Chapter 7: Jade and Stone Twin Killers

  It was the same as last time, a faint light slowly lit up in front of Qu Qing Shi, but this time he didn't draw his bow, and the light came from the silver-headed human lantern at his waist. This spirit lantern was taken out by Qu Qing Shi from his own luggage, withstanding the fierce attack of Xiang Yan's madness.

  A bronze lamp over a foot long, at first glance it looked like a silver statue with a painful expression. On the top of the statue's head, there was a bright red flame. When the darkness suddenly fell in the mine, the lamp lit up by itself without making a sound, and quietly emitted a faint blue light that enveloped all three people.

  Liáng Xīn was shocked, he didn't expect Qū Qīng Shí to have such a treasure in his hands.

  Qu Qing Shi's face also showed a sly joy, he turned his head and chuckled softly at the two people behind him. Although he was already in his 40s with a middle-aged appearance, the pride of a young man between his eyebrows was still very evident: "This is a treasure given to me by Qing Mo, I usually keep it in my bag and don't dare to take it out... what are you doing?"

  Liang Xin and Liu Yi both made exactly the same movement, without regard for seniority or hierarchy, and in their haste they both reached out to cover his mouth at the same time.

  Qu Qing Shi not only didn't shut up, but instead burst out laughing: "This lamp is a treasure of the Qing Mo Sect, called 'Yin Ming Bu Jian' (Hidden from the Netherworld). Wherever its light and shadow cover, evil spirits won't be able to detect us. Don't worry, speak freely!"

  The other two people completely put their minds at ease, and Liu Yi smiled at Liang Xin: "Miss Qingmo is the younger sister of the adults, with a natural talent since childhood, she was favored by the immortal master Donghai Qian and accepted as a disciple."

  Donghai Qian refers to the Xianchuangong Mountain by the East Sea. The Donghai Qian Tao is a very famous and prosperous Quanzhen sect.

  As soon as the sister was mentioned, Qu Qing Shi's face was filled with joy and pride. Just as he was about to say a few more boastful words, his expression suddenly turned solemn, and at the same time, he made a silencing gesture towards Liang Xin and Liu Yi.

  Liang Xin tightly closed his mouth, and with the faint light of the lanterns, he looked around, and at a glance, he felt that all 36,000 pores on his body trembled violently, and he was frozen in place, not daring to move again!

  Crack, crack...... Amidst the faint sounds, the gravel in the mine began to stir laboriously. The people who had died in the mine earlier, whether it was Jiulong Qingyi or Xiang Chan Manren, all clumsily stood up, some missing half their head, others lacking a shoulder, and some with a large hole caved in their chest...

  They all had extremely strange postures, with their hands hanging down, their waists bent, and their heads lowered. Their hair was disheveled and hung down loosely as they slowly moved from the place of death towards the jade pendant at the far end of the pit. Behind each person, a murky red blood line trailed.

  According to their posture, they can only see their own knees. The two feet are not walking, but weakly scraping against the ground.

  Liang Xin felt his heart was about to jump out of his throat, when Qu Qing Shi suddenly let out a cold laugh: "Don't be afraid, it's not a zombie, it's a corpse on its back!"

  Pondering the words of Qu Qing Shi, he took a closer look at the corpses and suddenly realized that under each corpse was a small hunchbacked ghost holding it up. However, the bodies of these little ghosts were all half-illusory. The light from the Ling Lamp was weak, and if one didn't look carefully, they wouldn't be able to see them.

  Qu Qing's face was as pale as frost, holding a lantern and slowly following behind a group of small ghosts carrying corpses. He muttered to himself in a low voice: "Even corpses are edible? Looks like they're starving."

  As they got closer to the stone wall, they could see more clearly that apart from those carrying corpses on their backs, there were also large groups of small ghosts in front of the stone wall, wandering around expressionlessly.

  However, these little ghosts will also avoid the murderous stone veins on the ground when they are wandering around.

  Liang Xin seemed to understand what was going on, and turned to ask Liu Yi beside him: "Earlier, the two large camps were dragged into the Jade Token by those little ghosts and then devoured?"

  Liu Yi looked at the dense and numerous ghosts in the distance, feeling a chill run down his spine, and replied with a bitter smile: "If not so, what else can be done?"

  The little demon walking in the front carried a corpse of an item crab close to the jade plate, the smooth surface of the jade plate seemed to have turned into a soap bubble, and a faint ripple condensed, without making any sound, it sucked the corpse in, but the little demon stayed outside and continued to wander.

  Liang Xin sucked in a breath of cool air: "It's not the little ghosts eating people, it's the Jade Token eating people... The Jade Token releases the little ghosts to help it find meat?" Qu Qing Shi nodded silently and, taking advantage of the cover of the lanterns, quietly approached a small group of little ghosts. Liang Xin felt uneasy in his heart, unable to understand what he was trying to do.

  After following for a moment, Qu Qing Shi suddenly stretched out his foot and kicked it hard. With a loud crash, he swept away the two or three feet of wooden stakes in front of him, and then quickly retreated with two companions.

  The wooden board was flipped over, and the evil spirit of the stone vein emerged. Several small ghosts were caught off guard and fell to the ground, not even having time to let out a scream before being sucked dry into a withered corpse.

  The other little ghosts seemed oblivious and continued to wander around.

  Liang Xin finally understood the meaning of Qu Qing Shi, and said in a low voice: "Yu Bi and Shi Mai are indeed two different things!" The little ghost was Yu Bi's 'subordinate', but would still die under Shi Mai.

  Qu Qing nodded and led his two companions to continue bullying Xiaogui.

  Li Qian asked: "If Yu Bei and Shi Mai collided, who would win?"

  Qu Qing shot him a glance, this matter was too mysterious, no one could say it clearly.

  It wasn't long before the little ghosts couldn't find any more 'flesh', and they all scurried back into the stone walls. The lights in the mine relit, and everything returned to normal.

  Qing Shi killed about 70-80 little ghosts, kicked the wooden board under his feet into a pitiful state, and let out a somewhat regretful sigh. He hung the lantern back around his waist and walked towards the Jade Plate, carefully exploring it.

  Liang Xin and Liu Yi exchanged a glance and hastily followed him.

  As the green-robed leader who had previously discovered the jade disc said, the jade disc and the stone vein were not connected to each other.

  The jade tablet is extremely large, and the flat jade surface in front of us, which stretches for hundreds of feet, is only a part of it. The top, left, and right sides are all embedded in the mountain, while the bottom is suspended in mid-air, about one foot away from the ground excavated by the prisoners. It looks like a mirror that has been propped up.

  The murderous aura stone vein slanted down in one direction and hid deep underground, with the two extraordinary evil objects separated by a distance of about one palm width.

  Qu Qing Shi observed extremely carefully, especially at the joints where the jade disc had not entered the mountain body. He seemed to be pondering whether he could make the jade disc fall and collide with the ominous stone vein, but in the end, he shook his head and gave up. If he wanted the jade disc to fall, he would have to smash all the surrounding rocks.

  However, Liang Xin looked at the gap between Yu Bei and Shi Mai, always feeling that something was floating in his mind, but he couldn't grasp the key point. He thought to himself, feeling extremely suffocated. But seeing Qu Qing Shi and Liu Yi no longer paying attention to Shi Mai, he also gave up thinking about it.

  This huge jade evil object, only eats things after 'lights out', now looks and feels normal, except for the messy clothes embedded in the jade...

  Now, Liang Xin has calmed down from the series of shocks about Yu Bei, the barbarians and his ancestors. He looked around and sighed: "There is no way out, we can only hold on for a few more days." In his heart, he especially missed Feng Xi Xi and the delicious food in her arms.

  Qu Qing smiled: "It's not necessarily going to be trapped to death. This ghost jade pendant is so evil, there may be another world behind it."

  As they spoke, Qu Qing Shi suddenly drew out his dagger and with all his might, slashed down at Yu Bei!