Chapter 182 - Broken Walls, Red Eyes (2/2)

According to Yakee, murals are like their diary, through which they record their life. Lin Luoran and Wen Guanjing are suspect about this as the story of cultivators flying towards to the halo in the desert is a great secret for many centuries in the cultivation world. Lin Luoran believes that the mural will not be easy to be found by her and Wen Guanjing, so she holds back her divergent thinking.

Having walked all night, Lin Luoran and Wen Guanjing feel hungry. Barney and Yakee, however, are still energetic. If they were not cultivators, maybe they would do much worse than the Bushmen.

They have jerky bought by Wen Guanjing for breakfast. Lin Luoran and Wen Guanjing find it hard to swallow so they drink a lot of water with the jerky. Yakee, however, is like eating something extremely delicious and he is eating it with a devout expression.

After breakfast, they continue walking.

Before it gets extremely hot, they find a relic.

The broken walls have changed shapes influenced by the wind and sand. However, from the places that are not buried by the sand, they can tell that there is a square composed of stones. With some stone pillars around, Lin Luoran has reason to believe that there was a man-made architecture here in the past.

The sun is getting higher. Barney and Yakee are resting in the shadow, restoring strength.

Lin Luoran decides to check here thoroughly.

Just like what they did in the underground palace, Lin Luoran and Wen Guanjing check this place carefully. To their disappointment, they find nothing.

Hidden in the shadow, Barney is looking at these two people from the East and calculating his gains and losses from this trip. They are not only wealthy but also very powerful. Barney is worried that he may not get paid after going back. Yakee is whispering on his own, talking about Barney gets him into trouble.

Barney ignores him and picks up a stone with holes all over it. He puts the stone next to his mouth.

Barney tries a few times and he plays a piece of music on-and-off with the stone.

Yakee becomes quiet. Lin Luoran and Wen Guanjing relax down a bit as well.

They don’t notice that the color of Yakee’s eyes is changing. Red blood streaks appear in his eyes…

“Sister Lin, we cannot search aimlessly like this. We are being too slow… Why not search on our swords?”

Wen Guanjing frowns and proposes. Not surprisingly, Lin Luoran rejects his idea.

“Riding on swords is indeed fast, but it is a way too fast and it’s easy to miss trace of Baojia or clues to the mural.” Lin Luoran feels lucky that she gave the Universal Sack to Baojia as food and water inside is enough for her for a long time as long as the Universal Sack is still with her and she doesn’t come across any other dangers.

Wen Guanjing cannot propose anything more. Both of them have no idea what will happen in a weird desert. Walking is good as it can conserve Reiki.

He hands her a bottle of water and Lin Luoran shakes her head. When she is about to say something, they hear a scream. They turn around and see Barney seizes Yakee by the throat. The stone he used as an instrument is now covered by the blood.

“Barney, what are you doing?”

Lin Luoran casts a spell and uses the wind to separate the two.

Wen Guanjing swoops towards them and controls Barney, but Yakee comes to beat him.

Wen Guanjing kicks away Yakee, who is very thin and short. However, Yakee comes again and the Bushmen have changed their target and fight Wen Guanjing together.

They are not just ordinary, but their guides, so he cannot truly hurt them. Slowly, Wen Guanjing becomes furious.

He feels that a brutal feeling appears inside him. It makes him want to tear these two short, thin, ordinary people apart…

A refres.h.i.+ng wind calms him down — Lin Luoran throws two water ropes to bind the two crazy people. Wen Guanjing feels less furious and he hears Lin Luoran saying,

“Look at their eyes!”

Barney and Yakee, bound by water ropes, are now looking at them full of hatred with their red eyes. Even Wen Guanjing, who is always steady in mind, is made angry by the two who have gone into madness suddenly.

Lin Luoran hesitates and says, “Your eyes…”

She finds that there are red blood streaks in Wen Guanjing’s eyes and they are taking over the white of his eyes…

No! There is something wrong here! Lin Luoran decides to take them away from this relic. Suddenly, the sand is blown into the sky and some changes happen in this peaceful and quiet relic…