Chapter 1356 The Returnee's Notes 430
Xie Ning was still hesitating when the air around her suddenly became very thin, and the beads on her wrist were also getting hot, making her feel dazed, as if her soul was about to leave the room.
After calming down, Xie Ning looked down at the string of beads in his hand. The blood-red Soul-Stabilizing Bead showed signs of cracking and its color had faded considerably, clearly indicating that it was about to lose its effectiveness.
The change was too drastic to handle calmly, so Xie Ning could only hastily write a few lines and bury them next to the pillar along with the locator before quickly crossing the door.
It wasn't until she breathed fresh air again that Xie Ning's mind cleared up from its foggy state.
Amidst the chilling and oppressive atmosphere, Xie Ning subconsciously turned around. The door that should have been behind her had vanished, leaving only a scorched mountaintop. Turning back to look ahead, she saw a rugged mountain path.
There were many black thorns lying across the top. Xie Ning took a step forward, and the red flower blooming on the black thorns suddenly moved. It turned out that a butterfly was attached to it. The two were the same color, and if you didn't look closely, you wouldn't be able to see that there was a butterfly there.
Xie Ning took out a sword and began clearing the way down the mountain. The burning sensation on his wrist had disappeared, clearly indicating that the spirits in the beaded string had become much quieter after entering this strange place.
Seeing this, Xie Ning felt somewhat at ease and began to think about the strange place behind the earth pillar and the door.
Neither in books nor in the knowledge she gained from consulting elders like Master Wang did she find any information about anything other than the human pillar, because no one could open the other two pillars.
So she had to figure things out on her own.
Earth Pillar... Xie Ning looked at the seemingly endless mountain road and the surrounding black mist, and had some vague guesses in his heart.
The place where the human pillar was transferred is still in the human realm, but it is a place where he is trapped.
Could that Earth Pillar have already left the human realm? After all, she's not a living person, so this place is very likely the Netherworld. But strangely... Xie Ning took a deep breath; she was still breathing.
Because of this, she cannot be sure of her guess, and now she can only take it one step at a time.
Xie Ning pursed her lips tightly. She came here to save her grandmother, but she opened the wrong door... So she had to find a way as soon as possible to send the soul in the beaded string to the place where the human pillar was located.
The road down the mountain was too long; Xie Ning walked for a full three hours. When she couldn't tell which way to go, she had to rely on a compass and divination to determine her direction.
Fortunately, the magnetic field here wasn't as strange as when we went up the mountain before.
It was still very quiet here, and even the plants were lifeless, not to mention the butterflies we had seen before; they were all shrouded in an aura of death.
Occasionally, a transparent phantom would drift past Xie Ning; she recognized this one, as it was a soul without a physical form.
However, unlike those she had encountered before, the wandering half-void spirits here not only lacked consciousness but also instincts, drifting with the wind, their origins and destination unknown.
Xie Ning stopped when she saw a black river, because she also saw people, or perhaps she couldn't really call them people, because she didn't sense any life in them.
The other party had already sensed Xie Ning's presence, but only lazily raised their eyes to look over after Xie Ning approached, thus allowing Xie Ning to see the other party's appearance clearly.
There wasn't much to see, Xie Ning thought, lowering his gaze silently before asking softly, "Excuse me, boatman, where is this boat headed?"
The old man, wearing a straw raincoat and a bamboo hat, calmly lit a bamboo lantern and hung it on the bow of the boat. Then he turned his dark face to look at Xie Ning. His eyes were just two balls of dark blue flames, and no other facial features were visible.
Xie Ning inexplicably recalled the appearance of some Mirror Spirits, but Mirror Spirits still had a barely complete human form, while the one in front of him was a human form formed from a cloud of black mist and two balls of flame.
"Which would you prefer, the Xuan Clan or the Chi Clan?"
Without waiting for Xie Ning's reply, the boatman continued, "I am a member of the Xuan clan, so I only travel the Xuan clan's roads."
What was the point of saying that extra sentence beforehand?
However, it did allow her to learn more about the situation here, at least she learned about the existence of the Xuan Clan and the Chi Clan.
Xie Ning was about to step onto the boat when, for some reason, he asked, "How much is the fare?"
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