Chapter 1170: Ten Deaths Without Life

Chapter 1170: Certain Death

Author: Sannine SonicWord Count: 1262

The black Audi slowly pulled over at the edge of the mountain road.

"Wu Mountain Town is just ahead, let's switch drivers," Sun Bumian said as he got out of the car, looking at the town at the foot of the mountain in the distance.

Chen Ling had planned to be lazy and stay in the car, but Sun Bumian pulled him out. Only the driver and the groom remained in the back seat, while everyone else walked alongside the car.

Although there was only one car, the few young men in suits walked proudly beside it, and with the Audi's hazard lights flashing, it truly looked like a proper wedding procession.

Upon reaching the entrance of the town, everyone became visibly excited, chattering excitedly along the way. Only 'Big Head' gripped the steering wheel with both hands, inching the car forward, his expression visibly tense.

"Do you know the way to the wedding?" Sun Bumian tapped on the car window.

"I think so... once we enter the town, it's just around the corner."

"Alright." Sun Bumian then turned to look at 'Cannon Bro,' who was also sweating nervously, and grinned.

"Nervous?"

"Y-yeah... a little..."

"It's perfectly normal to be nervous now, but when you see the bride later, you can't show any timidity! You have to be confident and generous!"

"I'll try..."

Chen Ling walked at the very front, unfazed by the lively chatter behind him, simply continuing at his own slow pace.

He wasn't interested in the wedding procession or the performance. However, Sun Bumian seemed to genuinely enjoy the atmosphere; ever since they started the procession, he had become unusually talkative and cheerful...

Furthermore, Chen Ling wondered if it was just his imagination, but Sun Bumian's peak Tier 7 spiritual power seemed to be continuously growing throughout the process, as if some unseen force was nurturing his soul.

It was as if he was born for these very moments.

Sun Bumian, holding the lion dance head, had just finished chatting with the young men and was about to quicken his pace when an inexplicable sensation suddenly crossed his mind!

He froze instantly.

He took off the small round sunglasses from his nose. In his ringed pupils, the outline of Wu Mountain Town ahead was clearly reflected... At the same time, streaks of golden or black aura began to spread in his vision.

A reading of fortune and misfortune.

Good and ill fortune held no secrets from Sun Bumian's sight. Yet, in truth, in his current vision, not a single trace of gold could be seen.

A continuous drizzle fell from the clouds, and a jet-black ominous aura, like a raging inferno, surged from beneath the earth, engulfing the entire town and burning fiercely!

Houses of varying heights, vehicles moving on the roads, people coming and going in and out of shops... As far as the eye could see, everyone was permeated by a dark, ominous aura, as if they were in purgatory, scorching every living thing within the town.

"This is..."

Although his memory was no longer very clear, Sun Bumian vaguely recalled seeing such a scene before... This violent ominous aura typically heralded extreme disaster, like an ancient army massacring a city, devastating floods, or natural calamities such as earthquakes. Whenever these omens appeared, virtually no one survived.

It was an omen of ultimate doom, a place of certain death with no chance of survival!

Sun Bumian's scalp tingled. His innate auspicious senses continuously warned his body to stay as far away as possible from this place; otherwise, even he would be dragged into it.

"Cannon Bro! Why are you so quiet all of a sudden?!"

"I... I'm thinking about what to say to Xiao Yu later..."

"Why are you still thinking?! Just pick her up and go! You hang from the pull-up bar every day, this level of strength shouldn't be a problem, right?"

"What do you mean, 'pick her up and go'? Are you a human trafficker? In my opinion, you really need to think of a few good lines. After all, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity; you have to leave a touching impression."

"So... what do people usually say?"

"Don't worry, Cannon Bro. I'll text my childhood friend and ask what girls like to hear at a time like this..."

"Right, right, right, I'll text my mom too!"

"Hey, why isn't Big Brother moving?"

The young men had walked quite a distance before realizing Sun Bumian was still standing frozen in place. They all waved at him, smiling, motioning for him to hurry and catch up.

The wedding procession slowly moved forward.

The pitch-black ominous aura, like tentacles extending from the town's inferno, had already touched the young men who had not yet reached Wu Mountain Town, tinging them with a faint sense of impending doom...

Sun Bumian watched this scene, falling silent.

Sun Bumian didn't know what was about to happen in the town, but there was no doubt that as they approached, they were gradually walking towards an abyss.

"Wait a minute." Sun Bumian slapped his forehead. "I've done some calculations, and these next two days are not auspicious for a wedding procession... How about this, I'll refund your gold, and you can come back on a more propitious day? There's no rush for the procession to happen today, right..."

Sun Bumian's sudden words made the young men exchange confused glances. Cannon Bro then spoke without hesitation:

"Big Brother, we're already here. We won't turn back... Today, I must bring Xiao Yu home."

"Yeah, we worked so hard to get here; there's no way we're backing out now..."

"I checked the almanac before we left! It said today was suitable for a wedding procession, so how can it be inauspicious?"

"Big Brother, are you mistaken?"

The young men grew anxious, speaking one after another. Sun Bumian watched as they drew closer and closer to the town, his visible anxiety growing as he hesitated to speak further...

He was about to say something more when his gaze flickered ahead, and his steps momentarily faltered.

At the very front of the procession, the figure in the grand red theatrical robe, who had always walked alone, had, at some unknown point, stepped into the fiercely burning inferno of 'great ill omen'!

Chen Ling was not Sun Bumian; he couldn't perceive the shifts in good and ill fortune. As he inadvertently stepped into it, the fiercely burning black sea of fire seemed to be torn open, a corner of it ripped away, and faint golden threads interwoven around Chen Ling, extending little by little into the town...

The deadly ominous aura that enveloped the entire town had, surprisingly, revealed a glimmer of hope with Chen Ling's entry?

Sun Bumian was stunned. It was known that an ominous aura of this magnitude could not be easily reversed; even he, a peak Tier 7 Thespian God, couldn't do it. So why could Chen Ling?

As if sensing the intense gaze from behind him, the grand red theatrical robe slowly stopped amidst the ominous black sea and turned to look back.

"Why are you standing there stunned?"

Chen Ling sounded a little displeased. "If we delay any longer, the rain will get heavier soon."

Under the gloomy sky, almost everyone's eyes turned to Sun Bumian...

In Sun Bumian's eyes, the expectant gazes of the young men in suits were reflected, along with Chen Ling, who was now surrounded by a faint golden glow. After a moment, he silently clenched the small golden puppy in his pocket.

"Forget it... Getting paid for a job is only natural." Sun Bumian sighed. He slowly put on the lion dance head in his hands, and an inexplicable divine aura emanated from the lion's eyes!

"Beat the drum... Clear the way!"