blueteamnovel Chapter 421 Forgetful River
Chapter 421 Forgetful River
Thousand Lanterns City.
Surrounding and above, the dark void still lingered, but the vast and complex city had vanished without a trace, leaving behind only a calm expanse of water.
A black heart floated in mid-air, pulsing slowly. Wisps of white smoke drifted from the heart, slowly gathering into clusters.
After a while, a ghastly pale hand suddenly reached out, dispersing the white smoke, revealing Jin Er's form slowly emerging.
Yet now, his whole body was withered and diminutive, having aged to appear like a man in his seventies or eighties.
"Thirty years of cultivation, all lost in a single moment!"
"Lin Su!"
He gasped desperately for air, teeth clenched, fixing his eyes on the water beneath him.
Previously, when the opponent suddenly activated the Netherworld Ferry, he had no choice but to fight with all his might. He was certain that if he couldn't send Chen Mu into the dragon well first, Lin Su would dare to pull him into the Netherworld Ferry as well!
As a result, he was left with his cultivation completely dissipated, while Qian Mu had been drained of vital energy by that unconscious, frenzied monster, reduced to smoke and dust.
Fortunately, he managed to send the person into the Netherworld and survived this catastrophe.
"Lin Su! I have already sent the person to the dragon well, now let me out quickly!"
Jin Er's heart was tumultuous as he shouted repeatedly.
He feared that Lin Su, with his ruthless and decisive nature, would take the opportunity to silence him.
After a long while, ripples finally began to emerge on the calm water's surface beneath him.
Jin Er's heart loosened somewhat, thinking to himself that Lin Su after all had some reservations, pondering how to settle accounts with him once he got out.
However, an indigo-blue arm suddenly burst through the ripples and grabbed his ankle in one swift motion.
Jin Er looked down in shock, and immediately his eyes met Chen Mu's pair that had regained clarity, yet appeared even more fierce and frenzied.
The next moment.
Whoosh!
The extremely weakened Jin Er was pulled into the Netherworld Ferry without any resistance.
Inside Thousand Lanterns City, it became completely empty.
...
Atop an unnamed mountain peak.
Bright yellow water spurted from underground, slowly converging to form a human shape, as Dantai Zong's figure reappeared.
"Young Master, everyone has now entered the Netherworld Ferry."
"I placed the exit at the dragon well, by now they should all have entered it."
Lin Su smiled with ease, "With all the Nether Spirit Primordial Embryos gathered, the preparations for the dragon well are finally complete."
Dantai Zong nodded in agreement, then sighed with a hint of concern, "General Jin used the Blood Pouch avatar, sacrificing his entire cultivation in a bid for survival by severing a limb. It's a pity that at the last moment, he was still dragged into the Netherworld Ferry by Chen Mu."
In the blink of an eye, Chen Mu's clothing and hair were completely corroded to black withering, turning to dust and smoke, drifting away in the water.
Patches of his fair skin started falling off, the blood-red muscles beneath as if they had dipped into strong acid, rapidly decomposed and dissipated.
In just a moment, his fingernails and toenails began falling off. Stark white bone appeared where flesh had completely corroded away.
Yet Chen Mu still lay peacefully in the water, his half-open eyes completely undisturbed.
Just as his slowly beating heart became visible between the gaps of his ribs, a lychee-sized pitch-black hollow sphere emerged on his smooth, pale brow.
Torrents of black smoke surged from within, rapidly enveloping Chen Mu's entire body. Like teleportation, his shattered, skeletal body suddenly disappeared, replaced by a human-shaped black smoke figure.
The previously violent and clear water instantly turned as gentle as a warm spring, softly cradling the human-shaped black smoke that Chen Mu had transformed into, slowly sinking to the riverbed and blending into the mass of shadows.
...
The Lower Courtyard of Gan River.
"Ran off suddenly, as if someone was chasing him?" Mo Wuzhou looked with a serious expression at the big toad.
He couldn't help but think of those strange people who could transform into muddy black shadows and the Netherworld demons and monsters that could envelop an entire mountain peak. Chen Mu had played a role in the discovery of both.
Now it seemed...
"Is it a revenge killing?" Mo Wuzhou's face looked ugly.
"To make those people launch the Netherworld Ferry, your junior brother is probably in dire straits," Tu said with a chuckle.
"Able to adeptly wield the Longitudinal Rainbow Light, his Cultivation almost on par with yours. I remember you saying he started his Cultivation much later than you, right?"
"A genius indeed..." Tu's tone carried a hint of regret.
"I should have taken his brain when I had the chance."
Mo Wuzhou gave a cold smile, "You should be glad you didn't mess with him."
"My junior brother is best at the Yin Mysterious Method."
"That Netherworld demon was exposed by him."
"What could he do to you, do you think?"
Tu fell silent for a moment, then stopped talking.
Standing in front of the wooden house's porch, looking at the big toad standing dumbfounded in the courtyard, Mo Wuzhou sighed.
"Is there really no chance of survival?"
Tu sighed, "Those people are likely from the Yinming Group."
"Greedy, bloodthirsty, terrifyingly strange. And like locusts, they're endless. No matter how powerful, one can be overwhelmed and devoured by wave after wave of their attacks."
"I think instead of worrying about him, you should be more concerned about yourself."
"The appearance of the Yinming Group here suggests that they are very likely to launch an attack on this place."
"If your strength is not up to par, you won't even have time to run!"