Chapter 205: The Half-Dead Man
“Senior… I-I think I’ll pass…”
“Hm???”
“You’ll have to pay more!”
“…”
You fell silent for a moment, then tossed out a bag of spirit stones.
“I’ll go, I’ll go! This junior will lead the way right now!” Sensing the number of spirit stones in his hand, Sun Wu grinned wide and continued leading the way for you.
As you pressed deeper, you silently mulled over the information the Ancestor had left you.
Several Great Vehicle stage Ancestors used heaven-piercing spiritual power to suppress the enemy cultivators here in Death Canyon, and because of this, the Ancestors themselves were caught up in it, unable to escape.
Although I know the Ancestors’ general location, what can I actually do with my current strength?
That was a battle between Great Vehicle stage powerhouses!!!
Unable to think of a solution, you stopped dwelling on it. Everything could wait until you saw the Ancestors!
Three days later, Sun Wu, who had been leading the way, suddenly stopped. He spoke in a low voice. “Senior, we really can’t go any deeper. People really will die!”
Hearing this, you stopped. The extremely oppressive aura here was already making your body feel unwell.
Your powerful Primordial Spirit force had also been suppressed from its original hundred zhang down to fifty zhang!
Here, your strength was severely impaired. The only thing that put you at ease was that although your physical body’s power was also suppressed, the impact was not great.
And this was precisely the confidence that let you dare to keep walking.
“Take the money, do the job. Keep going!” you said without the slightest courtesy.
“Haah!” Sun Wu sighed with a bitter face, touched the spatial ring on his finger, and as if resigning himself to fate, continued leading the way.
“Senior, look, there seem to be people up ahead!” Sun Wu pointed at the black figures ahead, his voice urgent.
The range of your gaze had long since exceeded the coverage of your Primordial Spirit, so for a time you could not distinguish them clearly.
“They’re walking toward us!” Sun Wu whispered.
“Hide first!” You grabbed Sun Wu’s arm, circulated your cultivation, and concealed yourselves in the surroundings.
As the black silhouettes drew closer, you finally saw the newcomers clearly… or rather, they could not be called people at all!
You saw that although they were clearly living people, their bodies were filled with the aura of death, and strands of rule power coiled around them. It was indescribably eerie.
Half-Dead! Sun Wu wrote these words on the ground.
Do not use spiritual power, you will be discovered!
After reading it, you nodded.
Only after the two Half-Dead left did Sun Wu speak up to explain. “They have been eroded by the rule power here!”
“It is said that those who cannot walk out of Death Canyon all end up becoming these Half-Dead, neither human nor ghost!”
“They are extremely sensitive to spiritual power, because absorbing spiritual power lets them live longer!”
“It seems we truly have set foot in the forbidden zone of Death Canyon!”
Then, Sun Wu laughed bitterly. “To be honest, Fellow Daoist, I only stumbled in here by accident ten years ago, and barely escaped by luck.”
“The road ahead, I truly cannot guarantee is safe!”
“We have already come this far. There is no possibility of turning back!” you said flatly, then began searching for the Ancestors’ traces.
Before long, you encountered another wave of Half-Dead. Watching their departing backs, you fell into thought.
Three days later, watching the Half-Dead leave, you murmured to yourself. “This is already the fifth wave of Half-Dead we have encountered.”
“And their direction of advance seems… very consistent!”
“This… maybe they have some kind of mission?” Sun Wu scratched his head, his expression somewhat unnatural.
“No. Follow them!” you said in a deep voice.
You brought Sun Wu along, trailing behind the Half-Dead, following closely for a full week. A week later, the Half-Dead stopped at a certain place.
Here, you saw over a thousand Half-Dead!
To require over a thousand Half-Dead to surround it, what exactly is inside? A vague guess formed in your heart, but you had not yet confirmed it.
“Senior, how about we retreat? With so many Half-Dead here, if we are exposed, we really are finished!”
“Weren’t you still looking for someone?” Sun Wu tried to persuade you from the side.
You turned back to glance at Sun Wu, your eyes carrying an inexplicable meaning.
“Go in and take a look!” You gave Sun Wu no right to refuse, withdrew your aura, and carefully pressed deeper.
From your observations over these past few days, you had noticed that although these Half-Dead were powerful, they did not possess much intelligence. Perhaps this was the side effect of such great power?
As you drew closer, you sensed a faint, barely perceptible pressure radiating from the depths. And this pressure felt somewhat familiar to you.
The pressure of a Great Vehicle stage powerhouse! A look of joy appeared on your face. This made you involuntarily guess that the Ancestors were inside!
You carefully avoided the Half-Dead’s encirclement and quietly slipped in with Sun Wu.
As you went deeper, you finally saw clearly what was hidden inside. Three elders sat guarding three directions, with one seated in the very center. Beneath them, dozens of cultivators were suppressed.
“Ancestor!” A look of joy appeared on your face. You had finally found them!
After seeing the Heavenly Blade Sect’s Ancestors, you did not immediately go forward, because dozens of Half-Dead stood in the way, blocking your path.