Chapter 244: Chapter 168: Luocheng
"The Spirit Realm..."
"So this is the Spirit Realm?"
Su Xing gazed at the vast expanse of white snow before him. He felt as if he were bathing in a world of ice and snow, his body already covered in a layer of silvery flakes.
However, the people who had entered with Su Xing were nowhere to be seen. ’They were probably teleported somewhere else,’ Su Xing guessed.
Pushing aside his concern for others, Su Xing’s gaze swept over his surroundings.
The sky was growing dark,
with only a little light remaining.
Night was clearly approaching.
The dim light cast dark red patches upon the nearby snow. As Su Xing drew closer, he realized they were the corpses of spirit beasts.
Their faces were twisted in savage expressions, and their abdomens had been completely torn open, as if they had been disemboweled. They lay scattered about, higgledy-piggledy.
Perhaps,
they had been dead for a long time.
Or perhaps the blanketing snow acted as a natural refrigerant. Despite the ground being littered with corpses, there was no smell of blood, just mounds of what looked like frozen zombie meat.
"This place..."
Su Xing circled the area, dissecting the spirit beast corpses, which were already nearly frozen solid, to retrieve the beast cores from their heads.
He had made a haul just after arriving in the Spirit Realm, but Su Xing felt little joy. The atmosphere was simply too grim, like a mass grave that had been brutally plundered.
Su Xing pulled out his phone and glanced at it.
As expected, there was no signal.
’It seems I won’t be able to contact Su Yu.’
HUFF.
Su Xing let out a light breath.
His gaze swept gently across the distance.
He had just been at the entrance to the Spirit Realm, and now, in the blink of an eye, he was inside the Spirit Realm itself. This gave him a sense of bewilderment.
However,
this feeling of bewilderment
didn’t last long.
After all, he, Su Xing, was no wet-behind-the-ears rookie. He was a butcher whose hands were already stained with the blood of countless victims. Even when faced with such an unprecedented situation, he was mentally prepared and felt no great unease.
Su Xing walked forward, observing the environment and the surrounding area as he went.
It was very dark all around.
Only the slivers of a broken moon cast down their light,
illuminating the surrounding tombstones and reflecting in Su Xing’s eyes. This was clearly a graveyard.
Moreover,
it looked like a human graveyard.
This immediately made Su Xing understand why he had seen so many spirit beast corpses.
Most spirit beasts
prey on humans.
But ordinary spirit beasts would never dare cause trouble for the people in the Spirit Sect. And aside from those in the Spirit Sect, where else in the Spirit Realm could one find living humans?
Therefore,
a graveyard accidentally brought into the Spirit Realm
became the most prized target for these common spirit beasts.
Even if the people in these graves had already rotted away in the earth, there was still some semblance of a human scent left—probably the equivalent of a human gnawing on a chicken carcass.
This, in turn, was a windfall for Su Xing. The spirit beasts had fought and killed each other over that lingering human scent, only to all perish here and become his Sword Dao Points.
"Hm?"
Su Xing suddenly noticed that while most of the tombstones in the graveyard were blank, a few had names carved into them.
And below the names, their official titles were engraved.
’So that’s how it is,’ Su Xing thought.
’These tombstones must be from a city that existed several hundred years ago. It was likely near a Spirit Sect, and when the Spiritual Qi dried up, the entire city was pulled in here.’
Su Xing followed the inscribed tombstones forward and soon reached the end. The last tombstone not only had a name carved on it but also a sentence.
[Lord of Luo City: Luo Li]
[O, gentleman of a later age, please place your hand upon this tombstone.]
"..."
Lord of Luo City, Luo Li.
Su Xing had guessed that the tombstone in the final position would belong to the city’s lord, but he never expected the message left behind to be so strange.
"This can’t be a trap, can it?" Su Xing muttered.
It wasn’t that he was being overly cautious. The Spirit Realm was completely foreign to him, and "foreign" meant "dangerous." Su Xing had to be on guard against such strange things.
With a thought, a thin white membrane covered Su Xing’s entire body. At the same time, the Black Sword materialized in his hand, ensuring that if anything unexpected happened, he could react at a moment’s notice.
Then,
Su Xing took a step forward,
and pressed his open left hand flat against the tombstone.
One second, two seconds, three seconds.
As time ticked by, nothing happened. Su Xing suddenly felt like he had been tricked.
"Tsk..."
"What a pointless prank."
Su Xing sighed and withdrew his hand. He never thought that an ancient from several hundred years ago would play such a boring prank.
Of course,
it was also possible that too much time had passed,
and whatever mechanism or trick had been placed on it had since failed.
But,
just as Su Xing was thinking this,
a pale blue light suddenly flared deep within his pupils.
Su Xing was certain
that nothing had appeared in front of him,
but he was clearly seeing something—like a projection beamed directly into his brain.
It was...
a massive palace.
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