Chapter 243: Centering
"Grave digging? Is that good? Chang Xiao asked.
"It's not good. β
As he spoke, one of the mounds had already dispersed.
Chang Xiao looked inside and saw the corpse of an ugly young beast, the corpse was twisted and deformed, and the fur was unkempt. Maybe it was because it was too cold and too dry in the place, and the corpses didn't decompose, just a peculiar smell.
"It's a half-demon." Review should be said.
"Half-demon?" Chang Xiao remembered the appearance of the half-demon woman, except that she was paler, she looked no different from a human woman. And now the corpses lying in the mound do not look like people at all.
"Yes, most of the half-demons are beasts and not humans." Wen closed the grave bag, took two steps back, and said, "This young beast was poisoned. They may be the siblings of the half-demon woman. β
"Are they?" Chang Xiao was surprised.
"It should be, but I don't know who her mother is......" Before Wen could finish speaking, he felt a chill rush towards him. Is it an ethereal spirit again? Suddenly, a miserable white bone knife stabbed at him from the cold air. There should be no avoidance of the past. The bone knife hung in mid-air, unable to move forward or backward. After a few moments, the bone knife dissipated, disappeared into the cold air, and quietly retreated into the darkness.
Wen Guying immediately chased after him.
Chang Xiao didn't follow, but walked around these graves.
One, two...... Seven or eight, a total of eight tombs, of different sizes, no monuments. Who killed them, and who buried them?
Chang Xiao looked in the direction that Wen Guying chased for a while, and occasionally some red appeared in the dark, but other than that, there was silence.
Only the frost that condensed on the ground indicated that an extremely dangerous battle was taking place here.
Chang Xiao withdrew his gaze. He couldn't get into the fight between the monk and the half-demon, but he had something to do. He took a few steps to the other side, then paused, stepped forward, and vanished.
Wen Guying glanced at the place where he had disappeared, and the sword light blocked the cold air chasing after him.
Chang Xiao entered the stone room. The half-demon had taken him captive here before.
There was no one in the stone chamber, not any ethereal spirits.
He walked briskly. Except for a stone table and a few stone benches, there is no other furniture, and there is no trace of human life, only a foul smell coming from nowhere.
Standing here, he still had a sense of isolation. He walked a few steps out from memory, but this time he couldn't get out, and he walked for a long time but still circled in this small stone room.
He stopped, his gaze falling on a pile of rocks not far away.
There is something underneath the stone pile.
Chang Xiao thought as he walked over, squatted down, and moved the stones away.
There were some white bones buried under the stones, and he picked up one of them, looked at it, and it looked like it was just the bones of ordinary beasts. Picking the bones aside, he found that there was a round stone slab underneath, which seemed to have some runes carved on it.
He brushed away the dry dirt from it and looked at it carefully. If Jiang Daochang and Mr. Li were here, they might have seen something.
Undeterred, he dug some gaps between the sides with his knife, and then grabbed the sides of the slate with both hands, and tried to lift it with all his might.
The slate is loose, and it can be moved.
After trying again, Chang Xiao successfully moved away from the heavy stone slab.
He gasped for a long time, feeling the exhaled breath tugging at the wound, and the wound spasmed for a while. After calming his breath a little, he looked down into the hole.
The cold air rushed to his face, and the ground cracked along with the spread of the cold air, and a deep clicking sound came from the ground.
At the same time, that feeling of isolation is gone. He could clearly perceive where the road was, and perceive the direction of the pillar.
In the cave, it is also a place where the light of the pillar cannot be illuminated. But this place is very close to the pillar, not in terms of distance, but there is some kind of connection.
After noticing this, Chang Xiao immediately slipped into the cave. The inner walls of the cave are very smooth, and with almost no effort, it slides to the bottom. It's just that the further down you go, the heavier the cold becomes.
Chang Xiao only felt that his whole body froze, and the wound on his chest seemed to be frozen and cracked, and there were bursts of tingling pain. He shuffled his feet and walked forward a few steps, and suddenly, he smelled a strong stench, and he couldn't help retching twice, and after getting used to it a little, he continued to move forward, and after walking through a corner, his eyes suddenly opened.
A mountain of Roshan appeared in front of him.
The stench emanates from this Roshan Mountain.
Chang Xiao covered his nose with his hand and got closer to Roshan, only to find that it was a completely unformed demon beast, and he could vaguely see his appearance, which seemed to be somewhat similar to the little demon beast in the tomb.
Deep in Roshan was a black chain with runes carved into it, and the other end of the chain was attached to a wall hook high up.
He looked up and saw six wall hooks on the heights, but only one was still chained. And the only remaining wall hook was also very corroded.
He looked further on the ground, and sure enough, he saw a few scattered chains, broken and almost corroded.
Chang Xiao suddenly realized that he was in the middle of a huge well. So he looked up again, and in the void, he seemed to see many runes.
This is the sealing place, and it is also the eye of the formation that maintains the fertile pool. Chang Xiao recalled what Jiang Mei and Wen Guying had said, and her heart slowly settled down.
Roshan seemed to move.
The cold was so cold that he could barely move.
He has set his goals.
He knew that the half-demon woman had done something to him, and she was going to use him to sneak into the vicinity of the pillar of heaven to attract something.
He couldn't be sure what she had done. She was too treacherous, whether it was the bone chain she handed him or the ethereal spirit that controlled his body, it might just be a faΓ§ade. He remembered her mocking look, which seemed to tell him that no matter what he did, he could not escape her calculations.
So he chose not to go under the pillar of heaven.
He chose to go to her lair, and let the light of the pillar illuminate her lair.
Chang Xiao decided that the half-demon was afraid of the light of the Heavenly Pillar. He began to climb upwards, and the walls of the well were also smooth, and there was almost no place to hold his foothold, but fortunately, he mastered the knack of Professor Jiang Mei and climbed up quickly.
The cold air spread up the wall of the well, and a cold hand grabbed at his feet.
He didn't look back, but tried to go up. Then he saw a red light reflected on the wall of the well. Immediately, the hand that was gripping his foot loosened.
Hui Su Ying stopped the half-demon again.
Chang Xiao climbed up intently. He doesn't listen, he doesn't look, he doesn't think, he just keeps climbing, all the way to the top.
He believed that Wen should know his purpose, and he also believed that Wen should be able to stop the half-demon before he achieved his goal.
The cold condensed ice flowers on his skin.
Chang Xiao felt that an invisible barrier was blocking him, and he passed through this transparent barrier, as if he saw the Heavenly Pillar, and also saw the connection between the Sealing Land and the Heavenly Pillar.
He couldn't read it, but he knew how to step over it.
The iceman, who was perched on the wall of the well, drew his knife.
ββ
Li Chuan, who was honestly and conscientiously immersed in peeling off the parasitic roots, suddenly stopped moving, he looked down at the heavenly pillar, and he felt the light rushing there.
(End of chapter)