Thousand Lanterns City.
Surrounding and above, the dark void still lingered, but the vast and complex city had vanished without a trace, leaving behind only a calm expanse of water.
A black heart floated in mid-air, pulsing slowly. Wisps of white smoke drifted from the heart, slowly gathering into clusters.
After a while, a ghastly pale hand suddenly reached out, dispersing the white smoke, revealing Jin Er’s form slowly emerging.
Yet now, his whole body was withered and diminutive, having aged to appear like a man in his seventies or eighties.
"Thirty years of cultivation, all lost in a single moment!"
"Lin Su!"
He gasped desperately for air, teeth clenched, fixing his eyes on the water beneath him.
Previously, when the opponent suddenly activated the Netherworld Ferry, he had no choice but to fight with all his might. He was certain that if he couldn’t send Chen Mu into the dragon well first, Lin Su would dare to pull him into the Netherworld Ferry as well!
As a result, he was left with his cultivation completely dissipated, while Qian Mu had been drained of vital energy by that unconscious, frenzied monster, reduced to smoke and dust.Fortunately, he managed to send the person into the Netherworld and survived this catastrophe.
"Lin Su! I have already sent the person to the dragon well, now let me out quickly!"
Jin Er’s heart was tumultuous as he shouted repeatedly.
He feared that Lin Su, with his ruthless and decisive nature, would take the opportunity to silence him.
After a long while, ripples finally began to emerge on the calm water’s surface beneath him.
Jin Er’s heart loosened somewhat, thinking to himself that Lin Su after all had some reservations, pondering how to settle accounts with him once he got out.
However, an indigo-blue arm suddenly burst through the ripples and grabbed his ankle in one swift motion.
Jin Er looked down in shock, and immediately his eyes met Chen Mu’s pair that had regained clarity, yet appeared even more fierce and frenzied.
The next moment.
Whoosh!
The extremely weakened Jin Er was pulled into the Netherworld Ferry without any resistance.
Inside Thousand Lanterns City, it became completely empty.
…
Atop an unnamed mountain peak.
Bright yellow water spurted from underground, slowly converging to form a human shape, as Dantai Zong’s figure reappeared.
"Young Master, everyone has now entered the Netherworld Ferry."
"I placed the exit at the dragon well, by now they should all have entered it."
Lin Su smiled with ease, "With all the Nether Spirit Primordial Embryos gathered, the preparations for the dragon well are finally complete."
Dantai Zong nodded in agreement, then sighed with a hint of concern, "General Jin used the Blood Pouch avatar, sacrificing his entire cultivation in a bid for survival by severing a limb. It’s a pity that at the last moment, he was still dragged into the Netherworld Ferry by Chen Mu."
Lin Su couldn’t help but click his tongue in wonder, "It’s no wonder he’s valued by the Ling Zun."
"To strike back at death’s door, capable of consecutively defeating three generals - Lian Cheng, Qian Mu, and Jin Er - impressive indeed."
"The Jin Family…" Dantai Zong wore a hesitant expression.
Lin Su waved his hand nonchalantly, "Don’t worry about it, if the Jin Family wants to trouble me, they have to get past Ling Zun first."
He pulled out a palm-sized emerald disc dotted with white spots and cheerfully waved it at Dantai Zong, "Old Lord Jin doesn’t have just Jin Er as a son. With the merit of preparing this dragon well, he wouldn’t dare to trouble me."
Dantai Zong looked at the emerald disc, slightly relieved.
But inadvertently, he noticed a change that gave him pause, "Young Master, why is the center still blank?"
The emerald disc was connected to the dragon well, and with each Nether Spirit Primordial Embryo that entered, a white spot would appear. Now, around the edges of the disc, numerous sesame-sized white spots could be seen.
There were also seven pea-sized white spots, circling the middle.
Yet at the center, where a large white spot - representing the Nether Spirit Primordial Embryo - should have appeared, it had yet to materialize.
"Has it not been delivered yet? That can’t be," Dantai Zong suddenly had an ominous premonition.
Lin Su’s brows furrowed deeply as he held up the disc to inspect it closely. But after a long wait, there was still no change in the disc.
"Could Chen Mu have escaped from the Netherworld Ferry?" Dantai Zong’s face turned ashen.
"The Netherworld Ferry’s teleportation uses the power of the River of Oblivion from the Netherworld. To break free is akin to contending against the entire Netherworld."
"This... this is simply impossible," he said.
Lin Su heard this and looked gravely at Dantai Zong. "The River of Oblivion!"
"What?"
"I’m saying he didn’t break free at all, but followed the Netherworld Ferry and slipped into the River of Oblivion!"
"He doesn’t want to live anymore!" Dantai Zong’s face changed drastically.
"This is troublesome!" Lin Su’s face turned extremely ugly as he glanced at the emerald disc.
...
At this moment, Chen Mu lay still in the water, the currents around him clear as if they were the void itself.
Above him was the faint and murky light of the sky, below were silhouettes of human-shaped black smoke, drifting silently with the flow of the water. Experience new stories on
Time passed unknown, and Chen Mu slowly opened his eyes, the scarlet orbs devoid of any mad cravings.
Yet his consciousness was still groggy, as if he were between sleep and wakefulness.
His body and mind felt warm and cozy, too lazy to entertain any thoughts or ideas.
Every so often, a wisp of black smoke would fly out from Chen Mu’s body, drifting down slowly, merging with those human-shaped clusters of smoke below and vanishing.
With the disappearance of the black smoke, Chen Mu’s giant, robust figure standing five meters tall also shrank a bit.
As time passed, just as he was about to return to his normal state, the gentle water around him suddenly revealed its terrifying nature.
In the blink of an eye, Chen Mu’s clothing and hair were completely corroded to black withering, turning to dust and smoke, drifting away in the water.
Patches of his fair skin started falling off, the blood-red muscles beneath as if they had dipped into strong acid, rapidly decomposed and dissipated.
In just a moment, his fingernails and toenails began falling off. Stark white bone appeared where flesh had completely corroded away.
Yet Chen Mu still lay peacefully in the water, his half-open eyes completely undisturbed.
Just as his slowly beating heart became visible between the gaps of his ribs, a lychee-sized pitch-black hollow sphere emerged on his smooth, pale brow.
Torrents of black smoke surged from within, rapidly enveloping Chen Mu’s entire body. Like teleportation, his shattered, skeletal body suddenly disappeared, replaced by a human-shaped black smoke figure.
The previously violent and clear water instantly turned as gentle as a warm spring, softly cradling the human-shaped black smoke that Chen Mu had transformed into, slowly sinking to the riverbed and blending into the mass of shadows.
...
The Lower Courtyard of Gan River.
"Ran off suddenly, as if someone was chasing him?" Mo Wuzhou looked with a serious expression at the big toad.
He couldn’t help but think of those strange people who could transform into muddy black shadows and the Netherworld demons and monsters that could envelop an entire mountain peak. Chen Mu had played a role in the discovery of both.
Now it seemed...
"Is it a revenge killing?" Mo Wuzhou’s face looked ugly.
"To make those people launch the Netherworld Ferry, your junior brother is probably in dire straits," Tu said with a chuckle.
"Able to adeptly wield the Longitudinal Rainbow Light, his Cultivation almost on par with yours. I remember you saying he started his Cultivation much later than you, right?"
"A genius indeed…" Tu’s tone carried a hint of regret.
"I should have taken his brain when I had the chance."
Mo Wuzhou gave a cold smile, "You should be glad you didn’t mess with him."
"My junior brother is best at the Yin Mysterious Method."
"That Netherworld demon was exposed by him."
"What could he do to you, do you think?"
Tu fell silent for a moment, then stopped talking.
Standing in front of the wooden house’s porch, looking at the big toad standing dumbfounded in the courtyard, Mo Wuzhou sighed.
"Is there really no chance of survival?"
Tu sighed, "Those people are likely from the Yinming Group."
"Greedy, bloodthirsty, terrifyingly strange. And like locusts, they’re endless. No matter how powerful, one can be overwhelmed and devoured by wave after wave of their attacks."
"I think instead of worrying about him, you should be more concerned about yourself."
"The appearance of the Yinming Group here suggests that they are very likely to launch an attack on this place."
"If your strength is not up to par, you won’t even have time to run!"
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