Chapter 161
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Chapter 161: Terrifying Deep Mountains
Hearing the scream, Fang Yu turned his head.
“What happened? What happened!?” Zhong Yuan asked loudly, his tone anxious.
By now, the fog had become so thick that one couldn’t see anything a meter away.
“Si-Sixth Elder… ah…” Zhong Liyu’s voice trembled as she spoke, clearly terrified to the extreme.
Before she could finish, another scream rang out.
At this moment, Fang Yu could see a figure leaning against Zhong Liyu.
Upon closer inspection, Fang Yu’s expression slightly changed.
It was actually a mummified corpse!
A mummified corpse was leaning against Zhong Liyu!
Judging from the clothing, this mummy was one of the four Zhong family elders!
“Miss… is this… Old Six?” The other three elders also noticed the mummy leaning against Zhong Liyu.
“Quickly get it off me…” Zhong Liyu said with a trembling voice.
An elder, with an ugly expression, reached out and used his true qi to push the mummy away.
“Thud!”
The mummy fell to the ground.
Fang Yu walked forward, crouched down, and observed carefully.
The flesh had completely withered, even the eyeballs had shriveled… it was thoroughly a mummified corpse.
“How did this happen? How did Old Six suddenly…” The other three elders looked at the mummy on the ground, their eyes red and faces ashen.
They never imagined that a perfectly fine person, moreover a master-level expert, would silently turn into a mummified corpse!
“How did you discover he had turned into a mummy?” Fang Yu looked toward the still-shocked Zhong Liyu and asked.
“Si-Sixth Elder was walking beside me, very close to me, so I could see him… but just now he suddenly stopped walking. I was confused, looked at him once, and found that he… had become like this.” Zhong Liyu said with a pale face and trembling voice.
In other words, this Seventh Elder had turned into a mummified corpse in an extremely short time.
This was very strange.
Fang Yu narrowed his eyes as he observed the mummy, his gaze flickering.
To turn a living person instantly into a mummified corpse, some kind of technique must have been used.
But Fang Yu had been walking not far ahead just now, yet he hadn’t sensed anything at all.
“How was this accomplished?” Fang Yu pondered.
But he didn’t think too long before standing up and saying to the Zhong siblings: “Let’s continue forward.”
At this moment, the Zhong siblings were terrified.
They had just entered White River Mountain not long ago and had already lost an elder, in such a bizarre way.
“Ma-Master Fang, what exactly is in here?” Zhong Yuan looked at Fang Yu and asked.
Fang Yu shook his head and said: “Not sure yet, we’ll know as we continue forward.”
With that, Fang Yu continued walking forward.
The Zhong siblings exchanged glances, both seeing the fear in each other’s eyes.
But seeing Fang Yu walking forward, they could only grit their teeth and follow.
Thus, the group continued deeper into White River Mountain.
Fang Yu walked while sensing the changes around him.
Now he could at least be certain that this White River Mountain was no ordinary mountain.
Zhong Yuan felt very uneasy, afraid that as they walked, he might suddenly turn into a mummified corpse.
As the young master of the Zhong family, he rarely faced such dangers.
“If only I had known, I wouldn’t have come in!” Zhong Yuan deeply regretted in his heart.
Now, he took each step with trepidation, terrified.
“Crack!”
Just then, Zhong Yuan suddenly stepped on something, making a crisp sound.
Zhong Yuan’s face changed, he slowly looked down, then screamed in horror, his face bloodless.
He had stepped on a skull!
“What’s wrong now?”
Fang Yu’s voice came from ahead.
“I-I stepped on a skull…” Zhong Yuan said.
Fang Yu stopped walking, saw Zhong Yuan looking like he had lost his soul, and frowned: “It’s just a skull, why be so afraid?”
Hearing Fang Yu’s words, Zhong Yuan felt somewhat ashamed.
After all, he was the future head of the Jiangnan region’s number one martial arts family, yet he screamed like a girl just from stepping on a skull, indeed showing excessive cowardice.
But he still couldn’t suppress the fear in his heart!
After seeing the Sixth Elder inexplicably turn into a mummified corpse, he had become extremely nervous.
“Let’s continue walking, don’t be so jumpy,” Fang Yu said.
…
After walking forward for another half hour, no more incidents occurred.
By now, the fog had started to become slightly thinner.
Fang Yu knew this meant they might have entered the interior of White River Mountain.
The mountain path became increasingly rugged and difficult to walk.
Along the way, they had seen several more mummified corpses, but hadn’t heard any sounds.
The village chief had said earlier that many martial artists had entered White River Mountain.
If the village chief hadn’t lied, then these martial artists… had probably all died, otherwise it wouldn’t be so completely silent.
Just then, Fang Yu suddenly sensed an unusual aura.
It was very subtle and obscure, but Fang Yu still caught it!
“Thud!”
At the same time, a collision sound came from behind, as if something had fallen.
“Eighth Elder!”
“Old Eight!”
Shouts of alarm came from behind.
Fang Yu turned around and saw a figure lying face-down on the ground.
One of the Zhong family elders walked forward and turned over the body lying on the ground.
Another mummified corpse!
Seeing this mummy, Zhong Yuan and Zhong Liyu turned pale.
Unknown terrors were the most frightening!
Why would someone suddenly turn into a mummified corpse while walking?
Especially since the two deceased elders were both master-level martial artists, top experts in Jiangnan!
Yet they died silently, without even a scream.
What… kind of being was this?
“There really is a curse, there really is a curse!” Zhong Yuan recalled the village chief’s words, his eyes bloodshot.
All along the way, everything had been quiet, and the atmosphere became more oppressive the further they went, plus the other mummies they had seen along the way, making him start to break down.
“We can’t continue forward!” Zhong Yuan muttered.
Fang Yu looked at the mummy on the ground, then surveyed the surroundings, his gaze sharp.
The moment this elder turned into a mummy, he had sensed an aura.
This aura felt somewhat familiar to him.
It was extremely similar to the aura emanating from the village chief they had met in the village today!
“Could it be…”
Fang Yu had some ideas but couldn’t draw conclusions yet.
At least for now, he couldn’t confirm the source of this aura.
But actually, these things weren’t important.
After entering White River Mountain, the only thing Fang Yu cared about was the spirit spring.
He had been following the direction of spiritual energy all along, and the further in they went, the more concentrated it became.
And now, he was standing in a place where the concentration of spiritual energy was more than ten times higher than the outside world.
Fang Yu knew they might soon find the spirit spring.
They needed to continue forward.
But when he wanted to move forward, he noticed the Zhong siblings standing still.
“What’s wrong?” Fang Yu asked.
“Master Fang… we can’t continue forward, this place really is cursed! We can’t go deeper inside! Otherwise, we’ll end up like the two elders, turning into mummies!” Zhong Yuan said, his eyes full of fear.
Fang Yu frowned and said: “If you don’t continue forward, what was your purpose in coming here?”
Zhong Yuan’s eyes showed terror as he shouted: “If we lose our lives, what use is the spirit spring?”
“Fine then, you stay here, I’ll continue forward,” Fang Yu said.
Zhong Liyu’s face changed.
Although she was also afraid, since they had already entered White River Mountain, they definitely needed to find the spirit spring.
Besides, what good would staying here do?
If there really was a curse, staying here wouldn’t help; if they were meant to die, they would die anyway.
Go back?
The path behind was shrouded in thick fog, they couldn’t even see the way, how could they leave?
Thinking of this, Zhong Liyu persuaded: “Brother, since we’ve come in… let’s continue forward.”
“We can’t go forward, really can’t go forward…” Zhong Yuan seemed to have fallen into a trance.
“If you were so afraid, you shouldn’t have come in the first place.”
At this moment, a soft voice came from behind.
This was the first time Fang Yu’s group had heard another person’s voice since entering White River Mountain.
Everyone turned around and saw a group of people walking out of the fog.
It was Han Qi and Chen Luo’s team.
Han Qi and Chen Luo appeared very calm, not showing fear like Zhong Yuan.
Seeing Han Qi and the others, Zhong Yuan actually felt a sense of familiarity, his expression easing somewhat.
This at least proved there were still living people in this White River Mountain.
