Chapter 38: Greenjade Magic Soulfrui (1/2)

The bone that Chen Feng had broken with his foot was clearly the thigh bone of a human. An additional glance from Chen Feng revealed that there was an intact human skeleton on the ground. The skull, limb bones, ribs, all of them were there. However, the surface of the bones was packed with little holes, the effect of erosion. Judging from that, it would not take long before the skeleton was reduced to dust. The spot that Chen Feng had stepped on earlier had already been eroded to the point of breaking by itself.

At that moment, Chen Feng felt cold sweat oozing out from his body. He took a few deep breaths to calm himself down.

“What is there to fear from the dead? Seriously! I don’t even remember how many people I have killed.” Chen Feng secretly drummed up his courage. Next, he emboldened himself to move forward and investigate.

The circular hole at the chest area of the skeleton aroused Chen Feng’s attention. There were no other wounds other than that.

“It seems this fellow died due to having his heart pierced. There is really a yao beast inside this pool of water.” Chen Feng’s heart felt somewhat terrified. He was fearful that a beast would suddenly appear and devour him.

After that, Chen Feng searched around for a moment and found some more skeletons. It was unknown how long the skeletons had been there. All the flesh on the skeletons had been utterly eroded, leaving only the badly eroded skeletons. Naturally, there were also some skeletons that had been utterly eroded down there as well.

However, Chen Feng did notice something peculiar. All the skeletons bore two types of wound marks. The first was the chest while the second was the centre of the skull. It was unknown what kind of power had pierced through them.

“Could there be a monster here that loves to devour human hearts and brains?” Thinking about that, Chen Feng felt another cold shiver going down his body.

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“The kid has gone down for quite some time now. Why isn’t anything happening?” By then, the three who were in the pavilion had gotten impatient.

“Could he have died down there? What should we do now? Should we go grab a few more cultivators to scout the path ahead? A pity though, that Water Prevention Pearl.”

“This place is deep within the mountain range, would cultivators come here? Let’s wait a while longer.”

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Ding!

A light ringing sound rang out and Chen Feng reached out with his hand to pick up a short sword. The short sword had been eroded to the point where hollowed areas filled the surface of its blade, now appearing like a piece of scrap iron. Flicking the surface with his finger however, he found that it could release a ringing sound. Despite its horribly eroded state, it was still something that no common steel sword could compete against.

Chen Feng exerted strength with both his palms as he tried to break the short sword only to fail in the end. It felt incomparably tough. He had failed to even bend it.

“I can crush even steel with a pinch. To think that this flying sword, that is already about to be utterly eroded could be so durable. It seems this short sword belonged to the cultivator who died here.”

After taking that into consideration, Chen Feng’s interest was roused and he began searching the vicinity. As expected, it did not take long before he found another two flying swords, a blade that was still gleaming with chilling light and three black arrows. The three arrows were as black as ink and were seemingly even blacker compared to the surrounding black waters. If Chen Feng were not holding both the Water Prevention Pearl and Night Clarity Pearl, he would have missed the three arrows. Stranger yet, the three arrows were in good condition, with no traces of erosion on their surface.

“Strange, strange. These three black arrows are actually undamaged. They must be treasures,” whispered Chen Feng.

As Chen Feng was inspecting one of the black arrows, he suddenly felt dizzy. The black arrow that he was holding before him radiated out a black light, peerless in profundity and seemingly harbouring the desire to absorb the human soul.

“Ahh!”

Chen Feng hastily tossed the black arrow in his hand away. Only then did he slowly return to his normal state.

“What happened? Why do I get the feeling that my soul was nearly absorbed? Could it be? These three black arrows can absorb the souls of cultivators?

“Phew! No matter! These three black arrows are definitely no ordinary items. Just the fact that they could remain undamaged beneath this pool proves that.” Having reached that conclusion, Chen Feng kept the three black arrows. He no longer dared to look at them.

Next, Chen Feng seemingly forgot all about time. He began exploring the bottom part of the pool with a leisurely pace. As his area of search grew, he found some strange weapons, such as ropes, nets, copper hammers, shields, jade rulers, cudgels, even steel needles and broken flags. There were also those that were so eroded that Chen Feng simply could not recognize them.

Amongst them was a body armour made from unknown materials. The surface of the body armour was dim and there was a fist-sized hole upon it. There were also plenty of cracks on it. However, when Chen Feng pulled out a partially undamaged flying sword to hack down on it a few times, he found the he could not leave a single mark on the body armour. Only then did he realize that this was a treasure. The flying sword that he used earlier could easily cut steel, after all.

Without giving it much thought, Chen Feng wore the body armour before covering it up with another layer of outer clothing.