Chapter 4: The Altar of Immortality

  The dark green skin was full of wrinkles, the ears drooped like pig ears, and two sharp fangs protruded from both sides of the mouth corners, with red eyes looking very ferocious.

  Almost two meters tall, the upper body is similar to that of a human, with only four fingers on each hand. The hands grasp a dark green long-handled giant double-headed axe, with crescent-shaped blades, one larger than the other, gleaming with a terrifying chill. From the bloodstains on it, it can be seen that this axe had drunk fresh blood not long ago.

  The lower body of the splitting ghost is like a pair of cow legs, making a dull sound when walking, very strong and powerful.

  Bai Cang Dong had just approached the Split-Head Ghost when he was discovered. Taking advantage of his height, the Split-Head Ghost raised its giant axe and brought it down on Bai Cang Dong's head from above.

  Years of hunting down the Small Knife Demon had given Bai Cangdong enough calmness, observational skills and patience to wait until the giant axe was about to strike before he dodged to the side with a flourish, his hands grasping the pure white greatsword as he slid past the Ghost's body like a butterfly.

  Fresh blood burst forth from the waist of the beheaded ghost like a blooming flower, and with an angry roar, it turned around and swung its axe down at Bai Cangdong once again.

  Bai Cangdong dodged the giant axe's attack once again, elegantly dragging his great sword to draw a beautiful arc, and left another blood mark on the head of the ghost.

  "The pain of the undead is indeed different from that of humans." The two attacks, although they both injured Kirisaki, did not have the special effect of the Pain Blade.

  Bai Cangdong endured the pain and struck his sword at the head of the ghost, trying out all the vulnerable positions on its body, but no matter how many times he killed it, the ghost would not die and return to the altar, still able to fight.

  There are over a thousand vulnerable spots on the human body that can be effective against humans, but only eleven of them are effective against the Split-Head Ghost.

  "Look at that person, isn't he ill? He's hacked the Split-Head Ghost into that state. Clearly, he could have killed it with one sword strike, but instead, he didn't kill it and kept hacking at it repeatedly. How cruel." A young girl said in shock as she walked by the scene of Bai Canghai's battle with several people accompanying her.

  "Miss, people of lower status are like that, all sorts of abnormalities exist. So, it's better for you, a born noble, to stay away from them." The man with the small mustache next to her spoke extremely respectfully, but when mentioning Bai Cangdong, he showed extreme disgust.

  "Whether a person is cruel or not has nothing to do with whether they are inferior, they are inferior to us, and we are also inferior to those dukes and marquises, does that mean we're all abnormal?" The girl said calmly.

  "...". The man with a small mustache was speechless.

  "Miss, shall we stop him?" another man said beside her.

  "Kill that Split-Headed Ghost and be done with it, don't bully him." The girl nodded.

  The man responded with a bow, and after a respectful salute, he quickly ran towards the direction of Bai Cangdong. When he arrived in front of Pi Tou Gui, he suddenly summoned a slender sword and stabbed it fiercely into Pi Tou Gui's heart, piercing through his body as well. Pi Tou Gui immediately dispersed into countless light spots and returned to the altar of the undead tribe.

  Bai Cangdong looked at the man with a slight frown, he was about to test the pain of splitting heads, but the man came over and killed the splitting head ghost without saying a word, forcing him to go find another splitting head ghost to experiment.

  "You despicable, lowly creature. From now on, do not slaughter the gashadokuro in such a manner. Even if they are undead, they should have their dignity. You can kill them, but you cannot treat them with such brutality." The man revealed the crest on his forehead, and it turned out he was a baron.

  Bai Cangdong silently performed a courtesy, then turned and left. This was the first rank of the Light Division - no matter how reasonable you were, as long as the other person's position was higher than yours, even if they were talking nonsense, you had to follow their orders; otherwise, your life would be in danger. This world wasn't one where reason prevailed anyway.

  "Halt!" The baron was extremely dissatisfied with Bai Cangdong's attitude, calling out to him and wanting to teach him a lesson, or even kill him on the spot.

  "Let him go, don't waste time, we still have to find the skull-splitting ghost." The girl said from a distance.

  "Yes, miss." The man responded with a single word and gave Bai Cangdong a fierce glare: "You're just a lowly person, consider yourself lucky."

  After Bai Cangdong left, he continued to find the Split-Head Ghost. Luckily, he didn't have to wait long before encountering another lone Split-Head Ghost, and he continued to experiment with the pain points on its body.

  The vital points on the body of a Split-Head Ghost are very different from those of humans. Bai Canghai experimented and found thirty-five pain points on the Split-Head Ghost's body, although there should be more, but not too many. Compared to the over one thousand pain points in humans, the undead have far fewer pain points.

  Thirty-five painful wounds were enough for Bai Cangdong, after all, the Split-Head Ghost was just a low-level undead creature, no need to waste too much time on them.

  Just as I was about to finish off the beheaded ghost that had been hacked thousands of times, the earth suddenly shook violently. A red and black light column shot up from a distant thicket, dyeing the sky red and black. The entire thicket was shrouded in a red and black hue.

  "The altar of the undead has descended into the world!" Bai Cangdong was shocked and lost his color.

  The altar of the undead is hidden somewhere, and humans can't find it. Sometimes some altars appear in the world, when an altar appears, the area where the altar is located will be sealed by a strange power, outsiders cannot enter, and insiders cannot leave.

  What's even more terrifying is that all the undead within the altar area will undergo a mutation, becoming even stronger and more fearsome, then go on a frenzied killing spree of all living creatures in the area until everything has been slaughtered, only then will the Undead Altar rehide itself.

  Inside the area of the Undying Altar, the only way to survive is to rush onto the altar, shatter the Eternal Crystal on it, and make the altar disappear directly. The spatial seal will be lifted, and there will be a chance to leave alive.

  When the altar of immortality appears, the strongest undead in the area will guard it. That is to say, the baron-level skullsplitter is now on the altar of immortality. After the mutation of the altar of immortality, the skullsplitter's combat power can almost rival that of a viscount-level undead. Defeating it and destroying the eternal crystal is by no means an easy task.

  Looking at the body on the ground, the blood-red light was shining through, and the wound was quickly self-healing. The beheaded ghost's head was cut off by Bai Cangdong without hesitation.

  The light meter fell from the scattered body of the beheaded ghost, and it was actually as much as twenty degrees. Under normal circumstances, the life degree dropped by the beheaded ghost is at most ten degrees. The mutated beheaded ghost obviously no longer has this restriction.

  Having absorbed the Life Gauge, Hakuren did not show a single shred of excitement. The Undead Altar appeared, and the killed Headless would soon revive on the altar. In other words, as long as the Undead Altar existed, the Headless in the area would be endless, and except for the first kill, the Headless would not drop anything including Life Gauge.

  Cries for help came from not far away, several people were being chased and killed by a Split-Head Ghost. Originally, those few people could handle the Split-Head Ghost, but after it mutated, they only had the fate of being slaughtered.

  "Save me!" The people being chased by the ghost cried out when they saw Bai Cangdong.

  "I wonder if the pain-inflicting effects still work on the mutated Split-Head Ghost?" Bai Cangdong did not evade, since he had already fallen into the altar area, there was no possibility of escape.

  It is better to deal with one variant of Splitting Ghost now than a whole group later without understanding the situation.

  With a steady pace, he walked towards the splitting ghost. The people who were calling for help and Bai Cangdong passed by each other, without any intention of joining forces to deal with the splitting ghost. Each one was still desperately running away.

  The axe, reeking of blood and gore, had long been eager to strike, and with a speed and strength far surpassing its pre-mutation state, it swung down towards Bai Cangdong's neck.

  Bai Cang Dong slightly shifted his body to the side, and the large axe almost grazed his nose as it chopped down. The pure white great sword he was holding in reverse suddenly surged upwards, stabbing into the left armpit of the Split-Head Ghost.

  "Ah!" The Split-Head Ghost let out a miserable cry, its left hand shrinking back like a spring, curling up unnaturally, the pain was so intense that it even dropped the double-headed axe in its hand.

  Her body fluttered around the beheader like a butterfly, her heavy great sword dancing lightly as if it were weightless, and in an instant she had slashed out thirty-four swords.

  Each sword made the beheaded ghost issue a mournful cry of unbearable pain, until finally being pierced through the heart by one sword, turning into tiny flames that dissipated into nothingness, leaving behind a life-measuring ruler shining with light.

  "The thirty-five painful weaknesses are still effective, it seems that the mutation only enhanced the physical strength and speed of the splitting ghosts, but did not make them invincible." Bai Cangdong felt slightly relieved, as long as the painful weaknesses were still effective, the mutated splitting ghosts were no different from before for him.

  After taking the life gauge dropped by the Split-Headed Ghost, Bai Cangdong set off in the direction of the altar.

  Thinking of living on, the only way is to destroy the Eternal Crystal. The longer time delays, the more difficult it will be to rush up to the altar, because all the killed Split-headed Ghosts will revive in a short time on the altar, that is to say, the more Split-headed Ghosts are killed now, the more dangerous the altar will become.

  "Was that person just now a baron?" At the time when the ghost let out a miserable cry, those people stopped their fleeing footsteps and turned around to see the scene of the ghost being brutally killed by Bai Canghai.

  "Look at him, he's only wearing a large sword as his armor, he shouldn't be a baron!" someone said uncertainly.

  "It's not a baron, how can he easily behead that mutated splitting ghost, that person must be a baron."

  "It doesn't matter if he's a baron or not, the altar of immortality has descended upon this world. That skull-splitting ghost has already possessed viscount-level power after its transformation, and with the altar able to infinitely revive him, having more barons would be useless. Perhaps there are viscount-level strongmen here who could rush up to the altar and destroy the crystal of eternal life."

  "A place like this, where would a viscount come from? Even barons wouldn't normally set foot in a place like this, unless it's to deal with the skull-splitting demon."

  "So we're doomed!"

  "It's almost there, can only pray for a miracle now."