Chapter 1138 - 1043: The Black Hand
The desolate land of the Tenth Source Clan.
After the tumult, there was dead silence, even the grey mist gradually dispersed.
The sound of dragging chains grew clearer; out of the thin mist, a figure suddenly emerged.
He was dragging a chain, wearing clothes made of grey human skin, his face wrapped in corpse cloth, but pieces of flesh were still trembling, as if about to shake off any moment.
Two pale eyeballs dangled on rotting strands of flesh, as if about to fall.
The Rotten Slave stood where the Great Lake once was, woodenly walking towards the Grey Mist Spring Eye.
“Grass seed…”
Seeing the Sand-stabilizing Grass seed rooted in the spring eye, the Rotten Slave’s body suddenly started trembling, it reached out, tearing off its rotting ear, and threw it towards the spring eye.
In the spring eye, a grey arm flashed past, swatting the rotting ear away.
The Rotten Slave dragged the chain, picked up the thrown ear, casually stuffed it back onto its head, and a voice arose from within the ear:
“White mist… escape…”
The Rotten Slave’s lips slightly moved, saying:
“Grass seed… white mist… unspeakable…”
“What exactly… is going on…”
He turned around, suddenly like a dog, sniffing the ground.
He found pieces of meat on the ground.
These chunks of meat also emitted a rotting smell.
The Rotten Slave picked these pieces up one by one; it took a very long time, perhaps two days, perhaps three, before he gathered all the scattered flesh.
Then, he took some corpse wrapping cloth from his body and wrapped these pieces of flesh into a human form.
After being wrapped in the corpse cloth, these pieces of flesh somehow underwent a miraculous change; the human shape actually stood up.
It became a Youxu Messenger again!
“Greetings… Lord Rotten Slave!”
The Youxu Messenger knelt on the ground!
“Speak.”
The Rotten Slave spoke woodenly.
The body of the Youxu Messenger was a bit stiff, and its voice hadn’t fully warmed up, hoarsely and woodenly saying:
“…it was a Big Black Dog…”
“It laid out a formation, killed me and the Reincarnation Prohibition Master… I saw with my dying eyes, the Reincarnation Seal and the power of the ritual, controlled by it… it… must have already controlled the Cycle of Rebirth Authority!”
Hearing this, the Rotten Slave suddenly turned its head, staring at the Youxu Messenger, saying:
“It, didn’t pee on you?”
The Youxu Messenger was taken aback, then said:
“No…”
The Rotten Slave muttered:
“Then consider yourself lucky… otherwise, being peed on by it, I would be infested by maggots…”
He even seemed to possess a trace of fear.
Hearing this, the Youxu Messenger also shuddered, what?
It sounded like… Lord Rotten Slave, had been peed on by that Big Black Dog?
It seems this dog has a significant background…
“Do you have anything else to tell me?”
The Rotten Slave spoke.
Hearing this, the Youxu Messenger’s eyes flashed with fear, saying:
“My Lord, I wish to live…”
But the Rotten Slave only took back the corpse wrapping cloth from the Youxu Messenger’s body with one pull.
Instantly, the Youxu Messenger screamed, reverting back into a pile of rotting flesh.
The re-emergence of the Youxu Messenger was as if it had never occurred.
The Rotten Slave said woodenly:
“Sometimes, death is easier than living.”
Having said that, he also left from here.
…
Not long after, the Rotten Slave dragging the chain, appeared in a mysterious land.
Amid the thick grey mist, from the huge burial pit, thin strands of black air seemed to emerge.
The Rotten Slave stepped into it, knelt down, and said:
“… that Big Black Dog from the past is not yet fully dead, it has stolen the reincarnation…”
“In the origin land of the Tenth Source Clan, I also discovered the White Mist Grass Seed… that White Mist Grass Seed has been planted in the Grey Mist Spring Eye, the Grey Ghosts are about to be extinguished.”
In the burial pit, a strange black aura suddenly gathered, forming a human shape.
“White Mist Grass Seed… extinct from the world long ago, that dog once followed that person, there are some, it makes sense…”
A misty voice sounded faintly, like not existing in this realm, piercing through countless curtains, spaces alike.
“That woman’s remnants, the black dog that steals reincarnation… hehe, quite interesting…”
“They want to contend for reincarnation.”
A human shape of black air seemed to be pondering, after a long while, the misty voice murmured:
“That woman had also seen a corner of the future, to protect those people’s last identity before the grand curtain, she left behind a tomb, blocking my steps, preventing me from reaching this realm personally…”
“I had already found a way to resolve her tomb, just waiting all this while…”
“Take the relics left by those people from that year in the burial pit, give them to those ghostly things in the Youxu Realm… although those ghostly things are foolish, after so many years, they should understand how to solve that tomb…”
“They are only missing these relics.”
The Rotten Slave respectfully said:
“Yes.”
The dark human shape dissipated, turning into wisps of black smoke, spreading around the burial pit.
The Rotten Slave immediately picked up items in the burial pit.
Some had broken paintbrushes.
Some had rotten guitar strings.
Some had dust-covered sword tassels.
Some had blackened prayer beads.
…
The Rotten Slave took these objects away, walking out of the burial pit.
…
And at this moment.
At the end of the Forbidden Ancient Path.
The Chaos Fog was extremely dense, almost giving birth to a forbidden aura.
This place was like desolately eternal, seeming to repress the end of the world, in the vast universe, there was only a solitary tomb.
In front of the lone grave lies the Forbidden Ancient Path, extending from the Grey Mist Sea.
Behind it, however, lies an immeasurable expanse.
This expanse seems untouchable, and behind it appears to lie an unimaginable mysterious world. Shapes and lights seem to converge towards the Forbidden Ancient Path.
Occasionally, terrifying grey forbidding mists rise and fall; at times, enigmatic eyes watch, and sometimes the claws of powerful beings sweep across…
But the lone grave stands firm, as if blocking everything.
At this moment.
Behind the expanse, there seems to be an ethereal voice whispering.
“After repressing those twelve people years ago, I wanted to find the last trace of karma in their corpses, but you defeated me, forcing me to retreat… I could only curse their last trace of existence through the expanse, borrowing the power of myriad worlds…”
“Haha, subjected to my curse for so many years, their last trace of existence should have met with much difficulty and death in this world…”
“However, this small world was once visited by that person, it cannot be underestimated, I must see it myself to be reassured…”
“This life, I want to see with my own eyes, how that person hid their last trace of existence in this tiny world, and what kind of trap was laid…”
The ethereal voice slowly faded away.
…
At the same time.
At this moment.
Upon the Forbidden Ancient Path.
“We’ve finally escaped.”
A group of people had been fleeing and finally stopped.
“Ao Wushuang, you really are formidable!”
Song Jiyuan couldn’t help but speak up, looking at Ao Wushuang with eyes filled with… admiration.
If it wasn’t for Ao Wushuang’s quick thinking and leading them in their escape, they probably would have been annihilated.
– They had already felt the terrifying fluctuations emitted by the Tenth Source Clan during their escape.
The entire Tenth Source Clan was probably annihilated.
Even Mei Zhishang Ban Master looked at Ao Wushuang with complex eyes, saying:
“Master… You, are too strong!”
He was genuinely emotional.
In such a situation, with Samsara right in front of them, unprecedented glory and honor were within reach, yet Ao Wushuang simply ran without a second thought.
At that time, he did not understand.
Now, it seems, Ao Wushuang was the wise one.
And Ao Wushuang also heaved a deep sigh of relief.
“Damn, it’s really strange, to come all this way and still encounter that Dead Dog?”
– When the Dog-headed Taoist turned into Big Black Dog during the formation, Ao Wushuang knew … Xiemeng’s fate had once again befallen him.
So, without hesitation, he turned and ran!
Whatever about Samsara, whatever about opportunities… in the face of Xiemeng’s small village, they’re all just illusions!
Sure enough, just after he ran out, the entire Tenth Source Clan was enveloped by a terrifying aura, a massive disaster had definitely occurred.
Whenever Xiemeng’s small village appears, a great calamity will certainly follow!
He had already figured out the pattern!
“What a pity, missed the bones of the Reincarnation Prohibition Master, no chance to use his bones for an upgrade… sigh.”
Ao Wushuang sighed.
That was a chance for an upgrade.
But, at this moment.
Boom!
In the void ahead of them, a light gate suddenly appeared.
A skeleton stumbled out, with only its most important dozen or so bones remaining.
“Eh… This is… Reincarnation?!”
Mei Zhishang was startled upon seeing the skeleton.
– This skeleton was left by the Reincarnation Prohibition Master.
Before his death, he removed his skull and other important bones, opened a void channel with his life, and tossed his bones into it.
In doing so, he left a sliver of life.
As long as the bones were intact, there was a chance for rebirth.
In fact, Mei Zhishang had done the same thing back then, crushed to death by the End of Myriad Paths, fortunately, his bones retained some vitality.
“You… You actually didn’t die?”
Seeing Mei Zhishang and others, the skeleton was shocked, how did these people escape?
However, the Reincarnation Prohibition Master’s skeleton didn’t ponder further, and hurriedly said:
“Quick, I can’t hold on, I’m going into hibernation, take me to another Source Clan!”
As long as it reached another Source Clan and received nourishment from a Grey Mist Spring Eye of another Source Clan, it could slowly recover.
Hearing this, Mei Zhishang’s lips curled into a cold smile, saying:
“Are you ordering us?”
The Reincarnation Prohibition Master, seeing this, angrily said:
“Do you want to defy me?! I am the Reincarnation Prohibition Master, and you dare defy me… “
“Even though my power might dissipate at any moment, I can still easily suppress you all!”
Although it was just a skeleton, it still emitted a terrifying aura!
Mei Zhishang, however, looked to Ao Wushuang, saying:
“Master?”
Ao Wushuang stepped forward, looking at the Reincarnation Prohibition Master, his eyes brightening, he said:
“Your power might dissipate at any moment?”
“Then I bless you… may your power always persist, never dissipate!”
As soon as the words fell.
Crack!
The Reincarnation Prohibition Master’s bones scattered directly!
The bones lay scattered on the ground…
Seeing this scene, Mei Zhishang was shocked.
What, what’s going on?
He had originally wanted to gauge Ao Wushuang’s depth by using the Reincarnation Prohibition Master…
But now it seems, it’s not about Ao Wushuang’s depth, he’s just… too eerily powerful, right?
And Song Jiyuan, with a complex expression, said:
“My brother Ao… speaks and the law follows!!!”
“Invincible!!”
…….!
Good night.