# Chapter 501: Dark Barrier
Catwoman, however, was not as carefree as Poison Ivy. As the wind sounded, nearly a hundred Shamans in black robes silently floated out from the Space Gate.
Several Old Shamans, some holding canes and others also carrying black cats, walked up to Selene, nodded to her in greeting, and then chatted with a few Shamans in black cloaks who had landed not far away.
When greeting Selene, the Old Shamans casually glanced at Catwoman and Poison Ivy, then immediately looked away, clearly not putting Ordinary People in their eyes.
Catwoman, however, was unnerved by those pairs of green eyes, her body hair standing on end.
Werewolves, Vampires, Shamans, and those strange-looking aliens, those massive robots... This was the first time in Catwoman's life that she had stood alongside so many non-human races. While her cat-like speed, nerves, sense of balance, and body flexibility gave her extraordinary melee combat ability, her acute five senses now made her feel like an ant placed on a hot lid, uncomfortable all over but not daring to move.
Looking at the dense shadows around her, Catwoman could swear that any one of them could probably sweep away Gotham City.
Catwoman was right. Those who could be transferred to this world for a mission were all mid-to-high level High-level Staff from the Dark Council. Especially the dozen or so people accompanying Selene, their badges on their chests showed that their status in the Dark Council was at least at the level of Dark Council Councillors.
Before the Tang Group rose to power and the Dark Council was hidden underground, these Councillors were also Elders responsible for council affairs in a region, or even a country.
After the Tang Group's rise, the power radiation range of these Councillors and the Speaker (Dark Council) once expanded to an entire planet. Each of them could be said to hold a high position and heavy power.
Many Councillors, while maintaining their identity in the Dark Council, also worked as Reincarnators, earning another salary in the Reincarnation Space.
By accumulating contribution points, these Shamans and Witches who had survived since the Middle Ages or even earlier periods gained more powerful strength in the Reincarnation Space. Each of them possessed godlike strength.
The sound of huge wings flapping the air rang out. Catwoman looked in the direction of the sound and saw a patch of white light flickering in the Night Sky. Over a thousand Angels with pure white wings extending from their backs appeared. Their faces were so beautiful they were indistinguishable between male and female, and each held a seemingly heavy energy cannon.
"Oh my God! Angels!"
Under Catwoman's nearly desperate gaze, the dark creatures around them, upon seeing these Angels appear, didn't show much aggressiveness, only a hint of disgust in their expressions.
Clearly, these Angels were also on their side!
Catwoman felt an absurd sensation, like a mouse being a bridesmaid for a cat.
An immense pressure came from the Sky. Twelve six-winged Angels, surrounding a tall, majestic-faced Elder, descended from the Sky.
"Deckard Inquisitor! I didn't expect you to come personally this time!"
Selene, who had been stroking the black cat in her arms and watching her Subordinates work with cold eyes, was somewhat surprised to see the Elder appear. She carried the cat and went to meet him.
"No choice. Hyde took most of The Church's people to preach in the Southern Galaxy! Most of our Inquisition Inquisitors were temporarily transferred away, so this old fellow could only come!"
Deckard had been thriving in The Church these past two years. Who would have thought that he had originally only wanted to develop a believer to provide funds for his faction, but by chance, he had latched onto a real golden thigh.
Nowadays, Deckard's status in The Church and the Sacred Shield Brotherhood is very transcendent, subtly giving the feeling of Jesus on Earth, or perhaps even surpassing it.
After all, Jesus back then was just using Yahweh's tiger skin as a banner. That believer of Deckard's is a true Heavenly Emperor! If you don't believe it, should I call out a few Angels to show you a divine manifestation!
"All the people from the Inquisition have been transferred away!?" Selene was a bit doubtful.
"Yes, they said they were going to develop a One Piece World. Not just the Inquisition, more than half of the Knights I trained were also transferred away!" Deckard naturally knew Selene's relationship with Tang Song and acted very politely.
"I brought three thousand Angels this time, which should be enough to handle the situation! By the way, where are Kane and Frank?" Deckard looked left and right, not seeing Kane's figure, feeling a bit doubtful. "Lane asked me to bring them some things!"
"Hmph! You just missed it. When you arrived, that guy Kane should have already returned to the main world!" Hearing Deckard mention Kane, Selene's tone was a bit stiff! She had originally thought that only that guy Lane would do something like finding women for the one surnamed Tang, but she didn't expect that Kane, this one with thick eyebrows and big eyes, would actually become a pimp.
Deckard was also someone old and cunning. He heard that Selene's tone was unfriendly and sensibly avoided this topic. "I see that almost everyone has arrived. The manpower I brought is yours to command. You decide what to do next!"
"Looking at the positions of the two Agents, the person hasn't run far, just around here! First set up a barrier, then search inch by inch!" Selene gave a look, and the dozen or so Old Shamans chatting nearby all nodded and bowed to her, raising the staffs in their hands.
Hundreds of Dark Shamans, under the leadership of these Councillors, jointly spellcasted. The air twisted for a moment, and a black light, centered around them, covered outwards in all directions.
The dense black light condensed from magic patterns and talismans converged into a powerful magic power, forming a huge magic power shield that covered an area of nearly a thousand kilometers, enveloping nearly half of the Magic City district within it.
The moment the barrier was completed, within this barrier, those others who weren't hypnotized, whether ghosts, malevolent spirits, Gods, or demons and evil creatures, were all startled—
"Hmm, what is this thing?"
Late at night in Magic City, at a night market barbecue stall under a CBD, a middle-aged stall owner with protruding eyes and buck teeth, short stature, and wearing an apron around his waist, was picking and choosing among the unconscious Diners in front of his barbecue stall.
The radiance revealed in his eyes was the look of a human choosing fat little lambs in a sheep pen.
"Not this one, too fat, has fatty liver!"
"Not this one either, too thin, can't grill out the oil!"
"Hiss! The cosmetics have marinated in, how can I eat this! Humans nowadays are truly worse with each generation!"
The middle-aged stall owner pinched a female white-collar worker's face with his hand, looking with disdain at the white powder on his hand. "However, fortunately, I don't eat people anymore. I eat souls. Alas, you humans, you've forced me to change my eating habits! Don't you know how to properly preserve your health?!"
The middle-aged stall owner licked the buck teeth at the corner of his mouth, greedily looking at the crowd of sleeping two-legged sheep. No matter who cast this magic art that makes people fall asleep, today it was all his gain. He was going to have a big meal! This ugly middle-aged stall owner was none other than Taotie, the Dragon King's fifth son, famous throughout the world for gluttony! Others eat cows, sheep, pigs, and dogs, seafood and fish, but what he likes to eat most is two-legged sheep! Just as this "Fifth Young Master" opened his big mouth, and a black phantom of a tiger-beast with a sheep's body formed behind him, he suddenly looked up at the Sky: "What is it?"
In his field of vision, a black curtain was suddenly pulled across the Sky!
"Barrier? Who is so bold? Aren't they afraid of K'un-Lun and those meddlesome guys from the Underworld coming out to cause trouble?" The Fifth Young Master muttered. Out of curiosity, he flew up, flying towards the barrier that suddenly appeared above his head.
Only when the Fifth Young Master flew halfway up did he realize that within the barrier at this time, several groups of people were already preparing to act against this sudden barrier, clearly also trapped within it! The Fifth Young Master was not in a hurry. Instead, he hid in the dark, looking at these groups of people with great interest, fierce light occasionally flashing in his eyes.
Among these groups of people, he saw a few "acquaintances"! "Ichiro! I have a bad premonition, we must leave here! Cast the secret technique of the Tsuchimikado clan, break this barrier!"
At the edge of the barrier, a man dressed as a Japanese ninja, his whole body wrapped in black cloth, respectfully held a Hanako doll wearing a Japanese kimono in both hands. The Hanako doll's eyes blinked like a living person, traces of black energy permeated, staring intently at the barrier in front of him! "Yes! Mother!"
The man heard the voice coming from the Hanako doll in his hand, and did not have any fear. Instead, he knelt on one knee and respectfully placed the Hanako doll in his hand aside.
"Mother, please wait a moment!"
The man took out a stack of talisman paper covered in Japanese writing from his chest. After scattering them, his hands quickly formed hand seals. The talisman paper flew everywhere, bang bang bang, exploding into pieces of white mist.
In the white mist, several spiders the size of small cars appeared from the white mist. Their thick claws baring fangs and claws, extremely sharp forelimbs, poked a Hole in the solid cement ground with a single jab. Their sharp mouthparts, hissing and opening and closing, looked particularly ferocious.
"Huh! What is this thing? Looks so disgusting!"
In the pitch black Night Sky, two shadows were hiding in the Sky. Wang Xiaoya, wearing a feathered robe, rubbed her arms seeing the spiders summoned by that ninja, feeling goosebumps all over her body.
"Those are Tsuchigumo, famous yokai from Japan. This man in black should be an Onmyoji from the Tsuchimikado clan. However, the Tsuchimikado clan has declined in Japan since the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. I didn't expect to still see a Japanese Onmyoji here. What are these little *s doing running to * country?"
Beside Wang Xiaoya, Zhao Li was dressed like a black-clothed Priest, looking solemnly at the Tsuchigumo summoned by the Black-clothed Ninja.
"These *s definitely don't have good intentions. Should I just summon a heavenly lightning strike to kill them!" Wang Xiaoya was eager to try on the side! "Wait, keep him to test this barrier first!" Zhao Li had a hint of a wicked smile on his face.
Under the gaze of the two, no! Under the gaze of over a dozen pairs of eyes, the Black-clothed Ninja commanded the several Tsuchigumo to pounce towards the barrier ahead.
Tsuchigumo were originally natives from legends who were at odds with the Yamato court and hid in the deep mountains, yokai formed from vengeful spirits after death. Due to often appearing in the mountains, these Tsuchigumo are also called "Mountain Spiders".
Their personality is ferocious. They often tie up people they see with webbing and take them back to their mountain cave Residence to eat.
Their eight legs, fangs, and stiff hair are all sharp weapons for harming people.
The Tsuchimikado clan has always had the habit of contracting Tsuchigumo as Shikigami. Part of their clan name comes from the Shikigami they command. Although Tsuchigumo as yokai in Japan cannot compare to Tengu, Shuten-dōji, and such great demon yokai, they are also yokai well-known to Japanese people! The Black-clothed Ninja, Tsuchimikado Ichiro, although he didn't think he could break this barrier with just a few Tsuchigumo, he never expected that just at the moment those few Tsuchigumo pounced onto that barrier.
An immense magic power vibrated back from the barrier. The moment that magic power came into contact with the Tsuchigumo, it immediately vibrated them into dust. Under the terrifying pressure of this immense magic power, the Tsuchigumo's hard shell, and the yellow light flashing on their bodies, didn't even last a single breath.
'Pfft!' The recoil force, following the several Shikigami, transmitted to Tsuchimikado Ichiro's body. He immediately spat out a mouthful of blood. At the same time, traces of blood slowly flowed out from his ear holes, nostrils, and corner of the eye. He who was bleeding from the seven orifices knelt on the Ground with a thud, all the muscle in his body was stiff, and his two leg bones were even shattered by that powerful recoil force! Tsuchimikado Ichiro let out a frantic wailing, unwilling to accept such humiliation and wanting to stand up, but with his leg bones shattered, he couldn't stand up at all! "Mother!"
The Hanako doll beside him looked over coldly, scanning disdainfully over this adopted son kneeling on the Ground and wailing.
Her gloomy, cold voice made Tsuchimikado Ichiro's heart almost freeze into an ice ball: "Trash! Ichiro, you really disappoint me too much?"
"Sorry Mother!" After Tsuchimikado Ichiro heard the Hanako doll's words, even though his legs were shattered, he still supported his body with his hands, kneeling in dogeza towards the Hanako doll and apologizing.
The Hanako doll didn't pay any attention to this adopted son at all. She looked at the barrier that had returned to calm, her porcelain eyeball moving flexibly, seemingly surprised by the barrier's strength.
"Namu Samanta Vajradanam Ham!"
A sinister Japanese language was chanted from the Hanako doll's mouth. As this sinister soul summoning spell sounded in the pitch black night.
On the road behind the Hanako doll, a patch of mist suddenly rose. In the mist, a sound of a dense team marching sounded.
In a moment, a team of Japanese soldiers wearing WWII period tea-yellow military uniforms walked out from the thick mist—
"Huh, there are still these Japanese soldier dead souls here in Magic City territory. Where have they been hiding? How did I not notice for these past few decades?"
The Soul Ferryman Zhao Li, hidden in mid-air, looked at the hundred or so Japanese soldier vicious ghosts, and couldn't help but furrow his brow. He has always been responsible for the soul ferrying in this area of Magic City. If that fat woman Judge finds out that so many vicious ghosts are hiding right under his nose, she'll definitely deduct his salary again.
Zhao Li's complexion was very unpleasant. He even wanted to draw his gun and directly take care of that group of Japanese soldiers below! Before he could act, Wang Xiaoya, however, lifted her feathered robe to cover herself and Zhao Li, hiding the mark of their figures.
Zhao Li didn't understand what matters had happened and was about to speak, but in the Night Sky, the sound of wings flapping came, like bats in the dark night.
Dozens of red lights flashed across the dark night. The red lights stopped not far from the two. They were surprisingly black bats with blood red gemstone eyes. Black smoke rose, and those bats transformed into individuals wearing tuxedos, handsome men and beautiful women with beautiful appearances, each one staring fiercely at the Japanese soldier military souls below!
At this time, those Japanese soldier dead souls were under the leadership of a sergeant, lined up facing the barrier not far away, raising their guns and shooting! The guns in their hands did not fire bullets, but green soul fire like fireflies—
The dense soul fire fell onto that barrier, however, it was directly bounced back by that barrier, falling into the middle of the team. After a few rounds of shooting, that Japanese soldier team suffered heavy casualties.
However, the Hanako doll, full of ghostly qi, did not take the casualties of these Japanese soldiers to heart. These years in * country, she collected enough warrior dead souls. She believed that with the sacrifice of these warriors, breaking this barrier was just a matter of time.
The Hanako doll repeatedly chanted the soul summoning spell from her mouth. In that patch of thick mist, dense footsteps soon sounded again.
"Xiaoya, who are they? They don't look like our * country ghosts, they look more like Western Vampires!"
Relying on the concealment of the Heavenly Maiden's feathered robe, Zhao Li carefully observed a young Vampire Clan member who was close at hand, feeling the magic power wrapped around his body that was completely not inferior to his own. Zhao Li gasped.
"You ask me, how would I know?" Wang Xiaoya rolled her eyes at Zhao Li in annoyance. "I think this group of people should be related to this barrier. Maybe this barrier was set up by these people!"
"Do you think it might be related to the group of people chasing us? There were also many foreigners in that group!"
"Should be right!" Zhao Li thought for a moment, staring at the group of Vampires not far away, and cursed fiercely: "Wait for me, sooner or later, this old man will drive you back abroad!"
"I say, stop saying harsh words first. First think of a method to see how to leave this barrier. Now the Underworld King is heavily injured, we have to think of a way to take Dongqing and hide!"
"Do I need you to tell me that? I say, you K'un-Lun are useless too. I even called the Underworld King here. Don't even mention calling the Queen Mother of the West, at the very least, call some people over to help! This mess is partly yours, K'un-Lun. If Chi You's soul is really stolen, then it will be too late for you to regret!"
A helpless look appeared on Wang Xiaoya's face: "I also want to contact K'un-Lun, but you also know that someone used sky sealing and earth locking not long ago. I can't contact K'un-Lun at all!"
"Zhao Li, it looks like they are coming for Dongqing? What do we do now?"
Zhao Li gave a bitter smile, a truly bitter smile, as if he had swallowed a large mouthful of coptis chinensis:
"Haha, you ask me, how would I know? Even the Underworld King was heavily injured. Me, just a small Soul Ferryman...
Hey, then do these guys have a problem with their heads? A group of foreigners, why would they target Chi You's soul? What use is this thing? Crazy! Truly crazy!"
At this time, the group of Vampire Clan members deemed crazy by Zhao Li looked strangely at the hundreds of Japanese soldier dead souls attacking that barrier.
A Vampire Clan member whose tuxedo cuffs were embroidered with gold edges smiled gloomily, shaking his head gently: "Hehehehe! Wanting to break this seal barrier with just a group of malevolent spirits! What a joke. This is a barrier jointly set up by one-third of the Dark Council's high-level Shamans! Among them, there is also the empowerment of the Big Boss's magic tool formation. Let alone just some malevolent spirits, even if the Hell Lord came, unless they can instantly erupt with strength that can destroy the entire barrier, otherwise, they can only be trapped and die within the barrier!"
Another Vampire Grand Duke beside him chimed in and laughed: "Hmm, it seems quite a few extraordinary creatures are trapped within the barrier! We can pick some useful ones and hand them over to the Reincarnation Space! Exchange for some opportunities to go to other worlds!"
"Duchess Camilla, I heard you went to a Middle Ages world and gained quite a bit of benefit!"
"Slightly gained!" The Vampire Clan member whose appearance was like a young woman, with a beautiful appearance and a tall, thin, and slender figure, said elegantly, lazily, and reservedly.
Duchess Camilla recalled the world she descended upon. She devoured Dracula in that world called "Van Helsing", which allowed her strength to successfully break through to the Prince level.
Unfortunately, she couldn't devour that guy named Van Helsing. She had a premonition that if she could really drain his blood dry, she could definitely break through the boundary between Gods and Demons and become a Blood God comparable to a second-generation Vampire Clan member.
Just as the several Vampires watched the group of Japanese soldier dead souls below constantly being shaken into dust by the barrier, suddenly, a loud bang came from afar, followed by a burst of firelight soaring into the Sky.
The crowd looked in the direction of the sound. Only to see in a patch of firelight, a two-wheeled chariot pulled by two golden-horned deer emitted golden light. In the golden light, a Goddess was constantly drawing her bow and nocking arrows, arrows emitting golden light shot out one after another—
Opposite her was a patch of rolling black mist. Within the mist, a woman's phantom flickered faintly—
In the black mist, yin wind howled, and countless vicious ghosts pounced towards the Goddess shooting arrows—
"Target found! Deal with these troublesome guys! Let's hurry and get there!"
Those Vampire Clan members in mid-air, under the order of the three leading Vampire Grand Dukes, all let out a hissing cry towards the Sky. Streaks of pale green moonlight were cast down from the Sky as if they were physical form, enveloping these Vampire Clan members within them.
Pairs of blood-colored bat wings extended from behind these Vampire Clan members. They flapped their bat wings, pouncing and attacking in all directions. Their target was precisely that Hanako doll and the monsters and demons watching the show around her. Their speed was so fast, the air seemed to be twisting—
Zhao Li and Wang Xiaoya's bodies stiffened, not even daring to breathe heavily. And the malevolent spirits and demon ghosts lurking around, seeing this appearance, all fled in all directions.
The Hanako doll on the Ground saw that the situation was bad, and muttered and chanted the secret technique of the Tsuchimikado family, wanting to take Tsuchimikado Ichiro and escape!
The three Vampire Grand Dukes standing not far from Zhao Li and Wang Xiaoya gave a cold laugh: "Want to escape? How is it that easy? Hmph hmph, if you didn't attack the barrier and honestly hid, maybe you could still save a life!
Now, hmph hmph, chase after them, don't let a single one escape. Capture them, then take them back, try to capture them alive. Whether it's the Reincarnation Space or the Hive Laboratory, new species from new worlds can all fetch a good price!"
New species, Laboratory! Hearing these two extremely unfriendly words, Wang Xiaoya and Zhao Li's bodies both trembled slightly.
Fortunately, the Heavenly Maiden's feathered robe's concealment effect was indeed good. Although they were close at hand, those three Vampire Grand Dukes completely failed to discover them.
As for the others, they were unlucky! Hime hidden within the Hanako doll couldn't display much strength at all. Those Japanese military souls, in the blood mist and blood magic released by those Vampire Clan members, had their soul bodies as fragile as if corroded by concentrated sulfuric acid, one by one turning into wisps of green smoke amidst painful wailing.
As for her bragging, the faintly proud undying soul, after Duchess Camilla personally took action, was even more like a joke. In a few moves, that Hanako doll was grabbed in her hand,
With a light squeeze, she squeezed the Hanako doll, where Hime's soul resided, into a pile of porcelain dust. Then a bloodlight flashed in her hand, and she sealed that struggling soul in her hand into a blood-colored glass ball.
"This soul's toughness is quite good. I have a spot in Heavenly Soldier Valley. I can entrust Heavenly Soldier Valley to refine a top-tier magic tool. I have gathered nine hundred souls that meet the conditions. Duchess Camilla, how about letting me have this soul? I owe you a favor!"
"Just a malevolent spirit. What favor are we talking about between the two of us? If you want it, you can have it!"
(end of chapter)