Chapter 128: Spirit Burying Terrace 2 (1/2)

Chapter 128: Spirit Burying Terrace (2)

The dark current surged and seethed towards Su Chen, but he was prepared. He activated the Snaking Mist Steps, and his figure retreated like it was made of smoke. At the same time, he superimposed another barrier on his body.

The dark current was like a fiend. It slammed into Su Chen, causing quite a clamor.

Those barriers began to pop one after another, as if they had been struck by the Blood Hedgehog Spikes. The barriers sounded very brittle.

Following this very brittle sound, the barriers shattered like eggshells one after another.

Su Chen retreated even more rapidly, constantly adding on barriers and rapidly changing directions.

The dark current pursued him relentlessly like a dragon, forming black smoke trails that coiled throughout the air. Upon closer inspection, a large number of unnamed black insects had gathered in the black smoke. The brittle noises landing on Su Chen’s barriers like dense rain were actually created by those bugs.

They had long and razor-sharp mouths as well as a hard exoskeleton. At this moment, they were once again flying towards Su Chen, letting out piercing, shrill cries.

The barriers on Su Chen’s body could not withstand this blow, and just as Su Chen’s last barrier was about to explode, even more bugs had begun to surge forwards. Su Chen suddenly flipped his hand, and a fireball appeared.

Boom!

The fireball slammed into the bug swarm, and the fierce flames instantly began to spread amongst the swarm. A large swath of the poisonous bugs were incinerated into ashes.

When Su Chen saw that this was effective, he sent out another fireball.

These bugs had hard shells, but they could not endure being roasted by fire. Under Su Chen’s continuous barrage of fireballs, a large portion of them died. The remaining numbers that broke through the flames to attack Su Chen could only slam onto the barriers, killing themselves as they broke the barrier.

Once the final bug had disappeared or died, Su Chen finally let out a sigh.

Although that encounter had been short-lived, it was incredibly vicious. If it weren’t for the fact that his mind was clear and he had used his fireball attacks to defend himself and kill off the bug swarm, he probably would’ve been eaten alive if he had focused solely on defending himself.

Those bugs were not a trap that was set up in the Spirit Burying Terrace. Rather, they were mutant bugs that had evolved due to living in the environment of the Corpse Spirit Flowers. Because these bugs had naturally evolved in this kind of environment rather than under any specific stressors, these kinds of bugs could not evolve all-around defensive bodies, so they would definitely have a few obvious weaknesses. There was no fire in the Spirit Burying Terrace, so their ability to resist fire was basically nonexistent.

This was something that Su Chen had realized while he was being pursued. In fact, Su Chen’s most powerful weapon was his ability to remain clear-headed even in the face of imminent danger.

At this moment, he stepped over the bug corpses, then arrived at the wall again. Despite the fact that it was heavily layered, he could still smell the powerful stench of blood and flesh.

Since this place was not isolated, this area displayed the full eeriness and sinister aura that had accumulated after seven thousand years.

After all, this place was a giant ancient tomb.

At this moment, what appeared in front of Su Chen was a pit littered with corpses.

This giant pit was three hundred feet in diameter and roughly fifty feet deep. There were six protrusions that stuck out from it. The large number of complicated Origin Energy engraved patterns and the unique structure of the pit indicated that some large Origin Formation was hidden here.

As time had gone on, the large formation had lost its effectiveness. However, its use had already been completely manifested in the giant pit – the pit was filled with black sludge, and one could see heaps of white bones amongst the black sludge. From afar, they were like crops of bones on a desolate, black wasteland sown on the entire corpse pit.

However, this was not the most frightening.

In other words, what was the most frightening was not the bones, but the sludge!

The black sludge!

Su Chen knew that that wasn’t sludge. That was blood and flesh.

Sludge formed from blood and flesh.

More precisely, everything prepared in this place was for the purpose of creating this flesh and blood sludge.

Inside the black sludge, apart from those bones that did not decay, a few black flowers were also growing. These flowers did not seem very remarkable; some grew in the black sludge, some surrounded the white bones, and some hung on the walls of the cave. They looked like wildflowers that were simply using every means at their disposal to survive in such a vicious environment.

But Su Chen knew that it was precisely these flowers that caused the deaths of countless people, resulting in everything that he had seen coming into being.

Corpse Spirit Flowers.

They were a strange kind of vegetation that grew in the sludge from the rotten corpses.

In order to obtain them, some people were willing to cause a bloodbath and creating such a large underground tomb all in the name of burying spirits.