Chapter 305: Octopus With a Human Head (1/2)
Guanqing’s glance backward had struck horrified terror into the Deaf Prince’s heart. He’d thought himself superior to immortal ghosts after defeating Tinglan so easily with his Celestial Exorcism Armor, but when faced with Guanqing's strange smile, his skin crawled.
Lu Yun shook his head and covered the Deaf Prince’s eyes. The prince abruptly expelled a mouthful of tainted air from his lungs and regained some clarity. The most powerful trick immortal ghosts could use was to hoodwink a person’s senses and identify their weaknesses in order to control them.
She’s powerful enough to affect the Deaf Prince through a minor world, Lu Yun registered with apprehension. Guanqing is not to be underestimated. The Corpse Refiners are in deep trouble. Never enter the fake tomb under any circumstances! Never!
Through the bubble, he’d made an initial determination of the feng shui in the fake tomb and realized it was an independent ecosystem. The entire fake tomb was a formation that nurtured Guanqing’s spirit. Lu Yun would have no choice but to resort to brute force if he wanted to fight her.
She’d easily dealt with the immortals from the North Sea court simply by possessing Beigong Chonglou. If she tapped into her terrible poison, who knew what else she’d be capable of?
Lu Yun wasn’t the least bit inclined to face a poison ghost like her.
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Thick yin energy spun in the pitch black depths of the water tomb. The compass in Lu Yun’s hand gyrated wildly, attempting to determine where the tomb’s owner was. However, the feng shui in the tomb was chaotic and the indicators of the luopan kept shifting without stop. Oftentimes, the Deaf Prince complained that they were going around in circles.
As they searched for the coffin, Lu Yun saw bubbles containing various treasures pass by. Each was a natural mirage reflecting everything in the fake tomb, attempting to lure immortals from the real tomb to the fake one.
The fake tomb had originally been safe, but was now dangerous after Lu Yun had summoned Guanqing. Under the luopan’s guidance, the group traveled further into the tomb and into denser clouds of yin energy.
Previously, the Deaf Prince’s armor had been able to clear out an area roughly a kilometer wide. But now, under the pressure from the thick yin energy, the golden barrier was suppressed to a light orb of only a few dozen meters in diameter, and it continued shrinking at a visible pace.
Strange shadows flickered in and out of existence within the looming darkness. Every once in a while, a pale arm would shoot out and attempt to break through the barrier, eliciting screams and shrieks from the little fox.
She was hardly the brave sort.
Despite ascending to the golden realm, she was still easily startled. When the poison ghost had killed the North Sea monster spirits, she’d curled up in a ball and hidden in Qing Han’s hair, too scared to even look.
“This water tomb is far less dangerous than the burial mound and you were never afraid there, so why are you this scared here?” Qing Han seized the opportunity to make fun of the little fox. Serves her right for calling him ugly all the time!
“I was in the burial mound for a very long time,” grumbled the little fox, “and I knew the place like the back of my hand. What’s so scary about that? Here, though… eek! Help!”
The little fox shrieked and slipped into Qing Han’s clothes, avoiding a long pale arm that’d shot out from the gloom and somehow bypassed the armor’s golden light, targeting the little fox. The owner of the arm must have sensed her fear.