Chapter 540: Pinpointing
Translator: Sparrow Translations Editor: Sparrow Translations
Pinpointing
The crisp ring seemed to carry with it the wails of a thousand ghosts.
Sparks flew.
The bronze knife exploded into rays of light that shot out in all directions.
A deep gash slowly appeared on the Green Bronze Door.
"Success!"
Tantai Juexin clasped his hands firmly.
He had given his all in order to deal this blow. So what if he was on the verge of dying from exhaustion and had lost a powerful magical weapon in the process?
They had managed to inflict damage on the Door, which meant that it was entirely possible to destroy it!
Ding Ring Ring!
Tantai Juexin took out another magical tool: the magical bell.
The loud and clear rings of the bell had a healing effect. Everyone found themselves regaining energy. Before long, most of them had their health restored.
Pale white figures suddenly appeared. All of them dull expressions on their face, and looked like the preserved corpses of the Tantai ancestors in the hidden chamber.
This was a curse that the Tantai family had been breeding for countless years through the generations with great effort. A curse that targeted the Green Bronze Door!
At that very moment.
The two ghostly figures guarding the Green Bronze Door had opened it slightly. They began to shriek again.
A distorted and savage force field began to expand. In no time, the entire sky had become greyish white.
"The power of this curse…"
Every living human being in the vicinity had become hurt. The curse was attacking their bodies viciously.
A dark red liquid gushed from the area surrounding the gash on the Green Bronze Door. It was like the blood of Green Bronze Door and the liquid patched up the gash as it flowed. The Door was whole again.
The Tantai ancestors who had been summoned lined up with blank looks on their faces and walked up to the Green Bronze Door. One by one, they entered.
Witnessing this sight had devastated Tantai Juexin and Tantai Guihu.
"This curse...this curse…"
Humans beings were not strong enough to challenge ghosts.
Thus, the Tantai family had created this ungodly curse against all odds and turned the elite exorcists into malevolent ghosts temporarily in the hopes that they could destroy the Green Bronze Door.
But this development had shown that the opposing forces were able to counter the curse devised by the Tantais!
This Green Bronze Door was perhaps the source of all curses!
To fight a curse with another curse was an impossible venture! It was like using a meat bun to hit a dog, defeating its purpose!
Buzz!
The Green Bronze Door let out another roar and became bigger every time it swallowed up the malevolent ghost of a Tantai ancestor. It gradually attained the size of a mountain and looked like a pillar between heaven and earth.
"The Door...it grew by leeching off the Tantai bloodline...Tantai ghosts are even more beneficial to it!"
Tantai Guihu's blood ran cold.
'What if...this decision by the Tantais played right into the door's hands?! Could all those years of sacrifice and struggle be in vain?'
He was usually a cold-hearted man, but now, he could not help but be despondent.
He had become even more mortified by the Door. It had played a psychological game with the Tantai family and had bewitched them such that the family had become its accomplices!
Despair...was impending!
Knock knock!
Knock knock!
Knocking sounds rang out again. Tantai family members fell to the ground with every knock.
"The purge has begun! Haha…"
Tantai Guijing laughed out loud and the mirror in his hand smashed to pieces.
"If that is the case...you can have my old bones too!"
He seemed to have a fervent death wish and sped towards the Green Bronze Door.
Bang!
"Dad!"
"Mr Guijing!"
The Daoist Sanmu and Master Kuhai were both shocked.
Suddenly, a dark shadow flitted by and Tantai Guijing was thrown backwards forcefully. A new figure had appeared.
"Seems like...I made it just in time!"
Fang Yuan scanned his surroundings. His black robes flapped about in the wind and his hair was silvery-white.
In a short time, the Tantai family members had mostly regained consciousness and found that the effects of the curse on their bodies were wearing off.
"You are...Mieming?"
Tantai Guijing's stared at Fang Yuan with his clouded eyes. Suddenly, they gleamed.
"Tantai Mieming?!"
"Is he really back?"
The Tantai family members were all experiencing mixed emotions, especially Tantai Juexin.
"Amituofo...it's Mr Tantai Mieming!"
Master Kuhai and Daoist Sanmu were elated.
"Guihu has told me a lot about you…"
"I have an announcement to make. I have changed my name to Fang Yuan. From today onwards, I will have nothing to do with the Tantai family…"
Fang Yuan gave a wide smile, revealing his gleaming white teeth.
He had rushed here only for the sake of fulfilling the promise he had made before.
"When I break the Curse of the Door for you people, I will cut my ties with the Tantai family and leave this all behind!"
"Cut your ties with us?"
Tantai Juexin looked aggrieved and nodded slowly.
"So be it…"
In his heart, he did not believe that this fellow could deal with the Curse of the Door.
After all, the counter-curse of the Tantai family and their two prized magical weapons had been soundly defeated by the Door!
"This curse was a splinter from the Tantai curse and has taken on a physical form…"
Tantai Juexin looked on as Fang Yuan strolled towards the Green Bronze Door and felt a great pressure coming down on him. He was unable to move.
"Against the reincarnation curse, I'm afraid that...."
"Juexin…"
Tantai Guihu let out a sigh.
"Let me tell you this now...Something had happened during the cursed ritual back then. That curse might have succeeded, but it might also have failed…"
"What?"
Tantai Juexin's expression changed.
"If that's the case...then he…"
He shook his head.
"Whatever the case, Suxin will never forgive me."
Knock knock!
Knock knock!
Following Fang Yuan's arrival, the knocking sounds from the Green Bronze Door became more frenzied.
The Tantai family members felt their bodies go soft and they all fell to the ground once more.
Even Daoist Sanmu and Master Kuhai were struggling hard to resist the curse and looked as if they had one foot in the grave.
"We finally meet the original Door in the netherworld!"
Fang Yuan pressed his hands together and a strange power radiated outwards. He had full control of his immediate surroundings and had cut off all of the Green Bronze Door's possible escape routes.
"You are the thoroughfare between life and death, the passageway for spirits...you are a gift from heaven to earth, untainted by the Inner World!
By right, the Door guarded by the Tantai family was not an evil object, but a core entity of the world!
When the purple comet had crashed down onto the earth, the whole Inner World was thrown into chaos. It was the 'Door' that kept the mess from spreading to the Outer World.
However, everything changed after Tantai Moye has broken the rules. From the moment a living man barged into the netherworld, the world would never be the same again!
Curses had streamed endlessly into the Outer World, bringing along with them all the hatred, fear and bloodlust that would gradually befoul the Door.
The Door eventually fell to the netherworld and its nature was changed forever!
"If Tantai Moye had been able to destroy the purple crystal, he would have been worshipped as a martyr even if the evil forces had seeped out into the world! But he had failed! Not only that, but his gamble had resulted in dire consequences...thus, it would not be unfair to blame him for the curse afflicting the Tantai bloodline!
Fang Tuan strode towards the Green Bronze Door.
The Door roared on and its shape kept on flickering. It was...trying to escape?
"You are no longer the original Door, and it is impossible for you to escape my grasp!"
Fang Yuan said as a matter-of-factly and proceeded to step forward.
Boom!
The Door reverted back to its solid form.
"Woowooo!"
Numerous ghosts crying tears of blood surfaced from the Door. They were all dead Tantais and surged collectively towards Fang Yuan.
The two ghostly guards opened up their jaws and let out unholy screams.
"Hmph!"
Fang Yuan stretched his fingers.
Zoom!
The world went quiet, and the power of fire and ice was unleashed.
The Tantai ghosts barely had enough time to put on stunned expressions before they were incinerated by Fang Yuan's curse.
"Impossible…"
"This Door…"
"It can't be real…"
Tantai Juexin and company had their mouths agape as they watched Fang Yuan mow down the ghosts of the Green Bronze Door. They were all dumbfounded.
"Maybe...we were all wrong!"
Tantai Guijing sighed for the umpteenth time with a fiery look in his eyes.
"Back then...if only we had treated him with more sincerity and given him 20 years, he would definitely be much more powerful than he is now. Mieming...he is the one real hope of the Tantai family!"
Daoist Sanmu and Master Kuhai rolled their eyes.
If only.
Dong!
The Green Bronze Door shook violently and the power of another one of its curses diffused outwards in black ripples.
Even the top exorcists would have their flesh and bones melted down and die horribly within a hundred metre radius of this curse.
Fang Yuan, however, was unfazed.
After the storm of fire and ice that Fang Yuan had unleashed, the Green Bronze Door was frozen firmly to the spot together with its two ghostly guards.
"I understand now…"
Standing in front of the Door, Fang Yuan could feel a dense and familiar power lurking behind. He let out another sighed as he comprehended even more.
"So that purple crystal did come from a higher power originating from the Demonic Heart Realm. Its radiation alone is able to wreak havoc in the netherworld….however, a higher power can only exist in a higher plane. When Tantai Moye had opened the Door and let out the curses from within, the Door was tainted in the process and transformed into a protective shield for the purple crystal instead...from the Purple Eye Realm, a higher dimensional world of the same level as the Outer World was born! To become a power bearer!"
This was not a spatial illusion conjured up by a ghost, but an entire world!
"A little dose of energy radiated energy could achieve this?"
Fang Yuan looked towards the great Door, his eyes gleaming.