"The bones have risen up!"
While Huang Lao was pondering where Song Yuechen's puppet came from.
Gingerbread reminded him quietly.
Following her gaze, Old Huang looked toward White Bone Ridge, where he saw skeletons swaying as they stood up.
On the desolate hilltop, the pale bones moved slowly in one direction.
They formed what appeared to be a massive army of skeletons.
Honestly, this scene...
This scene would be terrifying in any horror movie.
"Little Bing, did you hear that sound?" Old Huang asked.
Gingerbread pricked up its ears and listened intently for a while. "The sound of a pipa! Are those skeletons moving towards the source of the sound?"
"It's probably true. Let's go and see."
Since someone has summoned these skeletons.
That means the enemy who harmed Xie Yingnan is nearby.
Gingerbread and Old Huang dismounted and followed behind the group of corpses, some of which had been dead for only a short time.
Flesh and blood still clung to the bones.
Seriously.
The rotting flesh smelled absolutely awful.
Gingerbread tried to conceive several times, but she managed to hold it back. If Fenjue were here, he could help her shut down her five senses.
There's no need to confront this torment directly.
Follow the skeleton over the mountain and you'll reach a dense forest.
The sound of the pipa seemed to be right next to my ear.
The skeleton continued to move forward slowly and hesitantly.
Gingerbread and Old Huang hid behind a black, withered tree, where crows cawed a few times.
It fits the current gloomy atmosphere perfectly.
The skulls were arranged in neat rows in front of a giant rock.
A woman in a black gauze dress gracefully landed, holding a pipa, and gently brushed the stray hairs behind her ear. "Come out."
"?"
Gingerbread and Old Huang looked at each other and asked the same question at the same time.
That shouldn't be the case.
How did they discover the two of them even though they had a concealment talisman?
Just as the two were about to make a grand appearance, a man in a moon-white robe emerged from behind the boulder.
It's Song Yuechen!
Gingerbread sensed Old Huang's pent-up urge to act.
"Patience is key; a small act of impatience can ruin a great plan."
Old Huang suppressed his hatred and used his spiritual sense to tell Jiang Bingbing, "That woman is the Holy Maiden of the Demon Realm."
"She is known to outsiders as Lady White Bone."
"Her magic was infused into the pipa, and the sound of the pipa could summon the dead to serve her."
Gingerbread nodded.
He then focused his gaze on the woman on the boulder.
The woman had long, narrow eyes and frighteningly red lips.
Lady White Bone chuckled softly, holding her pipa. "The Demon Lord sent people to provide support, but unexpectedly, it was Master Songdan who came."
"Master Alchemist, is there any way to find that traitor Xie Yin so we can finish our work and go home as soon as possible?"
"I need to get my beauty sleep."
The woman spoke in a seductive tone, and the sleeve of her dark gauze robe slipped down, revealing a section of white bone on her arm.
An arm without flesh and blood?!
Old Huang: "Those are her demonic bones. Even if they don't grow flesh and blood, it doesn't matter. On the contrary, they will be easier to control those skeletons."
So that's how it is; she's learned something new again.
Song Yuechen glanced sideways with a smile, replying gently, "Isn't the skeleton before you the White Bone Lady's wondrous technique?"
"Yue Chen only needs to assist from the side. If Lady White Bone needs anything, she can just summon me."
The woman held the pipa in one hand, leaned forward, and brought her bright red lips close to Song Yuechen. When she noticed his resistance, she scoffed and viciously pinched his chin with her right hand.
"Just a dog from the Demon Realm. I think you have a good appearance, which is your good fortune."
"Sooner or later, wash them clean and send them to my bone palace."
“Heh—” Song Yuechen smiled slightly, lowered her eyes, her long eyelashes concealing the disdain surging in her pupils, and said in a gentle voice, “Lady White Bone is incomparably beautiful, why would she want to look at Yuechen’s plain and unattractive appearance.”
"Not worth it."
Lady White Bone and Song Yuechen flirted and teased each other.
Gingerbread transmitted its voice to Elder Huang, "It seems your junior brother's work in the Demon Realm hasn't been too smooth sailing, haha!"
Old Huang: "That bastard deserved it."
Song Yuechen refused to comply, and Lady White Bone, anxious to find Xie Yingnan, had no choice but to give up.
She stood barefoot atop a giant rock, her delicate hands playing the pipa.
The image of a beautiful woman holding a pipa under the moon is exquisite, but the sight of her bare white bone exposed on her right arm as she plucks the strings is not so beautiful.
Song Yuechen threw a piece of cloth into the pile of skulls.
Lady White Bone commanded, "My darlings, take a good sniff of this scent and bring Xie Yin back to me!"
The skeletons slowly scattered upon hearing the sound of the pipa.
"You say this place stinks, and she doesn't even wear shoes. Isn't she afraid her feet will stink too?" Gingerbread crouched behind a tree, staring at Lady White Bone's bare feet and complaining.
Old Huang nodded in deep agreement, "Perhaps she smells terrible, after all, she deals with corpses and skeletons all day long."
“Oh, right!” Gingerbread looked like she had just realized something. “No wonder when she pinched Song Yuechen’s chin, the guy surnamed Song tried to back away as much as possible.”
"So Kaoru died!"
The two of them burst into laughter and gave each other a high five.
Then, crouching low and tiptoeing away, they left the place.
While still dealing with Lady White Bone, Song Yuechen's eyes twitched when he heard the conversation between Jiang Bingbing and Old Huang.
Lady White Bone twirled a strand of Song Yuechen's hair between her fingers: "Is Master Song feeling unwell?"
Song Yuechen's expression darkened slightly. "No, Yuechen will take her leave now and help the Holy Maiden search around."
He disappeared as if he were hiding from a ghost, vanishing as soon as he finished speaking.
Lady White Bone leaned against the edge of the boulder, touching the skull of a skeleton. "With my skeleton army, you're still not at ease? Human cultivators just love to worry about nothing."
Gingerbread and Old Huang walked quite a distance.
"How are we supposed to find your senior brother?" Old Huang took a breath and sensed something was wrong. "What is your senior brother's status that made the Demon Lord send Lady White Bone to chase after him?"
Lady White Bone rarely leaves the Demon Realm.
“Oh, he’s a demonic cultivator.” Gingerbread calmly took out the tracking butterfly.
Huang Lao: ? ? ?
Wait, you're so calm about revealing such a shocking secret!
"A demonic cultivator?" Old Huang asked incredulously. "You want me to help you save a demonic cultivator?"
"Yeah, but he's a good person, believe me."
She sent the butterfly to fly around one of the skeletons to extract Xie Yingnan's scent.
The butterfly, hidden in the dense forest, flew forward unsteadily.
Old Huang will be scared to death by gingerbread sooner or later.
Forget it.
The little girl saved his old life; even if it were a demonic cultivator or a demon lord, he would grit his teeth and help save her.
The two followed Xi Die deeper into the area.
Completely unaware.
Someone was following them silently.
The butterflies flutter and pause.
They flew to a cave filled with skeletons.
Finally stopped.
Gingerbread crept up to the cave entrance and whispered inside, "Little Gingerbread soars ninety thousand miles into the sky, Senior Brother flies and falls flat on his face, Peacock, are you there?"
Old Huang: ......What kind of code is this?
The cave remained silent for a long time.
"Huh, isn't he here?" Gingerbread muttered to himself, looking down.
A few moments later.
From the deep, dark cave entrance came Xie Yingnan's voice, filled with gritted teeth, "I'm here."
Before Gingerbread and Old Huang could even clap their hands in celebration.
Xie Yingnan said fiercely, "Junior Sister, not only am I here, I also want to beat you up."
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