Chapter 379 - The Secluded Hall in the Deep

Zhiluan saw Xiao Chen becoming like a different person in an instant, was scared and stopped laughing. It blinked and said, “I said, this big joke I could laugh for a year.”

“Last sentence!”

“Haha, you are going to catch a Millennium Walking Corpse…”

“The sentence before that!”

“Kid-Kiddo, you’re not possessed right…” Zhiluan saw Xiao Chen’s expression suddenly become very weird, such a cold dead night, there was a strange horrifying vibe that was beyond words.

He leaned back cautiously and whispered, “I said that the Walking Corpse of more than a thousand years of Malicious Grudge can’t be killed. It doesn’t have the souls and senses. As soon as it dies, its Malicious Grudge will immediately make it reborn, unless…”

Xiao Chen felt cold all over, with a little dizziness. This feeling was like suddenly falling into a cold and dark abyss, but this abyss had no bottom, so he kept falling and falling, and he could not die. He could only be in constant darkness and despair.

“Kid-Kiddo, what’s the matter with you?” Zhiluan saw his expression change again, this time it lowered its voice and changed the topic. It carefully approached a few steps to him but was also afraid that he would suddenly lose his mind and become violent, so it did not dare go too close.

Xiao Chen’s expression was a little dreamy. He suddenly remembered many years ago when he was still in the Xiao family. When he learned that he could not practice martial arts, when he could not find a trace of thousands of years ago, he was very depressed and thought of death. Then he jumped off the cliff of that Rainbow Pavilion.

At such a high cliff, even a cultivator would fall to death. However, at the moment of landing, the feeling was like falling into a cliff in a dream. When he fell into the ground, all consciousness was gone. The dream was gone, and the feeling was really death! But then, he woke up miraculously…

What the hell was this, who was he, was he really already… No, that would be impossible, when death happens, one would lose his souls and senses, and his were still there. He was thinking too much.

After a while, Zhiluan walked to his side and whispered, “Kiddo, don’t go to that Ghost-wailing Hill, the heavier the Resentment Qi, the more powerful the Walking Corpse…”

Xiao Chen did not speak, and he slowly put away these cluttered thoughts in his head. The heavier the Resentment Qi, the more powerful the Walking Corpse, Resentment Qi, Walking Corpse… He suddenly thought of something again and exclaimed, “Oh no!” Then he hurriedly ran out of the cave.

“Kiddo where are you going! Wait for me!” Zhiluan spread its wings and chased after him.

A man and a cat flew 50 kilometers and returned to the Precipice Peak where the battle with Danyang Zi happened. The place was extremely bloody, and the dead bodies were unbearable to sight. Xiao Chen went to the place where Danyang Zi died, and was shocked. “Oh sh*t!”

The body was gone. Only those bodies that had been chopped up by Seven Killings were around. Danyang Zi’s body was gone. Xiao Chen turned his head to look at Zhiluan. “Did you bury his body?”

“Nah-uh! Yu Eleven knows that the Order of the Divine Fire and you and little Luo had grudges, with little Luo around, how will he collect the body for the Order of the Divine Fire.”

Xiao Chen settled himself and as if he was talking to himself, said, “That’s weird. It’s impossible to gather Malicious Grudge and have a corpse change in such a short time, unless… Corpse Refinery Sect!”

“Bloody meow! I thought so too! This corpse collecting sect is too insidious! They easily gained a good bargain!” Zhiluan’s two claws in front of its chest, it flew in midair, bulging, as if it just had a big loss.

Xiao Chen gazed in the direction of the mountains, but it was so dark that he could not see anything. Danyang Zi’s Resentment Qi was very heavy when he died, and his body was of the pinnacle of Nirvana Realm. If he was to be refined into a Corpse Puppet, he would absorb more Malicious Grudge than those usual Corpse Puppets, and it would very likely retain the resentment he had when he was alive.

“Come here, Leopard Cat Spirit.”

“Why?” Zhiluan was looking around, it flew over after Xiao Chen shouted suddenly, and he then said to Zhiluan, “Go back and tell Brother Yifeng, let them go back to Jade Qing Sect as soon as possible; don’t stay around in this mountain.”

Zhiluan shrugged and said, “I’ll try.” Then he turned and whispered quietly, “Yu Eleven is a stupid ox, he is stubborn and he’s one-track minded. Whatever Qing Chen asked him to do, he will do it. Even if he asked him to jump into the fire pit…”

Xiao Chen sighed softly. Brother Yifeng was very similar to himself then, right is right, wrong is wrong, righteous is righteous, evil is evil, and he was always clear-cut.

Zhiluan glanced at him and said, “Why? Kiddo, you wanna go to the end of the earth alone from now on? Not with us?”

Xiao Chen sighed and shook his head. If he walked too close together with Yu Yifeng and the others, it would hurt Jade Qing Sect instead. At that time, a villain would inevitably make a fuss about it. He said, “Help me to take care of Xian’er when you go back.” After that, he took out a Tier Six Spirit Stone and passed it to Zhiluan.

“Take her down the mountain to play in Qing Province when you have time. Whatever she wants, you buy it for her. I can’t come back yet.”

Zhiluan took the Spirit Stone and muttered, “Stupid boy, so rich…”

“Well, it should be bright in a while, you go back first.”

“Okay kiddo, be careful by yourself.” Zhiluan looked at him finally, spread its wings and muttered something. Then it went to the place where Yu Yifeng and others camped.

As he watched the Leopard Cat Spirit disappeared into the night, Xiao Chen sighed deeply again. This time, he felt that something big would happen in the near future. He hoped that he would be alone this time and would not drag down the people around him…

The night was desolate and the cold wind was blowing. Xiao Chen felt a little messy now, he had not found his master yet, and the mystery of his resurrection had yet to be solved. Now there came another Corpse Refinery Sect. If the 31 people who had disappeared was the act of the Corpse Refinery Sect, as well as for those who had disappeared previously, then it had to be unusual. Wei Yang also happened to be born on July 7…

In the midst of it, there seemed to be a pair of invisible hands that led him to a certain place, and that place would have to be the meeting point of all mysteries.

And now, there was nothing he could do. He sat down and took a deep breath. Maybe reaching the Nirvana Realm could make him mighty and powerful in the Human Realm Violet Manor. But if he wanted to find out all the mysteries of thousands of years ago, it would not be enough, and he would need to be at least the level of a true immortal to be able to investigate those puzzles.

Xiao Chen looked at the looming mountains in the distance. What was needed now was to level up his cultivation as soon as possible, otherwise he would not be able to intervene in those major events. Although this was how he thought, he always got confused when he encountered something about Master Ling Yin or the mystery of his resurrection.

The night seemed to be getting deeper and deeper, and was gradually surrounded by a layer of light mist. The moonlight had also become hazy, like a veil, and deep in the mountains, those that were visible and invisible were hidden in an unknown corner.

At this moment, in an unknown corner deep in the mountains, there was a secluded hall. The hall was covered with thorns and vines, as if it had been deserted for a long time. The middle of the hall was cold and chill to the bones, the top of the hall was open. Just nice for the moonlight to shine in, somehow, a sarcophagus placed in the center of the hall could be seen.

The sarcophagus was very ordinary, and there was nothing strange about it, but it was slightly quaint. It should have been a long time. At this moment, there were “clicking” footsteps outside. From the sound of it, it was two people walking.

A moment later, two men in black walked in from outside the hall. When they were about fifty or sixty feet away from the sarcophagus, they dared not go any nearer. The two looked at each other, and the man on the left said in a quavering voice, “Hong… Lord Hong Xiu.”

The hall was silent for a while, and then a woman’s thrilling voice sounded in the sarcophagus, “How are the 31 people now…”

“Report, report Lord Hong Xiu, the 31 people, they are all…” His voice was getting lower and lower, and the man swallowed, continuing, “They are all dead…”

“What did you say!” The sarcophagus in the middle shook violently as if the whole hall shook with it. The two people fifty feet away were so scared that they became pale, then they knelt in a hurry and said, “Lord Hong Xiu please don’t be angry!”

“Rubbish! All useless rubbish! You all have to die!” An angry voice came from the sarcophagus.

As soon as they heard it, they were so frightened that they could not stop kowtowing, said, “Spare us Lord Hong Xiu! Spare our lives! Lord Hong Xiu, spare our lives…” Finally they lay on the ground and did not dare move.

For a long time, the hall was silent, and the man on the right finally dared to raise his head and bravely said, “Lord Hong Xiu, ordinary people can’t stand the cold prison. Of the 31 people, 9 died when they just entered, 18 made it through 30 minutes, and the remaining 4 Nascent Soul Realm failed to survive for more than an hour and died as well…” In the end, the voice gradually lowered and did not dare to continue.

“For half a year, I have raised them for more than half a year! And they still can’t make it through… Rubbish! All of you are rubbish!” The sarcophagus shook again, and the two people outside trembled in fear. They tried to stop trembling, but no matter what they could not stop this fear that rose from the soul.

The man on the left trembled and said, “Lord Hong Xiu please don’t be angry. I’ll immediately go look for it, and will definitely find the person Lord Hong Xiu needs…”

After a while, the sarcophagus finally stopped shaking, the thrilling voice of the woman in it said, “Go and find it for me! Even if it’s just a mortal, as long as it’s a woman born on July 7th, you have to bring her over for me!”

The two shuddered, thinking that even the cultivators could not tolerate the torture of that cold prison, mortals would most probably die as soon as they entered. When the time came, Hong Xiu would be angry, and they would really be dead to the bones. The man on the right said in a quavering voice, “Lord Hong Xiu, even cultivators can’t make it through the cold prison, the mortals will probably…”

“Mortal… I was a mortal too back then! How did I get past it!” An angry voice shouted from the sarcophagus, and the two outside could not help but kowtow. “Subordinates obey! We’ll go and look! We will!”

“Bugger off!”

“Yes, yes!” The two did not dare to lift their heads and ran away in a scramble.

After a long time, the forlorn and bitter voice of the woman came out of the sarcophagus, “I must find the coldest body that was born on July 7!” Her voice echoed in the secluded hall, sad and shrill and full of resentment—the endless resentment that could send chills down one’s spine.

…

“Wei Yang!” Xiao Chen in the cave woke up suddenly, his face was pale and cold sweat was all over his forehead. He had a terrible nightmare.