Chapter 223
With a flying spirit beast, they were extremely fast. They crossed the sky in less than three days, and they were moving in stealth mode, so they didn’t alarm anyone along the way.
After landing on the outskirts of Sunset Mountains, several people felt a depressing atmosphere coming towards them.
The outside was still okay, but the further you went in, the more different you saw. The trees on the mountain were a strange black color, and eerie roars could be heard from time to time.
Everyone moved forward cautiously, and after entering the mountain, they found that the dark power here was even stronger than that in the Dream Valley.
Gu Shihan and others were worrying about how to deal with this strong dark power when suddenly a spiritual pigeon flew in the sky.
The spirit pigeon landed on Gu Shihan's shoulder, with a letter tied to its leg. Gu Shihan took the letter and saw that it was left by the white-robed man who had helped him before.
The letter said that there was a dark river source in the Sunset Mountains that was polluted by darkness. Finding and purifying it would weaken the power of darkness.
Everyone followed the instructions in the letter to find the source of the dark river, but the way forward was too difficult, and they had to deal with attacks from dark monsters from time to time.
On this day, a group of nine people were exhausted and found a valley to rest. Just as they were getting ready, suddenly a group of people with dark faces and empty eyes appeared. The strange thing was that these people's eyeballs were as black as ink, and the white in their eyes showed signs of being completely dyed black.
When they saw Gu Shihan and his group, they rushed over as if they had discovered something delicious.
"Shi Han, are they controlled by the darkness?" Wen Xin was shocked and asked.
"Yes! These people are no longer human. According to Xing Bai, their sea of consciousness has been corroded by darkness. You must take care to protect yourself and never give the black energy a chance to take advantage." Gu Shihan said solemnly.
"I understand! Since they are no longer human, I will not hold back and kill them all! To avoid harming others!" Situ Tinglang said immediately.
Gu Shihan stopped Situ Tinglang, "Wait a minute, although their sea of consciousness has been eroded by darkness, have you forgotten the Holy Spirit Water in our hands? The Holy Spirit Water can control the darkness and dispel the darkness. Maybe it is also useful for these people's sea of consciousness. We might as well give it a try. If it doesn't work, then..."
Mo Yu looked at the people rushing towards him and said, "Junior sister is right. They didn't become like this willingly. If you can save them, you should try! Maybe we will meet many people like this in the future. Should we kill them all?"
"Brother is right. We will control them right now. Just go ahead and do it, sister!" Shi Qinghan unsheathed the high beam in his hand, and lightly waved it in front of him, and the battle began.
Gu Shihan stepped back, circulated his spiritual power, held the jade ruyi in his right hand, and a drop of holy spring water appeared in the palm of his left hand. The light of the jade ruyi fell on the drop of holy spring water, and he atomized it like a fairy scattering flowers and pushed it towards the people opposite, trying to purify these monks with the power of the holy spring water.
The water from the holy spring, along with the white light emitted by the jade ruyi, slowly penetrated into the bodies of those monks.
After those monks who were corroded by darkness came into contact with the holy spring water, their bodies began to tremble slightly, and there seemed to be some expression on their slightly dark faces.
Everyone watched nervously, "Shi Han! It works! Keep going!" someone shouted.
Gu Shihan used the same method to shoot out the second drop, the third drop, and until the ninth drop, the emptiness in the eyes of some monks gradually faded away, and they regained some clarity, and their attacks hesitated.
"Success!" Wen Xin shouted happily.
Gu Shihan was overjoyed, gritted his teeth, and increased the amount of holy spring water.
At this moment, several huge black hands suddenly stretched out from the ground and grabbed those people.
"Oh no, it's a counterattack from the dark forces!" Xingbai warned.
While everyone was dodging the black hand, five of them were assigned to deal with the black hand that suddenly appeared. Duan Siqi used freezing magic to trap the black hand, buying time for Gu Shihan.
Gu Shihan didn't dare to waste time, and three more drops of holy spring water were drawn out. The monk was finally purified and woke up.
"What happened to us? Who are you?" A male monk asked with a surprised look on his face, rubbing his aching head.
Shi Qinghan looked at them and asked, "Do you remember what happened before?"
"What impression? We... I seemed to have had a dream, a very scary dream. In the dream, I only wanted to kill! I liked the smell of blood."
Gu Shihan looked at everyone and said, "You are not dreaming. Those murders are all real things you have done. Your sea of consciousness has been eroded by darkness. If possible, you'd better take the Qingshen Pill to clear away all the darkness in your sea of consciousness.
Because we don’t know whether the darkness will leave behind anything that will affect you in the future.”
"Isn't this a dream?! It's so scary!" A female cultivator hurriedly took out the Soul Purification Pill and swallowed it.
Others also took the pills, but no one dared to bet on that possibility.
"Since you are all fine, let's leave! Don't come to Sunset Mountains for training in the near future, it's too dangerous!" Duan Siqi reminded.
"Aren't you afraid? There is a lake a hundred miles to the right and the black gas is coming out from there. We... I remember I was there... and then I don't seem to have any memory of what happened afterwards!" The female cultivator in blue clothes said thoughtfully.
"A thousand miles to the right? Good! We got it, let's get going!"
After watching the group of monks leave, Gu Shihan and his companions took a short rest and then continued to follow the clues into the mountains to search for the source of the underground river.
After walking about a hundred miles, they suddenly encountered a group of fairy beasts that were eroded by darkness again.
There were wisps of black air lingering around the fairy beast, and its eyes were pitch black, showing that it had been completely corroded.
Faced with this group of corrupted fairy beasts, everyone was on high alert.
Gu Shihan thought that if he could purify them, the dark forces in the Sunset Mountains would be greatly reduced.
She signaled her companions to defend themselves first, and she tried to use the holy spring water like the purification monk before.
Gu Shihan turned the holy spring water into mist and pushed it towards the group of fairy beasts.
However, the immortal beasts only paused for a moment and then pounced even more frantically.
Everyone rushed to resist. Mo Yu and Situ Tinglang rushed to the front to tie down the main force of the fairy beasts.
After observing for a while, Xing Bai shouted, "These immortal beasts have been corroded for too long. The water from the holy spring is not effective enough. We need to increase the dosage!"
Upon hearing this, Gu Shihan gritted his teeth and offered up a large amount of holy spring water at once.
This time, the holy spring water turned into a layer of light curtain, slowly enveloping the immortal beasts. The immortal beasts screamed and struggled in pain, and the black air on their bodies gradually dissipated.
After some effort, the madness in the eyes of the immortal beasts faded and they regained their sanity.
They growled a few times at Gu Shihan and the others, as if to express their gratitude, and then turned around and ran back into the depths of the forest.
(End of this chapter)
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