My CEO Harem Cultivation System

A great majority of the flock of Slaugh descended upon Taiga until she herself succumbed to the darkness and disappeared into the horde of them.

Even the fire burning brightly winked out when faced with a tremendous amount of darkness, spirits that eluded and diminished her powers into nothing.

Doom clung and hung tightly in the air.

There was nothing to say, except for the fact that Taiga had done her absolute best. She performed her strongest attacks that could have blown buildings apart and even torn a chunk off a mountain. She went all out.

If this fight had happened back on earth—then she was absolutely sure that she would have won and conquered all of these bird monsters. 

She didn't have any name for them, although she could have checked the monster and beast glossary if she were at Shen Society and Shou Temple. It happened that spirits from another realm, usually the underworld, came up and wreaked havoc on earth.

But as their battle grounds were in this realm of the spirits, she was now taken as captive.

Taiga was going to end up kind of dead, eh?

The Tigress Spirit craned her neck and looked around her surroundings. There were many other souls and spirits like her… but they were in terrible shapes. The physical body had signs of whether one was weak or not, and the same could have been said for them. 

It was like looking at ghosts that were losing and flickering their light.

The creatures that captured them were joyful. They continued shrieking and howling, it was an aria of death and doom, consuming their prey and sucking whatever was the essence of living spirits and souls. Condemning them and possibly not allowing any of them to return to the cycle of death and rebirth.

"Vultures, scavengers." Taiga muttered underneath her breath.

A bird shrieked in her ears and nearly defeaned her.

Taiga blinked once and twice.

Stunned for a moment.

Maybe blood flowed out of her ears in this kind of realm too. Maybe if she hadn't gotten distracted for a moment, then Taiga could have gotten away when she realized that there were too many of these monsters.

But the woman that stared at her was familiar.

Or she looked kind of familiar to Taiga. It reminded her of Chunhua if the child was a little bigger and had grown into a beautiful woman. But this woman was dead too… although, her spirit seemed more robust than that of others.

Was this woman kind of like Chunhua then? That little girl was able to see spirits and maybe had a knack in dealing with them? If the woman was the same then that was a relief… although it was still surprising why she got captured in the first place.

Well, Taiga got captured too, so that was an unfair comparison. 

"Hah… I suppose we'll be the last ones. But we'll still wind up dead." Taiga said aloud. She didn't care if these creatures heard her—she was right! 

Even if they were all captured, those who resisted the creatures and fought them off were still there and fighting to remain alive. Alive as much as they can be. However, in the edge of Taiga's vision, the ones closest to the birds surrounding them were slowly being eaten and consumed.

Passing away to decay and non-existence.

Taiga and the rest were going to reach that point, wouldn't they?

Already disappearing and fading away, some of them disappeared without even the sound of passing away. People, living creatures like her were gone just like that.

"If only I hadn't chased after Bossman, but at least he's not here." Taiga babbled to herself, the loudest of all the souls and spirits—minus the bird monsters. "So that means he's okay… at least as okay for a person forced by that witch thingy."

She still remembered the dark cloaked individual that forced Li Yang into the portal.

Taiga jumped right after them, but she hadn't been able to catch up to them and was instead captured. She still needed to save the Bossman. Taiga let out a deep breath within herself and stared into the sky.

The sky here… it was just a never-ending blue, or it would have been that way if it weren't for all the bird spirits swarming all around them. 

They were all trapped here and it was only a matter of time till they were gone.

Taiga tried to kick and twist her body, and accidentally bumped into a spirit that already lost its head. It couldn't even make a sound. Taiga recoiled back and flinched, avoiding all of the others already on the edge of oblivion.

There was no more hope for them.

A bleak and gray color surrounded them all.

It was nibbling and sinking into Taiga's brain, the painful realization.

The inevitable end that they were going to meet—it was going to be swift.

Taiga drifted for a moment into a state of temporary hope and regret. If she had arrived here earlier, and Taiga knew about this before… could she have made a difference? 

This wasn't right at all. If she was prepared and knew this beforehand, perhaps she could have done something.

Was it possible for her to bring a large talisman and swat all of these monsters into fleeing back into the depths of the underworld? 

The cries and shrieks of other souls who didn't wish to fade away but were still dying and disappearing filled the Tigress Spirit's ears.

They were all slowly dying and it was only moments till they were gone.

"Alright, recover strength and then break out of here. Easy peasy." 

"... You're that confident, aren't you?" Luo Ju Di stared up at Taiga.

The Tigress Spirit glanced down at the woman and managed a weak laugh. "Taiga has to be. Or else, I'll fall into despair like you and I can't do that. It's not my time yet, Miss. So we gotta chin up… I'll do something."