"Listen to Master Luo!" Fe Fang spoke with a deep voice.
Suddenly, an abrupt change occurred, and the mouth, eyes, ears, and nostrils of the empty shell corpse began to pour out a large amount of white worms about the size of nail coverings. These worms swarmed onto the money sword and quickly climbed up Ma Lu's arm!
Ma Lu let out a loud roar and shook his sword violently, but the worms still managed to climb up. They seemed to form a bridge, like a waterfall, and quickly flowed from the empty shell corpse onto Ma Lu's body.
In a blink of an eye, they had already climbed onto Ma Lu's face. Despite Ma Lu's tightly closed mouth and eyes, the worms quickly burrowed into his nostrils and ear holes!
The cries of pain were piercing and relentless.
"Gas…… It's too late!" Lao Gong's head suddenly popped out a urinal!
A dull howling sound, it was Xu Jin picking up a stone, and then suddenly threw it out.
Another muffled thud echoed as the empty shell skin was struck, inside of which were still many white worms. With the rock wall cracking, the body along with the worms plunged heavily down the cliff!
Liang Jie Shi made some strange sounds, and a scarlet leopard with red fur suddenly emerged from his body and climbed up the top of the cave wall. It quickly reached the edge of the cave mouth before letting out a sharp cry.
"Nothing outside anymore..." Liang Jie Shi still seemed shaken.
Lao Gong cursed under his breath, then said, "It's impossible to guard against everything. Generally speaking, traps and mechanisms should all be inside the tomb. These ghosts actually still guard here without leaving."
However, the faces of Fe Fang and the others were not good. There were five people in the corpse cart, and now only two remain. Including himself and Xu Jin, there are only four people left.
This trip has basically yielded nothing, resulting in a loss of both the lady and the soldier.
The scarlet leopard did not immediately return, turned around in the cave mouth again, and crawled down for a distance before returning, and burrowed back into Liang Jie Shi's body.
"Shouldn't there be nothing serious now?" Liang Jie Shi tentatively looked at Lao Gong.
"Let's go down first." Lao Gong muttered.
Going out of the cave again, nothing unexpected happened. We returned to the same cave mouth, and paused for a moment on the platform of the path.
Gazing once again at the interior of the cave, the body of the former wangci had completely vanished. Even the clothes and items it was carrying had been completely eroded. The ground was slightly moist and blackened.
I hadn't paid much attention to it before, thinking that the cave's inherent humidity was the reason for the color of the rocks. Now it seems, this place has dissolved countless people who tried to enter the cave.
At this moment, no one has entered the cave yet, and Lao Gong's urinal has been baked to a mirror shine. He is nowhere to be seen.
We continued down the path along the cliff, and returned to the original cliff top.
We saw the empty shell skin again, being pressed down by a stone, but as for Ma Lu, who had fallen first, he was not here.
The water surface shimmered, and a corpse was spinning on it, covered with dense white worms that constantly bit and devoured it. Some of the worms that had eaten enough fell down and gathered together, forming a kind of pupal-like object with hands and feet.
I had only felt this thing was bizarre before, now it made me think too much and my goose bumps all came out.
Why is there such a ghostly creature here?
Is it because the tomb's Lord Lu was taken away by Ding Rui Pu?
Without the suppression of their natural predators, they have become active and even guard the tomb indirectly?
Worrying is futile, so we quickly leave this water's edge cliff platform.
Because of these things, no one even dares to rest by the shore. We have to keep going up the mountain.
Everyone's mood was somewhat gloomy, that feeling was like swinging a punch at a lump of cotton.
A thought suddenly arose from the bottom of my heart. The dangers in these mountain tombs cannot be solved purely by means of Taoism. Although Taoists are strong, they are not invincible and not everything can be dealt with head-on.
It's like the first cave's poison that goes in. If it weren't for He Youqiu giving me too much medicine to detoxify, I wouldn't have been able to go in. Only then would Lao Gong say that only one person can go inside.
Moreover, those white worms are quite troublesome and hard to resist. Once they penetrate the nostrils, they directly enter the brain, leaving people defenseless.
No matter how strong one is, they would fear such damage.
Although we haven't encountered any real danger in the tomb, it made me realize that these tombs should not be underestimated just because of one's strength.
As we were about to approach the top of the mountain, the dense forest obscured our vision, making it impossible to see the river below. It was then that Fe Fang proposed to stop and rest.
We had a simple meal of dried food to replenish our energy, and then took turns to have a brief rest to recover our spirits.
We continued to move through the mountains until it was dark, then returned to the vicinity of that bamboo grove.
We did not walk outside the bamboo grove but maintained a distant gaze.
Under the cold moonlight, the bamboo forest appeared green with a hint of darkness, and outside the forest, there was no one in sight.
Chang Xin moved forward, and he was accompanied by Li Xian. After crawling up his body, he approached the bamboo forest and did not go any further inside.
About fifteen minutes later, Chang Xin returned to our side and told us about what he had discovered.
Inside the bamboo forest, the visible range was also empty of people. He released some of the Li Xian to crawl into the forest through the dry branches and leaves on the ground, trying to avoid the Lord Luans. However, they were still stirred up. Out of the dozen or so Li Xian, only three survived; the one that traveled the farthest saw that there was another forest behind the bamboo forest, where there were tombs within, visible only in a blurred form.
Additionally, there was a piece of wood standing in front of that forest, which read, "Ding Family Tomb. Those who trespass will die."
"It seems that the man who climbed up the mountain before was brought here by the guy we encountered downstairs earlier. He came here, saw us run away, and then thought we were not capable of doing anything to this place. So he took everyone else with him again," Lao Gong spoke in a disdainful tone.
"Isn't that giving us an opportunity to dig a grave?" Xu Jin said in a deep voice, "That's good. They think we can't do anything, but we'll show them we can. We dig the grave, break their spirit, and then go to destroy their house. We'll do it all at once, like splitting bamboo!"
"It won't be that easy." Lao Gong murmured: "Leaving even a few or many hands can prove some things. After all, master's previous methods were ruthless. The traces of such powerful Taoism left must not be weak. They actually still left, which means that we are doing all this and not even scratching the surface of this bamboo grove. More likely, they are now hiding in wait for us to go inside, like catching a turtle in a jar."
Fe Fang massaged his temple.
The others fell silent.
Chang Xin then whispered: "Indeed, geomancers must be cautious when handling matters, as even small mistakes can lead to significant errors. What should Master Lao Gong do now?"
Chang Xin had dealt with the master before and knew the intricacies of the trade.
"What should we do? We should still go all out, forcefully, I want to see just how powerful that old lady is. Let's go to Yundu County and visit her dojo."
It was clear that for the time being, Lao Gong could not do anything about Ding Rui Pu.
The enemy remains still as a mountain, meeting all changes with the same inaction. But on our side, we are at a loss for what to do.
