Sitting on the mottled stones was a mysterious monk.
His clothes were ragged, and half of his feet were hanging out of the rocks. No matter how turbulent the magma below was, it never moved at all.
The same thing happened when magma erupted.
Cui Jibo looked at the man's back and narrowed his eyes slightly.
This person had been staying here before they came down, and he had not changed places for such a long time.
Could it be said that this person has figured out the rules of magma eruption in this space, or is there some other mystery?
"Let's go up and ask!"
Xue Zhongjing took the lead, opened the protective spiritual shield and walked towards the man.
This person obviously knew something. If they could ask first, it might be possible for them to be one step ahead in seizing other opportunities.
"Why do fellow Taoists stop here?"
Xue Zhongjing released his aura, and the aura of the second stage of upper realm was faintly released, rolling up the corners of the mysterious man's clothes.
When the latter heard someone speaking, his drooping head seemed to move slightly, but he did not answer.
Seeing this, Xue Zhongjing gathered his breath again and asked loudly:
"Why don't you move forward?"
At this moment, the mysterious monk finally made some movement. His body trembled suddenly, and he turned his back to the crowd and said shiveringly:
"Dead, all dead!"
Listening to the hoarse and obscure voice, as if it had not spoken for a thousand years, everyone in the room couldn't help but frown.
Qi Lan narrowed his eyes and asked:
"Dead, what is dead?"
"Everyone is dead, everyone is dead, only me is left."
"Don't kill me don't kill me!"
The mysterious monk in ragged clothes suddenly became very frightened. He huddled on the stone with his head in his hands, and kept shouting something vaguely in his mouth.
Even if they couldn't see his face clearly, everyone could probably guess that his expression must be very frightened at this moment.
Cui Jibo couldn't wait any longer. He frowned and asked:
"Brother, we are from the Emperor Dragon Adventure Group."
"I would like to ask, how did you find this stone that can perfectly avoid the eruption of magma?"
"Yes...it was the captain who found it first. He had long said there was something strange in this tomb, but I didn't listen..."
The mysterious man didn't answer the question, and kept talking to himself in a trembling voice.
Qi Lan grasped the key information in his words, frowned and asked:
"Captain? Who is the captain you are talking about? Where is he now? Is he in front?"
"Dead, the captain is dead, and Xiao Diao, Ah Man... they are all dead... Wuwuwu..."
Qi Lan saw a little helplessness on his face.
"He seemed not in good spirits and seemed crazy."
Xue Zhongjing frowned and was silent for a moment. Just when he was about to ask another question, Ji Ning suddenly stopped him.
"etc!"
Xue Zhongjing was startled and dispersed the pressure:
"What's wrong?"
"Something's wrong, look at his feet!"
Ji Ning's expression was solemn. He saw Xue Zhongjing and others looking along his line of sight. Following the shaking of the mysterious man's body, he could see a grey-green ankle exposed under his ragged clothes, as if it had not moved for a long time. After that, the compressed blood usually stops flowing.
"If I'm not mistaken, he wasn't in this posture not long ago."
"Although he never left the stone, he did move it."
"So why are his ankles this color, like... a dead person?"
A terrifying thought appeared in Ji Ning's mind.
These days, he has seen a lot of corpses, especially along the road where Ji Changkui was chasing him. On the messy ground along the way, you can see many broken limbs and some dead corpses with hideous expressions.
This is what a person's color looks like after death.
This appears to be a dead man.
But why do dead people talk?
Qi Lan also noticed something was wrong. He stared at the back of the mysterious monk and quietly took out a compass from his arms and fed it with spiritual energy. After the pointer on it kept swinging for a while, it suddenly started to tremble violently.
Snapped!
The compass needle exploded.
Qi Lan's pupils shrank, his body suddenly stiffened, and he turned his head to look at Ji Ning with difficulty.
Their eyes met, and both of them had the answer in their minds.
"Don't alert him, just go over quietly."
During the simple communication through voice transmission, Ji Ning made up his mind and decided to bypass the location of the mysterious monk and continue moving forward.
Xue Zhongjing took a deep breath and followed behind with a very solemn expression. His whole body was tense, ready to take action at any time.
"What tricks are you playing again? If you don't understand, I'll ask you!"
Just when Ji Ning and the others were tiptoeing forward from the side, and were about to bypass the mysterious monk, Cui Jibo from behind could no longer hold back, and walked forward with a sullen face, straight to the mysterious monk. In front of the monk.
"Hello!"
"Don't alarm him!"
Ji Ning's eyes widened and he hurriedly warned.
"Haha, I think you just got some news. Through sound transmission, you got the answer you wanted and then you want to run away? No way!"
With a ferocious smile on his face, Cui Jibo asked the monk loudly and unceremoniously:
"Brother, if I ask you a question, you'd better cooperate, otherwise you'll look back."
"Together, we have nearly a hundred people here!"
"One hundred people..." When the mysterious monk heard this, as if he had heard something terrifying, he turned face down and cried. His withered hands kept tearing at the stones under his feet, making an oozing cry. sound.
"One hundred people... Xiao Diao, Ah Man... they are all dead... Captain..."
"Shut up!"
Seeing that the mysterious man began to mutter these words in a daze again, Cui Jibo lost his patience and immediately released the spiritual energy on his body, suddenly knocking the mysterious man off his feet.
I saw him staring menacingly, shouting at the man and asking:
"I ask you, who are you!"
"Who am I, who am I?"
The mysterious man slowly stood up in an extremely weird posture, hunched over like a spider, looking around and muttering with a confused look on his face.
At this time, Ji Ning and others finally saw clearly what this person looked like.
Under the dirt-covered hair, what was muttering to himself was a corpse whose eyes had been gouged out. His mouth had a crack horizontally, as if cut with a knife, and the bulging inside was full of bugs. , keep squirming
What made Ji Ning even more horrified was that he actually saw some threads and rotten wood inside the corpse's face.
This seems to be a puppet, and it has a person trapped and sewn inside!
It was only then that other people in the room finally noticed something strange.
Cui Jibo frowned and stared warily at the mysterious corpse puppet in front of him with a strange posture. At this moment, the wooden puppet began to turn its head with a creaking sound. Without moving its body, it just violently broke off its head. A full circle.
Eyes facing each other.
Buzz!
Cui Jibo's eyes froze, and after seeing the latter's appearance clearly, his scalp instantly became numb.
"Who am I...who am I?"
The corpse puppet turned around in a weird posture, looking at the unfamiliar faces in front of him, tears actually flowed out, and the disgusting squirming bugs in his eyes also came out, and fell into the magma, turning into pitch black. smoke.
"Captain, Xiao Miao, I miss you so much!"
"Where have you been? Why did you leave me here? Didn't you agree that we would live and die together?"
"Captain, I'm so lonely and scared. The clothes you put on me are so heavy. I don't want to wear them anymore. Can you help me take them off?"
Cui Jibo's scalp was numb, and he looked at the monster in front of him, somewhat unsure of what to do.
And at this moment, the puppet stared at Cui Jibo, his breath suddenly changed, and he suddenly screamed:
"It's you!"
"It's you, the traitor, who killed the captain and Xiao Diao. I'm going to kill you!"
Boom!
With a piercing hiss, the white-bone wooden puppet seemed to let out a scream from hell. It waved its bone claws and rushed towards Cui Jibo. A fierce wind blew around it, blowing away everyone in the room. Got a stagger.
"run!"
In an instant, everyone panicked. They all imitated Ji Ning and went around from the side, trying to escape.
Boom!
With a violent collision, Cui Jibo's body flew out, was blasted dozens of meters by the white-bone wooden puppet, and was smashed into the wall. Then the wooden puppet screamed and rushed to the side. , and began to kill the remaining monks indiscriminately without any target.
"Traitor, don't run!!!"
"careful!"
Xue Zhongjing looked startled, raised his knife and slashed out at Ji Ning's back, hitting the terrifying shadow with a bang.
The latter roared horribly, and a pair of bone claws seemed to be chopped into pieces, but he was not affected at all and continued to pounce on Qi Lan from the side.
At this moment, Qi Lan was still pale. He had just helped Zhen Xixi jump to this stable stone. His breath was weak and he had no way to free his hands to resist.
"Step aside!"
At the critical moment, Ji Ning's face darkened, and with the strength of his legs, he jumped into the air, punched the wooden man's bones in the back, and then kicked him in the air, using the strength to jump to the same level as him. Between Lan and Zhen Xixi.
Staggering and barely able to stand still.
"die!!!"
The bone puppet roared and roared over again. The terrifying wind it set off destroyed the aura shields around the three of them, and the terrifying aura was impossible to withstand.
Ji Ning took a deep breath, and a little starlight gathered at the peak of his fist, protecting Qi Lan and Zhen Xixi behind him. The blood energy in his body rose to the extreme, and then with a sudden punch, all the energy was poured into the puppet in front of him. On the body.
At the same time, Qi Lan and Zhen Xixi also hurriedly retreated to another platform to create space for Ji Ning.
"Boom!"
Ji Ning flew backwards for tens of meters, one leg resting on the rock wall, his right hand clasping a bulge, blood bleeding from the corner of his mouth, and he almost fell into the magma below.
"I come!"
Xue Zhongjing's eyes narrowed, he jumped onto the stone closest to Ji Ning with his long knife in hand, and took the initiative to attack the corpse puppet.
He could sense that the latter's Yin Qi realm seemed to be much higher than theirs, so it was difficult to resist them from the front alone. However, their physical bodies were extremely fragile, and their movements were very clumsy, so they might have brute strength.
As long as they fight properly, this terrifying creature can't do anything to them.
At this time, Cui Jibo from behind also fell off the rock wall without falling into the magma, and looked ahead with an ugly expression.
"Everyone come together, don't get confused!"
The young swordsman who spoke before also looked solemn and shouted in a deep voice.
He gave the order, and several loyal men immediately appeared beside him, rushing up with him.
Xue Zhongjing's whole body was filled with aura. He took advantage of the long knife and kept pulling the puppet on the nearby rocks. His tactics were extremely dexterous. He was able to suppress it in a short time and shaved off several pieces of the opponent's body. Bones.
However, for some reason, the more injured the Yin object was, the more terrifying the Yin energy emitted around it became, the faster it became, and its power became stronger. Several times, it almost knocked Xue Zhongjing's knife away from the front.
"Go to hell!"
In an instant, the young swordsman also arrived. He stepped on the flying sword under his feet, put the fingers of his right hand together, and condensed his energy into an illusory sword energy, which he slashed at the mysterious corpse puppet from a distance, causing the latter to stagger. It will have no other effect.
The latter roared, and first slapped Xue Zhongjing with a claw. The latter vomited blood and fell. Fortunately, Qi Lan caught him, otherwise he would have fallen directly into the sea of fire.
Immediately afterwards, the mysterious corpse puppet roared and rushed towards the young swordsman. Under a random attack, several people around the young swordsman couldn't bear it and their hearts were ripped out. The corpse was tossed away. Then he fell into the hot magma.
The young swordsman was also seriously injured in the short confrontation. He relied on his deft flying sword to barely break through the blockade and landed next to Ji Ning and others.
"Dead, all dead, why can you still be alive when we are all dead? Everyone here will die!"
The corpse puppet screamed in a sharp voice, and its tattered clothes exploded completely, revealing the disgusting body inside. It was a wooden skeleton that had long since decayed. Many white worms had been bred in the rich Yin Qi. , gnawing at his body.
His aura was rising steadily, and he jumped through three realms in an instant. The yin energy was condensed into substance, and the dazzling light in the entire cave was dimmed.
"It's over!"
Ji Ning and others felt a chill in their hearts. This monster was so powerful that they were not at the same level as it.
At first, the opponent may have not fought in countless years, so his movements were particularly stiff and slow, and he only had no brute strength. But now the latter seems to have gradually adapted.
He screamed and tore his body apart, his bones falling apart like wall skin, and all the disgusting bugs fell into the sea of fire.
The gray misty Yin Qi gathered and filled the silk threads in his bones, reshaping a complete body for him in an instant. He turned his head, and his empty eyes glowed strangely. In the chaotic scene, Ji Ning quickly locked onto Ji Ning, and then let out a breathtaking laugh:
"Xiao Miao, is it you, Xiao Miao, I finally found you, but why are you wearing such heavy clothes?"
