someone in the crowd suddenly cried out in sheer terror,

"It's... the Dark Temptation Castle!"

The speaker looked as if he had just witnessed the most horrifying sight of his life.

As if standing on the edge of an abyss, stepping into Hell, walking with ten thousand ghosts—all vitality was gone, and the aura of death spread.

...

"Dark Temptation Castle... what is that?" Shen Youqing asked curiously.

This was her first time hearing of this name, but judging by Gu Qingge's expression, this place was by no means simple.

"Legend has it that the souls of the deceased either enter the Netherworld to undergo Reincarnation, or wander between heaven and earth as roaming spirits and wild ghosts, drifting aimlessly," Gu Qingge explained to her.

"At such times, a dark devilish castle would rise from the ground, becoming a dwelling place to harbor the souls of the deceased."

"However, they do not do this merely to harbor souls, but rather to convert them into their own battle soldiers."

"Those souls of the dead have a portion of their memories erased and are put through the modification process of the Dark Temptation Castle."

"The modified Soul Soldiers are like a dual combination of zombies and fierce ghosts, possessing indestructible bodies and extremely powerful dark-elemental attacks."

"Once these terrifying things emerged, they quickly shook the entire world."

"Later, after a joint campaign of extermination by the major Schools of the various continents, the Dark Temptation Castle vanished without a trace for thousands of years."

"For it to descend and appear once more now, does it mean that an era of great chaos and contention is about to begin again?"

Gu Qingge had first seen information regarding this in the Scripture Pavilion of the Qingxuan Sect.

In particular, the aura of that Nameless Elder of the Scripture Pavilion—seemingly ordinary yet harboring a turbulent sea within—left an impression on him that he still found impossible to forget.

He had even suspected at one point that the Nameless Elder was even more powerful than some of the Old Ancestor-generation Cultivators who lived in secluded cultivation within the Sect!

...

At this moment, both inside and outside the Dark Temptation Castle, there was a scene of heavy security.

Especially inside; compared to the outside, which was mostly occupied by Soul Soldiers, the interior was filled with many bizarrely shaped nether creatures.

Judging by their appearance, they had not been converted from the souls of the dead at all.

In the main hall of the castle.

An Undead Knight, whose flesh and bones were half-exposed, walked quickly into the hall. Upon reaching the front, it knelt on one knee.

"Reporting to the City Lord, we have now descended upon the Lingzhou Continent."

"Oh? So fast?"

"What a nostalgic scene!"

"Revisiting old haunts, seeing the world change so drastically... one can only marvel at the infinite transformations of the mortal world."

The beautiful woman on the main seat shifted slightly, a trace of vicissitude appearing in her eyes as she sighed with emotion.

When her gaze drifted toward that eerie land in the distance, she couldn't help but chuckle softly. "Is that the aura of a devil? Interesting."

Sensing that nostalgic aura, she couldn't help but touch the devil skull embedded in the right armrest of her throne.

Exquisite yet not lacking in majestic dread.

This had once been a trophy she obtained by slaying a powerful enemy.

Back then, with an overbearing posture, she had slain a devil whose cultivation Realm was at the Peak of the Venerable Realm on the Lingzhou Continent.

This scene, recalling the days of old, brought back boundless memories.

"To think that upon returning to the world today, I would happen to run into a devil."

"And a devil that is in a semi-sealed state, with its cultivation drained to less than one percent."

"Giggle! Even if it was once in the Venerable Realm, its combat power is probably far from strong now."

She wore a high-slit cheongsam in a dark color scheme, adorned with golden threads in phoenix patterns.

Her fair legs were crossed, her posture lazy yet possessing a charm capable of toppling nations.

The elegant and venerable aura radiating from her delicate body made her seem like a powerhouse who once dominated an entire era.

"Having been forgotten by this world for thousands of years, I suppose the people of today no longer remember me, who once stood high and mighty between heaven and earth."

As the Dark Temptation Castle completely stabilized its descent, the fine hairs on the woman's forehead fluttered gently in the wind.

Her current momentum was one of wild conquest, as if drinking the blood of thousands of heroes!

It was also an imposing posture that awed the heavens, shaking the universe while remaining independent of the world!

Invisibly, her curvaceous body exuded a beauty that aroused a deep desire for conquest!

Suddenly, she seemed to make another discovery, deepening her piqued interest even further.

"Perhaps this devil won't be the only great harvest of this trip."

The beautiful woman tilted her face slightly, a faint curve quietly forming at the corner of her lips.

The Dark Temptation Castle had not appeared in thousands of years, to the point where people suspected it had been defeated and completely wiped out.

To think it would reveal itself to the world today; the deeper significance hidden within was known only to the beautiful woman who was the lord of this Dark Temptation Castle.

Her gaze was drawn directly to the aura of a living being in the distance, one she had never sensed before.

And the location of that living aura happened to be exactly where Gu Qingge and the others currently were.

"An evolvable Heavenly Demon Emperor Body? That is indeed rare."

"And that white wolf seems to carry a trace of the aura of Reincarnation."

"And the fetus carried in that woman's womb doesn't seem simple either."

"I really didn't expect such a massive harvest from this trip."

The beautiful woman walked out of the main hall. Looking out, she saw a menacing army of the Netherworld stretching as far as the eye could see!

These were the main forces that were about to embark on the campaign with her.

"The flames of war stretch far and wide, surging like a flowing river of blood!"

"Let this entire region be transformed into a backdrop of crimson glass."

With a snap of the woman's fingers, wild winds howled, and the sound of crashing thunder and lightning rang out incessantly.

Her voluptuous and curvaceous body swayed gently, her slender waist moving gracefully, naturally exuding an aura of infinite seduction.

"The calm before the storm is always the most captivating."

"But once the storm arrives, it is a scene of howling winds and endless slaughter."

"Let this place become the mass grave marking my return to the mortal world. Let us listen to the tragic and shrill wails and raise the curtain on the opening act!"