Upon discovering this news, Xie Zhou found it even more unbelievable. How could the strength of the monsters on the outermost edge of the Monster Mountain Range be comparable to that of the monsters in the middle?
However, when she activated her mental power, she could clearly feel that powerful aura, which puzzled her greatly, so she asked the system for clarification.
The system's answer was exactly the same.
"Host, your investigation was indeed correct; those magical beasts have become extremely powerful."
Upon learning this news, Xie Zhou hurriedly went to report it to the other elders.
But just as she found the sect elder, she heard a scream.
"Ahhh..."
Upon hearing the scream, Xie Zhou's expression changed, and he whispered, "Oh no!"
After a short while, the blood suddenly changed, and following the source of the sound, they found an elder.
The elder was covered in strange black patterns that spread all over her body. She looked to be in great pain, and her face was not just distorted, but completely deformed.
Moreover, the elder continued to attack the black lines that were spreading upwards. Each attack was deadly, hitting him directly, but the pain was nothing compared to the oppressive feeling that the black lines brought him.
He cried out in anguish.
"Ahhh...!"
Xie Zhou's eyes widened in surprise. She felt like she had seen those strange patterns somewhere before.
She quickly remembered that during the attack on the monster horde in the Monster Mountain Range, someone was suddenly cursed and turned into this. However, generally, the curse would only attack the people next to it and not itself. So what was wrong with this elder?
She felt increasingly strange, so she moved closer to observe the black patterns on the elder's body.
Those patterns further solidified Xie Zhou's idea. She felt that they were a force formed by the power of the curse, all the work of the Hall of the Dead. However, she didn't know if this cursed power could be suppressed with spiritual power or other forces.
Even if he killed the elder, it would be useless. The power of the curse would spread to other people. Besides, Xie Zhou couldn't bear to kill the elders of the Sword Sect.
Just as Xie Zhou was about to help the elder get rid of the curse power on his body, he thought that if he used some spiritual power, he should be able to suppress it.
Because she couldn't think of any better solutions at the moment, perhaps the commotion caused by the elders here was too great, which attracted several elders from other regions, who rushed over to see what had happened.
Upon seeing that elder, he appeared completely out of sorts, and his posture was extremely strange.
He looked puzzled and a little scared, and hid to the side, carefully observing the elder, also noticing the strange black patterns on his body.
However, they were truly at a loss in the face of this situation. Although these elders had experienced many trials and tribulations, they rarely saw this kind of thing, since they rarely took action anymore.
The elder then approached Xie Zhou and asked, "Miss Xie, what's wrong with Old Wu? Why are there so many strange things on him?"
Xie Zhou stared intently at the elder, looking for an opportunity, and casually replied, "The elder is probably under a curse, which is why he looks like this."
"The power of a curse? But how could something like that appear in this place? Do those magical beasts possess it?"
The elder, with his sharp eyes, spotted the scorpion monster's corpse, which had been split in two on the ground, leading him to this conclusion.
Xie also noticed the thing on the ground; perhaps that cursed power really did come from the magical beast!
The elder was still somewhat conscious. He wanted to use his own spiritual power to suppress the curse power that was spreading to his body and mind. The spells that attacked him earlier were just to block some of his acupoints to prevent the curse power from spreading to other places again.
However, the elder found that this method was useless, so he had no choice but to use his spiritual power to suppress the curse power. The spiritual power kept surging from his dantian, and the weak curse power seemed to retreat in the face of the rich spiritual power.
With the power of the curse suppressed by spiritual energy, the elder regained a slight sense of mobility. He quickly sat cross-legged, intending to begin circulating his energy and regulating his breathing to expel the power of the curse from his body as much as possible.
However, Xie Zhou noticed that he was sitting cross-legged, sweat was pouring out of his body, and his whole body was trembling slightly. Xie Zhou found this strange.
She had just noticed that the aura of the curse was weakening, and the elder was slowly recovering, but something still...
She felt something was off, so she asked the system, but the system couldn't answer her question either.
Xie Zhou was about to step forward to help the elder and use his spiritual power to suppress him, but the elder suddenly widened his eyes, his hands stopped in mid-air, and he fell backward.
She tried to help him up, but saw that the elder's eyes were quickly covered with something black, the whites of his eyes were gone, not to mention his pupils, and for some reason, those black lines spread to the elder's whole body very quickly.
Xie Zhou looked on with some surprise and fear. She took a few steps back and assumed a defensive stance, fearing that this elder might suddenly rise up like those rampaging demonic beasts and launch a fierce attack on the surrounding area.
The elder had been suppressing the power of the curse well, but suddenly the power of the curse erupted.
"Ugh! Thud..."
At the very last moment, the elder severed his own meridians and exploded, dying instantly. However, in the instant he disappeared, the elder used his last wisp of divine consciousness to transmit a message to the other elders.
"Remember, using spiritual power will accelerate the erosion by the curse! Do not use it..."
Xie Zhou watched helplessly as the elder vanished into thin air before his eyes, leaving nothing behind. The other elders, listening to the elder's admonitions, were also deeply saddened.
They thought the elder had sacrificed himself, but that was not an obstacle to stop them from investigating the Black Tide. If they didn't investigate thoroughly, it wouldn't just be one person who died, but many. Moreover, the elder's death could not be wasted!
However, they still need to explore the reason for the black tide appearing in the Monster Mountain Range, but having learned from the previous experience, they need to be even more careful.
After a brief farewell to the elder, they continued their cautious exploration.
Although the warnings were transmitted to the other elders, Xie Zhou also heard some of them. He glanced back at that place a few times before following the elders on their way.
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