Chapter 737 (2/2)

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After the explosion, the fluctuations of Spiritual Power emanating from within began to weaken a bit.

However, the crowd could still feel that they seemed to have changed their strategy and were rapidly moving towards the center of the Soul Tomb.

This time, the group managed to get two-thirds of the way before encountering another violent fluctuation of spiritual power, seemingly facing a difficult adversary.

This time, at that two-thirds mark, they stopped for a long time, never making any further progress.

Despite how violently the spiritual powers fluctuated, they remained unable to break through the Five Elements mist enveloping their heads.

As such, more than half an hour passed with the spiritual power fluctuations inside gradually diminishing.

The onlookers outside grew increasingly worried.

Clearly, they had encountered a ‘formidable enemy,’ were blocked there, and fought until their spiritual power was exhausted, yet they still couldn’t break through.

In this group, there were three at the Divinity Transformation stage, and one Nascent Soul Cultivator.

Yet, they only made it two-thirds of the way.

As the fluctuations inside waned, it was at this moment that the mist originally enveloping their heads began to overlap.

Whether by coincidence or not, this overlapping patch of Five Elements mist revealed the scene inside.

And once again, people could see what was happening inside.

At that moment.

Inside, there were only two people; the old man from earlier, seemingly drained of his spiritual power, leaned against the courtyard wall, sitting down with a dim look in his eyes.

Despite this, the crowd could still clearly see he was alive and had not died, while the middle-aged man stood in front of the elder, making his last stand of resistance.

Surrounding them were densely packed rows of corpses numbering in the hundreds, closing in on the two men.

Amid these corpses, Lin Jing even spotted another member of their party, a Divinity Transformation early-stage Cultivator, who had also turned into a corpse at some point.

At this time, the middle-aged man maneuvered a Flying Sword Magical Treasure, slashing at the encroaching corpses in front of him.

Lin Jing watched the now slightly dim Flying Sword hit the corpses, and after the blade struck, there weren’t any wounds on the bodies of the corpses.

The bodies of these corpses were so hard they could even rival a Body Refinement Cultivator.

The Flying Sword could not damage the corpses as they continued to approach the two men.

Just when Lin Jing thought the two men would die at the hands of the corpses, an unexpected event occurred.

From the inside of the wall they leaned against, a slender arm covered with black hair reached out.

This arm moved swiftly, grabbing the elder who no longer had any capability to resist, and pulled him directly into the courtyard.

The entire courtyard was pitch black, making it impossible for the people outside to see what exactly was in there.

The middle-aged man only realized what was happening when the arm grasped the elder.

The middle-aged man quickly attempted a rescue, but it was too late; the long, black-haired arm moved incredibly fast.

In the blink of an eye, the elder was dragged into the courtyard.

“What is that thing?”

At that moment, the same question arose in the minds of all the onlookers.

The middle-aged man, likely harboring the same question, saw the elder get dragged into the courtyard, and he dared not proceed any further.

He quickly moved away from the vicinity of the courtyard, turning to face the corpses that were closing in from the front.

In front of him was the courtyard housing the unknown creature.

Behind him, hundreds of corpses were about to close in; at this moment, the middle-aged man seemed to have no escape.

Just as the crowd wanted to keep watching, the Five Elements mist drifted over again,

covering the exposed corner.

Right before it was completely obscured, everyone saw a several meters long arm covered with black hair reaching out toward the middle-aged man…

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Seeing this scene, everyone couldn’t help but think one thought.

The middle-aged man was finished.

Indeed.

As the Five Elements mist obscured the Soul Tomb, no more spiritual power fluctuations came from inside.

The crowd grew silent as the fluctuations within the Soul Tomb ceased.

Only after a while did someone let out a sigh.

“Ah…”

“What a pity.”

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“Yes.”

“I thought, given their strength, they would have been able to go further, yet they couldn’t even make it into the central area of the Soul Tomb.”

“Indeed…”

“When I was outside, I knew that being swept into the Sea of Strange by the mist meant never coming out; I just didn’t think that one day I’d end up in the same situation.”

“Before this, I felt there was some hope that I could leave this place, this Soul Tomb, and escape the Sea of Strange.”

“Now it seems…”

“I will never leave this Sea of Strange in my lifetime.”