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Staring warily at the dead man's face, I leaned forward to reach for the sword in his hand. At this moment, I was extremely nervous. Although it was unlikely that someone who had been dead for several days would fake their corpse, the terrified expression on his face made me feel concerned and gave me a bad premonition. So I kept my eyes on him and went to get the sword, but just as my hand was about to touch his sword, the man's mouth moved and made a strange squeaking sound!

Fraud? Not completely dead?

The buzzing in my head made me reflexively step back and fall to the side.

I stared at the dead man, terrified. The stench of death still hung in the air, and his face, hands, and bare skin were a horrible bluish-gray. It was the color of a corpse, but how could he have made a sound just now?

My heart was beating so fast that my limbs felt weak. I wanted to open my mouth to call out to Qing Ling, but I was afraid that my voice would attract others. Qing Ling said that since this was an illusion of the Evergreen Sect, he didn't want to pay any attention to those martial uncles and seniors of his. So, I must not make too much noise, lest it cause trouble for him.

I fell to the ground, staring at the dead body, when suddenly his Adam's apple moved a little! At the same time, along with his slow and terrifying movements, a "Zhi Zhi" sound came from his throat!

Heavens, was he really going to extort a corpse? Looking at the whites of the dead man's eyes, I couldn't imagine him turning his head and smiling at me! So I jumped up and leaped toward the river before the body could move!

I can't take it anymore, I want to go back to Qing Ling's side!

Because I was too panicked, I stumbled a little as I ran. My corpse wasn't too far away from the river, but a green figure suddenly flashed in the corner of my eyes!

That green robe really made people pay attention to it. I couldn't help but stop in my tracks and look towards the left. The left side of the road was less than twenty meters away from me. Another body lay collapsed on the side of the road! This time, the disciple wore the Hall Robe of the Cyan Wood Hall, which was the branch hall that Qing Ling and I used to stay in. When I was in the Evergreen Sect, I wore the same uniform, so I noticed it immediately.

This time, I didn't move closer. Instead, I walked to within five meters of the corpse and observed it from a distance. That was also a young disciple of the Evergreen Sect, and he was also heavily injured. However, the difference from the previous one was that this young disciple had a wound on his chest, and his clothes had been ripped apart, revealing a fatal wound. It was unknown whether the wound on his chest was left behind when he was alive, or if it was destroyed by wild beasts. In short, his chest had already been opened, revealing his badly mutilated internal organs … The man had been dead for some time, so his internal organs had turned a deep black. There were annoying flies buzzing around him, and there was a lot of blood on the body.

The dead man also died with his eyes wide open, staring at the sky. The whites of his eyes were trying to turn to his brain, as if he was extremely frightened before he died.

In a moment, I saw two corpses, and they were both extremely eerie and terrifying. I couldn't help but feel my scalp go numb again. This time, I no longer had the courage to confirm the identity of the deceased person. Instead, I turned my head and ran towards the Sacred Pagoda's direction in silence. I want to immediately return to Qing Ling's side, this place is too terrifying!

"Qing Ling …"

As I ran, I shouted towards the distance, but Qing Ling didn't reply.

I looked in the direction of the Tower of Holy Light and saw that Qing Ling's figure had already disappeared.

Had he already entered the tower? Feeling slightly anxious, I couldn't help but quicken my pace. However, just as I was sprinting out of the woods and reaching the riverbank, I felt something under my feet, and then my body tripped and I fell and fell into the river!

The river wasn't turbulent, and the river didn't freeze this season. The clear water flowed slowly, and I opened my eyes in the water. I could swim, and the water wasn't too cold, so at first I didn't panic too much.

I'm quite familiar with this river because I used to swim here when I was cultivating in my previous life. But when I opened my eyes and looked around me in the water, there was a man lying in the grass at the bottom of the river!

That person seemed to be wrapped in aquatic plants, and his face looked especially pale in the weak light coming from underwater. My heart thumped. Could it be another dead body? But I was some distance away from him, and his arms and legs were tangled in the swaying water, so I couldn't tell if he was alive or dead.

Saving a life is better than building a seven-storey pagoda, I thought, and finally jumped to the surface to take a deep breath. Then I dived to the bottom of the river again.

The bottom of the riverbed was covered with black mud, and the aquatic plants were very dense. They had to move carefully. I managed to swim over to the man, but in the end I didn't pull him. For when I came within two meters of the target, I saw that it was indeed a corpse. The corpse had been dead for several days, and was swollen by the water. That person's facial features were already indistinguishable. If it weren't for the water grass entangling him, he would have already floated to the surface of the river. There were small fish swimming around him, pecking at his exposed skin from time to time, and I was disgusted to find that the man's toes had been bitten off by the fish!

Holding in a breath, he swam out of the water at an extremely fast speed and scrambled to the shore!

The successive encounters with rotting corpses had left me feeling extremely sick, and now I wanted desperately to leave this place!

Something big must have happened to the Evergreen Sect, and the Tower of Holy Light shouldn't be safe either!

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but be extremely worried. I didn't care about my clothes being soaked to the skin, rushed to the shore, and loudly shouted towards the Tower of the Holy Spirit, "Qing Ling, where are you?!"

There was no one in the direction of the Tower of Saint. It was unknown where Qing Ling had gone.

I dragged my wet clothes to the front of the tower and stood hesitating at the entrance to the first floor.

Could it be that Qing Ling had already entered the pagoda? Can I go in and find him?

The Tower of Saint is a place where evil spirits and demons are locked up. I know that I cannot barge in so easily, because the light from the Pure Fan bottle can kill all the demons. Even if I have the protection of an immortal body, I am still vulnerable to the demonic aura inside the tower. In my previous life, I was attacked once, and was locked in the Small Black Room of the Evergreen Sect for a long time.

It would be better to call Qing Ling out from outside. Thinking about this, I couldn't help but shout out, "Qing Ling? "Qing Ling."

The inside of the tower was silent. Outside, the wind was rustling, and I could smell the stench of rotting corpses.