69.The fight progress

Inside the ruins .

"Cluck! Clung! Thak! Tham!

The captured cultivators were hammering and digging the place in the various section of ruins .

After the young cultivators were captured .They were quickly divided in groups.And were given various tasks .

One of them was dig & break the ruins at wherever ghost pointed .

Though they afraid and panic stricken .

The thought of leaving alive upon completing the task .gave them hope for ongoing .

"I can't do anymore....no more "

Tham!

A figure fell unconscious after exhausting himself .

"He can't work anymore .He fell unconscious.please let him rest . Don't kill him "other cultivators pleaded they were worried .Now that this person cannot work .He would be killed .But that wasn't the case at all .

"Heh we know ..After he wakes up again he still has to work .why will we kill him "A ghost figure said to them .Than he said to another ghost .

"Move him with the other cultivators who fell unconscious.After he wakes up .he has to work for double of his worth "

The ghost nodded .A hand made of mud grabbed the unconscious person.

And dragged him to the depths of ruins .

Unconscious man was thrown in a dark room with a limited light source .

After the ghost left .This figure woke up and looked at the room .He wasn't unconscious at all just pretending to be .He didn't believe ghosts would let him go after completing tasks .

So he thought of making escape plan .He convinced others to plead for him in front of ghosts . However if the ghost really wanted to kill him .He would immediately wake up .

Lighting a torch he saw room full of young cultivators . unconscious sleeping without movements.

He wondered if others had tried the same method .

Getting close to other He would whisper them to wake up .

There were 16 young cultivators in room .

Among them even was ugly girl with skin cracked pattern all over her body .He felt repulsed upon seeing .

Her facial features were good .But the ugly patterns really made her look ugly .

Before long he heard door opening sound .

Instantly he turned unconscious laying on floor .

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In one of the corner of ruins .

Some cultivators were excavating straight .

Ghost were staying far away keeping an eye on them .

Repeated use of pickaxe finally broke into some empty chamber .

This chamber had all kinds of pattern lighting up .A chrytal stone was placed on a stand .

This Chrystal seemed to be source of power for this chamber's shining patterns .

"Oh we finally found something.we have to go & report it's founding . don't go anywhere else and try to escape .we are warning you "

Two ghost figures left hurriedly.

At first cultivators were worried .Would they be killed Now that they have served their purpose .but later their heart filled with joy .

These ghosts were really idiot. They had both left without anyone to keep eye on them .

They would be really idiot if they didn't try to escape now and take advantage of opportunity.

"Quickly before they return we have to .we have to find a way to escape "

"I think this secret chamber is definitely connected with some other place. It must have secret passage .search it ."

"I think we should divide ourselves.some of us will search this chamber others with find normal exit & keep an eye on ghosts "

"Yes"They nodded with plan .

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Same scenarios were happening in some corners of ruins .where captured cultivators were left alone for a while .

Taking the chance the cultivators tried their best to find a exit .

But they didn't knew it was all a plan ghosts .

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On the ruins .A fierce fight was happening.

The 30 old individuals that had come were really powerful.

Normal ghosts were really not their opponent.

30 of them had died .

Ghost general alone was holding off 7 individuals Human ancestor .

Seeing the depleting number of ghosts amidst the fight .Ghost general got serious and finally decided to use his lightning powers .

The sky above the Great ruins started to change . Lightning surged inside the clouds .

"You have really made me use my full power "

Ghost general's floate above the ruins .This time lighting arcs showing behind him .

Like a berserk beast .They were roaring to strike and destroy everything in their way .

Leiting raised his sword .A strong lightning bolt came from clouds hitting his spear .

The spear heated up .And the heat smell could be felt mile away.

30 ancestors realised.Ghost general was about to do something big .

"Stop him raise your weapons and strike him "

Human ancestors with a renewed powers .Striked against ghost general .

Ghost soldiers also couldn't let Ghost general be interrupted.They rushed to form a shield in front of general .The 30 individuals were powerful indeed .with their strong attacks .

The remaining Ghosts soldiers above surface were cleared in no time .

But they were still a beat slow .

As they looked with looming eyes at Ghost general 's lightning figure .

They launched their best attack to disrupt the General's charged attack .

However what they hadn't expected was Ghost general had no intention to attack the barrier or them.

Clouds above kept striking at the spears .

The spear seemed to be melting and changing from .As the spear burned .It's smoky substance was entering ghost general's figure.

"He is .....He is integrating the weapon with himself ."

"What that's unheard of "

"It can't be possible right "

"Wait a minute you are forgetting something important.He is not even human .He is ghost ."

"That's right .what is he trying to do "

"I don't know what he is doing.But his power seems to be increasing ."

"Lightning arcs around him seems to have increased in numbers too "

"Whatever is he doing .it's not good thing "

"Everyone don't hold back .This is no time for consideration of discord & disagreements between us"

"That's right everyone use your trump cards "

"Fine I will be the first to start .I will 100hands forming cave technique "saying so ancestor used his hands in void .

The air mixed with energy formed numerous hands and tried to grab the floating general .

The lightning arcs around Ghost general turned into lightning whips and splashed around everything .

The energy hands met with resistance.some of them destroyed in mid air .But the ones who managed to reach Ghost general

exploded upon contact with Ghost general's figure .

The attack was completely useless .

Seeing the failure attack of one of their own .

They realised they cannot hold back .

Ghost general had indeed become powerful.

And was becoming more powerful with every moment.

They readied themselves to launch their strongest attacks .

At this time more ghost soldiers came out to take place of fallen brothers .

Seeing the various old figures ready to attack .

Ghost soldiers launched themselves in front of Ghosts general .Ready to bear the any incoming attack .

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Inside ruins .

Captured cultivators were making a small tunnel from inside .They had placed a small concealing spell outside an entrance of their tunnel .To not let Ghosts know .

They had thought about it .And it was no brainer to know .on every exit there should be ghosts to stop them .

They didn't knew the exact numbers .but there should be around 300 ghosts .

Which was enough to cover every exist they knew of .

In that case best scenario was to create a new exit .In which they were working on .

Though they didn't felt relatively confident about it .They weren't sure if they would got enough time to create a exit tunnel .

A metal clink sound came .

They seized their movements because they received a signal .

Ghost figure had come back which were gone to report .

"Why are you doing dawdling around .Come with me you have another place to work "

"Yyyyesss"

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Similar scenes were happening at many places in ruins .

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Outside the ruins.

A fierce fight had come to end .

Many ghost soldiers died .

Some 3-4 old ancestors.

This ancestors were powerful ,aged, experienced and had many life saving trump cards .There was no way they would die easily .

Though they fought and won against ghost soldiers And even sent them to afterlife .

They failed to disrupt ghost general .

Whatever he was doing .It was completed.

The lightning whips around him stretched wide & long .

In a web like manner it spread to the nearby mountains . Occasionally causing destruction to mountains.

If the cultivators camps were her .many cultivators would have unanimously died . without knowing how & why .

It was their fortune they had moved away whey they had time .

Spear held by Ghost general had completely disappeared.It now transformed into coarse round metal like object .But yet it had components which didn't belong to metal .

This unknown and shining object .Gave Old ancestors the feeling of dread & greedy .

It was definitely extraordinary.

Under or should it be said as inside the body of ghost general .it was refined into something they had never seen or heard .

But yet it gave ancestors the feeling that this object was very powerful.Probably on their level .

One old ancestor couldn't stop his curiosity.In an exhausted and panting tone he said .

"Gh....ghost general it is unbelievable how much powerful you are .But what are you trying to acheive.you don't seem to be aiming for grand barrier .And what is that object.

We have never seen something like this "

He had observed Ghost soldiers attacking the barrier was most likely sham.

Ghost soldiers fighting against them had shown much more power .compared to while attacking barrier .

Even when being defended by Ghost soldiers . General hadn't taken the chance to attack grand barrier .If he had attacked barrier .it might have been weakened for a while .

Though if it had weakened.There was already a 2nd formation barrier as a backup .Even without backup .Barrier will keep regenerating itself.

At most some ghosts will sneak out only to be hunted later .They had already stationed manpower to deal with them .

But from start to end from what he had observed .He suspected Ghost general had other plans .But no matter he couldn't guess .

"You want to know what this is .Heh you will know later .For now let's resume our fight .I have just recovered most of my power .I can't wait to see How much better you fair against them "Leiting's eyes were brimming with desire to fight .

"I hate to admit it .But ghost general we are not your opponent.Even though we are bigger in numbers.i am afraid we can only manage to survive against you ."

"But it's good thing it's not only us .who wants you to stay in this dark ruins ."

"What do you mean ?"leiting

"You will know soon too .hahaha let's fight again .backing off is no choice "

Despite knowing the vast different between their strength.They had no choice but to fight .

Otherwise Their last truly last aces will have to participate in these battle .They were stronger than them .So they had better advantage at fight .

But just in case if they died or got a unrecoverable damage .The status of their clan will go down .Compared to others forces their power will drop .They will become a 3rd rate power .Who will want that .Not them and Not even their respective forces .

Having no choice they used forbidden methods to increase their power .

Some used forbidden skills .others took medications.

Ghost general was in no hurry to deal with them .He was waiting for the signal .

He was thinking .when suddenly a A sword slash came from above .A human figure was falling from above .

Though the lightning hit him .He seemed to endure the pain .while strengthening his descent .

With an unimaginable speed .The sword slash cut threw.The person who attacked was shocked .

He hadn't imagined his attack would be successful.Just when he was about to rejoice .A lightning striked him from below .

Instantly his figure was charred black .

If he didn't had replacement technique.He wouldn't be alive .He hide in the shadows in order to recover.

Before he hide he saw Other old mans ganging up on Ghost general .