Chapter 442 - Faces In The River (1/2)

After Kui Longzi and the others were killed, their Yuan Shen secret realms burst apart turned into the secret realm dimensions shrouded in godly rays.

The Heavenly Dharma secret realms could last for a few hundred years after the expert's death. Kui Longzi and his followers were the Heavenly Dharma Qi Practitioners, and thus, their secret realms remained.

"Expert of the Kui Long Celestial Race, I'm not afraid of you at all. The whole idea of ambushing with the array formation is to lure more idiots into my trap."

Yan Zhen sneered frigidly and flicked his finger, shattering the Yuan Shen secret realms into pieces. Immediately, the treasures contained in the secret realms rained down across the floor, including Kui Longzi's divine weapon.

"Divine herb!"

Yan Zhen kept the divine weapon, and his eyes brightened up as he gazed at the one-person tall jade vase. There was a divine herb blooming intriguingly in the jade vase. It looked like a soaring phoenix and contained immense Wood Qi; it emanated a vigorous force of vitality!

It was as if the divine herb were alive, casting the totem patterns around it and pouncing around incessantly in the jade vase. It tried to escape from the jade vase but it was to no avail. The jade vase seemed to be a unique soul weapon meant to trap and contain the treasures.

"The Phoenix God Plant! These Kun Lun Qi Practitioners are really not weak either, to be able to capture a divine herb!"

It was the first time Yan Zhen was seen with a surprised expression on his face. He raised his hand and kept the Phoenix God Plant in his Yuan Shen secret realms. He then glanced at the dead bodies on the ground, and suddenly, some noises came rushing into his ears. Happiness flashed past Yan Zhen's eyes, and he whispered, "Demon slave, clear the bodies and leave no tracks behind!"

Black smoke billowed behind him, and a huge creature walked out of the dark smoke. It opened its mouth wide, and with its long and barb-like tongue, it curled on the bodies and ate them one by one.

The demon creature then opened its mouth wider and sucked all of the treasures into its stomach.

A wave of darkness swallowed the place, and as soon as lights shone again, the demon creature disappeared.

"Some celestial idiots again, I wonder what I will plunder this time."

Yan Zhen swung his hand and ploughed the garden, turning the blood-soaked soil around and burying the banners in the ground. He then turned into a wave of billowing smoke and dispersed in thin air.

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On the Crimson Water River, Zhong Yue and Qiu Jin'er were walking on the water surface while the huge carrot, Husan Weng shrunk his body into a 3-4-inch-tall carrot and stood on Zhong Yue's shoulder. Its so-called hair was waving in the breeze while it stared carefully at the river and was mumbling incessantly, "Don't come out, don't come out…"

Zhong Yue's brow raised high as he noticed a face floating up from the bottom of the red waters, it was pallid and white like snow, dying the red river with a different color.

"Don't move, act dead." Husan Weng said terrifyingly.

Zhong Yue and Qiu Jin'er then quickly stopped, they stood unmoving on the river surface and watched as one pallid face after another floated up and filled the river surface. Moments later, the whole river was dyed white by the pallid faces.

Abruptly, the pallid face right below Zhong Yue opened up. There were no eyeballs, and the empty eye sockets were filled with green burning flames.

Then the faces across the water surface opened their eyes as well, painting the red with some greenish, burning dots.

The breeze blew over, but the little flames were unaffected.

Cold sweat slowly seeped out from Zhong Yue's and Qiu Jin'er's pores. They were trying their best at maintaining their current posture and meticulously surged their arcane energies so that they would not plunge into the water.

Aren't the gods in the Returning Ruins cursed and turned into skeletons? Why are there suddenly so many faces? Who are they and why didn't they turn into bones?

Zhong Yue looked at the faces floating on the river survive, it felt like the eyes were staring at him as he thought, Where do they come from?

These faces weren't looking the same, some of them belonged to the monsters, some demons; the birds and the dragons, the beasts and the creatures. Even more, there were also a few faces belonged to the young ladies of the Western Mother Celestial Race, so beautiful and well-preserved that they looked as though they were real.

Suddenly, his body stiffened up, he saw some threads connecting the back of the faces and oscillated freely with the flow of water, lending some liveliness to the dead faces.

While on the other end of the faces, there were many thin and narrow treads linking them to the bottommost of the river where an immense darkness engulfed it. So dark that even Zhong Yue couldn't see through the shadows and reach to the end.

What will be there, at the bottom end of the river? Just thinking of it bristled Zhong Yue's hairs in terror.

Moments later, these faces then finally closed their eyes, they then slowly sunk back into the river bottom.

Husan Weng heaved a breath of relief, its hairs softened down and said, "They didn't notice us…"

The huge carrot then started boasting, "If it weren't for me, you two would be one of them already! I, Husan Weng…"

Qiu Jin'er smiled and said, "Didn't you say that you are a big figure in the Returning Ruins and that anything you do can … can scare the shit out of them?" She blushed as she felt embarrassed at cursing in front of Zhong Yue.

The carrot, however, was nonchalant and replied, "Didn't you realize that I was just holding back to test your capabilities in handling the situation? Those faces were just like you - they have traveled across the river and somehow, alerted the big guys beneath the river and oh uh, bad luck for them, the big guys have skinned their faces away. It's just their hobbies, collecting different kind of faces and I don't know, appreciate the beauty of the many faces?"

Qiu Jin'er was shocked, the faces that filled the river surface comes from many races and from what she had seen, these skinned faces could easily exceed a ten thousand in numbers. Doesn't that mean that there were over ten thousand of cultivators were killed by the big guys and skinned off their faces?

Zhong Yue's face suddenly changed drastically, his muscles stiffened up and whispered softly, "There are still a few faces left!"

Husan Weng's heart skipped a beat and pounded heavily, it quickly looked over at the direction Zhong Yue was pointing at, and indeed, there were a still a few faces floating on the river surface, their greenish burning flames were looking at them.