The stone wall was dry and smooth, different from what Lu Shu had in mind. Under normal circumstances, such stone holes gave the impression that they would be ominously damp and cold, full of growing moss.
As the three hundred people made their way down to more than 50 meters, the walls started showing some weird patterns, as if it was a drawing some sort of mysterious map but no one could interpret the meaning behind it. Initially, everyone thought that the pothole would be extremely dark but to their surprise, these patterns were emitting some light, lighting up the entire bottom of the pothole.
Lu Shu was rather curious. This pothole was a hundred meters deep and since there was already light here, why couldn't they notice the light from on top?
Something's amiss, something's amiss.
Everyone came to the bottom of the pothole. There was another route here, and a stone gate at the lowest point of the pothole. And in the circular well at the deepest part of the pothole, the bodies of the 8 missing men of the heavenly network laid here.
There were no signs of a brutal death. These 8 men were arranged with one of them at the center. The rest of them surrounded him and were seated upright on the floor.
The seven surrounding corpses had blood in their seven orifices, faces pale as sheets. The one in the middle, however, had a normal complexion.
Although this one was strange, he was still dead. There was no sign of life at all, he couldn't be more dead.
"The corpses were stiff and the time of death could not be estimated. It was probably some dark spell," Li Yixiao frowned, "Why would they experiment with dark spells, look their entire team is dead! Alright, let's not care about them since they're dead."
Everyone looked at Li Yixiao in confusion, it must've been better if Zhong Yutang came down as well. It was so obvious that this group of people was killed by some other force instead of simply killing themselves.
But at this moment, Li Yixiao was already advancing towards the stone gate and everyone had no choice but to follow. Within it was yet another environment: the landscape became much wider and within the stone gate was actually a mountain of tens of meters tall. On top of it were shiny objects much like magical stones. And ahead of them in about a thousand meters was a huge site which looked like it occupied massive plots of land, it looked extremely majestic.
As everyone came in, the stone gate shut itself!
Suddenly, the objects on top of the mountain started coming alive. Only then did everyone realize that each one was a soul-like, translucent ghost.
Everyone had goosebumps upon this sight, so many of them?
A ghost dashed down towards Li Yixiao like a waterfall, but the tiger sign from Li Yixiao appeared once more and Li Yixiao's huge fist went out flying. The ferocious tiger on his back roared alive and pounced ahead together with his fist.
At this instant, his fist destroyed the ghost.
But at the next instant, numerous ghosts flew down like a waterfall and flooded everyone. Everyone tried their best to kill the ghosts around themselves. No one knew how these ghosts were different within this remains. They actually had solid bodies and could cause physical injuries when they dashed into people.
But if it was merely this then it was alright. At least they weren't like the skeletons whose single spear could kill a person. But it was quite troublesome if there were so many of them.
Initially, everyone was worried if this ghost could possess them or affect them mentally. But now, they could relax, these ghosts were not that scary.
Everyone was trying their best to kill the ghosts around them.
But Lu Shu was confused all of a sudden. This huge wave of ghosts had blanketed their whole group and he was nervous at the start but soon after, he realized that his corpsedog was sending roars constantly and these ghosts… were not targeting him at all and were attacking the others instead!
If he was alone here, he would definitely be happy. He's invincible!
But the problem was that he wasn't alone. What if someone else notices his special ability? Why was everyone being attacked but Lu Shu seemed like their ally instead? Why did no one attack him?
This was very troubling!
Lu Shu looked over at the situation of the others and started to imitate everyone else. "Ahahah! He! Ha! He! Ha!" he started to flail his weapons like everyone else. With two spears on his back, he grabbed a spear using each hand and chased after the ghosts...
At this point in time, apart from Li Yixiao and the class D experts, the class E practitioners were having some trouble as the number of ghosts was really too overwhelming.
Lu Shu could help others kill some ghosts and the others were amazed. This daoyuan student was so powerful? He was so passionate and ferocious, even chasing after ghosts! He was like a god of war!
As things were, he looked more competent than those class D experts. Could it be that strength type metahumans below class C were really the strongest compared to other types?
Lu Shu pondered over what he should do. He was in despair as well.
If he didn't chase after ghosts, his surroundings would be empty!
Luckily it wasn't just him who was like that. Those class D experts also went wherever danger was present.
While in Lu Shu's case, he just went to where the ghosts were...
"From the ghosts' distress, +1+1+1+1!"
Wherever Lu Shu passed by, a large wave of distress points would be contributed by the ghosts in the area. They were absolutely dumbfounded... Aren't we avoiding you? What are you doing!
But at this moment, Lu Shu discovered something he had never encountered before. As these ghosts were being killed, a weird energy was being absorbed by the corpsedog within his celestial map. All that energy went into corpsedog through the celestial map!
Was this absorbing the energy of the ghosts? He didn't have this experience when he killed Chang Hengyue and the skeletons. This was the first time he was experiencing it!
Then, that huge power residing within corpsedog suddenly shifted and it appeared in the form of a black-colored pearl which floated above the celestial map.
Lu Shu's heart skipped a beat. He discovered yet another ability of the corpsedog. This was a message from the corpsedog to him. This pearl was actually given to the ghosts to consume so that he could rear ghosts.
Was it for the ghosts to eat? Then wasn't this food for the souls which Lu Xiaoyu caught? What would happen if they ate them? Would it allow the souls conjured by Lu Xiaoyu to be stronger?
Lu Shu wasn't to blame for thinking about Lu Xiaoyu at this point as the link between their abilities was actually very obvious.
But… his corpsedog could kill and rear ghosts at the same time. What was the exact relation between Lu Xiaoyu and his own abilities?