Chapter 113: Black Boar Crosses Heavenly River, Corpse Qi Leaks From Tomb Of King Xian
Wang Pang Zi grabbed the Thompson Submachine Gun, intending to smash the bronze cauldron with the gun stock, but he was stopped by Hu Ba Yi.
“Commander Wang, why are you so angry? This bronze cauldron is clearly a sacrificial vessel used for steaming and boiling cattle, sheep, or even human sacrifices. Sacrificial vessels are meant to be carried by mythical beasts!”
Wang Pang Zi then calmed down and, together with Hu Ba Yi, used the inch-long needles on the Yin-probing Claw to scrape off the fire paint on the bronze cauldron, preparing to open it and take a look.
While they were working on it, a burst of laughter suddenly came from deep within the palace:
“Hee hee hee…”
This laughter sounded like a woman’s voice, sharp and shrill. It suddenly rang out in the dim great hall, startling Hu Ba Yi and the others into breaking out in a cold sweat.
“Damn, what was that sound!”
Wang Pang Zi, frightened, grabbed the Thompson Submachine Gun and aimed it toward the source of the laughter, while the tactical spotlight on his head pierced through the darkness and illuminated the spot.
In the light, a woman in a red robe with long sleeves was floating above the beams.
Wang Pang Zi immediately broke out in cold sweat streaming down his forehead:
“Old Hu, Master, this… this woman doesn’t have any feet!”
Everyone looked closely and saw that under the red-robed woman’s large robe, there were indeed no feet—just empty space floating in the air, like a real ghost!
Hu Ba Yi and Xue Li Yang couldn’t help but turn pale with fright.
“This is really eerie!”
At that moment, the female corpse suddenly turned her head around, facing everyone with a ghastly pale face, and let out another shrill laugh:
“Hee hee hee hee…”
Wang Pang Zi was so creeped out by the laughter that goosebumps rose all over his body. In a fit of rage, he cursed and pulled the trigger on the woman.
“Dead zombie, I’ll blast you!”
Rat-a-tat-tat…
A string of bullets like a fire snake instantly swept across the woman’s body.
The woman’s body was immediately shot down from the air to the ground, her head falling and splitting into two halves, with several things dropping out from inside.
At the same time, a Gu Person burst out from inside the big red robe.
It turned out that this was just a set of shamaness robes hanging from the beam, but unbeknownst to them, a Gu Person had crawled inside at some point and was playing tricks!
This Gu Person was about the size of a seven- or eight-year-old child, with a faint grayish hue all over its body. Although its face had all five features, its four-petaled mouth was extremely ferocious. When it opened, it looked like a huge man-eating flower—both terrifying and disgusting.
Su Mo took one look and couldn’t help but furrow his brows tightly.
In the Gourd Cave, he had deployed a hundred ghost soldiers to kill the Gu Infant. Although he had guessed there would be some that slipped through the net, he didn’t expect a Gu Infant to grow so quickly and follow their scent to this great hall.
Just then, a few more Gu People appeared from behind.
These few Gu People had all developed from Gu Infants. These ghostly things rapidly devoured their mother body after growing up, but most of the Gu People female corpses had already sunk to the bottom of the pool. As the Gu Infants developed, their bodies quickly withered, so they urgently sought to devour flesh and blood for growth.
There was an Insect Severing Path at the other end of the Gourd Cave. These Gu People were extremely afraid of the Insect Severing Path and didn’t dare go out that way, so they followed the Gourd Cave entrance on this side, tracking Su Mo and the others’ scent, and arrived at this Immortal Gathering Hall!
After the few Gu People emerged from the darkness, they immediately pounced fiercely at Wang Pang Zi and the others.
Wang Pang Zi, Hu Ba Yi, and Xue Li Yang immediately raised their Thompson Submachine Guns and pulled the triggers on the Gu People. After several strings of bullets, they killed four of them completely.
But there were many stone tablets and murals in the great hall. The remaining three Gu People dodged behind a stone tablet, then leaped and dodged like monkeys along the top of the stone tablets, quickly climbing onto the jade dragon head on the stone wall behind.
This jade dragon head protruded from the murals on the front hall wall and extended all the way to the stone wall of the back hall, with its open dragon mouth facing directly at the huge six-legged bronze cauldron.
The three Gu People jumped along the stone tablet onto the jade dragon head, and two of them leaped from behind toward Wang Pang Zi and the others.
Wang Pang Zi, Hu Ba Yi, and Xue Li Yang immediately raised their gun barrels and sprayed bullets, shooting all three Gu People dead on the ground.
But in the bullet spray, the jade dragon head on the stone wall was shattered.
Mercury immediately poured out from inside the jade dragon body, flowing along the ground all the way to below the six-legged bronze cauldron.
As the mercury spilled onto the ground, six streams of flames suddenly burst from the kirin tail beneath the six-legged bronze cauldron, igniting directly below it. The flames instantly turned into a huge fireball burning under the bronze cauldron.
Bang!
As the bronze cauldron heated up, the lid suddenly popped open by itself, revealing a pot full of pale human corpses inside—men, women, elderly, and children all present.
As the oil and fat in the bronze cauldron boiled, the flames burned from below all the way into the cauldron, turning the entire bronze cauldron into a massive furnace. The firelight shot up over ten feet high, even igniting the ceiling.
Su Mo quickly led them running out from the front hall.
They had just run out of the great hall when the firelight had already reached the roof, with the entire great hall enveloped in firelight and black smoke.
The black smoke gradually rose, forming a black cloud in the air that merged with the clouds in the sky, gradually gathering into a massive rain cloud like a black heavenly river hanging high in the sky, eventually connecting into one piece with the sky and blocking out all the surrounding sunlight.
“Black pig crossing the heavenly river!”
Hu Ba Yi couldn’t help but exclaim in shock.
Xue Li Yang and the others didn’t understand and quickly asked:
“What is the black pig crossing the heavenly river?”
Hu Ba Yi said:
“This black pig crossing the heavenly river, also known as the rain master passing through, is described in the Qingzhu Diqi Theory: the black pig crossing the heavenly river happens because ancient corpses are causing trouble here, so corpse qi from yin clashes with yang, obscuring the sun and moon!”
Su Mo nodded and turned to look down at the pool.
Sure enough, as the black qi rose and obscured the sky, another massive stream of black qi emerged from the pool below, swirling upward from the vortex center, rushing straight to the heavens together with the smoke and fire qi from the Immortal Gathering Hall.
This was precisely the corpse qi hidden in the Tomb of King Xian. After the Immortal Gathering Hall caught fire, it triggered the corpse qi to burst out of the pool, together creating the spectacle of the rain master passing through and the black pig crossing the heavenly river.
Immediately after, lightning and thunder flashed in the sky, as if a violent storm was imminent!
At this time, the Immortal Gathering Hall was already surrounded by raging fire. The plank road and stone steps below would inevitably become extremely slippery in the storm and lightning, with nowhere to take shelter from the rain. Zhang Qiling couldn’t help but frown and say:
“Master, what do we do?”
Su Mo thought for a moment and said:
“Since corpse qi is soaring to the heavens and the Tomb of King Xian has already broken the formation and leaked its qi, we might as well enter the Tomb of King Xian now and turn his world upside down!”
Hu Ba Yi and the others were stunned:
“Master, we haven’t even found where the Tomb of King Xian is yet!”
Su Mo smiled faintly and pointed at the pool below:
“It’s right there!”
Everyone looked in the direction he pointed and saw that under the sky full of black qi, the airplane wreckage in the pool was like a dragon claw protruding from the valley bottom. Black qi soared to the heavens from between the claws, revealing a long, continuous black line beneath the vortex.
That black line was precisely the corpse qi leaking from the Tomb of King Xian!
With corpse qi soaring to the heavens, the path leading to the Tomb of King Xian was fully revealed!
