Chapter 364 Little Deer Finally Died in the Crash
The line of black incantations was clearly visible in the clear water, and no one could ignore it.
Those outside the barrier estimated that they were no more than eight feet away from Fang Tianchen, but no one dared to step forward to use magic to destroy the barrier. One reason was that they were afraid that the Weak Water Green Mud would rush out and swallow them, and the other was that they were successfully intimidated by Yu Sui.
"Let's wait and see," Bei Shan said to Qin Yidong. "It seems they don't want this 'weak water and green mud' to emerge from the 'thousand-foot cliff' either."
Yu Sui truly did not want to expand the area of the Weak Water and Green Mud, lest it attract teachers and saints.
Seeing that the people outside the barrier dared not move easily, Yu Sui submerged and took Fang Tianchen away.
Even those outside could see that the water was turbulent and violent, as if it were being pounded in a constantly churning sea.
Everyone was unsure whether they could remain calm and move properly in the Weak Water and Green Mud, but Yu Sui's actions in rescuing Fang Tiancheng were as smooth as a fish in water, as if the Weak Water and Green Mud had not had any negative impact on her.
Seeing Yu Sui disappear from everyone's sight, Qin Yidong turned to Duan Mingde and asked, "Didn't you say we didn't need to worry about Nangong Sui?"
Duan Mingde's face was extremely ugly: "That was in the past, not now."
The current Nangong Sui felt like a stranger to him.
"What do we do now? Should we leave?" someone asked softly.
Qin Yidong calmed down and asked, "Is Nangong Sui the only one inside?"
“Unlikely,” Beishan said. “She doesn’t seem to be very interested in the Pagoda fragments either.”
If she wasn't interested in the fragments, then what was she doing in the Abyss of No Return?
For the sake of the unowned God.
Qin Yidong gritted his teeth, feeling resentful, when he thought about the relationship between Mei Liangyu and Yu Sui.
The Weak Water Green Mud is the source of death energy in the narrow passage. Most of the unowned contracted gods in the mountain abyss were born from here. Now that the Weak Water Green Mud is erupting, the more chaotic and violent the energy is, the more ghostly contracted gods can be born.
Whether the unclaimed divine contract was taken by Mei Liangyu or Yu Sui, she could not accept it.
She had meticulously planned to seize the Thirteenth Realm Unowned God Contract, so why did everyone seem to be against her?
Qin Yidong didn't care about the fragment of the Floating Pagoda. If the Dan Kingdom obtained this fragment, it would only be targeted by a coalition of several countries that already had fragments.
Besides, these are issues that her father and the ministers of Dan Kingdom need to worry about and resolve; she only needs to strengthen her own power.
Her Ghost Daoist God of Contract absolutely cannot be a low-level God of Contract below the thirteenth realm.
Qin Yidong said to Bei Shan and Su Xingchao, "Find a way to get in."
"Princess..." Su Xingchao had just opened his mouth when Qin Yidong coldly glanced at him, "If you were afraid of dying, you shouldn't have come in in the first place."
Su Xingchao is brainless and has a bad temper. He only knows how to obey orders. The real threat Qin Yidong wants to take is Bei Shan.
She turned to face Beishan and lowered her voice, saying, "I know that Puheng made a deal with a certain saint to take the fragment from here. He wants to help you climb the ranks, and I have given my permission. But you must remember that with just one word from me, you will never be able to return to Dan Kingdom, let alone change your fate."
What good are talented children? They have no chance to grow and will be wiped out at some point. And all it takes for them to suffer is a single word from a certain person.
Bei Shan fell silent. What would Pu Heng think and do in a situation like this?
Pu Heng has always been the one making the decisions, whether good or bad. He is the one who takes the risks and is cursed and hated, but he has never treated them unfairly.
Bei Shan turned his head to look into the Thousand-Foot Cliff and said slowly, "Those Ghostly Death Talismans have weakened the power of the Weak Water Green Mud. Perhaps it's not as terrible as we imagined."
He meant that he agreed.
Qin Yidong narrowed his eyes in satisfaction.
Duan Mingde thought his friend had gone mad: "You want to go in? At this time? Are you crazy?!"
Beishan: "Didn't you swear to go in and kill Li Jinshuang?"
Duan Mingde was speechless, unsure how to respond, but he also lacked the courage to break into the barrier.
Bei Shan couldn't care less about him at the moment. He was thinking that he had to act quickly. Ruoshui Qingni was bound to erupt suddenly. Although Nangong Sui had made preparations, they were not foolproof.
"Break through the barrier." Beishan held the Water Moon Sword, the longsword, which shone with a gentle light, exuded a chilling aura.
"You really want to..." Duan Mingde was interrupted by Bei Shan before he could finish speaking, "Give me the barrier and the Weak Water Green Mud, but you must bring Fang Tianchen out, or take out the Ice and Fire Kui Xing."
He glanced coldly at Duan Mingde: "This is your own mistake, and you must make amends."
Otherwise I will look down on you.
Provoked by that look, Duan Mingde felt a surge of anger rising in his chest. He gripped his sword tightly, stopped talking, and focused his mind on preparing for battle.
Apart from Duan Mingde, everyone present was from Dan Kingdom. Half listened to Qin Yidong, and the other half listened to Bei Shan.
After Beishan agreed to attack the barrier, everyone stopped hesitating, gathered their strength, and prepared to break through the barrier left by Yu Sui and enter Thousand Feet Cliff to retrieve Fang Tianchen.
Qin Yidong took out two strange and precious weapons from the Ghost Daoist sect from the mechanism box.
The Taiqing Bottle and the Gangfeng Lamp.
The emerald green Taiqing bottle contained three drops of divine dew. Qin Yidong held one drop in his mouth to prevent his soul from being torn apart or crushed by the immense death energy within the Weak Water Green Mud, thus avoiding loss of reason. He could also survive by holding his breath underwater.
Qin Yidong lit the Gale Lamp, and a layer of warm light fell on everyone outside the light barrier, making them feel as light as swallows even in the Weak Water and Green Mud.
As the Beishan group gathered their strength to attack the barrier, Qin Yidong held a purple talisman and fanned it onto the Gale Lamp. The blue flames in the lamp blew towards the barrier like a gust of blue wind, howling away.
A fierce gust of wind crashed into the barrier, causing spiderweb-like patterns to appear on the barrier and making cracking sounds.
The moment the barrier shattered, everyone was on high alert, but they saw that the Weak Water and Green Mud inside showed no signs of overflowing. Instead, the Death Talismans on both sides of the mountain wall shone even brighter.
It turns out that what was preventing the Weak Water Green Mud from leaking out was not the barrier, but these death talismans. Tens of thousands of death talismans firmly absorbed the Weak Water Green Mud.
"Get in!" Qin Yidong shouted immediately. "Find Fang Tianchen and retrieve the Ice and Fire Star!"
Under the protection of the Gale Lamp, the group rushed into Thousand-Foot Cliff, only to be stunned as soon as they entered.
The Weak Water Green Mud they saw outside the barrier was a transparent and clear stream of water. Although they could see the violent energy inside, once they entered the Weak Water Green Mud, what they saw was a scene of boundless hell.
The scene was filled with black sludge mixed with blood, and flowing with dismembered limbs and bones. Severed heads and cut-off hands and feet brushed past people's faces, and there were piles of blood scabs in the filthy sludge. It was deathly and filled with a chilling atmosphere.
The air around Beishan and the others was filled with howling winds and whispering ghosts, which affected their minds and judgment. Waves of chills penetrated their bodies through their protective aura.
Wei Jianing couldn't help but try to back away, but was hit by the broken limbs and debris flowing in the Weak Water Green Mud. She lost her balance and was separated from Qin Yidong and the others in the torrent.
The remaining few also considered retreating, but under Qin Yidong's sharp gaze, they gritted their teeth and moved forward.
Duan Mingde felt his scalp tingle at the sight before him, finding it hard to imagine how Nangong Sui had been able to move around freely here and even smile at them!
Before Duan Mingde could finish venting his frustrations, the protective aura around him was suddenly extinguished, and death energy entered his body. He clutched his throat and fell to the ground in agony, dying within moments. His body was swallowed up, leaving only a skeleton.
What happened?!
Duan Mingde's eyes widened, and suddenly he felt a pain in his abdomen. The Five Elements Light Core, which no one could see, exploded beside him, in order to break his protective aura and kill him in the Weak Water Green Mud.
However, this Five Elements Light Core was shattered first by the chaotic energy within the Weak Water Green Mud, and the released power was insufficient.
The combined protection of the Gale Lamp and the protective aura meant that the Five Elements Light Cores left by Yu Sui only killed five people. However, the fear these five people instilled in Qin Yidong and the others was amplified infinitely.
Beishan was the first to react, gesturing to Qin Yidong with her hand to signal him to activate his protective aura.
Those whose protective aura was devoured by the Weak Water Green Mud were those whose protective aura was destroyed, which gave the death aura a chance to survive. They must strengthen their protective aura.
Yu Sui never expected that they would actually rush in to their deaths.
In the chaos, as she was lifting Fang Tianchen up, she discovered that he was already dead.
He couldn't withstand the impact of the Weak Water Green Mud. Even Yu Sui didn't notice or react at the moment the Weak Water Green Mud erupted.
Fang Tianchen, who was already seriously injured and had just received treatment from Wan Qi, was even less fortunate.
As Yu Sui rose to the surface, she glimpsed a huge dark shadow approaching from her left in the flickering firelight. Only when they were close enough did she see the true form of the shadow:
It was the ferry that Mei Liangyu left for them.
The ferry was shrouded in a faint black light, yet it moved freely through the muddy waters of the Weak Water. Xue Mushi, standing at the bow, waved to her, with Zhong Lishan and Li Jinshuang standing beside him.
When the ferry came to Yu Sui's side, Li Jinshuang reached out and pulled Yu Sui up.
"He's dead." Yu Sui's first words upon boarding the ship were announcing Fang Tianchen's death.
Xia Feichen, who had just rushed over from the stern of the ship, stood there stunned, unable to believe it.
"Qin Yidong has come in." Yu Sui looked outside again, speaking rapidly, "His purpose is to find Fang Tianchen. You all stay on the ferry and don't go down. Just let them be swallowed by the Weak Water Green Mud."
As she said she was about to walk away, Li Jinshuang asked, "Where are you going?"
"I'm going to find someone." Yu Sui said without turning her head.
"Meimei?" Zhong Lishan asked, "I'm going too."
Yu Sui said, "You're the best one here."
Xia Feichen then frowned and looked at Yu Sui, disapprovingly: "You still want to go back? The area outside the boat is full of muddy water, you..."
"I'm going to save my senior brother. Don't stop me, or I'll throw you outside," Yu Sui said, turning around.
Xia Feichen: "..."
Zhong Lishan ignored Xia Feichen's awkward situation and blinked blankly before asking, "Are you confident?"
Yu Sui said, "If Senior Brother doesn't come out, this Weak Water Green Mud will leak all the way to Taiyi. The death talisman I put on Thousand-Foot Cliff can only stop it for a while."
At this moment, the girl appeared incredibly calm in their eyes, and her tone left no room for refusal. For a moment, no one dared to stop her, and they could only watch as Yu Sui left the ferry again and headed towards the end of Thousand-Foot Cliff.
"Be wary of Qin Yidong and his group. Have people stand guard at the bow and stern of the boat." Zhong Lishan decided to trust Yu Sui this time and set about dealing with the current crisis, while glancing down at the boy in front of him.
Xue Mushi pointed to the bow of the boat: "I'm looking here, I... I have very good eyesight."
“He can’t use the Five Elements Qi, so he needs to be protected,” Wan Qi interjected.
Zhong Lishan sized up Xue Mushi and said, "You look familiar. Whose brother are you?"
Xue Mushi: "...It's hard to say."
Wan Qi breathed a sigh of relief. It was good that Zhong Lishan had a bad memory.
Xia Feichen went to the stern of the ship.
He wanted to be alone.
Looking in the direction Yu Sui left, Xia Feichen reached out and touched his chest. The fluttering heart he felt when facing the girl had finally died.
He admires strong and assertive girls, but he was initially attracted to Nangong Sui's delicate appearance and well-behaved demeanor.
Xia Feichen, who had just been scolded by Yu Sui without saying a word, finally understood.
He prefers gentle and obedient girls.
Xia Feichen was still savoring the scene of being coldly looked at by Yu Sui. He slowly frowned, which was quite different from his previous good-tempered and kind image.
If Nangong Sui is faking it, then Xun Zhiya must be faking it too, right?
Xia Feichen fell into thought, calming himself down to recall.
Yu Sui went against the current and arrived at the entrance of the waterfall.
What was once a white waterfall is now a torrent of blood, with broken bones mixed in with its crimson cascade, and the howls of evil spirits growing ever sharper.
Further ahead, Yu Sui could feel obvious resistance.
She then used dozens of light cores to create ghostly death talismans to block her way, and once the resistance lessened, she successfully entered the waterfall.
Just past the waterfall, what appeared before Yu Sui was a long river that seemed to have no end. The water was no deeper than ankle-deep, but countless withered corpses and remains flowed beneath it. They faced the water, their empty eye sockets staring into the distance, and they seemed to be going nowhere with the current.
A slender figure stood in the middle of the long river, his back to Yu Sui, his sleeves rolled up, and water stains still remaining on his arms.
The space was dimly lit, but Yu Sui felt that the figure was Mei Liangyu.
Unlike the muddy, polluted waters outside, the water here is clear, gentle, and calm.
Yu Sui took a step forward, about to call out "Senior Brother," when a skeleton in the water grabbed his ankle.
She easily broke free, snapped the hand that had been crushing the withered bone, and continued forward.
"Senior brother!"
Yu Sui stopped abruptly after shouting.
The strange fire deep within his soul did not react.
Is it that they can't detect it like Elder Yan, or is there simply no living person here at all?
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