Chapter 255: The Frightening Shadow
"What? What caused that scream?" Ye Dafu exclaimed.
"Stand guard over the Chief Steward and General Ma," Xiao Nanfeng commanded Ye Dafu and Ye Sanshui.
Then, he headed toward the rear yard.
There, You Jiu was searching all around the yard for something, sword in hand. Before him lay a pile of headless corpses, clearly servants and maids of the manor given their attire. They had died a ghastly death.
"What's going on, You Jiu?" Xiao Nanfeng asked immediately.
"Master, by the time I noticed something amiss, all these corpses were already on the ground, their heads gone. I saw a figure and stabbed at it, but I missed," You Jiu reported.
"Missed? Even you? Could it be some Wingform-realm assassin?" Xiao Nanfeng exclaimed.
"I don't know. I only saw a shadow." This chapter is updated by nov(e)(l)biin.com
"Oh?"
"Right there! It appeared again." You Jiu suddenly pointed in the distance.
A servant was quivering as he stood, not daring—or perhaps unable—to move. Under the moonlight, his shadow lengthened. Another figure's shadow emerged from within it, as though the figure had originally been concealed within the servant's shadow.
"What? How could this be? A transparent man? No, someone's using some sort of technique that confers limited invisibility. The moonlight has revealed their shadow," Xiao Nanfeng concluded.
"Kill!" You Jiu shot forward, blade in hand.
His qi spread out all throughout the yard but didn't sense any foreign presence. Even when You Jiu thrust his blade into the shadow, nothing seemed to happen.
"Be careful, You Jiu!" Xiao Nanfeng suddenly shouted.
The shadow's hands extended to grab onto You Jiu in a sinister fashion. You Jiu immediately dodged aside, causing the shadow to miss. Then, it suddenly bulged, transforming from a two-dimensional outline to a three-dimensional shadowed figure. It grabbed onto the servant's head and twisted, wrenching it off in a fountain of blood. The servant died on the spot.
"What's this? A shadow spirit?!" Xiao Nanfeng exclaimed.
You Jiu shot forward once again.
"What's that cursed effigy like?" Ye Dafu asked curiously from the side.
Suddenly, fresh blood splashed onto Ye Dafu's face. Ye Dafu turned in shock to see a humanoid shadow by his side near the ground. The majority of its body was still two-dimensional, but its hands had turned three-dimensional and bulged out from the ground. It tore General Ma's head from his body.
General Ma never imagined that he would die in such a sinister fashion. His face was a mask of fear, but there was nothing he could do. He watched on as the shadow widened its mouth, revealed its sawtooth-like teeth, and crunched down on his head in a spray of blood.
"What sort of monster is this? Die!" Ye Dafu shouted, slashing at it with his sword.
The energy from the attack left a furrow on the ground in a spray of earth and stone, but the shadow seemed completely unaffected. Like a shadow, nothing seemed to be able to interact with it.
"Impossible. Why can't I touch it?!" Ye Dafu exclaimed.
Suddenly, the shadow's hands reached for Ye Dafu's head.
"No!" Ye Dafu bellowed.
Ye Sanshui kicked his nephew away, but it was useless. The shadow had latched onto Ye Dafu and was continuing to clutch his head. Even as Ye Dafu was struck aside, his neck extended as the shadow pulled, intent on tearing his head off his body.
"Save me!" Ye Dafu cried out in horror.
Xiao Nanfeng slashed at the shadow with the divine undying blade, chopping off its hands. Ye Dafu barely avoided a gruesome fate.
"Curse against curse—it's effective!" Xiao Nanfeng's eyes lit up.
The divine undying blade was a cursed spiritual avatar, and it did manage to strike the shadow when nothing else had succeeded.
The shadow's chopped-off arms reattached to its body; no wounds were visible where they joined up.
As though enraged, the shadow ground its teeth and shot toward Xiao Nanfeng. It let out a howl.
"Kill!"
The divine undying blade bisected the shadow at the waist, but its two halves quickly recombined as it continued charging at Xiao Nanfeng.
"Don't let it touch you, King Xiao! The moment it struck me, I was unable to move!" Ye Dafu called out.
Xiao Nanfeng frowned. He swung his blade ever faster, dicing the shadow up with dozens of slashes, but each of those shadowy fragments recombined as though they were alive. The shadow's hands reached out for Xiao Nanfeng's head from every direction.
