Chapter 108: Frenzied Corpse Assault, Key Object In The Bronze Box
The things spat out by the Huo Clan Undying Worm were covered on the surface with black gastric juice. After falling into the water, much of the surface juice was quickly washed away, revealing many large protruding bronze nails on the surface. It turned out to be a huge Bronze Box!
After spitting out this huge Bronze Box, the Huo Clan Undying Worm seemed to have exhausted its Vital Energy and completely collapsed motionless in the water.
Wang Pang Zi frowned as he looked at the Huo Clan Undying Worm:
“This insect should be dead, right?”
Xue Li Yang shook her head:
“This kind of Huo Clan Undying Worm is a long worm with a ring-shaped neural structure similar to that of the sun goddess snail. Its vitality is extremely tenacious, and its flesh and neural tissue are separate. Even after the flesh tissue necrotizes, the ring-shaped nerves can still survive!”
Wang Pang Zi only half-understood what Xue Li Yang was saying. He only knew that she meant the insect just looked dead, but part of its body could never die.
“So it’s immortal and indestructible? Is it that powerful?”
Xue Li Yang sighed:
“You could say that. Its ring-shaped nerves are likely lurking in the rocks beneath the water, and the extending length is very deep. Unless all of its ring-shaped nerves are dug out and killed, it can still revive!”
“Good grief!”
Wang Pang Zi shook his head and said:
“Turns out we saw an immortal monster today!”
As he spoke, Fatty and Hu Ba Yi walked to the front of the box and puzzledly looked at this box:
“This box is so big, how was it stuffed into this big insect’s body?”
“What exactly is inside the box?”
Su Mo concentrated and meditated on the Bronze Box for a moment, discovering that its surface was also engraved with many Talismans. The things inside were all sealed, and even using the Great Yin Meditation Technique, he could not fathom them.
“We’ll know once we open it and look!”
Upon hearing Su Mo’s words, Hu Ba Yi and Wang Pang Zi immediately got to work. They first used climbing picks to clear out the nearby Female Corpse, then used paratrooper knives to clean the stains and rust from the box’s surface.
Soon, the rust and stains on the surface of this Bronze Box were all cleaned off, revealing two small holes that looked like some kind of keyholes, though they were all filled with filth inside.
Wang Pang Zi couldn’t help but scratch his head:
“The key isn’t still inside the insect’s body, is it? Should we gut it completely to search?”
Su Mo lowered his head to look at the holes on the box and shook his head, saying:
“No need. The key is that scepter you took from the Jade Coffin!”
Upon hearing this, Fatty quickly took the Golden Scepter out from his Backpack.
This was a short staff with dragon and tiger heads at both ends and slightly curved in the middle. Seeing Fatty fumbling clumsily, Hu Ba Yi took the scepter himself.
Wang Pang Zi then used tools to clean the filth from inside the keyholes, after which Hu Ba Yi aligned the dragon and tiger heads at both ends with the two holes on the box.
The dragon and tiger heads fit perfectly with the keyholes on the box. After inserting them, there was indeed a clicking sound from inside, as if the internal keyholes were not completely rusted and could still be activated.
Just as Hu Ba Yi was about to turn it, Su Mo suddenly reminded him:
“This keyhole isn’t turned randomly; it must follow the Yin Yang principles of Feng Shui techniques!”
“Tiger crouches dragon coils, Black Warrior repels corpses; dragon and tiger heads droop, the terrain disperses; dragon mourns tiger weeps, front flower back fake, left right kneeling all acupoints, all point to dragon head tiger head not prominent, which is dragon concave tiger missing, teeth not meshing, four beasts unresponsive!”
Hearing Su Mo’s words, Hu Ba Yi suddenly understood.
What Su Mo described was precisely the Yin Yang principles in Feng Shui Secret Techniques. Xian Wang was proficient in Feng Shui techniques and also very skilled in Gu Technique, so this Bronze Box absolutely could not be opened casually.
According to the Qing Wu principles, the pure Yang energy must be taken first, meaning the dragon head must be moved first!
Hu Ba Yi then first aligned the dragon head in position, held his breath, and gently turned the scepter with his hand.
Click!
After a light sound, a stream of Black Water flowed out from the other hole. Hu Ba Yi then inserted the tiger head at the other end into the keyhole and turned both ends together.
Another light sound came from the box, and immediately after, the box lid opened a crack, from which pitch-black Liquid flowed out.
“Be careful!”
As soon as the box opened a crack, Su Mo sensed a thick malevolent aura.
There were no Ji Guan inside this box, but the thing locked inside was definitely extremely eerie!
So, he immediately waved for Hu Ba Yi to step back, stood in front of the Bronze Box himself, gripped the Frost Moon Sword tightly in one hand, and pinched the box lid with the other.
Just as Su Mo was about to open the box lid, a shrill hiss suddenly came from the distance!
Everyone was startled and turned to look, only to see the Gu People Female Corpses that had previously disappeared into the water suddenly resurfacing for some reason. There were at least several thousand Female Corpses, densely packed like a sheet of water spiders!
These Female Corpses suddenly emerged, glowing with eerie blue light, as if a sea of ghost fire had suddenly ignited in the Cave!
That shrill hiss was precisely emitted by these Female Corpses!
After emitting a hiss, these Female Corpses leaped from the water surface and came flying over, swift as a tide!
The water surface of the entire Gourd Cave instantly became like a boiling pot, everywhere chaotic scurrying ghost fires and Female Corpses with bodies glowing white and translucent with clear light. In the blink of an eye, these Female Corpses pounced close to Su Mo and the others, their movements fast as ghosts!
Hu Ba Yi and the others were instantly scared pale:
“Damn, have these dead floating women gone mad!”
“What’s going on!”
They cried out in shock, but their hands did not delay. They quickly picked up their Thompson Submachine Guns again and fired at the flying Gu People Female Corpses.
Three Submachine Guns wove a fire net in the air, Bullets raining down crazily on these Female Corpses.
Zhang Qiling also quickly jumped down from the Stone platform, stood behind Su Mo, raised the Black Gold Ancient Blade in his hand, and slashed at the pouncing Gu People Female Corpses.
Rat-tat-tat…
Slash slash!
The four continuously attacked, soon sending many Female Corpses sinking back into the water.
But though Hu Ba Yi and the others’ firepower was very strong, the number of Gu People Female Corpses was simply too vast. One magazine of Bullets sank some, but more came from behind, seemingly endless!
Hu Ba Yi hurriedly shouted:
“Master, we can’t hold them! Think of something quick!”
Su Mo looked at the Female Corpses madly flying from behind and said in a deep voice:
“Hold on! Their sudden frenzy is definitely related to this box!”
Although Su Mo was a transmigrator, this scene of Female Corpses going berserk in attack was something he had never seen in the original work.
However, he was certain that these Female Corpses suddenly going mad, emerging from the water, and attacking them was definitely related to this box being opened.
Thus, he had Hu Ba Yi and the others hold the front, while he tightly gripped the Frost Moon Sword and opened the Bronze Box with his left hand.
A blast of chilling malevolent aura immediately hit him in the face!
