326 They Are Being Chased (1/2)

Leon flashed Lumi a glance and took a moment to ponder.

”We will continue to wait. After they come out, we will follow them and find out where their tribe is. We can decide on our next course of action after that.”

”Hmm, alright—Eh? Is that the thing you were talking about before?” Lumi suddenly exclaimed after noticing a ghastly face appearing from behind Leon.

”What?”

He quickly turned.

After seeing the ghastly face creepily smiling at such close proximity, his expression dropped.

”Piss off!”

Swoosh~!

In the blink of an eye, the ghastly face was swatted with another flaming palm strike.

Just like the first ghastly face, the second one was sending blazing into nothingness. But before it disappeared, it retained the same creepy smile like it had not felt the pain of its existence burning away.

Leon felt his hair rising at this scene. It was too bizarre. No one can endure the searing pain of their soul burning. Yet this ghastly thing felt nothing, utterly nothing.

”Dammit, I let another one sneak up on me. Did you see how it appeared, Lumi?”

”Eh? N-N-No, it was already there by the time I noticed it.”

Lumi could not help but distance herself from Leon by a few steps. She felt some fear of Leon's flaming palm strike. There was a trace of lightning in the attack that felt way scarier than the fire.

Leon did not notice Lumi's reaction, but he would not find it odd even if he did.

Lightning was an element of extreme Yang and contained the Power of Annihilation. Even living people are afraid of lightning, let alone spirits.

It was perfectly normal for vengeful spirits of Yin alignment like Lumi to be afraid of extreme Yang.

Leon had his brows tightly knitted.

The ghastly face was not an illusion nor a hallucination, but it was able to bypass his detection. And not just once, but twice it did.

'Nothing under the Divine Origin Realm should be able to bypass my divine sense. For something like this to happen more than once, it cannot be a mere coincidence. This ghastly thing sure is something else, alright.'

Leon was quite confident in his divine sense. It had never failed him before.

And because he was confident that he did not miss anything with his divine sense, there were only a few plausible explanations he could think of.

For instance, the ghastly faces could have spatial abilities, allowing them to warp through space and appear next to him from outside his detection range. This would explain how he was only able to sense their presence next to him after they appeared.

At his current level, if he wanted, the range of his divine sense could reach up to 300 yards.

However, he could barely feel any energy fluctuations from the ghastly faces, nor could he see anything from the Weeping Forest.

His divine sense only reached 300 yards, but he can still see quite far with his pair of eyes. The Weeping Forest was not densely clustered together.

The fact that he found nothing meant that it should be another possibility.

It was also hard to say that ghastly faces were even sentient beings. He could not sense any will or any shred of intelligence from them. They seem like soulless dolls that only know how to smile. This might explain why they feel no pain from burning, but he was not too sure. It was only a brief glance. He needed to observe another 'live' one to be sure.

Even so, a soulless soul makes no sense.

Leon wracked his brain, trying to figure out how these ghastly faces were appearing behind him.

”Look! It's another one, Leon!” Lumi spotted.

Leon's eyes turned sharp and immediately created some distance between him and the ghastly face. Why do these ghastly faces like sneaking up on his back so much? It was already the third time.

Seeing that Leon did not kill the ghastly face, Lumi was about to 'eat' it instead.

”Wait, Lumi. Don't kill it just yet.” Leon said in a hurry.

”Eh? Why not? I want to eat them. They kinda look delicious.”

To Lumi, the ghastly faces were just Yin energy for her to absorb.

Leon was speechless.

What part of a ghastly face looks delicious to you? It has the face of a person who died horribly!

Although Lumi had regained her humanity, it seems she was still a vengeful spirit in the end.