Chapter 107 : Inside the Ghost Cavern

Chapter 107.1 : Inside the Ghost Cavern

The sudden darkness that enveloped her caused Qing Yu to be unable to see for an instant but she could feel that she was being held tightly in a person’s arms protectively. At that close distance, she could even smell a light elegant fragrant scent on that person, which made her feel strangely secure.

It was not known just how deep underground they were going as she continued to fall. The feeling of not having firm ground under one’s feet was rather unnerving.

Finally, just as Qing Yu was feeling dizzy with sleepiness, her feet came to step on something soft.

[Huh? Has she reached the bottom…..]

[But….. Why is the ground under her feet soft?]

Qing Yu slowly lowered her eyes down to look. As her eyes had adjusted to the darkness, she was gradually starting to be able to see. With her head lowered, she came to discover that what she was stepping on was actually a tiny fleshy hand, one that looked like a baby’s.

Her body stiffened and she quickly jumped back a couple of steps. She lifted her head and her gaze fell over the area she was standing in, to see that the entire floor was filled with baby corpses, and that not a single dead corpse was whole, all of them broken and mutilated.

Her face immediately turned white as a sheet.

“Frightened?” A hand suddenly held her by the shoulder, the voice low and deep.

Qing Yu was slow to react as she turned around to look. Although she was shrouded in deep darkness, the man’s pair of violet eyes were giving off a faint light, dazzlingly absorbing.

“Why have you come as well?” Qing Yu was a little surprised. [Hadn’t she asked Bai Zhi Yan to come instead? This man is so highly revered and venerable, how can he be allowed to come risk himself with them? ?]

Lou Jun Yao looked at her expression that was seeming to say “Why did you come?” and his eyes narrowed slightly in displeasure. “I just saved you and you are treating me with such an attitude? What? Could it be because I am not as reliable as that fella Bai Zhi Yan? That made so sneakily send him that note?”

Qing Yu was stunned by the successive questions shot right at her. [What is this man getting so worked up about?]

[And, what does he mean by sneakily?]

She had sent Meatball to go deliver the information and it was done all open and aboveboard. Moreover, how could Bai Zhi Yan possibly not go tell him upon receiving the news? Isn’t he here now in the end anyway?]

But although that was what she thought in her heart, Qing Yu was still kind with her words when she said in explanation. “Isn’t that all because of your highly venerable status and position? Moreover you’re not an Elixir Cultivator so you wouldn’t be that much help in here. The main thing you cannot come to meet with any danger as what am I going to do if such a revered and sacrosanct body comes to be hurt?”

Lou Jun Yao glanced her her expressionlessly and it was a good while before he asked in a quizzical voice. “So you are being concerned about my body?”

Qing Yu was greatly taken aback by those words….. [Why does that sound so wrong?] But she did not think too much about it and just nodded her head offhandedly. “I expended a great deal of effort to heal that body of yours! Of course I am concerned about it!”

Hearing that, the man’s face then warmed up a little before he said: “What made you want to come to a reprehensible place like this anyway?”

Qing Yu sighed in long sigh in helplessness. “It’s a long story. We do not harbour any ill intentions but the opponent must have sensed our intentions and came to take the first strike.”

When she spoke about that, she was suddenly startled a moment. “Did you see my friend? She was dressed in full black clothes.”

“Bai Zhi Yan will save her, so you don’t have to worry.” Lou Jun Yao replied. His eyes then turned a little disapproving before he continued: “If there is anything you want to do, I can get people to help you. Why would you come put yourself into such danger? You’ve just recently recovered from your injuries and you already can’t stay idle for a bit?”

The man’s voice was faintly tinged with a rare moment of anger and Qing Yu was a little surprised being admonished in such a manner.

This was probably the first time that she was told off by someone in this way.

Chapter 107.2 : Inside the Ghost Cavern

If this was in any other circumstances, she would definitely not lose in a war of words. But….. those words were truly said out of real concern for her and she found herself unable to say anything towards that for a moment.

It was only after while that she finally found her voice. “I saved you before and you have saved my life as well. Didn’t I say it very clearly the last time? We….. do not owe each other anything so how could I possibly trouble you again…..”

Lou Jun Yao could not help but burst out laughing when he heard that. He arched up an eyebrow and then said teasingly with a barely perceptible smile on his lips. “Bai Zhi Yan is one of my men. What difference is there between you troubling me and troubling him? Moreover, I still remember that I saved you another time in Hades’ Canyon and with the addition on this time, you owe me two big debts now.”

[Doesn’t the little fox hate owing people the most? I should make her owe me more and more in accumulation. Who asked her to be so callous and heartless?]

As expected, when Qing Yu heard those words, her tiny little face immediately creased up and looked highly troubled.

[For a single herb she had already overpaid by so much and had even gotten herself injured while returning the favour which should have been a hundred times over in repayment. But now, it is a matter of him saving her life and as what people say, the debt owed to one who saved your life is larger than Heaven itself, how is she going to pay him back?]

Seeing her looking so forlorn with despair, Lou Jun Yao became highly amused the more he looked at her. He then smiled to tell her: “There’s no hurry. You can just pay me back slowly as I will not be running off anyway. But if you come to run away someday instead, I have my ways of finding you.”

Just like when he had put her on the wanted list for two years in the White Fen Lands back before without any result, hadn’t she finally come walking into one of his territories in the end?

All in all, everything came down to fate and destiny.

The expression on Qing Yu’s face turned even more ugly when she heard that and she just turned herself around to walk away, where even the baby corpses she had been most afraid of did not affect her anymore. It was probably because she was feeling so infuriated that it made her become a lot braver.

Lou Jun Yao just followed behind her feeling even more amused.

Although the surroundings were pitch dark, it was no obstacle to the two people who could see in the dark. But the further they walked, the evil and sinister feeling they felt grew more intense, until she came to break out in a bout of goosebumps all over.

Raising her head to look up, she saw a dense veil of countless white entities floating in the air, roaming aimlessly around.

It was a horde of human shaped spirit figures with disheveled hair floating around, and she came to discover only when she got closer that those hundreds to thousand floating bodies were spirit of people who died by hanging, their faces a greenish white pallor with their long tongues hanging out while their bodies drifted like there were no bones inside.

A few shadowy figures would float pass near to them occasionally, seemingly curious about these two who had suddenly appeared in there. The spirits then gathered together to whisper softly to each other, but the two people overheard their conversation.

“Why do those two look so different from all of us here?”

“Maybe their cultivation is still too low I think, which makes them look so different as ghosts. See, they have not even gained the power of levitation in their cultivation, I feel so sad for them.”

“Don’t say anymore. They are really pitiful.”

“…..”

Qing Yu was speechless. “…..”

As for Lou Jun Yao, “…..”

[They dare say he’s a ghost? Want to gain an understanding of what it means to have your spirit soul struck to scatter and disperse completely?]

Fortunately, although the ghosts who died from hanging looked rather frightening, they did not seem to harbour any ill intentions but to merely come floating close to satisfy their curiosity, and then flying a far way off from them after that.

Qing Yu was wracking her mind trying to remember what type of ghosts among the ghost race were able to gather spirit energies. The best kind would be those that were non aggressive and easy to control, like a newly derived little ghost.

She was absorbed in her thoughts when she felt her body being pulled back. Lou Jun Yao had rushed up from behind and was now standing before her, his tall and towering figure blocking her out completely. That sudden and unexpected action had Qing Yu feeling all puzzled and she asked: “What’s wrong?”

Chapter 107.3 : Inside the Ghost Cavern

Lou Jun Yao turned his head to glance briefly at her as he said indifferently. “It’s not safe.”

“I know…..”

“…..”

Qing Yu’s gaze was a little conflicted as she looked at the figure of the man before her. [Was this fella protecting her?]

It must be said that this was the first time for Qing Yu who was always protecting others to be shielded behind someone like this, and the feeling was rather indescribable. [Why was she seemingly so weak when compared to this man?]

[What kind of an strange feeling was that!]

Compared to the relative uneventfulness here on this side, Mu Lai had instead suffered the attack of a horde of ferocious red clothed ghosts.

They were all badly mutilated and incomplete torsos without their limbs and heads, but were instead highly malevolent, causing one’s hair to stand on end. The fiendish ghosts surged forward together as a horde, their sinister and aggrieved words resounding in a whirl around one’s ears, pounding incessantly at one’s line of defense that protected their sanity.

“Give me back my head….. Give me back my life….. Return my child back to me…..”

The colour on Mu Lai’s face turned an extremely ugly shade. Hearing the words of these aggrieved ghosts drumming in her ears seemed to make her start to feel she was the culprit who caused them to suffer all the injustice and their woes. She was suddenly feeling terrified, guilt ridden, agonized by all these negative sentiments striking at her heart that caused her to be almost possessed by one of the ferocious ghosts.

Right at that moment, the clear melodious ringing sound of bells rang out, accompanied by what seemed to be the chanting of a Buddhist mantra. The sound came nearer from afar and the horde of ferocious ghosts screeched, scattered in all directions. Some of them were not able to get away in time and they writhed up in a twist before turning into plumes of green smoke, their souls scattering and dispersed into nothing.

Mu Lai was covered all over in ice cold sweat. Two people suddenly appeared right before her eyes and the red robed one in front, a devilishly enchanting man smiled and extended his hand out to help her up. “You alright?”

Mu Lai stood up straight and said rather weakly. “I’m fine. Thanks to the two of you for your help.”

The grey robed man behind was holding a string of green coloured bells in his hand and was still shaking it. “Tsk tsk tsk, this thing works rather well doesn’t it?”

Bai Zhi Yan rolled his eyes at him. “Stop fooling around. What’s important is that we must find those two first.”

Mu Lai looked at the two men before her and her mind suddenly remembered something. As understanding washed over her, she then asked: “You’re friends of Qing Yu’s?”

“That’s right!” Bai Zhi Yan nodded with a smile.

Mu Lai then felt highly relieved. “Then we’ve got to find her quick. We were just separated and I do not know where she fell into, or what kind of danger she might be in.”

Bai Zhi Yan acknowledged quickly and he stretched his hand out to tap the shoulder of the man still playing with the bells. “Hurry up and see where they are.”

The grey robed man then stopped his actions, and waved his large hand before himself. The air before him rippled and swirled and he started to look for traces of Lou Jun Yao and Qing Yu.

[The friends that Qing Yu mentioned are actually such highly skilled experts from a higher realm!]

In the span of a few breaths, two figures appeared in the picture before them. They were still surrounded in darkness themselves here but it was clear and bright where Lou Jun Yao was, filled with a brilliant red light.

“Where is that place?” Mu Lai asked in surprise.

[How could such a place appear here so deep underground? Why was the place so red in the image?]

The grey robed man’s brows knitted up. “That is….. The territory of the Flaming Red Ghosts.”