Just as the giant skeletal serpent froze again, Saint Qinglan and the others finally landed on the shore.

Unlike Lu Ning, who was forcibly pushed along by the pillar of death, they experienced significantly less force upon landing.

Even so, their withered wooden armor still showed jagged cracks, as if it would break apart at any moment.

An Lan shouted immediately, "Get away from the riverbank!"

After all, there were columns of Yellow Spring water splashing up on the riverbank, and without the protection of the withered wood armor, they would have no chance to withstand it!

The group immediately headed in the direction away from the riverbank.

They had only run a few meters when Steve's withered wood armor began to fall off.

Then, other people also began to have pieces of armor falling.

Fortunately, the group was now far from the riverbank and no longer needed to worry about the corrosive effects of the Yellow Spring water.

Only now did they finally breathe a sigh of relief and turn to look towards the riverbank.

Lu Ning's head, which he had lost, has now grown back.

His entire body had been completely restored to its original state, except for some of his clothes which were corroded by the Yellow Spring water and were somewhat exposed.

Lu Ning glanced at it and immediately activated the Killer Armor, covering his entire body.

Lu Ning then moved swiftly backward, abandoning the use of the bone pocket watch.

This was Lu Ning's first time using the bone pocket watch, and he discovered that the power of this soul artifact was even stronger than he had imagined.

Even a skeletal giant serpent at the Saint level would be affected.

It should be noted that this giant skeletal serpent is located in the Yellow Springs, surrounded by an aura of death, and its strength is far greater than Lu Ning's.

Even so, it will still be affected.

Even if the impact is short-lived, it is still quite terrifying.

If Lu Ning were stronger, the impact would last even longer.

Most importantly, this effect is not a one-time event. As long as Lu Ning keeps activating the pocket watch, the effect can continue without weakening!

Of course, there are also drawbacks, namely that it is more taxing on the organs.

Just now, Lu Ning lost more than a dozen organs by activating the pocket watch, not to mention his skin, flesh, and hair.

Fortunately, Lu Ning will not die.

Once Lu Ning put the pocket watch away, the giant skeletal snake no longer stood in his way.

It roared madly as it approached the banks of the River of the Dead.

It wildly lashed its snake tail, stirring up waves in the river. Some of the corpses in the river were smashed to pieces by the giant snake, while others were thrown out by the huge waves.

However, no matter how angry the giant skeletal serpent was, it did not break out of the Yellow Springs.

After a brief moment of fury, the giant skeletal serpent let out a low hiss at Lu Ning, and finally slowly sank into the Yellow Springs and disappeared.

After the giant skeletal serpent disappeared, the corpses floating on the water also glanced numbly at Lu Ning and his group before slowly sinking to the bottom.

As the ripples on the water gradually subsided after the giant skeletal serpent and the corpse disappeared, Lu Ning calmly turned around, looked at Saint Qinglan and the others, and asked, "Are you all alright?"

Saint Qinglan and the others came to their senses.

An Lan shook her head: "It's nothing!"

Then, with a complicated expression, he looked at Lu Ning and said, "Lu Ning, I owe you a lot this time."

Jerry and the others nodded gratefully.

"Yes, if it weren't for you, we would probably all be dead here, except for the Saint. Thank you, Lu Ning!" Gina said earnestly.

Saint Qinglan patted Lu Ning on the shoulder, his handsome face showing gratitude mixed with some complexity: "Next time, don't think about sacrificing yourself to save me. I'm the team leader; when danger strikes, I should be the one to stand in front of you. Even if someone has to die, I should be the first to go!"

Lu Ning glanced at the Azure Mist Saint with confusion, then calmly said, "It's alright, I won't die."

Saint Qinglan's expression froze for a moment, then she couldn't help but laugh: "Haha, what you said makes some sense."

The two did not elaborate on this topic.

The group gathered together, and Saint Qinglan's gaze swept over their surroundings.

The other side of the river was still a wasteland, but they did not see any zombies there.

However, white mist gradually appeared in the wilderness.

In the distance of the wilderness, the golden halo floated in the air, and the white mist around it had become quite thick.

Even so, the golden light emanating from the aperture could not be blocked by the white mist.

Saint Qinglan frowned and said, "I can sense that the spiritual pollution in this area seems to be increasing rapidly."

Lu Ning nodded slightly: "It is indeed rising rapidly."

In Lu Ning's view, the concentration of white fog across the entire wilderness was rapidly increasing, and the level of mental pollution it caused was unimaginable.

An Lan paused for a moment, then looked at Saint Qinglan: "Qinglan, what do you mean?"

Saint Qinglan calmly said, "We need to rest first. We expended a lot of energy just now."

No one objected.

Saint Qinglan was the strongest member of their team, and he must have expended a tremendous amount of energy just now in order to cross that three-hundred-meter stretch of the Yellow Springs.

After the previous horde of corpses in the wilderness and the corpses and giant skeletal snakes in the Yellow Springs, who doesn't know how dangerous this place is?

In such a dangerous environment, the combat power of the Azure Mist Saint is indispensable.

Everyone sat casually on the wilderness, each taking out a Soul Crystal to restore their spiritual power.

As for Lu Ning, he continued to temper the corrosive giant hand within his body.

Watching the corrosive giant hand struggle, Lu Ning would occasionally recall the phantom image of that giant hand he had seen when he first entered the base city.

He looked up at the white mist surrounding the golden halo, trying to discern something, but to no avail.

An Lan, meanwhile, kept taking out various instruments from her bracelet, seemingly adjusting them and surveying the surrounding environment.

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