Chapter 154: Lonely Ghost

Shen Yu kicked him to the ground. The warrior was still crawling on the ground with a broken heart. His eyes were lifeless as he stared at Shen Yu, his arms and limbs twisted into abnormal arcs.

Seeing this, Shen Yu kicked him again, and the assassin was kicked over. He crawled nearly one meter and stopped only when he was exhausted.

This is exactly the same as the zombies Shen Yu had faced before.

Shen Yu was still apprehensive. He felt that he could not stay here for long, so he turned around and wanted to go back the way he came. As soon as he took a step, another arrow shot towards him from the forest.

Shen Yu was unable to dodge, he took a step back and stepped on the edge of the well. The stone bricks there had already rotted and cracked, and the edge cracked when Shen Yu stepped on it. He immediately lost his balance and fell into the abandoned well.

The black water in the abandoned well was calm and still. Shen Yu fell into it, and after two leaps he quickly sank.

Only a very heavy, dull sound came from the well. The surroundings returned to silence, with the occasional rustling sound of a python passing through the trees.

After two or three minutes, another dark guard wearing a pure black mask jumped down from a distant tree branch. He put away his bow and arrow and walked towards the waste well with a clear purpose.

A strange smell rose from the black water in the abandoned well. There were countless corpses buried under this stone well, which had been used for disposing of corpses for many years. The black water smelled terrible.

The dark guard stood there, staring at the surface of the black water. There were no ripples on the water. He looked for a while, then turned and walked to the side, picked up a heavy stone and walked over.

The width of the stone was about the same as the well mouth. He came to the well and reached out to throw the heavy stone down.

Several diamond-shaped blades suddenly flew out of the dark water in the well. After two very light sounds, the dark guard saw a flash of white light before his eyes.

The blood vessels in his throat were completely severed. The secret guard's eyes widened. He stiffened his body and tried to move forward, but another blade pierced directly through his head and penetrated deeply into the tree trunk behind him.

The dark guard took two steps back under the force, his arms dropped, and the heavy stone fell directly onto the yellow earth in front of him.

With a "bang", the dark guard's body fell to the ground.

Shen Yu continued to hold his breath in the black water. He waited patiently for a moment until there was no other movement above the wellhead. Then he suddenly emerged from under the black water.

Fortunately, he had learned how to hold his breath before to deal with Wen Yu. Otherwise, if he fell into this waste well, Shen Yu would have been waiting to die.

Shen Yu stretched out his hand and pressed the wall of the abandoned well. He wiped the water droplets on his face and supported his body only by grabbing the gaps in the stone bricks around the wall of the well.

He looked up at the sky. It was still early morning, and the sky was slightly white. However, he was in the deepest part of the forest, and the branches and leaves of the big trees were thick, blocking the little light above.

Damn it... Shen Yu frowned. He didn't tell the others about his whereabouts when he came out. Even if he was still alive, he was still sleeping. Not to mention the missing waste coal ball. They would not notice whether Shen Yu was dead or alive...

A foul stench emanated from the surface of the black water, which made Shen Yu feel nauseous and confused.

When he was buried in the water, he saw the current situation below. There was a layer of corpses, and the skulls were all looking up, with dark eyes. At that moment, it seemed as if countless hands grabbed Shen Yu, shouting that he should be buried with them.

Shen Yu's fingers tightly grasped the wall of the stone well. The well was more than ten meters high. He tried to climb up a distance, but still fell down due to exhaustion.

"Save us, Yu..."

"Shuoyu, come and save us..."

"This is all your fault! You've hurt us..."

"Go back... go back... Master, I want to go back..."

"Go and reincarnate."

"No...no...I don't want it! I don't want to enter the reincarnation cycle, I would rather die a miserable death forever! I want to come back, I want to come back...I want to kill you all..."

The dull pain in Shen Yu's head became more and more intense. His fingers tightly grasped the gaps between the stone bricks on the wall, his nails broke, and fishy blood flowed out.

Shen Yu's lips turned pale as he floated in the black water, seemingly grabbing someone's body in a trance. The rotten flesh on the body grew again in various illusions, and finally slowly synthesized into a young face.

He had sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, and wore a pure black band on his forehead, which symbolized the identity of a cultivator. He smiled at Shen Yu with his eyes tilted, "Junior brother, you are back."

Shen Yu's eyes trembled: "I..."

"Come with me quickly, or the mountain gate will be closed."

Shen Yu stood there, he didn't know when he was in the middle of a vast void.

The foul-smelling black water had long since disappeared. Shen Yu was now dressed in a plain white robe. He also wore the same headband as the Taoist priest, with a pure gold lotus totem carefully depicted on the black belt.

Xiaodao had already run a few steps to the mountain gate. He stood at the gate and waved to Shen Yu: "Shou Yu - come up quickly! Master is waiting for you, come quickly -"

Shen Yu raised his head. In front of him were layers of white stone stairs, so densely packed that there was almost no end in sight.

"Nine thousand steps to the cloud ladder..." Shen Yu murmured for some reason. He turned around and looked back, but there was still nothing behind him.

There are no other colors, let alone any vivid characters or sounds, just a vast blank space - just like his unknown past.

Shen Yu retracted his gaze, looked upward, and slowly raised his legs to step onto the first stone step in front of him.

"Xuan Lin, the third prince of Yue, invites the saint to come down the mountain again! In ancient times, there was a man who stood in the snow outside Cheng's door. Today, I will go up to the mountain in the snow to show my determination..."

Another voice trembled from the side. Shen Yu froze, and he turned his head to look to the side, and saw that Emperor Yue had stood beside him without knowing when.

No... Xuan Lin at that time was not yet the Emperor of Yue. His face was not as cold as it is now, and he still had some childishness. He was wearing a simple jade robe and climbed up the stairs in front of him layer by layer.

Shen Yu watched him pass by him and suddenly stopped his steps on the mountain. He stared at Xuan Lin's back for a few seconds and suddenly turned to another direction.

He did not enter the mountain gate, but wanted to go to the empty prison.

"Where are you going?" Xuan Lin's face suddenly enlarged and appeared in front of Shen Yu. Shen Yu was frightened by this scene and took a step back. He stared at the person in front of him and subconsciously grasped the dagger at his waist.

"Shou Yu, I know I'm sorry for you. But now the war situation is getting more serious, I have no choice but to do this. I will ask someone to treat your injuries." Xuan Lin said, and actually knelt on one knee in front of Shen Yu, "Please... follow me down the mountain again."

Shen Yu was a little hesitant. He turned around and left without thinking, but his body couldn't help but said, "Okay."

Shen Yu stood there in a daze. Xuan Lin's face disappeared. Shen Yu turned around and looked up the mountain again. He saw an old man standing at the mountain gate.