Chapter 54: Ancient Palace Hall (1/2)
Chapter 54: Ancient Palace Hall
“It seems that the Ling Xu sanctuary elders have been alarmed and are currently all headed to this area.”
Currently, the sky had already turned dark and the sky was filled with stars.
The two people continued advancing for several miles and unknowingly entered a ruined piece of land. The area was desolate with nary a grass in sight and could absolutely be considered a scorched earth. Only remains of broken rock and shattered debris lay everywhere with nothing else in sight.
In the night, this area was emitting a mysterious aura and there was a faint black mist that was circulating.
“It’s already been several thousand to tens of thousands of years, these ruins still don’t have any vegetation growing, it’s really strange. No wonder it’s been designated as a barren land where even birds don’t take a dump.” Pang Bo mumbled bitterly, he felt hungry and thirsty and had wanted to pick some fruits to quench his hunger.
He had just spoken when suddenly an immense force was felt, he stumbled before falling to the ground in the darkness. Ye Fan was speechless, he could not believe his eyes. Pang jumped up as he looked back and immediately felt shivers as he backed away.
Just up ahead, a cold body was floating there, bone was wrapped in wrinkled skin as though it were dried up wood. There was actually a shrivelled corpse there!
“This…… what is going on? Where did this dry corpse come from?” Pang Bo felt his hair stand on end. A shrivelled corpse suddenly appeared for no reason, anyone would feel unsettled.
Ye Fan was also stupefied, he had not seen how the corpse appeared. They continued to survey their surroundings, this barren piece of ruins besides being full of debris there simply was not anything else. Being like this made one feel unsettled, this piece of land had been here since ancient times and some ‘dirty things’* may exist here that caused this.
[T/N* ‘dirty thing’ in Chinese refers to evil spirits and ghosts]
The sky became darker and darker as even the lights from the stars grew dim. The surroundings of the ruins became pitch black as the faint mist continued to swirl.
“Why is it so eerie? It’s actually getting colder and colder…..” Pang Bo was nervous as he broke out in cold sweat: “Where did this corpse come from……”
“Let’s hurry and leave this place.” Ye Fan felt that something was amiss and wanted to immediately leave.
“What sort of nonsensical place is this? How can it be so strange and evil!” Pang Bo softly muttered, his back already drenched in cold sweat.
“Bang!”
Suddenly, Pang Bo was once again flipped onto the ground and as he gingerly climbed back up there was another dried corpse by his side.
“Who…… who is so inconsiderate, randomly throwing around a corpse.” This joke was simply not funny as the two people felt chills throughout their body as their goosebumps stood up while they continued to carefully stare at their surroundings.
Two dried up corpses laid on the ground, their bodies were covered with some clothing but upon lightly touching they would disintegrate. Who knew how long they had existed.
“What exactly are you! Come out!”
“Bang!”
Another corpse appeared once again knocking down Pang Bo.
“Your granddaddy, you think that I Pang Bo am easily bullied!” Pang Bo was terrified but incensed at the same time, Ye Fan who was beside him did not get hit by the corpses at all.
“What’s out there, hurry and reveal yourself!” Ye Fan exclaimed.
“Boom!”
The ancient ruins seemed to violently tremble as Ye Fan was tossed into the air and Pang Bo cut a sorry figure as he tumbled into the distance.
“Bang!”, “Bang!”, “Bang!”
This time, it was not just Pang Bo but Ye Fan also had been hit several times as ancient corpse after ancient corpse fell from the sky and knocked the two around. If it were a normal physical body, their bones might have already been shattered. However, the two people had exceptional physiques and were not in any danger.
The ground was littered to tens of corpses and the entire area seemed eerie, cold that seemed to pierce the bone like one had been put into an icehouse permeated the area and the two people shivered, they simply did not know what was going on.
“Shuaaa”
At this moment, Ye Fan suddenly felt all the hairs on his back stand as though something was flying closer at high speeds. He did not bother to turn around as he hurriedly dashed forward while maneuvering his body to dodge, swift as lightning.
Two indistinct green lights had shot past his body and stopped several tens of metres away, it seemed like ghostly fire as it continually jumped around. At the same time, within the ruins it was pitch black like black ink such that one could not even see their five fingers in front of them, the stars in the sky were complete shrouded making it impossible to see.
“This place is haunted!” Pang Bo unconsciously attempted to grab at something but it was a pity that his bronze plaque was not here with him.
At this instant, besides the two indistinct lights they could not see anything. A black mist had thoroughly shrouded the entire area. The two green lights were as big as a person’s face and seemed like two ghostly fires, eerily it also resembled two large eyes that seemed sinister in the dark mist.
“There really is some ‘dirty thing’!” Ye Fan and Pang Bo were beginning to feel more nervous.
“Shuaaaa”
This time, the speed of the two balls of green light were much faster and in the blink of an eye they had already gotten closer. They were still aimed at Ye Fan and although Pang Bo wanted to help, four to five corpses that fell down knocked him away.
The green lights moved faster and faster and had completely locked down on Ye Fan. The lights continually moved haphazardly and finally with a flash the two green balls disappeared and entered his body.
“Ye Fan!” Pang Bo shouted but had no way to prevent anything from happening.
At the same time, Ye Fan felt an icy coldness within his sea of bitterness, as though it had been frozen. He hurriedly tried to circulate the mystical arts recorded in the Dao Scripture and a golden light was emitted.
“Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!”