Chapter 111: The Stone Bead |
As soon as these words came out, Cang Yinyue's eyes flashed with alarm as she sharply turned her head to look toward the water area illuminated by the torch.
Li Musheng frowned. Why were things getting increasingly frightening?
"You better not be exaggerating to scare me, kid."
He said quietly, then took a step forward. His figure disappeared from its original position, and in the blink of an eye arrived above Ah Bin's head.
Very quickly, Li Musheng's expression changed, "What the hell, these corpses are really moving?"
At this moment, deep in the water area of floating corpses ahead of him, there were over a dozen corpses wearing red, purple, and blue robes.
The heads of these corpses that had originally been submerged in the water were now constantly twisting left and right, causing their floating black hair to rise and fall ceaselessly, swaying without stop.
Before long, the hands and feet of those corpses also began to paddle rapidly, and they paddled faster and faster.
They seemed like drowning people helplessly struggling and flailing. For a moment water splashed everywhere, and the sounds they created began to echo continuously in the silent cavern.
At this moment, Ah Bin raised his head to look at Li Musheng above, then suggested in a low voice with an ugly expression, "Why don't we retreat first? I think we might have taken the wrong path."
Hearing this, Li Musheng showed a thoughtful expression as he stroked his chin and looked back toward Cang Yinyue, saying, "I think what he said isn't without reason. What do you think, Miss Cang?"
Cang Yinyue's fair face turned slightly red as she glared at Li Musheng from afar.
According to her memory, the direction she had chosen should have been correct.
But the underground waterway those Great Qi remnants had opened to Dragon Abyss Lake was originally meant to facilitate passage for their own people. They wouldn't deliberately create such a strange group of corpses to block the way.
Therefore, from the current situation, it was quite possible that underground where she couldn't accurately distinguish direction, that deep cave which seemed directionally correct had actually quietly deviated, causing her to misjudge the correct bearing.
However, just as Cang Yinyue was pondering the reason for her error, Ah Bin's alarmed cry suddenly came from the distant water surface again, "What the hell, that... the corpse turned its head to look at me!"
Hearing this, Li Musheng glanced at Ah Bin below. This kid learned his speech patterns quite quickly.
However, the other party wasn't really exaggerating this time. At this moment, those dozen or so corpses wearing various brightly colored robes had suddenly turned their heads to look in the direction where the two of them were.
Their eyeballs were completely white without any black pupils, and their faces were as pale as if they'd been dead for hundreds of years.
The next moment, the dozen or so corpses suddenly flipped their bodies over, and with both hands and feet rapidly paddling the water surface, they swam toward the two of them.
Seeing this, Ah Bin's expression immediately became somewhat ugly. He raised his head to look at Li Musheng.
Li Musheng waved his hand and said, "Don't worry. You're so high above the water surface. They couldn't possibly jump up and grab you, right?"
However, just as his words fell, those dozen or so corpses suddenly leaped several zhang high from the water surface, directly lunging at him and Ah Bin.
Not only that, these corpses opened their mouths to emit extremely unpleasant cries. The piercing sound waves had extremely strong penetrating power, shaking the water surface into rippling waves. Mountain rocks from above the cavern also began falling down.
At the same time, the other densely packed corpses that had originally been floating motionlessly on the water surface also seemed to be awakened by the voices of these dozen or so corpses, and all began paddling with their hands and feet.
For a moment, the densely packed corpses paddled the water surface, and the entire water area ahead seemed to boil instantly.
Waves of splashing water raised huge billows. The rolling "splash" sounds were deafening, as if they wanted to sweep through and collapse the entire cavern mountain.
Ah Bin was obviously shocked by the scene before him. Looking at the terrifying corpses lunging through the air, wrapped in True Qi and unable to escape, he could only watch helplessly as their pale faces and sharp fingernails got closer and closer, yet there was nothing he could do.
Just at this moment, Li Musheng standing in the air suddenly snorted coldly.
Immediately after, Ah Bin's eyes slowly widened, and his face then immediately showed an expression of disbelief.
In his line of sight, the corpses that had originally leaped up into mid-air and were rapidly lunging at him suddenly became completely still in an instant.
The next moment, those corpses melted like candles and in a flash transformed into masses of corpse water flowing down from mid-air.
At the same time, the densely packed corpses that had been floating and continuously paddling in the water area below his feet also at the same moment, just like those dozen or so lunging corpses, without exception all melted and transformed into corpse water, merging into the cold underground river water.
All of this happened extremely fast, in just the blink of an eye!
All the corpses in the entire water area before them had transformed into corpse water. The surroundings immediately quieted down, so silent one could hear a pin drop.
"Slapping my face, you corpses really are admirably courageous."
Li Musheng raised an eyebrow, while Ah Bin raised his head to look at him.
At this moment, Ah Bin finally witnessed with his own eyes the true martial Dao strength of the person before him.
In an instant, he had turned hundreds of corpses into corpse water. Yet from beginning to end, he hadn't even seen the other party make a move.
Ah Bin truly found it somewhat hard to imagine that the other party, being so young, actually possessed such terrifying martial Dao cultivation.
At the same time, Li Musheng's eyes shifted as his gaze looked toward the depths of the water area ahead, narrowing his eyes slightly.
Then, he casually waved his hand. Ah Bin, who had been wrapped in True Qi, felt his whole body lighten and found he could already move completely freely.
"Miss Cang, you two stay here temporarily. I'll go and come right back."
Li Musheng said to Cang Yinyue, turning his head. Then, his entire person disappeared from his original position, heading toward the deep cave ahead.
"Be very careful."
Cang Yinyue cautioned. At this moment, she also began to sense that in the depths of the water area ahead, there seemed to be an indescribable aura rising.
After Ah Bin regained his mobility, he lightly tapped the water surface a few times and found a rock to crouch on.
He looked in the direction Li Musheng had departed. The shock in his eyes still hadn't dissipated.
"Crack!"
Sounds of rocks splitting came from the dark cave. Li Musheng's figure was extremely fast, passing through the deep cave silently and soundlessly.
As he continued deeper, he gradually heard a burst of whispering chaotic sounds by his ears, as if countless people were murmuring in low voices beside his ear.
But these sounds were also indistinct and unclear. One couldn't hear the meaning of what they were saying at all.
"Annoying!"
Li Musheng's figure stopped as he lightly uttered a word.
At a water surface a hundred zhang away from him, waves suddenly arose violently, then exploded with a boom.
In an instant, endless water droplets shot up from the bottom of the water, impacting with such force that the entire mountain before them shook violently.
At the same time, from the broken water surface, a round stone bead emitting a grayish dim light suddenly flew up.
The stone bead spun round and round in the air. In the darkness, it seemed as if countless people were urgently buzzing in low voices, as if calling out the stone bead's name.
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