Chapter 252
Yingning watched as the tiny insects gradually lost their voices, leaving only their bodies struggling in their final moments: "These things are probably everywhere here."
“A bit odd.”
Bai Xie crushed a thin worm, his lips pressed tightly together: "It is a body without spirit or soul."
"It seems that what the immortals said was true; there really is an evil being descended to this place."
All things in the six realms possess spirits, but evil beings are devoid of spirit and soul. If an evil being were to descend into the world out of thin air, it would surely cause great chaos and turmoil.
No wonder the Celestial Realm is now concerned about the Ghost Realm.
Bai Xie pondered for a moment, and as he turned to the side, a mocking smile appeared on his thin lips:
"Mother-in-law, since that's the case..."
"Why don't we lure it out?"
........
The array suddenly shone brightly, making the City of White Bones incredibly eerie.
"What a madman." Si Baixue looked at the spirit-gathering array, while Bai Xie, not far away, was still continuously releasing souls.
"Using the spirit array and the life force as bait, that thing should fall for it."
Bai Xie placed those souls into the spirit-gathering array, and after a moment, the souls began to vaguely condense into physical forms. As a renowned ghost messenger of the Underworld, Bai Xie did have some skill.
I just don't know why he's so obsessed with opening the gate to the boundary.
Si Baixue stood lazily to the side, with absolutely no intention of interfering.
In the pitch-black, foul-smelling night, rustling sounds of gnawing could be heard beneath the city walls, and one could vaguely make out some small creatures moving about.
The group waited for half an incense stick's time. This living soul was really conspicuous in the City of White Bones and Roaring Bone. Ying Ning could almost smell a lot of blood and decay.
If that thing doesn't come soon, these souls will likely be devoured by the undead birds and vengeful spirits.
Bai Yu's tail fan stopped abruptly, and sparse water mist fell into the corner. Bai Xie emerged from the darkness and said, "Here we come."
The rustling sound came again, only this time it was louder than before.
At the corner of the city wall, beneath the thick, inky black fog, something was desperately tearing at the mist, and in an instant, it swept across the sky towards the location of the living soul!
The sound came from the dense swarms of black fish, whose long worms were constantly writhing on their bodies.
The swarming of insects created a chilling, creepy crawling sound.
When they captured a living soul in the spirit array, they did not immediately and viciously devour the soul on the spot. Instead, they quickly climbed onto the living soul and overwhelmed it with the swarm of insects.
The insects swallowed those living souls into their epigastric regions, then split into three groups and quickly departed in all directions.
Bai Xie and Ying Ning followed closely behind, drawn by the scent of the living soul.
Ten thousand insects swarmed through the crimson skulls on the city wall of bones, disturbing the lair of the undead crows. They passed by the withered tree cliffs devoured by ants and insects, and finally gathered in a pool of blood under the moonlight.
Blood bubbles rose to the surface of the pool, and the insects and fish that slid into the bottom of the pool caused ripples.
The aroma of blood and stench was intense and extremely strong.
"A place of great misfortune, a twist of fate." Ying Ning raised her eyes, the blood moon in the sky looming over all living beings, seemingly watching them with a sinister gaze.
"This was originally a blessed land, but I never expected it to be polluted by the Demon King Luo Xu's dining table." Bai Xie noticed this when he heard Ying Ning's words.
Here, the moon shines bright over the pool, and a gentle breeze gathers.
Unfortunately, it had too much of a bloody smell.
The swarm of insects slid to the bottom of the pool, and the evil creature that had been bred in this ominous place for millions of years must be at the bottom of the blood pool.
"Grandma, what about your little monster?" Bai Xie asked, a mocking smile on his face.
"The evil entity is down below."
Before Ying Ning could speak, Si Baixue found a relatively sturdy dead tree and casually lay down on its top, her posture resembling that of a noble young master.
"It's too dirty down there."
"I'm not going."
Yingning, of course, couldn't be bothered with this spoiled peacock. She nodded and said, "Lord Bai, let's go down and investigate."
The water-repelling spell also worked in this treacherous pool, but the thick blood made it difficult to discern directions, and a precious pearl slowly flew out from Bai Xie's sleeve.
The pearly light illuminated the surrounding environment.
Bai Xie explained, "The Eastern Ling Pearl."
"His Highness's private possession."
Yingning's body sank down: "The Underworld Palace has indeed treated you well, and is willing to bestow such treasures upon you."
To be honest...
"I secretly took this from the treasure hall."
Bai Xie deliberately stood close to Ying Ning: "Mother-in-law, you must keep this a secret for me."
The deeper one goes into the blood pool, the less noticeable the light of the Eastern Ling Pearl becomes, as if the pool water were a giant beast with gaping maws, devouring all the light.
A thin black line silently swam over the heads of the two of them.
The bottom of the pool was extremely dark, and Bai Xie could barely see Ying Ning's figure: "That's not right, the scent of the living soul is right here."
"Why is there no sign of any evil creature?"
His voice was not quiet, and then, as he flipped his hand, the light from his tail fan pierced into an unknown place, but was instantly engulfed by darkness.
Bai Xie looked up, but could not see the scene above the pool. Until the two of them sank thousands of feet below, there seemed to be a pulse beating beneath their feet.
The scent of life force seemed to come and go, and the bottom of the pool was now completely devoid of light.
He stepped onto an uneven spot, and the surrounding darkness began to shake violently, with tiny glimmers of light seemingly piercing through the blood.
A cracking sound, and a person is lifted into the air.
She tore through the darkness, and Bai Xie lent her a helping hand.
“Grandma, I haven’t yet reached the source of this evil thing.”
"Why couldn't you hold back?"
"Please trouble you, Lord Bai, next time you walk, watch your step. Look where you're stepping."
The two had sensed the evil creature as soon as they entered the pool that it had crawled all over every corner of the bottom. Bai Xie deliberately made a sound, just to make the evil creature relax for a moment so that they could find its weak point.
Bai Xie looked down and saw that he was standing on a giant eyeball.
Blood-red eyeballs were crawling with slender black worms.
Its pupils are extremely black and deep, giving its prey a suffocating sense of oppression.
"Sorry, sorry, it was really an accident." Bai Xie leaped into the air, but the evil creature had no intention of accepting his apology. Dozens of sharp black shadows attacked him directly.
hiss--
The evil creature, in pain, saw the man who had just stepped on it, who had actually severed its weapon with a thin white feathered fan. The next second, it went berserk and became violent.
A shadowy figure, roughly a hundred times larger than himself, attacked Bai Xie, leaving him no way out!
"You evil creature."
"As expected, they won't listen to apologies."
Bai Xie conjured a long blade, swiftly and deftly severing a hundred black shadows. Seeing the long, black worm-like creatures gracefully descend, and hearing their roars, he scoffed:
"So this is your hair."
"It's actually taken on a human form?"
Whether the evil creature understood Bai Xie's words or not, it watched angrily as Bai Xie cut off its hair again and again, its bloodshot eyes filled with resentment, pain, and, most of all, rage.
The pool of blood trembled, enraged.
A deafening collapse sound followed, and the earth shook violently in an instant.
Indigo, who was resting on the treetop, also sensed the strangeness of the blood pool. He leaped down from the withered tree, and the ground trembled restlessly along with the changes at the bottom of the pool. The crows on the city wall not far away were sharp and piercing.
"What's that old woman up to?"
"Even going into the water can't give people peace of mind." Si Baixue saw the blood pool churning and swirling for a while. He originally wanted to go back to the treetop, but then he suddenly had an idea.
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