I Got My Cheat Skill by Acting My Way into a Horror Protagonist Role Chapter 60

It's unclear whether it's because of the differences in the world's power system and rules, but the little Scavenger showed no desire to devour the Chosen Ones of Fate.

There was even a slight sense of incompatibility.

Moreover, in the little Scavenger's perception, the Chosen Ones of Fate with their five senses sealed felt more like inanimate objects—neither joyful nor sorrowful, just like thin air.

What it cared about more was Xiao Gui'an.

Although his appearance had changed bit by bit, it knew that Xiao Gui'an, who had transformed into the Ghost Bride, was still the little thing it cared about.

However, the attention the other party was giving it seemed to have been drawn away by other beings.

The brown little ball restlessly moved within the Ghost Bride's wide sleeves, trying to slip out from the sleeve and sway in front of Xiao Gui'an.

A pale, bony hand gently pressed down on the brown little fur ball, scooping it back in.

Blood-red tentacles with eyes at their tips extended from the fur ball, one after another tightly clinging to the other's palm—eerie and twisted, yet carrying a hint of docility.

Xiao Gui'an shifted part of his attention back to the little Scavenger, rubbing the strange brown little fur ball under the cover of the wide sleeves.

The soothing emotions generated in that moment made the little Scavenger settle down again.

After all, it wasn't in its true form now. Compared to the meager positive emotions from the previous two times that weren't even enough to fill the gaps between its teeth, the deliciousness that its current clone could exclusively enjoy was already considered abundant.

Xiao Gui'an didn't dare to let the little Scavenger show itself casually.

If it became too conspicuous and got locked by the world's heavenly rules as an invasive foreign species, leading to its humane destruction, that would be terrible.

His mind wandered, thinking intermittently about what other abilities he could use later, Xiao Gui'an was somewhat distracted.

Nearby, Blind Zhang gently placed the bamboo basket on the ground and sat cross-legged, regulating his breathing through meditation.

His fate configuration had been influenced by those hidden entities, leaving him with insufficient strength. Now, with only the Ghost Bride sharing the pressure with him, facing the endless Plague Ghosts, he was already showing signs of fatigue.

The Plague Ghosts outside the door showed no signs of retreating. The entire ancestral hall was surrounded by them, and even from the top came the sound of violent pounding, slightly denting downward, continuously scattering wood chips and dust.

Xiao Gui'an lowered his head, watching the falling wood chips and dust trembling in waves. He frowned slightly, sensing something wrong, and gently landed on the ground, instantly feeling it more clearly.

The sensation of the earth seemingly constantly trembling transmitted from beneath his feet.

Before they could react further, a crack suddenly appeared at the entrance of the ancestral hall, then in an instant spread out in all directions like a spiderweb, rapidly tearing apart.

Blind Zhang immediately stood up, once again shoving the bamboo basket to Xiao Gui'an. Xiao Gui'an floated up like the wind, rapidly retreating backward.

Blind Zhang looked serious, lightly tapping his toes to leap using the force.

【Host! No, go further! Detecting extremely unstable energy fluctuations underground! We can't stay here! Something huge is about to break through the earth!!】 The Little Light Sphere shouted urgently in the consciousness space.

"Woo—"

"Thump-thump—"

Unknown sounds that made one's hair stand on end surged from deep underground, faintly resembling drumbeats, madly throbbing, getting closer at an unimaginable speed.

"Buzz—"

Yin energy surged greatly, resentment energy flew wildly. Xiao Gui'an directly extended his blackish-blue long nails and grabbed at the ancestral hall's roof. The wooden roof instantly exploded and scattered in all directions.

After killing the Plague Ghosts on the roof, Xiao Gui'an flung out a red silk ribbon that tightly wrapped around Blind Zhang's waist, pulling him upward fiercely, making the other man soar into the air.

While holding his breath and enduring the fatal attraction of his spirit body, Xiao Gui'an concentrated on staying airborne without landing, slaughtering all the enormous Plague Ghosts.

The large red figure moved nimbly, the red bridal veil slightly lifted. Xiao Gui'an inadvertently caught a glimpse of the situation below through the gap in the veil.

This one glance almost made him drop the bamboo basket in his hand.

The entire village was filled with Plague Ghosts roaring, dragging their defeated souls forward continuously, as if coming from the other end of the world, submerging all living beings.

For a moment, will-o'-the-wisps stretching for thousands of miles dimly illuminated the dark world. The originally steadfast spiritual mountain began collapsing from its peak, with rolling rocks and an unstable heaven and earth.

The earth cracked inch by inch, bulging with a hundred-meter-long fissure, charging toward the direction of the Zhang Family Ancestral Hall.

【Go!! Pull him over!!】 Zero System's shout was so sharp in Xiao Gui'an's mind it felt like it would explode.

This series of actions requiring high concentration and the intense consumption of Ghost Power made Xiao Gui'an somewhat overwhelmed for a moment, but he absolutely couldn't fail at this critical moment—

He calmed his breath, his ghost energy expanded again, the Jade Soul Ice Essence in his mouth trembled violently. With a fierce pull of his hand, eliminating the Plague Ghosts pouncing on him, he pulled Blind Zhang toward the other side.

The next second—

"Boom—"

Wooden planks, broken stones, and yellow earth splattered everywhere. An enormous black-yellow body shot up from the earth, with dense, sinister, and filthy miasma tightly wrapped around the thick, massive black-yellow body, only inches away from Blind Zhang.

It was unimaginable what would have happened to Blind Zhang if it had been any closer!

The aura of heaven and earth instantly became more turbid and terrifying.

It was an earth dragon that hadn't yet transformed into a true dragon, with very short horns slightly protruding from its head.

Its body was incredibly massive, hundreds of meters long, even nearly a thousand meters, covering the entire village.

The body that should have been covered with smooth scales was now eroded by miasma, becoming pitted and uneven, with scales rustling as they fell off, revealing the flesh and blood beneath.

The earth dragon continuously lamented in pain, but that sinister, dense red-black miasma—whatever evil thing it was—couldn't be shaken off no matter what.

The nearly thousand-meter-long earth dragon thrashed about, directly knocking over the smaller hills around it. The earth rumbled, mountain formations changed, and everything rearranged.

Clearly, it hadn't chosen a good place, coming to the mountains where spiritual energy was cut off and occupied by Plague Ghosts, and emerging from underground to reveal itself to the world.

Countless Plague Ghosts also surged toward it, attempting to devour it too, making the earth dragon even weaker for a time.

"Cough—"

Blood directly coughed out from Xiao Gui'an's mouth. The handsome pale face hidden under the red bridal veil was now bleeding from all seven orifices, his condition extremely poor. Dense corpse patterns spread up his neck.

This body couldn't withstand him using power like this for long.

Two streams of bloody tears continuously fell from his eyes, sliding down his chin, dripping onto his pale, bony hands. He gently cupped them, preventing the blood from staining the well-behaved male infant lying in the bamboo basket.

The male infant lying in the bamboo basket seemed to sense something, appearing somewhat uneasy. Unable to open his eyes, he could only babble, his short, plump hands gently waving.

"OK, look at our Little Heavenly Master, only reacting to something of this level. Wanting to fight a dragon at such a young age, quite promising—"

Xiao Gui'an joked to ease his own tense nerves, only now feeling that the boy in the bamboo basket didn't seem like a dead infant.

"Don't worry, even if we all die, you have to live well."

He tightened his grip, intending to bring Blind Zhang over again. But at that moment, another change occurred. The lamenting of the thrashing dragon confused both humans and ghosts, its highly raised giant tail with spikes fiercely landing between them.

Heaven and earth rumbled, the red silk ribbon formed by ghost energy instantly scattered by the terrifying force, releasing Blind Zhang, who fell straight into the crowd of Plague Ghosts.

It seemed he had also foreseen his inevitable doom, but not giving up until the last moment, he once again activated talismans, waving his peach wood sword, "Go!—"

From afar, before he was submerged by the endless Plague Ghosts, Xiao Gui'an could only hear this one low shout.

"!!" Xiao Gui'an's pupils constricted.

Before he could form a new red silk ribbon, the wildly swinging giant tail of the earth dragon suddenly attacked him like a head-on blow, with a terrifying tearing sound in the air.

No way to dodge it—

The Ghost Bride could only slightly turn her body, without the slightest hesitation directly protecting the bamboo basket in her embrace. The fluttering large red wedding dress was strikingly conspicuous in the deep night, as thick as blood, facing the tail whip that could destroy everything.

Just as it was about to touch that large red figure, another figure instantly grew larger, blocking in front of her.

"Bang—"

The powerful wind strong enough to crack the earth sent the large red figure in the night sky flying like a solitary shadow toward the other side of the horizon. Mountains collapsed and earth split, then she was swept even farther away by some unknown existence.

Above the will-o'-the-wisps, no moonlight could be seen.

Beneath the dark clouds, no mortal world was permitted.

The original mountain formations were completely changed—plains turned into high mountains, cliffs could be seen everywhere, earth fissures stretched for thousands of miles, and surging river water gushed out from below, soaking everything.

Tonight, no one shall rest peacefully—