"Reaching the grave? Is this good?" Chang Xiao asked.
Wen Guying said: "Not very good."
While he was talking, one of the mounds of soil had dispersed.
Chang Xiao looked inside and saw the corpse of an ugly cub. The corpse was twisted and deformed, and its fur was disheveled. Maybe it was because it was too cold and dry here, but the corpse did not rot, but just gave off a strange smell.
"It's a half-demon." Wen Guying said.
"Half-demon?" Chang Xiao thought of the appearance of a half-demon woman. Except that she was paler, she looked no different from a human woman. And the body lying in the mound now does not look human at all.
"Yes, most half-demon are beasts rather than humans." Wen Guying closed the tomb bag, took two steps back and said, "This cub was poisoned. They may be the half-demon woman's brothers and sisters."
"Are they all?" Chang Xiao said in surprise.
"It should be, but I don't know who her mother is..." Before Wen Guying could finish speaking, he felt a cold air rushing towards him. Is it a virtual spirit again? Suddenly, a pale bone knife stabbed at him from the cold air. Reviewing the past should not be avoided. The bone knife hangs in mid-air, unable to move forward or backward. After a while, the bone knives dispersed, disappeared into the cold air, and quietly retreated into the darkness.
Wen Guying immediately chased after him.
Chang Xiao did not follow, but walked around the graves.
One, two...seven or eight, a total of eight tombs, varying in size, and none of them have monuments. Who killed them and who buried them?
Chang Xiao looked for a while in the direction Wen Guying was chasing. Occasionally, some red would appear in the darkness, but other than that, there was silence.
Only the frost that is constantly condensing on the ground indicates that an extremely dangerous battle is taking place here.
Chang Xiao withdrew his gaze. He couldn't get involved in the fight between the monk and the half-demon, but he had something to do. After taking a few steps to the other side, he paused, stepped forward, and then disappeared.
Wen Guying glanced at the place where he disappeared, and the sword light blocked the cold air chasing behind him.
Chang Xiao entered the stone room. The half-demon had kidnapped him here before.
There is no one in the stone room, not even the ethereal spirit.
He walked quickly around. Except for a stone table and a few stone benches, there is no other furniture here, and no traces of human life can be found. There are only waves of stench coming from nowhere.
Standing here, he still felt isolated. He took a few steps outside based on his memory, but this time he failed to get out. After walking for a long time, he was still wandering around in this small stone room.
He stopped and his eyes fell on the pile of rocks not far away.
There is something under the pile of rocks.
Chang Xiao thought as he walked over, squatted down, and moved the stones away one by one.
There were some bones buried under the stone. He picked up one of them and looked at it. It looked like the bones of ordinary animals. Picking the bones aside, I found a round stone slab underneath, which seemed to be engraved with some runes.
He brushed away the dry dirt and looked carefully. If Director Jiang and Mr. Li were here, they might be able to see something.
He was not discouraged. He used a knife to dig out some gaps on both sides, then grabbed both sides of the stone slab with both hands and tried to lift it up.
The stone slabs are a little loose, but they can be moved.
After trying again, Chang Xiao successfully moved the heavy stone slab.
He panted for a long time, feeling his breath pulling at the wound, causing it to spasm. After calming down a little, he looked down at the hole below.
A freezing cold air hit my face, and the ground cracked as the cold air spread, and deep cracking sounds came from the ground.
At the same time, the feeling of isolation disappeared. He could clearly sense where the road was and the direction of Tianzhu.
The cave is also a place where the sky pillar cannot illuminate. But this place is very close to Tianzhu, not in terms of distance, but there is some kind of connection.
After realizing this, Chang Xiao immediately slipped into the cave. The inner walls of the cave are so smooth that it takes almost no effort to slide to the bottom. But the further down you go, the colder it gets.
Chang Xiao felt that his whole body was frozen, and the wound on his chest felt like it had been cracked by frost, with bursts of stinging pain. He dragged his feet and walked forward a few steps. Suddenly, he smelled a strong smell. He couldn't help but retched twice. After getting used to it, he continued to move forward and walked around a corner. After saying that, his eyes suddenly opened up.
A mountain of meat appeared in front of him.
The stinky smell is emanating from this mountain of meat.
Chang Xiao covered his nose with his hand and got closer to Roshan, only to realize that it was a completely shapeless monster. His appearance could still be vaguely seen, and it seemed to be somewhat similar to the little monster in the grave.
There is a black chain buried deep in the mountain of meat. Runes are engraved on the chain. The other end of the chain is connected to a wall hook high up.
He looked up and found six wall hooks high up, but only one was still hanging a chain. The only remaining wall hook was also severely corroded.
He looked on the ground again, and sure enough he saw several scattered chains, which were badly damaged and almost completely corroded.
Chang Xiao suddenly realized that he was in a huge well. So he raised his head and looked up again, and seemed to see many runes in the void.
This is the sealing place and the formation eye that maintains the Wochi formation. Chang Xiao slowly calmed down as he recalled what Jiang Mei and Wen Guying had said.
Roshan seemed to move.
The cold was so cold that he could hardly move.
He has identified his goal.
He knew that the half-demon woman had tampered with him, and she wanted to use him to sneak into the vicinity of the Tianzhu to trigger something.
He couldn't be sure what she had done. She was too cunning, whether it was the bone chain she gave him or the ethereal spirit that controlled his body, they might just be a cover. He remembered her mocking eyes, which seemed to tell him that no matter what he did, he could not escape her plan.
So he chose not to go under the Tianzhu.
He chose to go to her lair and let the light of the Tianzhu illuminate her lair in detail.
Chang Xiao determined that the half-demon was afraid of the light from the Tianzhu. He began to climb up. The walls of the well were very smooth and there were almost no places to grab a foothold. Fortunately, he mastered Professor Jiang Mei's trick and climbed up quickly.
The cold air spread upwards along the well wall, and a cold hand grasped his feet.
He didn't look back, but worked his way up. Then he saw a red light reflected on the wall of the well. Immediately, the hand holding his feet loosened.
Wen Guying stopped the half-demon again.
Chang Xiao climbed up intently. He didn't listen, didn't see, didn't think, he just kept climbing to the highest point.
He believed that Wen Guying knew his purpose, and he also believed that Wen Guying would be able to stop the half-demon before he achieved his goal.
The cold air condensed ice on his skin.
Chang Xiao felt an invisible barrier blocking him, and through this transparent barrier, he seemed to see Tianzhu and the connection between the sealing place and Tianzhu.
He couldn't understand it, but he knew how to cross it.
The iceman stopped on the wall of the well and drew his knife.
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Li Chuan, who was conscientiously immersed in peeling off the parasitic roots, suddenly stopped. He looked below the Tianzhu, and he felt the light flowing there.
(End of chapter)
