Immortality from Taming Elephant-Chapter 91 - 87: Jade Cicada Secret Collection, Demon Beast Swallowing Corpse
It was like a ghost.
The tide of ghosts moved like shadows, amidst the terrified gazes of Zhao Chen and others, almost teleporting among the steep cliffs.
Everyone’s faces changed drastically.
"Form the array!"
This mountain is the highest within a twenty-mile radius, sword-shaped, making it an excellent spot for setting up Feng Shui.
"Use the Dragon Entanglement Array!"
This is the highest-level Feng Shui grand array of the Yueshan Sect, said to only be deployable by the innate.
The array relies heavily on sealing, and once activated, Feng Shui is like a dragon, entwined on a jade pillar.
At this moment, they are setting it up, not to suppress the evil ghosts, but to leverage the power of the long sword to seal the life force of all living creatures around.
Zhao Chen has considerable expertise in Feng Shui. While fleeing from his sect, he still had several spirit crystals, using them as suppression objects, and with the help of many fellow disciples, he barely managed to set it up.
Everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief, gathered around a large rock to sit down, and only at this moment did they seem to find evidence they were still alive.
On one side, a woman scratched her back unconsciously, feeling a bit chilly, as if something was touching her body.
It felt like... a dead person’s hand!
She dared not look back, but the eerie feeling grew stronger and stronger.
Finally, she couldn’t bear it anymore!
"Ah!!!"
Zhao Chen suddenly turned back and scolded softly, "Why are you screaming?"
Ghosts kill in various ways depending on their circumstances, but a common rule when facing them is to make as little noise as possible, a guideline almost everyone follows.
The female disciple shivered all over, eyes wide as she tremulously pointed overhead.
Zhao Chen and the others subconsciously looked up.
Boom! 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖
On the large rock they gathered around, lay a corpulent figure with disheveled long hair, the face unclear, indistinguishable even as male or female.
Though corpulent, it carried a bizarre sense of fragility, as if a gust could blow it away.
It suddenly lifted its head, revealing a blue face with fangs, a grim visage, eyeless and deathly pale, its entire body flowing with ink-like black liquid.
A hand, seemingly unrelated to the body, unnaturally thin, extended about two meters long, was placed on top of the woman’s head.
In Zhao Chen’s eyes, almost bursting with rage, the hand slowly sank into the woman’s head, as if piercing through.
As the hand slowly stirred, the woman’s vitality gradually dissipated, growing chill, her pupils rolled upward until only the whites were left.
Gradually, a foul odor emanated from her.
She slowly rose and walked towards the suppression object of the Dragon Entanglement Array!
"Bai Hui! What are you doing!"
Zhao Chen reacted swiftly, but a white shadow appeared before him, white garments and cascading black hair seemed infinitely long, exuding a chilling aura that bound him tightly.
The suppression object was easily grasped by Bai Hui.
With a yank!
Woo woo!
Sounds of ghostly wails and wolf howls echoed.
Zhao Chen spat out a mouthful of hot blood, which evaporated into white mist mid-air. With blood dripping down, he finally escaped the white shadow ghost’s binding.
He lunged at Bai Hui, disregarding any bonds, and pushed Bai Hui off the mountain peak, reclaiming the spirit crystal suppression object.
"Everyone, come to me!"
Zhao Chen almost roared out.
The black fog spread even further, and phantom-like figures floated around.
What made Zhao Chen and the others show terror was that Bai Hui, whom he had just personally pushed off, reappeared!
The ghosts finally arrived, led by one with a deathly pale face, as tall as wide, emanating an eerie, evil aura, an icy chill almost tangible.
The hearts of Zhao Chen and the others sank.
No way out!
...
The mountain was damp, and any slight change in weather would lead to rain.
Under the cliff, Xu Guang hid on General Wei’s back, gazing at the rain curtain outside and listening to the beastly roars from unknown origins, an unease stirring in his heart.
"General Wei, in these mountains there shouldn’t be an alien species stronger than you, right?"
General Wei thought carefully, giving a positive answer.
At least in the few mountain peaks they passed, there were no alien species stronger than him.
This was normal; innate spiritual objects were too rare in Qingshuo County, and a demon beast breaking through to the innate is inseparable from them.
Yet the previous commotion, it’s unknown what caused it.
Xu Guang didn’t bother with these matters; surviving up to now depended on avoiding crowds and sticking to his own business.
Having fled from Taizhou, he had come across many strange occurrences, and investigating each one would’ve led to his demise long ago.
Waiting for the rain to ease a bit, Xu Guang urged General Wei back on the road.
Sitting on General Wei’s back, Xu Guang used the power surpassing Blood Qi from General Wei through the "Elephant Master" to manipulate, generating demon energy akin to Qi Force in alien species, though not as qualitative as a human innate expert’s, the enormous demonic strength due to its colossal body still intimidated those experts.
Droplets of water vapor evaporated around Xu Guang, returning to the sky.
Descending the path, they finally reached the bottom of the cliff.
The bottom was deathly quiet, filled with an oppressive atmosphere, remnants of human and animal bones along the rock walls seemed to have weathered decades, exuding a decaying aura.
No wind, no moon, not a glimmer of celestial light, General Wei’s golden eyes seemed a beacon.
Xu Guang saw where the turtle shell pointed.
Nestled among ancient trees was a dark, icy pool, only about a hundred feet in circumference, edges lined by blue-black stone walls covered with millennial dragon whisker vines, the drooping purple fern leaves incessantly dripping residual rain on the eerie blue water surface.
Occasionally, faint light from the sky penetrated the hundred-foot-tall canopy, scattering light scales on the pool’s center, only to be swiftly devoured by roving milky white mist.
