"Thank you for leading me to them," he said.
"Your purpose ends here. I can send you to be reincarnated."
Ying Chen suddenly stopped and spoke to the bad demon who had been holding his arm.
A ripple instantly came from the darkness.
The bad demon understood Ying Chen's words.
It was greatly alarmed and confused.
Why could this person awaken from its confusion?
But before the bad demon could figure this out, it saw a powerful aura emanating from Ying Chen.
This aura instantly sent the bad demon's soul into a frenzy. Without a second thought, it fled.
A wave-like disturbance spread in the darkness, the bad demon's fleeing figure.
But it hadn't escaped far when it heard Ying Chen's cold laugh from behind.
"Can you escape?"
The next second, a puff of green smoke rose.
The bad demon was no longer able to move, having died directly under the pressure of Ying Chen's aura!
After dealing with the bad demon, Ying Chen calmly looked ahead.
Ahead, the figures of the lost workers could be vaguely seen.
But it seemed as if a barrier separated them from Ying Chen, making it difficult to approach.
Ying Chen grabbed forward with both hands, and instantly a barrier like mist was torn apart by him.
Ying Chen stepped forward and entered the barrier.
As Ying Chen stepped in, the barrier, as if possessing self-healing properties, slowly closed, once again separating the passage into two worlds.
This barrier was actually what was known as a 'ghost wall'.
However, it was not a real wall but was formed from malevolent energies.
Once one entered the wall, they would inevitably be assailed by these energies, causing all sorts of hallucinations in their minds.
If the malevolent energies were stronger, they could even give rise to some spiritual entities with offensive capabilities.
In such cases, those encountering a ghost wall might face a grim fate.
"Well, here comes another one!"
Seeing Ying Chen, the workers inside the wall initially thought rescue had arrived. But upon seeing Ying Chen alone, they immediately realized it wasn't a rescue party, but that someone else had fallen victim.
"Brother, did you see them? You'll soon be like them, howling and dancing like demons. Get yourself ready for it now! Or even practice a bit!"
In a corner, a man sat on the ground, puffing on a hand-rolled cigarette.
Beside the man were his fellow workers, one by one, slumped on the ground.
However, all these workers were already hallucinating. Some were murmuring as if talking to the deceased, others were waving their arms as if playing a game with someone, and some were stuffing mud into their mouths as if attending a banquet.
Only the man, unaffected, retained his normal sanity.
"Hmm, not bad, brother!"
"You've been in here for half a minute and you haven't started your performance yet. It seems you're not like these people whose bodies have been depleted by wine and women, making them susceptible to evil. Rare, truly rare."
The man looked at Ying Chen with surprise and said.
The reason the man was unaffected by the malevolent energy was because he had practiced the Diamond Strength technique passed down by his ancestors since childhood. Moreover, the man had maintained his chastity for decades, so his body was filled with ample vital energy, which burned away all the surrounding malevolent energies like a flame.
However, even the man couldn't hold on for too long.
At most, after one day, his vital energy would be depleted, and he would eventually fall into hallucinations.
Of course, by then, his fellow workers might have already succumbed to mental exhaustion and died of heart failure.
"Are all the lost workers here?"
Ying Chen did not answer the man but asked in return.
The man nodded, "All here. But it's no use, we'll just be companions on the road to the underworld. Do you think you can get out of this godforsaken place?"
Ying Chen still did not answer.
Instead, he turned his gaze to the space.
The malevolent energies were dense, not only emanating from the ground but also from the surrounding walls.
This meant that there must be something on the walls constantly providing malevolent energy to this space.
However, the walls were blank, with only uneven stones.
What could be there?
Ying Chen frowned, staring at the walls, unable to figure it out.
"Brother, a friendly reminder, don't look there. That's the most sinister part of this whole place! Eight out of ten of these workers went mad after looking there."
The man saw Ying Chen's actions and warned him.
Ying Chen's eyebrows twitched slightly.
He looked at the man, then at the other hallucinating workers.
Suddenly realizing something, he turned and walked towards the position of the hallucinating workers.
Then he sat down on the ground.
At this moment, Ying Chen looked at the walls again and finally discovered their peculiar nature!
The protruding stones and sunken pits actually formed eerie human faces!
The faces seemed alive, displaying all sorts of expressions.
Some of the ghostly faces, sensing Ying Chen looking at them, turned their heads and met his gaze!
Anyone else might have been horrified and screamed at this sight.
But Ying Chen remained unfazed.
He picked up a few pebbles from the ground and casually threw them at the ghostly faces.
"What are you looking at?"
The next second, a rumbling sound echoed.
The wall where those ghostly faces were located directly exploded, creating a large pit!
Those ghostly faces let out a mournful cry and disappeared from the wall!
"This..." The man was dumbfounded.
He had expected Ying Chen to suffer the same fate as the others, never imagining that Ying Chen, like a legendary figure, would simply punch them out for asking "What are you looking at?"
"Such a temper... I like it!" the man muttered.
After casually smashing a few ghostly faces, Ying Chen patted the faces of the hallucinating workers one by one.
"Wake up, it's time to go home."
"Don't bother, you can't wake them up even if you swell their faces..." the man said.
But before the man could finish speaking, a strange scene unfolded.
Every worker Ying Chen touched woke up successively!
In the blink of an eye, everyone regained their senses!
"Holy crap, that works? I should have slapped them silly long ago! Especially those guys I never liked!" the man said, utterly shocked.
He regretted missing such an opportunity for personal revenge.
The awakened workers looked at each other, not knowing what had happened.
They vaguely remembered encountering a ghost wall and being unable to leave.
"Are you from above sent to save us? Why were they so careless to send a kid like you? What good can your scrawny arms and legs do in this situation? You should have found a sorcerer!" a worker said suspiciously, eyeing Ying Chen.
His words were full of distrust towards Ying Chen.
The other workers also looked dejected and despairing.
They already knew what they had encountered, so no matter how many people were sent from above, it would be useless, just sending them to their deaths.
Only by quickly finding a local Taoist priest or sorcerer could they hope to break the ghost wall and get out.
Ying Chen ignored everyone, as if he didn't care whether they trusted him or not, and took a step forward.
The words he uttered made everyone present freeze, and then their faces showed expressions of unbelievable absurdity.
"Living souls, give way! The dead, stand aside!"