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Chapter 737
Chapter 737
?Chapter 737: Chapter 326: Perilous Soul Tomb_2 Chapter 737: Chapter 326: Perilous Soul Tomb_2 “Alright.”
“Then add me as well.”
Having said that, the middle-aged man continued shouting:
“Is there anyone else who wants to go?”
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“I, I want to go too.”
“I’m tired of staying in this Sea of Strange anyway.”
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“Then count me in as well.”
After another moment, two more decided to join the middle-aged man.
In total, four of them decided to venture into the Soul Tomb together.
Among the four, the man and an elderly person had the highest cultivation, both at the mid-stage of Divinity Transformation.
The other two, one was at the early stage of Divinity Transformation, and the other wasn’t even at that stage yet, only in the late stage of Nascent Soul.
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After the four of them had made their decision and were gathering to strategize…
Lin Jing and the Yan Family’s elder exchanged glances and then communicated through Divine Sense for a while, deciding to wait a moment and let those few go ahead and challenge the Soul Tomb first.
Meanwhile, they would take the opportunity to observe.
Although Lin Jing and his group were somewhat familiar with the Water Element Realm, they didn’t know much about the Soul Tomb.
Observing first seemed like a better option.
It wasn’t long before the four had finished their preparations.
Afterward.
The four, amid the admiring glances of the crowd, charged towards the city gate.
Before they even reached the city gate, they hastily gathered their Spiritual Power, converting it into a Protective Shield around themselves.
Just like that, the group, shielded by their Spiritual Shields, stormed directly into the city gate.
The process was unusually smooth, with no obstacles encountered.
No sooner had they charged through the gate than a myriad of WÇ” CÇŽi fog drifted over, veiling the gate area and obscuring all visibility.
However, just before the WÇ” CÇŽi fog had arrived, Lin Jing had caught a glimpse through the corner of the gate and saw the undead swiftly lunging at the group.
Very soon.
While the gate remained out of view, intense fluctuations of Spiritual Power emanated from within.
Sporadically, Spells penetrated the WÇ” CÇŽi fog and appeared before the eyes of the crowd.
The people knew that they were under attack.
This battle did not last long; soon, the fluctuations of Spiritual Power began to move deeper into the Soul Tomb.
From the looks of it, they seemed to be dealing with the undead while moving deeper inside simultaneously.
However, the entire process was concealed by the WÇ” CÇŽi fog, preventing anyone from seeing what was happening inside.
The crowd could only guess based on the Spiritual Power fluctuations that the group must be in a fierce battle.
Thus, the group progressed inward, quickly covering almost a third of the distance, with two-thirds remaining towards the five pillars at the center of the town.
At that point, however.
Suddenly, there was a loud explosion.
The explosion was right at the location of the group inside the Soul Tomb.
The shockwave from the explosion tore a rift in the WÇ” CÇŽi fog, and people finally saw some scenes inside.
Inside, countless undead were blown to pieces by the explosion.
Even in the center of the explosion, there were scattered remains of limbs and chunks of flesh.
About the four who had just entered, three were far from the explosion, while one had disappeared.
Upon seeing this, someone spoke gravely:
“This is…”
“Someone self-destructed.”
Just as the crowd was about to continue watching, the WÇ” CÇŽi fog swiftly closed up again, not giving anyone a chance to see more.
It was only then that the surrounding onlookers began softly discussing among themselves.
“Looking at the situation just now, things aren’t looking good for them.”
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“Exactly…”
“It’s hard to say whether they can even reach the center of the Soul Tomb.”
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“I almost couldn’t resist joining them earlier to challenge the Soul Tomb, but thankfully I held back.”
“It seems recklessness is not the way…”
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After the explosion, the fluctuations of Spiritual Power emanating from within began to weaken a bit.
However, the crowd could still feel that they seemed to have changed their strategy and were rapidly moving towards the center of the Soul Tomb.
This time, the group managed to get two-thirds of the way before encountering another violent fluctuation of spiritual power, seemingly facing a difficult adversary.
This time, at that two-thirds mark, they stopped for a long time, never making any further progress.
Despite how violently the spiritual powers fluctuated, they remained unable to break through the Five Elements mist enveloping their heads.
As such, more than half an hour passed with the spiritual power fluctuations inside gradually diminishing.
The onlookers outside grew increasingly worried.
Clearly, they had encountered a ‘formidable enemy,’ were blocked there, and fought until their spiritual power was exhausted, yet they still couldn’t break through.
In this group, there were three at the Divinity Transformation stage, and one Nascent Soul Cultivator.
Yet, they only made it two-thirds of the way.
As the fluctuations inside waned, it was at this moment that the mist originally enveloping their heads began to overlap.
Whether by coincidence or not, this overlapping patch of Five Elements mist revealed the scene inside.
And once again, people could see what was happening inside.
At that moment.
Inside, there were only two people; the old man from earlier, seemingly drained of his spiritual power, leaned against the courtyard wall, sitting down with a dim look in his eyes.
Despite this, the crowd could still clearly see he was alive and had not died, while the middle-aged man stood in front of the elder, making his last stand of resistance.
Surrounding them were densely packed rows of corpses numbering in the hundreds, closing in on the two men.
Amid these corpses, Lin Jing even spotted another member of their party, a Divinity Transformation early-stage Cultivator, who had also turned into a corpse at some point.
At this time, the middle-aged man maneuvered a Flying Sword Magical Treasure, slashing at the encroaching corpses in front of him.
Lin Jing watched the now slightly dim Flying Sword hit the corpses, and after the blade struck, there weren’t any wounds on the bodies of the corpses.
The bodies of these corpses were so hard they could even rival a Body Refinement Cultivator.
The Flying Sword could not damage the corpses as they continued to approach the two men.
Just when Lin Jing thought the two men would die at the hands of the corpses, an unexpected event occurred.
From the inside of the wall they leaned against, a slender arm covered with black hair reached out.
This arm moved swiftly, grabbing the elder who no longer had any capability to resist, and pulled him directly into the courtyard.
The entire courtyard was pitch black, making it impossible for the people outside to see what exactly was in there.
The middle-aged man only realized what was happening when the arm grasped the elder.
The middle-aged man quickly attempted a rescue, but it was too late; the long, black-haired arm moved incredibly fast.
In the blink of an eye, the elder was dragged into the courtyard.
“What is that thing?”
At that moment, the same question arose in the minds of all the onlookers.
The middle-aged man, likely harboring the same question, saw the elder get dragged into the courtyard, and he dared not proceed any further.
He quickly moved away from the vicinity of the courtyard, turning to face the corpses that were closing in from the front.
In front of him was the courtyard housing the unknown creature.
Behind him, hundreds of corpses were about to close in; at this moment, the middle-aged man seemed to have no escape.
Just as the crowd wanted to keep watching, the Five Elements mist drifted over again,
covering the exposed corner.
Right before it was completely obscured, everyone saw a several meters long arm covered with black hair reaching out toward the middle-aged man…
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Seeing this scene, everyone couldn’t help but think one thought.
The middle-aged man was finished.
Indeed.
As the Five Elements mist obscured the Soul Tomb, no more spiritual power fluctuations came from inside.
The crowd grew silent as the fluctuations within the Soul Tomb ceased.
Only after a while did someone let out a sigh.
“Ah…”
“What a pity.”
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“Yes.”
“I thought, given their strength, they would have been able to go further, yet they couldn’t even make it into the central area of the Soul Tomb.”
“Indeed…”
“When I was outside, I knew that being swept into the Sea of Strange by the mist meant never coming out; I just didn’t think that one day I’d end up in the same situation.”
“Before this, I felt there was some hope that I could leave this place, this Soul Tomb, and escape the Sea of Strange.”
“Now it seems…”
“I will never leave this Sea of Strange in my lifetime.”