Chapter 247 - Dark Spirit (2/2)
What was most terrifying was its movement speed.
Upon receiving Ye Chen’s message, Little Wingsy turned and ran toward Ye Chen.
Tuoba Yan was still kowtowing and begging for grandpa to spare him. There was very little Celestial Chi left in him. Without Celestial Chi to protect himself, Little Wingsy’s fists naturally hit his flesh and he was beaten miserably. At this time, even if his mother came over, she might not be able to recognize him.
“Big Brother Ye Chen, what’s wrong?” Little Wingsy asked curiously.
Ye Chen quickly pulled Little Wingsy and hid behind a boulder. His Astral Body was locked on the Giant Bat.
The Giant Bat approached quickly and immediately dived down after spotting Tuoba Yan. A shrill scream rang as the Giant Bat picked up the struggling Tuoba Yan with a pair of thin but sharp claws. It circled in the air for a moment and fluttered back into the depths of the cave without anyone noticing.
Tuoba Yan struggled desperately and attacked the Giant Bat with his fists but he could not do anything to injure it.
In just a moment, the Giant Bat had taken Tuoba Yan far away.
Although Ye Chen was a good-natured person and was willing to risk his life to save a few ordinary people, he was not someone like a Buddha who was willing to sacrifice himself to save a bad person. Good people had to be saved. If they could not be saved, that would be because of heaven’s will. However, those who were extremely vicious and should be killed, would be killed.
Ye Chen frowned as he watched the Giant Bat fly away. The underground of this Exclusion Zone was even more dangerous than he had imagined.
Should Ye Chen continue onward?
After pondering for a long time, Ye Chen decided that if the underground was too dangerous, he would not go. However, Ye Chen was full of curiosity toward the underground. If he were alone, he might have gone down to take a look but he had Little Wingsy and Little Tanuki with him. He had to be responsible for their safety. Previously when he had explored the Nether Palace, something almost went wrong. In this world, many things were simply beyond their reach.
“Big Brother Ye Chen, what was that?” Little Wingsy asked. He was not afraid of that thing at all but instead, was eager to fight with it. Up till now, except for Tantai Ling, Little Wingsy had not been afraid of anyone or anything including the stone statues they had encountered in the Nether Palace.
“I’m not sure either.” Ye Chen shook his head.
The Giant Bat flew further. At this distance, even if the Giant Bat turned around, they still had enough time to run away.
“Big Brother Ye Chen, this is that old man’s Heaven-Earth Pouch. There are some things inside. Are they valuable? There are also two swords here.” Little Wingsy handed Ye Chen the Heaven-Earth Pouch with sparkling eyes. The current Little Wingsy was like a robber. He never let go of things that had caught his eye. Fortunately, Ye Chen taught him that even if he wanted to rob, he could only rob from bad people.
“These two swords are both Tier Three spirit artifacts. Not bad.” Ye Chen opened up Tuoba Yan’s Heaven-Earth Pouch. There were several pills such as Chi-amassing Pills, Earthly Quintessence Pills, and so on. There were several spirit artifacts that could be considered good. In addition to these things, Ye Chen found an ancient book as well as a notebook. The skin of the ancient book was made from the hide of a mystical beast. It should have a few dozen pages originally, but it had been badly damaged, and only three pages were relatively intact. Various figures were painted on it with some directions. They might be arrays.
The first page near the front of the book, most likely the third page, looked like the refining method of the Triple Sword Array. After looking at it, Ye Chen saw that it was quite useful. Unfortunately, Ye Chen did not know how to utilize the array. The Triple Sword Array required some unique refining techniques.
The middle page was of a formation. It looked profound and the diagram was even more complicated, making people dizzy just by looking at it. As for the last page, it was of a giant sword array. The sword array needed tens of thousands of Tier Five and above spirit artifacts and the process was also very complex.
As for the notebook, it was the research notes of someone from the Oracle Sect. It seemed like Tuoba Yan took these items from an Oracle Sect member.
Ye Chen’s Astral Body extended along the direction the Giant Bat flew toward and slowly explored underground. What he saw shocked him.
It was an extremely empty space with a radius of several kilometers and a ceiling several hundred meters high. On the open ground, bones greeted the eyes of onlookers. These bones were not scattered around but laid side by side. There were more than tens and thousands of them. Using his Astral Body to check, Ye Chen found several mass graves under the earth where countless bodies were buried.
The dark wind blew. With so many bones piled up together, one could only imagine the dark energy that was being formed.
Several Mystique Venerable Rank puppets were busying around with their heads bowed. Ye Chen did not know what they were doing. The Giant Bat flew across and threw Tuoba Yan’s body among the corpses.
Further away, Ye Chen’s Astral Body saw five high cylindrical pillars dozens of meters high. In the middle of the pillars was a dark spirit similar to the evil spirits that Ye Chen had encountered in the Sunken Jade Tower. From time to time, the illusory face let out shrill screams.
“Let me out! I want to kill! I want to kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!” the dark spirit howled angrily. A fierce aura rose to the sky. It struggled unceasingly but it was firmly locked to the pillars by black chains.
Clang clang clang. The chains being pulled gave off bursts of clanking sounds. The chains were painted with complex patterns, glowing radiantly with bursts of gold. There were most likely special seals placed on it.
Every time the dark spirit struggled, the iron chain would burst with gold light and shine on the dark spirit, making it howl with a painful shrill.