Chapter 179 Demonic Mine (1/2)
Chapter 179 Demonic Mine
The mine that had met with a mishap was in complete disarray. There were at least fifty or sixty corpses lying there, each of them with dull gray complexions and eyes wide open.
The experienced miners’ expressions all changed and they ran far away. No one dared approach.
The fifteenth mining area was filled with terror. Everyone had retreated and most of them were trembling with fear.
Strands of gray fog came out of that mine shaft. Even from far away, people could sense a repressive force.
“I really did see a ghost…” Ye Fan was also apprehensive. He had known that the Source mines would occasionally have such a thing occur, but personally experiencing it still caused him some shock.
An old miner who had already been here for eight or nine years said worriedly, “I have a feeling that this evil might not be an ordinary one.”
Not long after, the Flickering Light Sacred Land’s cultivators rushed over. A couple middle-aged men led them, while the rest were all younger disciples.
“Who survived from that mine shaft?” asked the middle-aged man.
“I was working above the shaft!” ayoung miner walked up nervously.
“Are there others?” he continued asking.
Another six or seven people walked out, each scared and anxious.
“Did any of you see anything?
“I didn’t see anything. I just heard a cry from inside, and then we fled.”
“What about senior brother Qin? Wasn’t he patrolling here?” the middle-aged man frowned.
“That divine immortal fell into the mine shaft.”
“What?” The middle-aged man’s eyes opened wide. “Senior brother Qin died?”
“Yes…” Those miners were all very nervous. “At the beginning, they seemed to find something below so when that senior divine immortal received the report he personally went down to check it out. But the result was that when the evil occurred, all of them died.”
Beside him, another person bowed and said, “Fortunately we fled fast enough, otherwise we might have died even while just standing above the shaft.”
He didn’t need to say this. Everyone could see the fifty-some corpses littered around the shaft opening.
The Flickering Light Sacred Land’s cultivators all looked at each other in dismay and frowned. They hated facing this kind of situation. Once an evil occurred within a Source mine, the danger would rise to a critical level.
Gray fog filled the air around the shaft opening. It looked very strange, worrying everyone.
“Could it be they excavated something alive?” asked a random person.
The others’ expressions all changed when they heard this. If this were true, it was definitely a great and terrible omen.
“It’s said that the Jiang Family not long ago dug up a ghost mine, and ended up finding blood dripping and bones, and many people died.”
The words being passed between the middle-aged cultivators caused Ye Fan’s heart to shake. The Source veins below the ground were filled with mysteries and the unknown.
“I’ll go seize a strand of the gray mist and see what it is.” One of the middle-aged men spit out a thumb-sized silver bottle they flew over and released a soft light that began to absorb the gray fog.
Crack.
But what shocked people was that just as the gray fog entered, that silver bottle immediately shattered, becoming dim and falling to the ground.
“This is…” The middle-aged man’s body shook.
“A weapon refined from a Dao Palace secret realm cultivator was actually unable to capture even a strand of the gray mist. What is that thing?” Everyone was greatly startled.
The middle-aged men all looked at each other solemnly. This time it was not an ordinary affair. Their hearts sank.
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An hour passed before the gray fog completely scattered into nothingness.
Not long after, a chicken was thrown into the mine shaft. It continuously cried out for a long time without dying.
The middle-aged cultivators all sighed in relief.
“So it wasn’t as bad as we thought.”
“Looks like it was just a batch of evil air and not a ghost mine.”
The middle-aged cultivators all walked over, and the young disciples followed after them.
They stood over the shaft opening and examined each corpse before looking down below.
“Carry these corpses away. Find an abandoned mine to bury them in,” ordered one of the middle-aged cultivators.
All of the miners retreated and no one wished to touch those corpses that had died for some unknown reason.
That middle-aged man frowned upon seeing this. “The evil air has dissipated. There’s no more danger.”
The various miner’s hearts were leaping in fear as they picked up the corpses and threw them into an abandoned mine, immediately burying them as fast as possible.
The middle-aged cultivators all began to discuss heading down the mineshaft.
“Maybe we should send first clear out the corpses inside before we go down…,” proposed one of the middle-aged cultivators. Saying this, he swept his gaze over the surrounding miners.
The surrounding people immediately felt their hearts turn cold as they retreated.
“What are you afraid of? That chicken is fine. That means whatever happened down there is already over. Are all of you no better than a chicken?”
Ye Fan really wanted to spit on this person when he heard this. If there was nothing to be afraid of, why didn’t he just enter himself? He actually wanted to send miners to probe it for him.
One of their disciples personally walked up and picked people. Ye Fan was unfortunately picked and sent down to carry out a corpse.
The inside of the mine was dusky, and even the torch light couldn’t completely illuminate it. There was corpse after corpse lying on the ground in complete disorder. A couple cowardly miners shivered when they say the scene.
In front of them, specks of light could be seen. A head-sized Source shone within a stone. An old cultivator over fifty years old was lying there, having died long ago.
“The problem came from here…”
Ye Fan carefully walked up. Seeing everything clearly, he sucked in a cold breath.
That head-sized Source had a claw inside it that was as large as a human’s palm. It had many red inch-long hairs on it, and the palm was no exception. It appeared quite sinister.
“This is probably from a life form from before the Primordial Era…” Ye Fan was shocked.
“A ghost claw!”
“Monster!”
The surrounding people all shouted in alarm.
Ye Fan stretched out his divine sense to carefully examine it, his expression once more changing.
This was originally a large rock that was split open by miners before revealing this Source. Within the stone layer were marks of bones that connected to this Source.