There are many big trees planted around the artificial lake. The surface of the lake is covered with a thick layer of leaves, emitting a foul smell of decay. Beyond the artificial lake and the pavilion, behind the dense shade of the trees, you can vaguely see some eaves with carved beams and painted buildings.

Without anyone to take care of it, the beautiful scenery would become desolate. Xu Feng took a deep breath and slowly explored inside along the path beside the artificial lake.

There was no rush to explore the houses and buildings behind the shade of the trees. Xu Feng walked around the artificial lake. Although the smell was a bit unpleasant, this was also an unexplored area, which could increase the progress of exploration.

Soon, Xu Feng crossed a stone arch bridge and came to the pavilion in the center of the lake. Sure enough, when Xu Feng stood on the pavilion, his exploration progress increased by 5%.

The pavilion was in a mess. One could vaguely make out some half-burned incense sticks and some torn paper talismans. A few cracked Buddhist beads were scattered under the seats around the pavilion. The surrounding pillars also had signs of knife hacking, axe chiseling and burning, as if a fierce battle had taken place here.

"We can't stay in this troubled place for long." Xu Feng's heart sank, and he prepared to leave the pavilion and explore other places.

At this moment, Xu Feng suddenly heard the sound of rippling water.

Splash, splash~ The lake surface, covered with a thick layer of leaves, suddenly rippled, and the leaves were pushed aside by something in the water, revealing the dark green lake water underneath.

The lake had long since become stagnant water. After the leaves were pushed aside, the rotten and foul smell became even stronger, making people want to vomit and not want to stay here any longer.

Just as Xu Feng was about to leave, mist suddenly appeared on the surface of the lake and a melodious song rang in his ears. The soft music was like a small hand gently rubbing your ears, making people feel unable to stop listening to it.

"The sound of the Siren?" Xu Feng's face changed drastically. He had heard this sound in his previous life. When he was sailing out to sea and heading to a secret underwater place, he passed by a place called Siren Island and heard a similar sound at that time.

Both are melodious and captivating, but if you listen carefully, there are slight differences between the two.

Xu Feng concentrated and held his breath, looking around. Suddenly, several heads with long fluttering hair emerged from the originally filthy dark green lake water, and singing came from their mouths.

"It turns out to be just a water monster!" Xu Feng felt a little relieved. He held the bone sword tightly in his right hand and held a few paper talismans in his left hand, looking towards the lake vigilantly.

The songs of banshees and sirens are very similar and can arouse people's desires. Being a human being, unless you are a saint, you must have many desires in your heart.

Money, beauty, appetite, etc., sirens usually transform themselves into beautiful women, posing and flirting on the beach or reefs, arousing the desire of passing sailors for beauty.

But the water monster in front of him had disheveled hair and no facial features. It was just a creepy pale face staring at Xu Feng in the pavilion.

The flesh on their faces had already rotted, and there were even maggots crawling around in their faces, which was a bit disgusting to look at.

"You don't even have a mouth, how do you make such sounds!" Xu Feng couldn't help but complain as he looked at these water monsters that looked more disgusting than terrifying.

Splash, splash~ The water monsters swam towards the pavilion while singing. As they got closer, their originally disgusting and rotten faces were actually slowly changing.

Her facial features gradually became clearer, her skin became whiter, and her cheek lines became softer. Her big watery eyes looked at Xu Feng as if they could speak.

"Illusion!" Xu Feng sneered. Since I already know what you really look like, how could I be moved when I see your transformed appearance?

"Soul Fire Talisman, go!"

Xu Feng locked onto the nearest water monster and waved his left hand. A paper talisman flew towards it like a bullet.

Boom! A ball of sparks exploded, and a shrill scream rang out. The injured water monster could no longer maintain its transformed appearance, and immediately revealed its true appearance.

"Noisy!"

Xu Feng frowned slightly, and the soul fire talisman in his hand kept shooting towards the water monster.

This method of the water monster might be effective against ordinary people or low-level apostles with no experience, but for Xu Feng, it is still too low-level and lacks direct destructive power.

Boom, boom, boom~ The paper talismans kept hitting the water surface, splashing water more than one meter high. The originally arrogant water monsters no longer dared to swim around like before, and all sank to the bottom of the lake and hid.

Xu Feng stood by the pavilion, looked down at the dark green lake surface that was emitting a foul smell, and a hesitant look appeared on his face.

"It's enough for me to just come here to explore. There's no need for me to go down to the lake to swim around, right?" Xu Feng guessed in his heart.

It doesn’t matter if there are water monsters in the lake, but the water in this lake is like a cesspool, and it takes a lot of courage to jump in.

Shaking his head and giving up the idea of ​​exploring the lake, Xu Feng walked out of the pavilion and headed towards the house behind the shade of the trees.

After Xu Feng left, heads gradually emerged from the foul-smelling lake. They were all water monsters with disheveled hair and no facial features.

One, two, three...

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Countless water monster heads floated on the lake, filling up the entire surface of the lake. Their featureless faces all looked towards Xu Feng's back, silently and just watched quietly.

Xu Feng left the pavilion and entered the shade of the trees. There were big trees here that were as thick as a man's embrace. Each tree was more than ten meters high. The fallen leaves on the ground were very thick. Stepping on them felt like stepping on a thick carpet.

"I always feel like someone is staring at me from behind, and my neck feels cold." Xu Feng subconsciously touched the back of his neck and found nothing unusual, but he still felt a creepy feeling in his heart.

Crack~ Xu Feng suddenly stopped walking when he stepped on something hard with a crisp sound.

Looking down, I saw that it was a corpse buried under leaves. The corpse did not turn into bones, but lost water and became a mummy, which looked even more hideous and terrifying.

Xu Feng bent down and examined it carefully. The mummy was wrapped in a bright red cassock sewn with gold thread and inlaid with crystal gems the size of a fingernail. Although it was already decayed, the remaining traces still showed that the cassock was extraordinary.

"Just like the previous peach wood sword, it should also be a spiritual weapon, but unfortunately..." Xu Feng picked up a gold thread and rubbed it gently. Soon the gold thread was rubbed into a small ball of gold mud.

The complete loss of spiritual energy will cause the original material properties to change, not only the gold wire, but also those crystal gems that look crystal clear and shining. They look intact, but in fact they are no different from sand and mud and can no longer be recycled.

"The ear bone is broken, it looks like it was seriously injured by the sonic attack... Could it be those water monsters?" Xu Feng frowned slightly. The screams of the water monsters before were indeed harsh, but not unbearable. Unless the number of water monsters increased tenfold, and they roared together, it would be impossible to cause such serious injuries.

Clang! Just as Xu Feng was checking the condition of the mummy, two transparent crystals the size of fingernails fell from the mummy's arms, collided with each other, and made a crisp sound.

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