Some time ago inside the blood pool.
The body of Yilu Lok is floating in blood. Yilu Lok can feel pain all over his body. The pain is so intense that he can't even move.
'The rebound from using the power of {Casualty} is pretty intense. Well at least I am still alive. If Jiu Jin was a bit more late I would have really died.'
The reason why Yilu Lok decided to fight the giant red scorpion instead of running away was when he used power of {Casualty} to look inside the blood pool Yilu Lok found a string of casualty connecting him and Jiu Jin and he can feel that Jiu Jin is coming and he only have to hold on for some time. And if he can hold on he can also use the situation in his favour.
As planned Jiu Jin came in a nick of time and Yilu Lok took the opportunity to enter the blood pool.
But now the problem is Yilu Lok is unable to move but at least there are some good things for some reason he is able to breathe inside the blood pool and he can also feel that the blood around him is slowly healing his body after a few minutes he might be able to move. To make his work easier , his body is sinking towards the bottom at a very fast speed.
Soon Yilu Lok touches the bottom of the blood pool. Yilu Lok uses all the strength he has recovered and stands straight.
"Argh! it hurts like hell."
Despite having unbearable pain all over his body Yilu Lok still walks with limping steps towards where he has previously seen the black light when he was using the power of {Casualty}.
The giant red scorpion has thrown Yilu Lok pretty far so he is very close to his destination after walking a few dozen steps Yilu Lok is now standing in front of a rhombus shaped object floating in the blood.
It is red in colour just like the sky of the crack. As Yilu Lok gets near the object the black bracelet vibrates excitedly.
"I get it.. I get it so stop vibrating."
Yilu Lok smiles and touches the red rhombus.
A blinding red light erupts from the rhombus. But before the red light can even cover the distance of ten meters the black bracelet vibrates and a strong suction force pulls the red rhombus into the black bracelet.
Soon a change happens all over the crack. The sky of the crack turns pitch black from the previous red colour.
The remaining escorts who were chasing after Jiu Jin and the man in red looks at the sky with astonishment.
"What is happening, why did the sky suddenly turn black? Does anyone know?"
The other escorts shake their heads.
"I have seen many cracks but this is the first time something like this has happened."
One of the escorts signs and says.
"Sigh! first that peak master and now this."
Inside the pool. After the black bracelet pulls the red rhombus inside it begins to shine with black light. The black light soon spreads all over Yilu Lok. Yilu Lok closes his eyes and accepts the baptism of black light.
When the black light touches Yilu Lok's head his consciousness begins to expand. From his body to ten metres then from ten metres to the entire blood pool. From the entire blood pool to the entire cave.
In the cave Yilu Lok sees Jiu Jin walking towards the giant red scorpion as it tries to escape into the blood pool. Then he sees Jiu Jin killing the giant red scorpion.
Then his consciousness spreads outside the cave over the escorts who are looking at the sky with confusion.
Little by little his consciousness spreads all over the entire crack. As his soul covers the entire crack a dark blue light begins to shine in the middle of Yilu Lok's forehead.
Yilu Lok can clearly feel the connection between him and the entire crack.
Yilu Lok opens his eyes.
"What? This is the same feeling I get inside the black bracelet. Does that mean…"
Yilu Lok looks at his black bracelet with a stunned expression.
"Does that mean this crack has become a part of this bracelet?".
As Yilu Lok is rejoicing he feels something and shifts his consciousness over Jiu Jin who is about to cut the head of the man in red.
"No, I have to stop Jiu Jin. But what do I do?"
Then Yilu Lok tries to think something and a sudden idea comes into his mind.
"Since the crack has become a part of the black bracelet, why don't I do this?"
Yilu Lok moves his consciousness over Jiu Jin and all the escorts and with a single thought all of them disappear and next instance all of them are thrown outside the crack.
Then Yilu Lok shifts his consciousness over the man in red.
Then suddenly Yilu Lok disappears from the blood pool and appears in the position where Jiu Jin was standing and the man in red looks at him with disbelief.
For some time the man continues to look at Yilu Lok, unable to utter a single word. As for Yilu Lok, he is looking around himself.
After some time when the man in red comes to his senses he opens his mouth and utters.
"You.. You."
"Shhhh."
Yilu Lok looks at the man in red and places his left index finger on his lips and gestures to the man to be quiet. The man unconsciously closes his mouth and becomes quiet.
In the next second the entire crack trembles violently. Due to the tremors the man in red is thrown upside down.
Black light erupts from the bracelet and seeps deep in the gray sand in the ground slowly turning it into brown soil. And in the blink of an eye the gray sand begins to turn into brown soil.
After a minute the size of the entire crack shrinks from three miles to one mile and the entire gray desert has turned into a brown ground.
The man in red looks at the ground as if looking at something unbelievable. Then he looks at Yilu Lok.
"What the hell did you do? No, how are you still alive? I saw that you fell into the blood pool."
The man in red shakes his head, denying to accept what has happened.
Yilu Lok opens his eyes and looks at the man in red.
"How bothersome? I don't have time so I will deal with you later."
Yilu Lok points his right index finger at the man's direction.
A black light begins to shine at the tip of his finger and the ground around the man cracks and brown chains emerge and bind the man in red.
After that Yilu Lok swings his finger vertically and a black crack appears before him and he enters the crack.
***
Outside the crack Jiu Jin and all the escorts look at each other with blank expressions they don't even know what to say.
"Young master."
Jiu Jin shouts and looks at the direction of the crack and tries to run inside it.
Jiu Jin slams into the crack that has turned black from the previous red colour and falls backwards.
But Jiu Jin does not stop, he holds his sword tight. His sword begins to shine with orange light from his sword intent.
He swings his sword at the black crack. As the orange sword intent collides with the black crack shockwaves spread behind the crack but there is not a single scratch on the black crack.
"Noo."
Jiu Jin does not give up and infuses his sword with more sword intent blood begins to flow from his eyes, nose and ears from the overuse of sword intent.
He still does not stop but all the escorts behind him try to hold Jiu Jin to stop him.
"Captain stop"
"Yes captain please stop if you continue you will get serious injuries."
"You.. You guys unhand me.. unhand me right now I am going to kill that baster at least if I can't save the young master."
Jiu Jin tries to shake them off but they firmly hold onto him.
Next second Yilu Lok exits from the crack and looks at Jiu Jin screaming and the other escorts trying to hold him back.
Yilu Lok looks at them with a strange expression and asks.
"What are you guys doing?"
Jiu Jin freezes and all the escorts look at Yilu Lok after hearing his voice.
An awkward silence spreads, no one is saying anything just looking at Yilu Lok.
Suddenly one of the escorts opens his mouth and asks.
"Young master.. It's really you right young master ."
Jiu Jin and all the other escorts are also waiting for the answer of Yilu Lok.
Yilu Lok smiles and says.
"Who else would I be a wandering ghost?"
Jiu Jin and other escorts pause for a second and two of the escorts run towards Yilu Lok. The two escorts were the ones who had entered the crack with Yilu Lok are the first one to reach Yilu Lok and looks all over him and says .
"Thank god… Young master, you are alright."
"Yes young master, I thought.. I thought you died protecting us. We don't even… "
"It's alright I am fine."
"Young master…"
Jiu Jin wants to say something but Yilu Lok stops him.
"Let's talk later I am really ti…"
Before Yilu Lok can even finish his sentence he loses consciousness and falls towards the ground.
Jiu Jin quickly takes action and catches Yolu Lok before he touches the ground.
"Young master…"