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

The carrot's leaves bristled right up as if it were struck by lightning. It screamed from the top of its lungs -assuming it even had any- and shouted, "RUN!!!"

Without further due, Zhong Yue and Qiu Jin'er raised their speed to the peak in seconds and blasted out like a flash of lightning.

Boom! Boom!

Despite them traipsing across the river surface, their speeds were no weaker than traveling on the ground. Two blunt sounds blasted the air as they broke through the sound barrier and stirred the river waters while leaving two trails of sky-high waves behind them!

Meanwhile, right at the moment they moved, the faces that had sunk into the river bottom shot out from the water surface and hung in mid-air.

These pallid faces seemed contorted in pain as they pierced through the clouds with grievous cries of agony.

Even so, there were still a nearly infinite number of faces extruding out from the red river, with the hair-like treads connecting on the backs, hindering Zhong Yue's and Qiu Jin'er's paths.

As they were running, Zhong Yue and Qiu Jin'er had accidentally run into a few threads of the hairs. Immediately, the thin and yet seemingly feeble hairs had created deep cutting wounds on their considerably powerful mortal bodies!

Just as Qiu Jin'er was going to slow down her pace so that she could evade the thin hairs. Zhong Yue shouted in her ears and said, "No, Jin'er! Don't slow down, just stick close to me! Golden Peng Sword, come!"

The Golden Peng Sword flew out, and Zhong Yue clenched it. He flashed out like lightning and shouted, "Big!"

The golden sword enlarged into a thousand feet giant sword and Zhong Yue swung it like a child waving a broadsword.

Zheng, zheng, zheng --

Instantly as the golden sword was slashed over, the hairs were broken into halves, and the pallid faces fell back into the river.

However, with every thin hair he slashed through, he would stifle a deep groan as his muscles started to shake. Blood seeped out from his arms and cracks emerged on his hands!

These thin hairs were in fact, stronger and more durable than he imagined, even better than some of the god's corpse he had met. The counter-impact of continually hitting them still inflicted considerable damage to his body!

Huala --

A small island rose from the water surface, it was spherical in shape and appeared like a skull of a giant being. The blood-like water gushed out from the skull's eye sockets and jaws.

"Don't go!"

On the skull's head was the other end of the hairs that moved the faces. The pallid faces were flying everywhere in mid-air, but they were all staring at Zhong Yue and Qiu Jin'er, saying in unison, "Please, don't go, don't go! We are a family, and a family stays together!"

Zhong Yue gritted his teeth hard and strode faster than ever. The giant sword slashed even faster and heavier at the hairs as he forcibly opened a way through the faces. Meanwhile, Qiu Jin'er was feeling anxious and followed close to his back.

Suddenly, the water surface around them rose high, and another skull emerged. Hundreds of thin hairs curled together into a thick rope, hissing like a black serpent and slithered toward the two humans!

While on the serpent's head, it was formed by many pallid faces that were still shouting at Zhong Yue and Qiu Jin'er.

Husan Weng was clenching Zhong Yue's hairs with its carrot hands and shouted as well, looking at the incoming hairs in great terror.

Zhong Yue then immediately took out the shabby copper lamp, and he shouted out loud, "Xin Huo!"

A little flame flew out from his psyche ocean and entered the copper lamp. Right away, the copper lamp started emanating a faint and warm light and shone to the surroundings.

As the hairs entered the light radius of the copper lamp, it started burning, and the pallid faces were crying in pain. They all flew up and landed on the skull's head. Immediately, the skull head beneath them had over thousands of faces on them, burned and partially destroyed.

Zhong Yue held the copper lamp in one hand, and Qiu Jin'er in the other as he blasted out like an arrow. Wherever he went, the hair would move out of his path, returning to the skull's face.

The two of them dashed out like a flash of lightning. Suddenly, another huge skull rose from the bottom of the river again. Many pallid faces were flying out from the skull's head in all directions, and as soon as they came out, the lights of the copper lamp shone on them. Unsurprisingly, they let out a shrill cry and flew back to the skull's face.

Qiu Jin'er looked back and saw the three huge skulls paved with the many faces, forming into a bizarre head with eyes, mouths, ears and noses.

The three skulls were following behind them, they wanted to go nearer but were also afraid of the light.

The two of them were still striding forward. The Crimson Water River was huge and vast. It was miles in width, and it took a long time before the two of them reached the riverbank on the other side.

Zhong Yue turned his head and looked back. The three skulls stopped beside the riverbank, and the pallid faces fell off from the skulls. The three skulls then sunk into the waters while the faces floated on the river surface for some time before disappearing into the river as well.

"Phew…"

Zhong Yue heaved a long breath of relief, and he exchanged a look with Qiu Jin'er. They had just slipped through death's clutches while Husan Weng collapsed down on Zhong Yue's shoulder, panting heavily from terror.

The copper lamp then slowly dimmed down, and Xin Huo's feeble voice sounded in Zhong Yue's mind, "Brat Yue, I've lit the lamp twice in a row now, this took … a great toll on my essence … I have to … rest, it will take … some … time …to recove-…."

"Noo!"

Zhong Yue was shocked, but it was too late as the little flame had already fallen into a deep slumber.