novelraw Chapter 581 - 376: The Beast Above the Grave
Chapter 581 - 376: The Beast Above the Grave
Chapter 376
Apparently, Ao Yin wanted to consume her brain marrow!
As she was pulled over, the probe lanced forward—it would take just a moment to succeed.
At that moment, Sui Yi flipped her wrist, and with a fierce swipe backward, she raised the Demon Que.
Shlash!
The two tongues were repelled, and Sui Yi landed, flipping over to face Ao Yin directly.
Ao Yin was standing now, its posture looking very strange, its faceless face facing her, its mouth opening and closing, the two tongues swallowing and spitting.
The only colors on its body were the black hair draping to the ground and its white skin.
Sui Yi held the Demon Que in one hand, and felt her neck with the other—blood.
There were small barbs on the tongue, and if she had been a bit later, those barbs would have pierced her blood vessels.
What a formidable monster, its whole body a weapon.
Sui Yi remained calm, while Ao Yin twisted its body, its hair seeming to swim around it, also remaining silent, but seconds and minutes passed by.
The blood on Sui Yi’s neck flowed more heavily, and Ao Yin’s body became more distorted...
Was it her vision blurring, or was it...
Shush~!
Ao Yin suddenly sprang up again!
The moment it sprang up, Sui Yi suddenly closed her eyes.
Instant darkness.
Only the sound of the wind, the smells, and the magnetic sensation...
Lock on!
Pu~~
The two tongues, one in front and one behind...
Hand raised...
The Demon Que, following her wrist’s rotation, quivered sharply as it was thrust between the two tongues, her wrist flipped, the Demon Que reversed, and Sword Qi spiraled on the blade, entwining the two tongues...
She did not retreat but advanced instead, rolling the tongues forward to stab!
The speed of lightning!
Pu?!?
The Demon Que Sword was thrust into its mouth, stabbing into that probe...blood burst forth, the monster’s soft body suddenly inflated and twisted as if a tiger were furiously puffing up its fur, while dense, small barbs suddenly sprouted from the soft spongy bodies of those tongues, extending, entangling Sui Yi’s arm...
Shush!
Ruthlessly tearing Sui Yi’s sleeve, the spikes gashed through skin and flesh...
Whirl~
Ao Yin shot out, Sui Yi also shot out, one with a mouthful of blood, uttering soft whimpers, the other with a right arm dripping with blood...
Rage, it was enraged to the extreme, its black hair standing stiff and sharp as iron, now resembling a porcupine...
Injuring the enemy a thousand, harming oneself eight hundred—that was Sui Yi’s current state.
Without any change of expression, the blood on her arm flowed swiftly down, winding around the Demon Que, which thirstily absorbed the fresh blood...
Shush!
Numerous hair spikes from Ao Yin came shooting towards her...
The Demon Que rose!
Shush shush shush!
A multitude of Sword Qi shadows flew about—black hairs were severed, a mighty gust of Flying Sand and Moving Rock...
All at once, a flash of blood in front of Ao Yin’s eyes, and suddenly it found its tongue seized by a hand.
A tug and a pull~~
The base of the tongue was pulled in front of Sui Yi, and as the sword rose and fell, the other tongue shot towards her...
Pu!
Tongue, severed!
Pu!
Sui Yi’s shoulder was completely penetrated...
Blood spurted from both...
The air was thick with the smell of blood...
At that moment, Sui Yi seemed to hear something.
Laughter of women, men, or children overlapping, coming from deep within her soul, her mind suddenly blanking for a moment...
The frequency of this sound...it was like that one from the phone...
Behind them, Gong Jiu and Flower Demon who had already caught up, looked up to see the scene...
Their faces filled with horror!
That horror seemed not only because of seeing her battling Ao Yin but also because of the heavy, dreadful breathing coming from the peak of the opening, sounding like a giant beast...
Ao Yin, now terrified, scurried backwards, while a rope suddenly shot out of the opening...it was a rope, right?
It directly grabbed Sui Yi’s arm, which was in a state of confusion...
Whirl!
In an instant, it was dragged into the opening.
Gong Jiu and the others were too late to catch up, but Ao Yin, terrified beyond measure, even crossed paths with them, completely ignoring the brains in their skulls that it loved most...
However, Gong Jiu and the others weren’t faring well either, because many "ropes" stretched out from the opening.
They moved so fast, reaching them in the blink of an eye...
At a distance of nearly two hundred meters...
This rope was simply...
Just as the eerie and terrifying "ropes" reached them, shush!
A returning cold light swung from beside Gong Jiu’s group with a curved arc, bypassing their side, clang!!
The blade buried into the ground, approximately the length of an index finger, leaving half an arm’s length of the blade exposed. It looked neither like a sword, nor a knife, nor a typical blade, with a dragon’s head, a serpent’s body, and a wolf’s teeth at the tail, and the handle was made of pure black stone.
The weapon simply stood there in the ground, and those densely packed ropes seemed to be frightened.
They all retreated backward... fleeing into the crevasse.
Flee?
Gong Jiu and the others unwittingly thought of this word.
In a moment, Gong Jiu and Flower Demon turned their heads.
They saw a person...
"Leave this place,"
this man said coldly. Before Gong Jiu and the others could react, his steps suddenly quickened, like a residual image, he pulled up that strange weapon and sprinted like the wind toward the wall slope of terrifying height...
With a leap, he reached a third of the height, grabbed the ultra-smooth mirrored wall with both hands, sticking steadfastly like a gecko. With a flick of his hand, he tossed up a hook that latched onto the edge of the crevasse, and in a few moments, he had reached the crevasse and disappeared from sight.
Gong Jiu and the others were utterly dumbfounded.
Who was this person? This skill, this mystery...
"I think I saw another Sui Yi," Brother Ma slowly said.
Flower Demon frowned: "This person... I think..."
"What?" Gong Jiu asked her. "Have you seen him before?"
"No, not that, I don’t know where I heard about him, I have a bit of an impression but I can’t remember who it was right now," Flower Demon stared at the crevasse: "Anyway, let’s not worry about that, we also need to find a way into that crevasse, I always feel that the most secretive part of this ancient tomb isn’t the hanging coffin below, but this upper secret space."
"Think about it, what is that coffin hanging from? Above! We are now right above it!"
Gong Jiu and the others had no objections, in fact, it would have been better if Feng Sha were here; that guy always had a knack for comparing architectural structures, perhaps from the very beginning, he might have noticed that this ancient tomb has two levels of space...
However, they didn’t know what exactly was inside...
However, the usually silent Zhang Wei suddenly spoke.
"That weird rope and the rope of the hanging coffin are identical, seeming like living things. If that’s so, then the coffin and whatever is inside that crevasse... must also contain living things."
Living things!
Good lord, who knew how many thousands of years old this tomb contained, aside from those ghosts and wrapped corpses, the only other living things were the monstrous Ao Yins, which were scared like dogs, so how terrifying would the living things inside be?
The faces of Gong Jiu and the others fell.
Then, Sui Yi, who was dragged into...
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Thump!
Sui Yi’s waist hit a sharp object, the pain instantly waking her from her confusion without any need for a transition, and yet, before she could even open her eyes, her chest suddenly hurt intensely...
Something was slowly piercing her skin, aiming for her heart...
Everything was pitch-black, yet Sui Yi realized her hands were not on the Demon Que, and her hands were bound by two ropes...
The sharpness at her chest kept advancing...
Pain!
It felt like a slow execution.
Suddenly!
Her heart was blazing hot as if burning...
The rope twisted, shrieked, and withdrew suddenly from her chest...
Just next to the heart area... it actually retreated at the last moment?
Thump, Sui Yi collapsed to the ground, struggling to breathe. She raised her hand to her heart, there was a hole in her chest cavity, even though the heart was not hit, a normal person would have fainted from blood loss and died by now.
Quickly pressing certain points on her body to stop the bleeding, Sui Yi adjusted her breathing and used Magnetic Sensation to quickly seal the hole. After a while, she felt somewhat better.
However, she was puzzled, why did the rope suddenly retreat in fear...
Could it be...
Holding her chest over her heart, Sui Yi pinpointed the position of the piercing, and couldn’t help but smile wryly.
It was the position of the tattoo above her heart—a single character.
A living creature actually feared a character?
Though hard to believe, Sui Yi had no other reason to think otherwise and didn’t probe further.
Snap, the light on her wrist flashlight turned on.
Suddenly lit, she saw both the rope attempting to pierce her heart and the ropes binding her hands retracting...
Indeed, those were tentacles, not what one would call ropes, for no rope could be so agile.
Living tentacles!
As the light swept over, the scene before Sui Yi made her gasp.
The light revealed a corpse.
A very enormous corpse.
This space was at least thirty meters long and twenty meters wide, coiled atop the ancient tomb, and therein, lay... a giant beast.
Sui Yi’s mind froze for a moment, it took her a while to adjust her breathing, as her night vision seemed to be significantly affected by the strain, she could only slowly illuminate the corpse with the flashlight.
Though called a corpse, it hadn’t decayed. In reality, its skin and fur were merely dried up a bit, as if it had died countless years ago, yet its flesh had not perished. But its appearance...
Difficult to describe, it had a serpentine body but limbs like those of a giant lizard, with broad, tough snake scales of dark green color, similar in other respects to a giant snake, except...
Sui Yi slowly rose from the ground, leaning against the wall, and upon looking up, saw that skull, half human face and half snake face, unnameable what kind of head it was, yet even Sui Yi was extremely astonished.
What kind of creature was this?
The giant snake lay motionless, encased in dust for thousands of years, yet not a speck of dust on its body, Sui Yi’s heart shook, when suddenly the light fell off.
There was a wall nearby, on which was some ancient script.
Sui Yi, with her good eyesight, let her flashlight slowly scan over these ancient inscriptions...
But this was not some script from the Warring States Period or any other dynasty she knew, utterly untraceable, it seemed...
She faintly felt it was familiar, as if she could understand it, yet not quite.
"That is Witch Scripture from the Warring States Period,"
the sudden voice made Sui Yi frown and turn to look...
A man walked into view from the narrow passage, from the sound of his voice a man, but she did not use her light to see who it was...(To be continued. If you enjoy this work, please visit Qidian to vote and support it. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)