Chapter 374

Chapter 374: The Baby’s Cry

Feeling the touch of the white small boat beneath his fingers, Jiang Yun softly uttered four words, "This is… a bone!"

Following that, he stated more firmly, "Moreover, it is an animal bone!"

As the words fell, he suddenly raised his head, his divine sense and gaze sweeping simultaneously over all the other white small boats floating on the Black Sea.

These small white boats all look almost exactly the same, in both style and size.

Clearly, each boat is like a bone.

In total, there are nine hundred white animal bones here!

Although Jiang Yun doesn’t know which animal these bones come from, he has a bold guess in his mind.

These nine hundred white bones should be from the body of one type of animal.

This is not just Jiang Yun’s guess, out of nowhere.

Back in the Luo family’s time, he already knew that the thousand-foot-long Against-Demon Bridge was actually a Taoist Demon’s bone.

And the nine hundred animal bones floating above this Black Sea, even if fully assembled, would not reach a thousand feet in length, so it’s not really that shocking.

Jiang Yun’s gaze moved back to the boat beneath him, extending his hand once more to carefully touch the bone.

Many years of hunting in Mang Mountains had given Jiang Yun a special ability – bone touching!

Through bone touching, he could not only identify the species of the bones but also determine their age.

After a moment, Jiang Yun made a rough judgment, "Although I can’t be sure which kind of animal this bone belongs to, my guess seems to be correct."

"These nine hundred bones clearly come from the spine of a single animal!"

"And its age before death was at least over a thousand years!"

The oldest animal Jiang Yun had ever encountered in his life was only a few hundred years old, so he couldn’t pinpoint the exact age of an animal that had lived for over a thousand years.

Standing up straight, Jiang Yun looked around once more.

At this moment, silence had returned to the area as the battle had ended.

Out of the original one thousand people, now less than nine hundred remained, and there were even some empty spaces among the white bones, indicating the absence of any cultivators.

Clearly, during the recent brief confrontation, some cultivators chose to die together.

All the remaining cultivators were standing on a pile of white bones, carefully examining the bones beneath them, seemingly forgetting about the more than one hundred deceased cultivators.

Jiang Yun naturally did not feel sorry for the dead cultivators, as they had already considered the consequences of death when entering Mirage.

Although aware that these small boats were made of beast bones, it did not help the current situation at all.

Jiang Yun’s focus shifted back to the black ocean.

After some contemplation, Jiang Yun turned to Bai Ze for help, asking, "Bai Ze, what do you think of this place?"

Bai Ze had sensed a strong demonic aura here before, maybe he knew something.

However, before Bai Ze could respond, the incredibly calm black ocean suddenly experienced a slight tremor.

Although the tremor was not strong, Jiang Yun and a few other cultivators keenly noticed it and immediately turned their gaze towards the source of the tremor.

When they looked down, their faces all slightly changed.

Especially Jiang Yun, at that moment, he precisely sent his voice into the ears of all the Seeking-Tao Sect disciples, "Hold onto the white bones below!"

Upon hearing Jiang Yun’s message, the Seeking-Tao Sect disciples were all slightly surprised.

Fortunately, they were very aware of Jiang Yun’s strength, so they didn’t dare to be careless. Besides Fang Yuxuan, almost all the others immediately activated their spirit qi to stabilize their bodies almost instinctively.

In fact, a few people even directly squatted down, reaching out their hands to firmly hold onto the white bones.

Just then, the tremors above the sea suddenly intensified, to the point where everyone could clearly see that dozens of huge whirlpools had appeared on the previously calm sea surface!

Each whirlpool was at least a thousand feet in diameter, and they were spinning very fast.

Under the rapid rotation of these whirlpools, a huge pulling force was generated.

Nearly nine hundred white bones had no resistance at all, almost all of them were instantly sucked into the whirlpools.

Some monks who were not warned and those who were too close to the vortex were suddenly pulled by the force and thrown out of the bone, falling into the water, disappearing without even a scream.

Jiang Yun was prepared when he reminded his fellow monks, so even though the bones beneath him were quickly dragged into the vortex, he remained calm.

In fact, at this moment, he stared intently at the vortex he was sucked into, trying hard to see if there was anything special inside.

"Buzz!"

The pulling force from the vortex became stronger and stronger, black giant waves rose high, hitting Jiang Yun layer by layer like small mountains.

That fierce power, even with Jiang Yun’s strong body, he could feel the slightest pain.

One can imagine how the others in the vortex must have felt!

However, Jiang Yun paid no attention to the pain in his body, his eyes shining brightly because in the vortex, he unexpectedly saw a few things shining.

These things were the several treasures that had appeared in the nine shimmering lights emitted by Mirage before entering.

"Are all these treasures hidden under this dark sea?"

As this thought popped into Jiang Yun’s mind, a sound like a baby crying suddenly came from the vortex he was in.

Hearing this sound, Jiang Yun’s clear consciousness instantly began to blur.

This made his heart skip a beat, he bit his tongue hard, and abruptly opened his arms before his consciousness completely dissipated.

His ten fingers, like ten unstoppable sharp blades, plunged straight into the white bones below him.

Then, the sound of a baby crying rang in his ears again, finally destroying the remaining shreds of Jiang Yun’s consciousness, causing him to fall into a coma!

Jiang Yun, along with the white bones beneath him, was pulled directly into the depths of the dark sea by the frenzy of the vortex.

Unbeknownst to him, while he was unconscious, Bai Ze in the Demon Refining Pen suddenly widened his eyes, showing an expression of disbelief.

"This, this seems to be the cry of a Shadow Spirit Realm Beast!"

"But how could the Shadow Spirit Realm Beast still exist here, when it was believed to be extinct long ago?"

"Could this be…?"

。。。

After an unknown amount of time passed, Jiang Yun finally opened his eyes.

The first thing he saw was his own hands, still tightly gripping the white bone.

Surprisingly, the white bone was no longer floating in the sea, but on the same black ground.

This reminded him of what happened before he passed out, so he didn’t rush to get up. Instead, he released his divine sense to check the surroundings.

At first glance, a cold light flashed in Jiang Yun’s eyes involuntarily!

Because he noticed, about three yards away from his current position, there was a person!

This is a man in his thirties, with messy hair and ragged clothes. His eyes are bloodshot, with a look of craving for blood, slowly walking towards himself cautiously.