The Eleventh Chapter: Devil's Sound

  "What's going on inside the cave?" Meng Qiu asked as he walked up.

  "The one above is man-made, can hold a person, it's a dead hole, no way out." Wang Haibing replied: "But I'm afraid there's not just this one entrance here, we didn't see the musk deer when we came over earlier, that beast must be hiding in this kind of hole too, and fooled us all."

  Meng Qiu nodded slightly as soon as he heard it. As soon as he saw this cave entrance earlier, he had similar speculations.

  "That wily musk deer, let's go back and look for it." Meng Qiu said with some depression, knowing that going back now would likely be futile. Since the musk deer was so cunning and knew how to hide, it must have run away long ago.

  However, as soon as Meng Qiu's voice fell, they hadn't moved yet when a sound of water suddenly came from below.

  Meng Qiu and Wang Haibing hastily looked down, only to see the dark water surface below suddenly churn up a wave, followed by a huge shadow emerging from underwater.

  "What is it?" Meng Qiu furrowed his brow, the shadow under the water was either a big fish or some other kind of monster, its body must be even bigger than that giant lizard from earlier. At the same time, a cold and eerie aura spread out from under the water.

  "Not good! It's a Condensed Corpse at the initial stage of demonic beast!" Meng Qiu and Wang Haibing both changed color, Condensed Corpse is one level higher than Yin God. In Yun Tou Mountain, if you can reach the Condensed Corpse realm, it is the Blue Robe Elder, with a noble status, not to be underestimated. Fortunately, at this moment, Meng Qiu and Wang Haibing were both clinging to the top of the cave, if they were still on the water surface, being attacked by that demonic beast would have been disastrous.

  "Quickly, come into the cave to take cover!" Wang Haibing shrunk his body inward and pulled Meng Qiu with his hand.

  At this time, Meng Qiu didn't hesitate and directly went in. The hole was very small, the two of them barely squeezed in, turned their heads to look back down, the water surface was calm and peaceful, the black shadow disappeared, and in the blink of an eye even that strong aura was gone.

  Meng Qiu was even more suspicious and in the end did not see clearly what that black shadow was after all, which made him somewhat unable to let go.

  After a while, there was no other movement, and the entire cave was quiet and gloomy. Even Meng Qiu and Wang Haibing involuntarily held their breath. The faint voice that seemed to exist but not exist came again, this time they heard it more clearly. The sound originated from the water surface, low and whispery, like a whisper in one's ear. However, the voice only lasted for a moment before disappearing again, causing the entire cave to fall into complete silence once more.

  "Let's hurry back, there is actually a Condensed Spirit Realm beast hidden here, it's absolutely not something we can handle." Meng Qiu crawled out of the cave and grasped the stone pillar beside him, looking down below. The water surface was extremely calm, without any sound, but beneath the water hid a deadly beast.

  Wang Haibing also came out and said with a serious face: "It's probably too late to go back."

  Before he finished speaking, Meng Qiu also discovered that the water surface below was actually rising! Moreover, the speed of the rise was extremely fast. Looking back from here, the direction they came from had already been submerged.

  At the same time, the water below stirred up again, and the black shadow and powerful aura that had appeared before floated out once more.

  Meng Qiu and Wang Haibing's hearts sank, thinking that the monster had discovered them. However, in the blink of an eye, the black shadow brought a wave and swam past from under them.

  "Wang Haibing let out a sigh of relief and said: 'That was close! That thing almost killed me with a counterattack!'"

  "Not right!" Meng Qiu suddenly thought of something: "That thing was wandering around in a panic, as if it was escaping from something."

  "What!" Wang Haibing's eyes widened: "Then what about after this..."

  Before he could finish speaking, there was a sudden loud rumble from below, and it seemed like a pot had exploded underwater.

  "It's no good, let's go!" Meng Qiu shouted, it was definitely not possible to go back, hiding in place was also impossible. Based on the current speed, it wouldn't take long for the water surface to flood the top of the cave. At this point, there was only one way forward, hoping there would be another exit.

  As they spoke, Meng Qiu and Wang Haibing let go of the stone pillar, leaped into the air, and ran wildly on the water.

  At this time, Meng Qiu vaguely heard a strange noise coming from the depths of the water behind him. He didn't have time to turn his head back to look and could only keep running wildly, without sparing any true energy. In one breath, he didn't know how far he had run. The faint sound he had heard before appeared again, this time louder, like whispers. However, Meng Qiu and Wang Haibing were escaping for their lives and didn't pay close attention. Who knew that after a short while, the sound seemed to have magical powers and suddenly drilled into their minds, like a poison in the bone marrow, making it impossible to shake off.

  Meng Qiu only then realized that something was off, this voice had a sinister tone, and it actually penetrated into his mind, almost instantly putting him in a state of semi-consciousness. Although his body was still running on the water's surface, his brain was completely unable to think, dazed and confused, as if he could fall asleep at any moment.

  Wang Haibing's situation was even worse than Meng Qiu's. His expression had completely stiffened, his movements were rigid, and his eyes were dazed.

  At this moment, that voice had already penetrated deep into Meng Qiu's mind, as if it wanted to thoroughly occupy his sea of consciousness but touched the jade talisman.

  In an instant, a loud humming noise!

  That jade talisman had been in Meng Qiu's mind since he crossed over, and suddenly burst forth with a brilliant light, instantly eliminating the invading evil sound, causing Meng Qiu's spirit to shake, and his mind to suddenly clear up.

  "What the...! What just happened?" Meng Qiu was slightly stunned, recalling the situation earlier, still feeling a lingering fear. That voice that seemed like someone whispering in his ear must have been some kind of mind-controlling technique, and he and Wang Haibing had both fallen for it. If not for the jade symbol in his mind, this time would have likely ended in disaster.

  Meng Qiu thought of this, turned his head to take a look, and found that Wang Haibing was still expressionlessly treading water and running wildly. He hastily raised his palm, urged the true energy from afar, and hit Wang Haibing with a loud bang. At this moment, Wang Haibing had been controlled by the magic sound and didn't know how to resist. After being hit, he lost his balance and fell into the water with a splash.

  "Ah!" Wang Haibing exclaimed, a wake-up call like being splashed with cold water, suddenly becoming clear-headed.

  "Wang Shidi, are you okay? Hurry up!" Meng Qiu asked, but after knocking down Wang Haibing, he didn't stop.

  Wang Haibing came to his senses, suddenly leaping out of the water. He hastily caught up and said: "It's nothing, I was just careless earlier and got captured by the demon sound. If it weren't for my senior brother being here, I would have been done for this time."

  "Alright, no more nonsense, something's coming from behind!" Meng Qiu was about to retort when his face suddenly changed. A louder sound of rushing water came from behind them, whipping up a wave over half a meter high. Behind the wave, a dark shadow emerged, its features indistinct. With a fierce and menacing aura, it pounced forward, its presence even more powerful than the suspected Condensed Spirit initial-stage demon beast they had encountered earlier.