Chapter 117: Mu Chen Pearl Returned To Ghost Cave, Curse Ends
The five of them quickly followed the outer slope back into the water, swimming from the bottom of the pool they came from back to the surface.
Fortunately, the airplane wreckage was still blocking the water eye at this time, and the suction in the water wasn’t strong. They returned to the surface without much effort, then climbed back onto the plank road using the vine ropes above.
As soon as the few of them stood steady, they heard a series of explosions from the pool below, with water waves surging into the sky and startling sprays of water splashing everywhere.
Immediately after, a huge humanoid monster emerged from the pool, its two ghastly white long arms stretching out from the water toward Su Mo.
It was none other than the Flesh Ganoderma Immortal that Xian Wang had used as a coffin!
This Flesh Ganoderma Immortal was also an ancient relic that had lived underground for over ten thousand years. Though only a stone shell remained after its death, after being sacrificed with countless people by Xian Wang, it unexpectedly sprouted new life and merged with Xian Wang’s consciousness.
At this moment, Xian Wang’s jadeified head was stored by Su Mo in the system space. The Flesh Ganoderma Immortal, eager to retrieve the Mu Chen Pearl and its own head, drilled out from the bottom of the pool and stretched out two arms toward Su Mo.
Su Mo drew the Frost Moon Sword and slashed at the approaching arms.
Crunch crunch!
With two crisp sounds, the Flesh Ganoderma Immortal’s arms were instantly severed by his sword, and two streams of thick black qi immediately soared into the sky.
At this time, the strange phenomenon of the black pig crossing the heavenly river in the sky had not yet dissipated, with heavy black clouds still piled up overhead, and the sky pouring down heavy rain. The Flesh Ganoderma Immortal’s corpse qi soared to the heavens, instantly triggering a peal of thunder in the sky.
Immediately after, a blinding bolt of lightning suddenly tore through the clouds and struck fiercely on the top of the Flesh Ganoderma Immortal’s head.
Boom!
The Flesh Ganoderma Immortal was instantly struck with its skull charred black, its entire head smashed into a scorched pulp, and its body suddenly toppled straight down.
The massive body crashed heavily onto the airplane wreckage at the bottom of the water, instantly smashing the wreckage, which had already been soaked for years, into pieces. The airplane that had been blocking the water eye was swept away by the current into the underground river as fragments.
This scene stunned Hu Ba Yi and the others.
It turned out that heaven really did have eyes. Seeing the Flesh Ganoderma Immortal burst out of the tomb, it simply sent down a bolt of lightning to shatter its head, while also shattering Xian Wang’s consciousness within the Flesh Ganoderma Immortal.
“Great! Now this old bastard can’t ascend to immortality!”
Wang Pang Zi couldn’t help but clap and laugh heartily, feeling it was even more satisfying than personally whipping the corpse three hundred times himself.
Hu Ba Yi also burst into laughter:
“Heaven has eyes. Xian Wang is completely done for this time!”
As he spoke, the Flesh Ganoderma Immortal that had fallen into the pool quickly dissolved into streams of white mucus in the water and was flushed into the underground river with the current.
“Alright, now this old thing has turned into fragments and been flushed into the underground river. It’s as good as being cast into the eighteenth layer of hell, never to recover!”
Xue Li Yang, seeing this scene, also felt immensely relieved.
As the Flesh Ganoderma Immortal dissolved and rushed into the underground river at the bottom of the pool, the black clouds in the sky gradually dispersed. In no time, the clouds parted and the fog lifted, restoring a clear sky.
Sunlight shone on the waterfalls around the pool, revealing colorful rainbows that looked breathtakingly beautiful.
After experiencing this ordeal, the five of them gazed at the stunning scenery and felt their minds refreshed and spirits uplifted.
Su Mo held Xue Li Yang’s hand and stood there admiring the view for a while before taking Xian Wang’s head out from the system space and using Xue Li Yang’s dagger to peel off all the jadeified skin and flesh from it.
In no time, the Mu Chen Pearl appeared before everyone’s eyes.
Hu Ba Yi and the others gazed in awe at the Mu Chen Pearl:
“Is this the Mu Chen Pearl?”
“It’s the Phoenix Gall!”
“I know, but… if we send it back to the Ghost Cave, will our curse be lifted?”
“Probably…”
……
A month later, Su Mo and the others reappeared outside Zaghrama Mountain.
This time, it was just him, Xue Li Yang, Zhang Qiling, Hu Ba Yi, and Wang Pang Zi—the five of them. They didn’t hire any guides and simply rented ten camels from their old acquaintance An Li Man in that desert town.
The five followed the previous path and soon passed through Ganye Ancient City, arriving before Zaghrama Mountain.
After that sandstorm, the ground in Zaghrama Mountain Valley had risen somewhat higher than before. However, Su Mo and the others no longer needed to enter through the front hall of the original Jing Jue Ancient City; they went directly through the cave with the prophet to reach the cave where the Jing Jue coffin had been placed.
The cave was eerily silent, even more deathly still than before, like a temple of death, with not a single sound to be heard.
The five of them made their way familiarly to the stone beam. Su Mo took out the Mu Chen Pearl from the system space and handed it to Xue Li Yang.
Xue Li Yang was a descendant of the Zaghrama clan. Returning the Mu Chen Pearl and ending the Zaghrama people’s tragic fate was something she should do with her own hands!
Holding the Mu Chen Pearl and looking down at the dark, deep Ghost Cave below, Xue Li Yang’s body trembled slightly.
At this moment, Su Mo placed a hand on her shoulder:
“Don’t be nervous. Finish it, and this curse that has lasted thousands of years will end!”
Xue Li Yang nodded solemnly, held the Mu Chen Pearl up into the air, and then let go with both hands…
The Mu Chen Pearl instantly plummeted into the Ghost Cave and vanished in the blink of an eye.
Inside the Ghost Cave, not even the slightest sound of impact could be heard. The Mu Chen Pearl was like a water drop merging into the ocean, completely traceless!
“This… is it over?”
Wang Pang Zi was momentarily stunned and looked puzzled toward Hu Ba Yi.
Hu Ba Yi shrugged:
“It should… probably… maybe be over!”
“Damn, asking you is like asking nothing!”
Wang Pang Zi discontentedly gave him an international hand gesture.
Su Mo smiled faintly at them:
“Let’s head back first. The results won’t show immediately!”
The five then turned and left the Ghost Cave, following the path they came on back to Zaghrama Mountain Valley.
Not wanting to encounter things like crested snakes again, they didn’t camp on Zaghrama Mountain. Instead, after resting one night outside the valley, they followed the path back out of the Black Desert.
After returning the camels to An Li Man, the five rested one night in the town and then set off on the journey back to the capital.
A few days later, while Su Mo was practicing in the courtyard, he suddenly saw Wang Pang Zi and Hu Ba Yi rushing over in a panic.
“Master, the curse is gone!”
With that, he eagerly stripped off his shirt in front of Su Mo, revealing his back:
“Look, the eyeball pattern is gone!”
Hu Ba Yi also had a face full of joy:
“Yeah, Master, the eyeball curse on me is gone too!”
Su Mo smiled:
“I already knew!”
Hu and Wang both froze:
“Ah… Master, how did you know so quickly…”
Before Wang Pang Zi finished speaking, he and Hu Ba Yi saw Xue Li Yang walk out from the house.
They immediately showed expressions of understanding.
With Master’s Wife here, of course Master knew early—her eyeball curse on her back was gone too.
