Quick Transmigration: Underdog Turns out to be Untouchable

Chapter 1027: Chapter 938: Queen of Terror 34

Lan Shuangshuang ignored the opponent’s threats, bypassed the God’s Servant blocking her path, and headed outside. The face of the God’s Servant darkened, and he reached out to catch Lan Shuangshuang.

At this moment, Li Meng placed her hand on the shoulder of the God’s Servant who was trying to grab Lan Shuangshuang, and turned to the man looking at her with a cold smile.

Ignoring the sound of fighting and the man’s intermittent screams behind her, Lan Shuangshuang hurried toward the place where the resentful energy was the strongest. Soon, she found a very hidden cave.

The cave was filled with a strong bloody smell, and apart from the blood scent, there was a thick rancid odor. Lan Shuangshuang walked into the cave and proceeded to its end, where a large stone cauldron stood.

In the stone cauldron, there was a layer of dried, black substance. Lan Shuangshuang instantaneously recognized that this stuff was identical to what she had seen tied to the fishing nets by those God’s Servants when she had spied from the seaside earlier.

Picking up these objects, there was no need to smell them—the stench was so overpowering that it made one nauseated. Previously, from afar, merely looking at them, Lan Shuangshuang couldn’t discern what they were. Now up close, it was clear to her that they were chunks of coagulated human blood.

To be precise, these blood chunks were no longer just human blood but a semi-finished product of a Gu. This stone cauldron was a Potion Refining Cauldron exclusively used by the mysterious Gu Clan.

However, for someone unfamiliar with Gu refining, even with this Potion Refining Cauldron, they cannot successfully refine Gu; they can only produce some messy stuff. It remains a mystery how these God’s Servants came by this Potion Refining Cauldron.

Yet, by sheer accident, they produced these semi-finished Gu. Since they weren’t finished products, though originally waste, they unexpected served as bait for fish.

Lan Shuangshuang did not know how the God’s Servants achieved this result, but from the thickening resentful energy here, it was clear they killed untold numbers of people for these semi-finished Gu.

Previously, Lan Shuangshuang couldn’t fathom why the resentful energy here was as strong as that of a fierce ghost, yet she couldn’t see a single ghostly shadow. Now, having seen this, she finally understood why.

The Potion Refining Cauldron was remarkable for its ability to refine Gu. The stone used to make the cauldron could capture souls. All those who died by this cauldron have their souls trapped inside it.

Lan Shuangshuang placed her hand on the Potion Refining Cauldron, and immediately images unfolded before her. They were memories carried by the souls of the women trapped, dying within the cauldron.

With many complicated memories together, it was hard to discern anything, but fortunately Lan Shuangshuang’s Divine Sense was formidable, allowing her not to be influenced by the personalities of the memory owners, unraveling the chaos to see the complete story.

These God’s Servants were actually once fishermen from the village; initially, the leader accidentally discovered Sea God Valley, finding the Potion Refining Cauldron and a book on how to refine Gu.

Unfortunately, the long-preserved book was almost entirely deteriorated, with only one or two pages barely legible. Those pages detailed a fiercely violent soul-devouring parasite preparation method, requiring killing as human blood must be added to the cauldron to produce Gu.

The God’s Servant was utterly deranged, deceiving a woman into being lured for the kill to refine Gu. Alas, the Gu refining method wasn’t completely recorded, preventing his success.

Infuriated by the failure, the man threw the semi-formed blood chunks into the sea, unintentionally attracting numerous fish swarms. This sparked a mad idea within that God’s Servant.

He found a bunch of layabouts like him, concocted the Mermaid Sea God’s legend, claiming they were God’s Servants, packaging these blood chunks as gifts from the Sea God, and distributing them to the fishermen.

Following two effortless bountiful harvests, with such benefits, the fishermen began to worship the Sea God, naturally relying more on the Sea God’s bounty.

So, when these God’s Servants and villagers negotiated a triennial offering of several apt-aged girls to serve the Sea God, even aware something wasn’t right, the villagers complied.

Since ancient times, the idea of valuing sons over daughters led the village men to disregard women, and women themselves accepted this sad ideology, perpetuating it to their daughters upon becoming mothers.

Thus, parents concealed the truth from their daughters, under the guise of coming-of-age rituals, personally sending them to Hell, allowing these so-called God’s Servants to imprison and humiliate them for three years before turning them into bait.

To prevent the truth from leaking, girls who attended the rituals but weren’t chosen were swiftly married by their parents, ensuring those who had not participated wouldn’t realize anything was wrong.

These girls, tortured alive, were trapped in the Potion Refining Cauldron after death, with their resentful energy accumulating deeply over time. When found by Lan Shuangshuang, their resentful energy was already extreme; if Lan Shuangshuang hadn’t found them, they would soon merge their souls in hatred to become a Thousand-eyed Evil Ghost, breaking the cauldron.

The Thousand-eyed Evil Ghost, towering and covered in eyes, was an Evil Ghost without Spiritual Wisdom, possessing only obsession. Being devoid of Spiritual Wisdom, it formed unconsciously from Grudge Spirits losing reason.

The appearance of a Thousand-eyed Evil Ghost is rare; first, the Grudge Spirits’ hatred must be the same to merge, secondly, it requires an Evil Artifact to imprison the intelligent Grudge Spirit until their senses are wholly eroded.

Once a Thousand-eyed Evil Ghost appears, it has only one obsession: vengeance, slaughtering all it hates. After revenge, its hatred being gone, the Thousand-eyed Evil Ghost disperses.

The battle prowess of these giants, renowned for being formidable and relentless, can’t discern right from wrong. If these girls fused into a Thousand-eyed Evil Ghost with an obsession to kill their haters and the parents who, fully aware of their fate, handed them over, then everyone in the village would fall within the Thousand-eyed Evil Ghost’s attack range.

No wonder this task seemed simple yet was classified as an Intermediate task; herein lay the danger. If Lan Shuangshuang and others, after entering the village, did nothing, waiting for the threat before responding, encountering the Thousand-eyed Evil Ghost would leave them more than half-dead, if not for Lan Shuangshuang’s presence.