CHAPTER 605: CHAPTER 604: SURVIVAL

Today, Lin Hao has already encountered many bizarre things and doesn’t care if things get even more bizarre.

He turned his head and saw a dense mass of skeletons, and behind these skeletons, amidst the yellow sand in the sky, there was a headless robust figure, holding a Giant Cauldron and wildly swinging it around.

The Cauldron!

He couldn’t see the Giant Cauldron clearly, but Lin Hao found it eerily familiar.

At the same time.

"Buzz!!!"

The Divine Cauldron in Lin Hao’s hand began to tremble on its own, buzzing and resonating with the Giant Cauldron amidst the yellow sand in the distance!

What’s going on!

Lin Hao was shocked once again, finding it hard to believe.

Right!

A lightbulb moment occurred in Lin Hao’s mind as he recalled the Inscriptions within the Divine Cauldron.

This cauldron was originally a chaotic object, with a god casting the Nine Cauldrons to stabilize the world; what he had was only one of them.

Could it be...

Within the sandstorm of the Bitter Realm, there was another cauldron, and moreover, it was resonating with the cauldron he held??

Divine Artifact!

Although Lin Hao hadn’t learned anything from this Divine Cauldron, the benefits were tremendous—should he obtain another one, he might well decipher the principles of the Heavenly Dao!

With this thought, Lin Hao immediately looked towards the shadow in the sky.

He saw the shadow holding the cauldron with one hand, the Divine Cauldron seemingly spinning in the air, brimming with the Law and the force of heaven and earth, profound and yet, wonderfully enigmatic.

However, although Lin Hao could sense the profundity, he couldn’t comprehend the underlying reasons.

In just the blink of an eye, the scattered skeleton General was already on its feet, its Dull Blade swooshing down towards Lin Hao’s head again.

At the same time, countless skeletons in the sand were also rushing to attack, seemingly determined to tear Lin Hao into pieces.

Danger!

Lin Hao’s heart trembled, and at the same time, the Divine Cauldron in his hand kept buzzing and trembling.

The surrounding murderous aura and fighting spirit grew stronger and stronger.

What should he do?

Just when Lin Hao felt hopeless, suddenly, a golden light flashed not far away.

That is...

In the midst of the golden light, Lin Hao saw Runes flickering, seeming to reveal the shadow of an inn.

Not far—just a few steps away. It was only because the sandstorm between heaven and earth was so severe that he hadn’t been able to see it clearly before.

The Ghost Energy howled, and without delay, Lin Hao turned and ran towards the direction of the inn.

But this was strange.

Despite the inn being only a few steps away, Lin Hao ran hundreds of steps and was still a few steps away from the inn!

Qimen Dunjia?

For some reason, these words suddenly popped into his mind.

Qimen Dunjia, originating from ancient Huaxia, though only the barest remains have been passed down, still exudes the essence of the great law.

Lin Hao calmed his mind, stepped out the Seven Stars Step, and began to perceive the mysteries of Qimen.

Meanwhile, inside the inn.

The outside sandstorm was raging fiercely, and ghostly wails were incessant as if this small inn might be engulfed by the sandstorm at any moment and the people inside could be killed by monsters rushing out of the storm.

About a hundred strong characters were there, not one of them spoke, each of them extremely tense.

Sunset Three Laughs had left the doorway, returning to his seat, drinking his liquor sip by sip, as if the sandstorm outside had nothing to do with him.

The inn’s waiter was settling today’s accounts; many visitors resulted in substantial earnings.

Looking at the time and the gaps in the door, she sighed somewhat.

Then, she knocked on the table: "Hey, the sandstorm outside is severe, and it won’t stop for three or five days. Don’t all squeeze in here. You guys, yes I’m talking to you lot, stop standing on my table. My table isn’t free, y’know, you break it, will you pay for it? And after all, people need to eat at these tables!"

The waiter, merely a General Level Martial Artist, was quite blunt with several King Level Cultivators.

The few standing on the table were scolded into silence, daring not to utter a single word, and could only obediently hop down from the table.

To be able to open an inn in a place like the Bitter Realm, and to have managed it for so many years, none of those people were easy to provoke. Don’t be fooled by the inn’s junior server, a woman masquerading as a man; if you really crossed her, the ones to die would only be themselves.

"Off you go, off to sleep, there’s nothing good to see in a sandstorm."

Inside the inn, the howling of ghostly wails from outside couldn’t be heard, only the sounds of fierce winds and sand entered.

The inn was truly small; with people squeezing against each other, some began to shout for others to leave.

Turning past the dining hall, there was a staircase. Unlike other inns that provided accommodations for guests on the second floor and stored food in the basement cellar, this inn’s rooms were also underground.

In a short while, over half the people in the dining area had left.

Those who remained had various expressions, sipping their drinks bit by bit.

After the junior server settled the accounts, she let out a long sigh, and suddenly the image of Lin Hao flashed through her mind.

That person from Earth, daring to swagger into the inn at such a time, was truly extraordinary.

Moreover, from the first glance she had of Lin Hao, she couldn’t explain why, but she was attracted by a mysterious aura emanating from him.

It was somewhat similar to that of her big brother.

Wu Hua’s lips curled into a smile, she sneakily glanced at Sunset Three Laughs, who was drinking alone to one side, as if she could still see Lin Hao sitting opposite Sunset Three Laughs, eating dry food.

"What a pity, I still don’t know his name. Out there, swept up by the sandstorm, he must be dead, right? Will he become one of the undead in the sandstorm, nothing left but his skeleton?" Wu Hua sighed and put away the accounts.

Suddenly.

"Bang bang bang!"

The inn’s door was being knocked on!

Wu Hua was startled, her body felt as if struck by lightning, and the entire inn suddenly fell silent.

The drop of a needle could be heard; even the sound of breathing and heartbeats had disappeared.

Even Sunset Three Laughs’s eyes flashed with a cold light, and his wine cup stopped mid-air, all his attention focused on the inn’s door.

"Bang bang bang!"

The knocking was urgent, but to everyone’s ears, it sounded like the knocking of a ghost.

Wu Hua had been running the establishment for a hundred years, having experienced over two hundred sandstorms in the Bitter Realm, but she had never encountered such an incident.

To have someone knocking at the door at such a time!

"Could it be him?"

For some reason, a joy sprouted in Wu Hua’s heart, her bright eyes fixated on the inn’s entrance, then she quickly stepped out from behind the counter, quickening her pace towards the inn’s door.

"What are you doing!"

When Wu Hua started moving, the guests instantly grew unsettled.

Everyone knew how terrifying it was outside, everyone understood that opening the door at this time would almost mean a slack in the inn’s defense array.

Once it slacked, almost everyone in the inn might die here.

Who wouldn’t worry about their own life?

But Wu Hua paid them no heed, she directly went to the inn’s entrance, forming hand signs with her fingers, and took out a jade pendant while chanting under her breath.

The jade pendant flashed with light, then with force, Wu Hua cracked the door open slightly.

"Boom!"

Who would have thought, just as a crack opened, a powerful force came from outside.

Instantly, the inn’s door was pushed open halfway!

Whoo whoo whoo!

Sand poured in like clouds of smoke from outside, startling almost everyone!

Fortunately, Wu Hua reacted quickly and used all her strength to hold the door, preventing it from being completely blown open.

But, just then, a shadow could be seen crawling in from outside, reaching out to grab Wu Hua’s foot!

"Holy shit!"

At that moment, when someone in the inn saw the shadow crawling in clearly, they immediately jumped up from their tables.

A dark skeleton, with eyes flickering red, was forcefully squeezing into the inn, at the same time, gripping Wu Hua’s foot, trying to drag her out!

Terrifying, terrifying!

Wu Hua never thought that what came in wasn’t the person from Earth, but instead, it was a skeleton. In that instant, she was terrified and was being pulled, taking a small step outside, her body involuntarily falling forwards.