Volume 5, Chapter 58 – Strange Sensations in the Bai Family Cemetery, and the Increasingly Chaotic Somewhere in West Asia

Inside the Bai family main residence in Cangdu—

After returning from Xiwan City, Ailiya was holding a sandalwood box as she walked toward the Bai family cemetery.

Although most of the Bai family main residence had been reduced to ruins due to Hume’s attack, the Bai family ancestral cemetery was located in a relatively remote area within the Bai family estate and hadn’t been much affected by Hume’s power.

It remained relatively intact.

Ailiya’s purpose for this trip was to fulfill Bai Lianyue’s request—to place the sandalwood box… or rather, the ashes of Bai Nuoyu contained within it, in the Bai family main residence.

Since Bai Lianyue had ultimately caused considerable harm to the Bai family, Miss Evil God didn’t plan to come to the cemetery herself. After all, Uncle Bai Xuansheng’s tombstone was also here. Miss Evil God still felt somewhat guilty about indirectly causing his son’s death.

At this moment,

Holding the sandalwood box in her hands—that is, the urn containing Bai Nuoyu’s ashes—Ailiya’s expression gradually became strange.

“So Bai Nuoyu is already gone…”

The silver-haired girl muttered thoughtfully to herself as she walked along the forest path.

Originally, Ailiya thought that after learning this news, she would feel quite relieved, even somewhat happy. After all, Bai Nuoyu was Bai Xingwu’s biological mother and had that kind of relationship with Lianyue… she was also a very strong woman who kept a close eye on Lianyue.

Undoubtedly, such an existence made Ailiya feel tremendous pressure.

Bai Nuoyu was clearly a far more formidable opponent than Aunt Alice.

However, after learning that Bai Nuoyu was no longer in this world, the silver-haired girl didn’t feel happy… instead, a melancholic emotion inexplicably grew in her heart, and her steps became heavy accordingly.

‘Strange… why am I feeling this way?

Clearly,

I didn’t know this woman at all before.

Such a mysterious feeling…

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Forget it, I won’t think about these things. I need to quickly bury her according to Lianyue’s request… and then I need to hurry back to Xiwan City.

Leaving Lianyue alone there somehow doesn’t feel very reassuring.

Although Lianyue’s mind is much clearer now thanks to the Heart of the World’s purification, no matter how clear it becomes, it can’t change her fundamentally cute and ditzy nature. Who knows what strange things Lianyue might do without anyone watching her?

“Finish this quickly and get back soon.”

The silver-haired girl murmured quietly.

Meanwhile, the spirit tablet, a sacred relic of the Bai family, had somehow eagerly sidled up to Ailiya and appeared in front of her.

After noticing the spirit tablet floating in mid-air, Ailiya sighed helplessly:

“I’m busy right now and don’t have time to play with you. Stay quiet for a while~”

Ailiya spoke in a tone used to coax children.

However, what she didn’t know was that this time the spirit tablet’s purpose wasn’t to seek affection from Ailiya. Therefore, the spirit tablet didn’t obediently stay to the side as usual, but gradually lowered itself and assumed a charging posture.

The next instant, before Ailiya could react, the spirit tablet suddenly burst forth amid pale golden light and charged toward Ailiya! Toward the sandalwood box in her hands!

—”Thud!”—

“Eh?!!”

Accompanied by a dull sound, the spirit tablet struck the bottom of the sandalwood box hard.

The next moment, under Miss Ailiya’s astonished gaze, the sandalwood box broke free from her hands and flew into the air. Immediately after, under the spirit tablet’s forceful impact, the entire wooden box shattered, and the ashes contained within suddenly scattered upward.

“Hey?!!! Wait!! What is this broken tablet doing?!!!”

The silver-haired girl let out an angry shout.

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Unfortunately, shouting couldn’t change reality. The ashes scattered from the sky and fell on Ailiya.

“Hey!!”

Looking at the ashes covering her head and body, Ailiya couldn’t help but bite her lip and glare fiercely at the spirit tablet still floating in mid-air, looking quite happy and pleased.

“You broken stone!! What exactly are you trying to… hm??”

However, before the angry words could leave her mouth, Ailiya froze in place, her cherry-colored eyes suddenly contracting. A wonderful energy fluctuation quietly rippled around Ailiya at this moment.

Slowly raising her hand and gazing at her palm covered with ashes, Ailiya’s eyes slightly narrowed.

The anger in her eyes gradually dissipated, replaced by a meaningful gleam.

On the other side,

Seemingly having heard the “ancestor’s” exclamation, several Bai family members responsible for guarding the ancestral cemetery hurriedly rushed to this location following the sound. Upon seeing the slightly disheveled silver-haired girl and the spirit tablet floating before her, they immediately knelt respectfully on one knee.

“Honored Ancestor, are you alright?”

Hearing this, after a brief silence, Ailiya slowly shook her head.

“Don’t worry, I’m fine.”

“Ah.”

Although they wanted to ask why the honored ancestor was covered in ash, the Bai family servants clearly had some sense. They understood the truth of not asking what shouldn’t be asked. Of course, while they didn’t ask too many questions, some matters still needed to be reported.

“Honored Ancestor, we just received news from Xiwan City. The young lady you instructed us to look after seems to have suddenly… disappeared.”

“Disappeared?”

“Yes, that young lady was eating barbecue at a barbecue stall earlier, but then she vanished in an instant. We’re terribly sorry for not keeping a proper watch on her, Honored Ancestor.”

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The servants bowed their heads with great shame.

However, Ailiya didn’t respond to the servants’ words, but silently took out her phone and checked some specific news on it.

Her cherry-colored eyes slightly narrowed.

—”So Xiao Yue is… going to find the Abyssal Lord…”—

Meanwhile,

In the West Asia region, at Leino Port in Bateila Nation.

Rolling black clouds obscured the sky over this once-prosperous port, and alarm sounds rose and fell continuously. Accompanied by an extremely oppressive aura, purple-black “waves” surged violently from all directions.

Although they looked like “waves,” these surging giant swells were actually composed of countless terrifying Corrupted Beasts. These horrifying Corrupted Beasts resembled fish, but had long lost any semblance of what living creatures should look like: their rotting scales all over leaked purple-black pus, their fish eyes were hollow and lightless yet flickered with purple sinister gleams. Each Corrupted Beast was surrounded by rolling purple-black curse power, like an ever-expanding realm of death. They surged like raging tides, frantically rushing toward the port as if to completely devour everything.

“Fire!! Blast all those monsters to pieces!!”

Gazing at this scene, Commander Gakarin gave the attack order with a hoarse voice.

The next instant, the pale-faced garrison troops, driven by fear, desperately pulled their triggers. In an instant, countless bullets and tongues of flame pierced the air, dense firepower and thundering cannons exploded at the port. Missiles launched one after another, whistling away with scorching tail flames and blooming into huge fireballs among the Corrupted Beast horde. The roaring shattered the air, flames and shockwaves stirred up layer upon layer of sea waves. However, this firepower that should have been sufficient to destroy steel could only create ripples on the eerie sea of curse power surrounding the Corrupted Beasts. The shattered flesh and blood quickly reassembled into new Corrupted Beasts, and tens of thousands of Corrupted Beasts continued their assault, their offensive not slowing in the slightest.

“How, how could this be?”

Seeing this scene, Gakarin retreated several steps in despair.

The middle-aged man couldn’t help but clench his fists tightly, veins bulging on his forehead. Looking at the tide of Corrupted Beasts that almost covered the sky, his heart turned ice cold.

At this moment, he finally understood why the multinational coalition forces’ attempts to control the disaster had always ended in failure.

These monsters simply couldn’t be dealt with by humans! These monsters weren’t normal creatures within their understanding at all!

No wonder Klaga and the surrounding countries had all been devoured…

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No, forget those countries—even their Bateila would probably find it difficult to escape being swallowed…

Well, this wasn’t the time to think about such things.

“How’s the evacuation going?!”

“Two-thirds of the civilians still haven’t evacuated! We need at least three more hours!” another senior military officer replied.

Hearing this answer, Gakarin’s face turned even more ashen.

“Are you kidding… we can’t even hold out for ten minutes, and you want three hours?”

The man sat down in his chair in despair and looked with hollow eyes toward the spine-chilling sea of Corrupted Beasts ahead.

“Why exactly did so many, such terrifying monsters suddenly appear? What did we do wrong to displease the gods?”

While muttering, Gakarin took out his pistol and aimed it at his own temple.

Rather than being devoured alive by these monsters like the citizens of Klaga and other nations, suicide to end the suffering early might be a good choice.

However,

Just as Gakarin was about to end himself, he suddenly discovered with astonishment… the monsters surging forward had actually stopped? Not only that, but the gazes of those monsters were all uniformly focused on the distant sky.

Guided by confusion, Gakarin also directed his gaze behind him.

Then his eyes suddenly contracted.

Gazing at the ice-blue light speeding through the high sky, Gakarin instantly showed an expression of astonishment.

—”What, what, what is that??”—