Chapter 72 (2/2)

“Be careful, we may be stepping on countless corrupted corpses.” Xiao Chen warned. Shangguan Yan was behind them and instantly scared, her face turning pale. She stood on tiptoe, tightly holding his arm.

After proceeding for a few moments, the tunnel gradually became spacious, and the smell of corpses also became heavier. There was even some ghost fire dancing on the walls. Suddenly, Shangguan Yan screamed as she paused and closed her eyes tightly.

Xiao Chen turned around and asked, “What’s the matter?” Shangguan Yan slowly opened her eyes, shivering. “I… I seem to have stepped on something…” She then slowly looked at her feet. “Ah!” She then jumped to Xiao Chen.

It was a heavily corrupted head. The skin and flesh on the face were basically eaten, and countless maggots crawled out of the eye sockets. There was a hair bun above the head, and a green pearl flower was stuck into the bun. It should have been a woman’s head.

Xiao Chen’s face became blank. He put Shangguan Yan down, squatted down slowly, and pulled out the pearl flower. The jade on the flower was a small butterfly.

“This is… the hairpin of Senior Sister Luo?”

“Ah-” A long roar resounded in the tunnel. Xiao Chen’s eyes turned red instantly. After a long time, he only uttered three words, “Senior Sister Luo…”

At this moment, he wanted to kill every one of the Skygale Sect!

“No, don’t get too excited.” Xiao Han saw some clues and pulled him up from the ground. “Stop watching. There are so many hairpins in the market. Besides, it’s cold in the past two months, so the body can’t corrupt so fast…” After saying so, he used internal strength to shatter the head on the ground.

Suddenly, there came a scratching sound from the other end of the tunnel. The sound became denser and denser as many unknown creatures in the darkness rushed toward the three people. Xiao Han’s face froze. “Watch out! It’s the corpse-eating mole cricket!” He sent out some internal strength from his hand and shattered some crickets as their blood splashed.

Those corpse-eating mole crickets were about a half a palm’s size. Looking over, it was a black mass. There were about more than 10,000 of them. Shangguan Yan was scared and stepped back. Suddenly, countless crickets emerged from the ground. Xiao Chen smiled coldly as True Energy ran through his body. A fierce roar instantly shattered the crickets around into dust.

The crickets afar dared not to proceed and went underground one after another. Shangguan Yan’s heart beat very fast. She said, “What are they…” Xiao Han calmed himself and said, “It’s all right. Let’s go.” He looked at Xiao Chen again and saw him staring blankly. He asked, “Are you all right?”

Xiao Chen didn’t speak and went forward. They went to the end of the tunnel and saw stone steps were going upward at an angle. Xiao Han led the way and stepped forth. In front of him was a circular stone temple.

“What’s on that stage?” Shangguan Yan shouted.

Xiao Chen looked over and saw a palm-sized black small cauldron hanging on the stone stage. It was surrounded by some secret magic, and there was gas emitting outward as if the cauldron was refining something.

The three people went close. Xiao Han looked at Xiao Chen and asked, “There are formations around the stage. Can you break them?”

“Why can’t I?” Xiao Chen said coldly. He then punched at the stone stage. The palm power was vigorous and instantly shattered the entire stage. Xiao Han leaped and caught the black cauldron.

Shangguan Yan rushed forth and snatched the cauldron from Xiao Han. She held it as if holding the most precious treasure, saying, “Didn’t expect that there really is a treasure…”

“This should be the cauldron for refining souls.” Xiao Han said and looked around. He then looked at Xiao Chen, saying, “Don’t worry, Senior Sister Luo and Xian’er may be sent to Violet Manor. I don’t know what they are after, but I’m sure that the Skygale Sect won’t just refine them into blood souls. They should be safe at the least.”

“Forget it. Let’s go back.”

The three people went back to the blood ponds when Xiao Chen suddenly stopped and gave Xiao Han a look, saying, “Don’t you think there’s something wrong?” Xiao Han turned and asked, “What?”

“From the very beginning, have things been going a little too smoothly?”

Xiao Han looked frozen and thought for a moment before saying, “Sh*t!” He then rushed to the entrance of the cave. When he was about to get out, he seemed to hit on a formless wall and was bounced back to the cave.

“It’s the barrier of the Universal Mystic-Yin Formation. The formation started operating after the eight swords stopped moving. We can’t go out now. It seemed like someone set us up.” Xiao Chen walked over and said slowly.