Chapter 501: Extreme Deep Cold

These faces were first angry, then cursed. One old woman's face even started crying loudly, and in the end, it turned into bitter begging, not only begging the inexplicably appeared root system, but also begging He Lingchuan to spare it, claiming that they were only driven by others, and as long as they were given a way to live, they could reveal the person behind the scenes. He Lingchuan shook the head in his hand, ignoring it:

Wasn't there still one mouth that could confess? He looked left and right, didn't find any new opponents, so he reached out to recall Fusheng, picked it up with the tip of the blade, and fished out the net that had almost drifted away with the waves.

Only four monkey-bats remained in the net, each one having its eyes rolled back from being filled with pool water.

Those dozens of human-headed bats were gone, with only scattered black-grey debris sticking to the net.

The monster's head kept roaring: "You must die, just you wait..."

He Lingchuan simply used its hair to seal its mouth.

This trick was unexpectedly effective; no matter how big the monster's mouth was, it couldn't swallow its own hair, and could only make muffled sounds.

He Lingchuan threw it into the net to keep the bats company.

When did such monsters appear in the northwest caves of the Chipa Plateau?

This intelligence was worth reporting.

Looking at the monster's body on the rock wall again, it was already about to be sucked into a dried corpse.

These brown roots were clearly very satisfied with its taste.

At this time, anything that could help fight the monster was a friend, not an enemy, so He Lingchuan didn't bother with it and turned to swim back.

Getting out of the cave quickly was the right solution.

Next time, he might be able to buy a seahorse puppet on Yunling Island. It was a very simple puppet device, woven from copper-pattern grass, thick and hard, but once thrown into the water, it would turn into a half-zhang-tall seahorse, which could carry a person for a quarter of an hour before falling apart.

Bringing this thing to the water-scarce Panlong Wasteland to sell—who knew whose genius idea that was. That seahorse puppet had been sitting on Bai Guo's shelf for a month and was still gathering dust...

Getting off track. He Lingchuan pulled his thoughts back, and suddenly, blue light seemed to flicker in the deep water below.

This time, he saw it.

Entering a bat cave, how could he encounter so many strange things?

He Lingchuan simply hung the net on a stalactite, took a few deep breaths, and dove down to see what was going on.

Patrolling the Chipa Plateau and eliminating possible threats was the duty of every Panlong City soldier.

The water became colder and colder, and the light became dimmer and dimmer; this part of the cave was actually bottomless.

Soon, blue light flickered below again, and a pitch-black shadow appeared, charging toward He Lingchuan.

Was it a crocodile, a whale? He Lingchuan gripped the long blade in his hand.

However, he immediately showed a look of shock: this was actually another monster!

It was just that its body length was more than ten times that of the previous companion, reaching over six zhang (over 19-22 meters)!

This was the length of a sperm whale, so the closer it got to He Lingchuan, the taller it appeared, and the more oppressive it felt!

He Lingchuan subconsciously looked at the Fusheng in his hand.

Whether it was slashing or stabbing, to this big thing, it would be like a small toothpick, right?

"Offering!" Its angry roar also rang from He Lingchuan's heart, unaffected by the water waves. "Where is my clone!"

Holy crap, He Lingchuan was greatly shocked. It turned out that what he had defeated earlier was only a clone of this thing? That's right, it was covered in knots, and there were over a hundred human faces on its body, and there were even a few faces of beasts or monsters; it had four arms but no legs, and its lower body was a whole mass of black smoke.

Beat the small one, and the old one comes out.

Such a thing looked difficult to deal with at a glance.

And this was underwater, where his movement was hindered and there was nowhere to hide. He Lingchuan's scalp felt a bit numb.

The gap between enemy and self, just the body size comparison alone was more than ten times. What should he do? This was just a thought for an instant. He Lingchuan was just about to release a smoke screen to cover his swim back to the surface, but he saw this monster point a finger after roaring, and dozens of faces on its body turned into black smoke, detaching from the main body and chasing after him together.

Damn it, run! Who could beat this thing?

He Lingchuan had just turned around when he heard several metallic clangs coming from the bottom of the water, loud and distant, like the bell of a temple.

Just as the sound reached his ears, two bright red chains suddenly reached out from the pitch-black deep water below!

Thick, flexible, winding like a dragon leaving the sea.

Neither He Lingchuan nor the monster reacted in time before these two chains wrapped around the monster.

This was as fast as a predatory water anaconda; He Lingchuan even saw eagerness and greed in their movements.

The monster had just let out an angry roar, and they had already wrapped it tightly from head to tail, three times left and three times right!

This hundred-faced monster naturally wouldn't submit, its figure blurring, wanting to turn into countless black shadows and escape from the chain gaps.

But then, the chains emitted a dazzling red light.

Illuminated by this light, the monster's blurred figure was immediately beaten back into a solid form.

Forced to turn from void to solid.

Even the large mass of black fog originally at its tail was now forced to reveal its true form, which was a series of skulls, ranging from animals to humans, and even some unknown species.

Only then did He Lingchuan discover that countless seal imprints were engraved on the chains; they were not ancient immortal language, but every character was emitting golden-red light.

The light emitted by tens of thousands of seal imprints was comparable to the scorching sun, illuminating the nearby water area.

At the same time, He Lingchuan seemed to hear a series of whispers again, like countless people speaking together. Although that sound wave was low, it hid a surging power that no one could deny.

"What are you!" The monster was both shocked and angry. "How can you take me! How are you worthy of taking me!"

This thing was really interesting; even after being caught, it asked if the other party was worthy. He Lingchuan drew his long blade; there were still several fish that slipped through the net underwater.

The black shadows that had rushed out from the monster earlier had only gone halfway when they saw the strange change below, with the main body being restrained.

The main body roared at them to "come back and save me," but their first reaction was actually not to go and rescue it, but to scatter and flee for their lives!

It would be troublesome if they really escaped; this thing was even harder to catch than the ghost children at the ferry.

He Lingchuan was just about to move closer to hunt them, catching a few was better than none, when unexpectedly, a burst of red mist drifted from the chains toward these few black shadows.

It looked slow but was actually fast.

The black shadow that fled the furthest had only slipped out a dozen zhang before being wrapped tightly by the red mist, followed by a piercing wail.

The red mist swirled rapidly around it, and the black shadow's volume became visibly smaller and smaller.

They seemed to be being... gnawed? Just then, a burst of red mist drifted before He Lingchuan's eyes, and he looked closely, almost choking on water.

Weren't these, weren't these—

Three-Corpse Worms? Since feeding the God Bone Necklace once, he could see Three-Corpse Worms with his naked eye. But under the manipulation of the Great Fang Hu, these little monsters rarely left the city gates to go to other places, nor did they harass ordinary humans.

He Lingchuan had never expected to see them here at this moment.

The Three-Corpse Worms even perched on the chains, cooperating with it to hunt.

Everything was unreasonable.

Several fleeing black shadows were all wiped out by the Three-Corpse Worms, and at the same time, the giant monster was also dragged to the bottom of the water by the chains.

It struggled with all its might, but still fell behind in terms of strength.

He Lingchuan even saw its face filled with terror.

This should have been the expression it saw on its prey's face.

"Why!" Its voice came up from the deep sea, filled with thick unwillingness. "Who are you, who exactly are you!"

He Lingchuan spat out two bubbles.

Heh, as if he could talk back underwater.

Before the chains retracted, he used the red light on the chains to see a huge red shadow.

The giant monster was six zhang long, but beside it, it was like a small fish for a fisherman.

He Lingchuan looked very familiar with this red figure.

Outside of the Soul Village, this was the third time he had seen it.

Like a whale but not a whale, unimaginably huge.

This time, his distance from the giant shadow was closer than before, less than ten zhang, but he still couldn't see what it looked like.

He Lingchuan was unwilling, diving down quickly.

The closer he swam, the more ridiculously huge he felt it was.

But He Lingchuan couldn't see its appearance and facial features at all, because the surface of this giant shadow was covered with Three-Corpse Worms! Dense and countless.

Every inch of its body was covered by wriggling Three-Corpse Worms, not revealing a single bit of skin.

This scene was truly chilling.

Even an old whale that had lived in the water for hundreds of years couldn't possibly grow so many barnacles on its body.

The hundred-faced monster also saw this giant shadow, forgetting to scream for a moment, just dumbfounded, muttering: "Is this, is this real?"

Then, it was dragged into the giant shadow.

Everything returned to silence.

The strange thing was, although the distance between the two sides was less than a few zhang, He Lingchuan had never felt any hostility from this giant shadow, just like before.

How should he greet the other party? Wave and say, hi? Fortunately, the other party didn't intend to pay attention to him at all. The red giant shadow was full, turned around slowly, and dove into the deep water.

It's hard for a big ship to turn around, and the same goes for a giant object.

With one swing, an undercurrent surged at the bottom of the water, tossing He Lingchuan around.

A small mass of red mist was thrown out, brushing past He Lingchuan.

Anger, sadness, surprise, fear, unwillingness... In this instant, dozens of emotions exploded in He Lingchuan's heart, each one violent and resolute.

And the most terrifying among them was despair.

Bottomless despair, despair with nowhere to escape, despair with no way to turn things around.

Even someone like He Lingchuan, who claimed to be heartless, felt his heart turn to ash in an instant, unable to feel a shred of attachment to the human world anymore.

He even bent over in pain, because his heart contracted suddenly, unable to bear such a powerful stimulus.

At this moment, his ears were filled with desperate cries and venomous curses.

Not the giant monster's, nor his own, yet they sounded somewhat familiar.

He Lingchuan endured the pain and looked up, stunned:

The mass of red mist that had just brushed past him was chasing after the giant shadow, but a human figure emerged from it, with clear facial features.

He would recognize this face even if it turned to ash.

Sun Fuping! He Lingchuan truly could not have imagined, even if he racked his brains, that he would see this dead old enemy deep underwater in a karst cave, amidst the red mist woven by corpse-eating insects! Sun Fuping glared at him, eyes spitting fire, his mouth moving incessantly as he unleashed a frantic torrent of abuse, his face extremely distorted, devoid of the gentleness he had in life.

The hatred of killing and the grudge of taking his life could not be resolved.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 502 =====