CHAPTER 231: CHAPTER 148: TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT

Liu Dingjian was first amazed, then looked at Lan Caidie with surprise and said, "Avoid Death and Prolong Life, the move you used should be the heritage martial technique of the Sanmiao People, the Golden Cicada’s Shell from the Celestial Worm Gu Martial, right?"

Lan Caidie sighed, "Luckily I kept a trick up my sleeve, or I would have been doomed."

She then looked at Qin Haoyu with a teasing gaze and joked, "I didn’t expect you also had a hidden move. Weren’t we supposed to live and die together?"

Qin Haoyu’s face turned dark and his expression became extremely ugly.

If he hadn’t trained the Earth Fire Embers technique, allowing him to transfer his Essence Life Fire into the ground at the brink of death and attach it to the Earth Fire Spirit Vein, he would have been forced to retreat directly by Ye Qingzhou.

Though now reborn from the fire, Qin Haoyu was greatly exhausted and needed several days to fully recover.

Lan Caidie was much the same, as she was gravely wounded in Primordial Qi, she planned to stick together for warmth and said, "Now among the non-Linjiang Team members, aside from the Silver City Team, it’s just the four of us left. How about teaming up for mutual support?"

In the face of a beauty, the Golden Dragon shook his head and refused without a second thought, "No thanks, following you guys would mean starving more than eating well for three days. If we run into Ye Qingzhou, the God of Slaughter, halfway, even a hundred mouths won’t explain away. Well, you two should take care of yourselves!"

After saying this, Golden Dragon pulled Liu Dingjian along to leave together, "Let’s go quickly, maybe Ye Qingzhou will launch a back attack soon."

Qin Haoyu, who wanted to retain the two, also changed his expression upon hearing this and did not insist on them staying, soon leaving with Lan Caidie.

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Yanling Grotto Heaven, Hundred Cries Territory Secret Realm.

This place should have been a quiet and peaceful human village, but now it’s raining tears with the wind of Yin swirling, emitting an atmosphere of decay, coldness, and ominousness everywhere.

As if cursed, the people in the village had all turned into Corpse Ghosts.

They had sharp teeth and claws, hideous faces, and hostility towards all living things; any creature daring to step into the village would have its flesh and soul completely devoured by them.

Jianning Martial Arts Association had repeatedly sent personnel to investigate the situation here, and even attempted numerous clearings of the village’s Corpse Ghosts, but it was of no use.

No matter how many times the Corpse Ghosts were killed, they would quickly resurrect in the village, completely ignoring the law of conservation of mass, and there wasn’t anything valuable inside, only a heap of scrap metal.

Thus, over time, the Hundred Cries Territory was left on the bulletin board, awaiting some lucky person to solve the numerous mysteries shrouding it.

Due to the prolonged accumulation of time, the task’s points had continuously increased, becoming the highest reward task.

Therefore, Xu Yuebing and others, aiming for the championship, wanted to try and see if they could uncover the secrets here.

Ye Qingzhou rode the wind and regulated his Qi, descending from the sky to Xu Yuebing’s side and asked, "How’s the situation?"

Xu Yuebing was pleased to see Ye Qingzhou return safely, but upon seeing his tattered clothes, couldn’t help but worry, "What happened to you? Are you injured?"

"I’m fine."

Ye Qingzhou said, then looked at the entrance of the Hundred Cries Territory not far away.

Xu Yuebing then told him about the situation here, "Once we enter, we’ll be besieged by Corpse Ghosts. They are impervious to blades and arrows, incredibly strong, like battle machines that never tire."

Deputy captain Miao Yi then approached Ye Qingzhou with a serious expression and shared his opinion, "We’ve tried several times, the Corpse Ghosts don’t leave the Hundred Cries Territory, and even if blasted to pieces, they can quickly resurrect, it’s practically endless. Breaking through head-on is very difficult."

"Is it an array?"

Ye Qingzhou sensed with Cicada Sense, only feeling the Hundred Cries Territory before him as a dark mass, his Divine Thought extending in instantly devoured.

This was something Ye Qingzhou was seeing for the first time.

After brief contemplation, Ye Qingzhou planned to use Divine Traveling in the Void, utilizing Yin Spirit Emergence to enter the village and see what was inside.

"You all help guard me."

Ye Qingzhou sat cross-legged, then assumed the posture of Five Hearts Facing Heaven, his Yin Spirit flew out from the Mud Ball Palace, drifting towards Hundred Cries Territory along with the gusts of Yin wind.

The tear rain and Yin wind extremely unfriendly to the living felt very comfortable for the Yin Spirits, almost like a fish in water.

As expected, without his flesh and blood, Ye Qingzhou did not encounter attacks from the Corpse Ghosts.

Ye Qingzhou took the opportunity to wander around the village, finding traces of human habitation everywhere in Hundred Cries Territory, but because of the existence of Primordial Qi, everything here was preserved fairly well, as if only hundreds of years had passed.

In actuality, this place had existed for over ten thousand years.

A lot of things, unless they carried their own Primordial Qi Spirit Light treasures, would immediately decay and deteriorate into ashes once taken out of the Grotto Heaven.

The official exploration team had verified this multiple times beforehand, and the Linjiang Team had received the most detailed task report.

Ye Qingzhou searched around and indeed found no valuables, just as he planned to continue his in-depth exploration, a majestic and loud voice suppressedly echoed across Hundred Cries Territory, "Who dares to spy on the Flame Emperor’s Mausoleum! Guilty of death!"

Ferocious and brutal words echoed in Ye Qingzhou’s soul.

Then a sinisterly shaped axe increased in size with the wind, growing larger and finally, with a mountain-splitting force, it chopped towards Ye Qingzhou’s Yin Spirit.