Chapter 181

With her command, the cafe was plunged into darkness, as if consumed by a deep, abyssal void. Countless ghost fires, burning with a ghastly blue hue, flickered into existence out of thin air, accompanied by wails and screams that echoed like the weeping of the damned. Monstrous entities of every shape and size crawled from the void: ferocious ghouls with razor-sharp fangs capable of crushing anything; vengeful spirits in kimonos, their faces veiled by long, tentacled hair that drifted in the air like ghostly limbs; and blood-drenched samurai phantoms wielding blades that still dripped with fresh gore, as if they had just stepped from a brutal battlefield. They lunged toward Chu Xuan with claws bared. Wherever they passed, the ground was coated in a layer of frost, as if the very space were being frozen solid.