Chapter Thirteen: Flying Waterfall Ice Coffin

  Guo Dafu's actions caused the old man to hurriedly splash around in the water a few times, but in an instant, the old man was mysteriously floating on the surface of the water: "Hey, you little brat, after I'm done with my business, I'll have to deal with you and teach you not to disrespect your elders."

  "Tell me, is this green grassland the holy land?" Guo Dafu said, becoming even more aggressive: "It seems you really don't know the thorn in the hearts of stockholders. The green grassland is simply their graveyard, not some holy land."

  "Is that red pepper a sacred place?" the old man asked back.

  Qin Zhong interrupted the conversation between the two, he didn't want to know anything else, just why this old man came down faster than them and could land so lightly on the water: "Old mushroom, you first tell me how you landed here?"

  "Alas, even if I told you, you wouldn't know; if you really didn't come down from the door, maybe you could be like this too."

  "Then we'd be dead?" Qin Zhong felt that this old man was being a bit too much, his hand habitually moved towards his waist, if the old man tried to trick him he would definitely kill him with one knife.

  The old man let out a loud laugh, coughed dryly, and spat out a mouthful of yellow phlegm: "That's right, only when someone dies can they float down without feeling anything."

  Qin Zhong's face turned cold: "What?" His mind was shaken, if what the old man said was true, then wasn't he not a human being from the very beginning? He said his last palace was guarded, no more than a ghostly obsession.

  He calmed down and lowered his voice: "So you're saying you're a ghost?"

  The old man nodded frequently and said, "Of course, it's not entirely that. I'm just a soul. Fortunately, you met my kind soul. My evil soul is locked in my coffin. I had another purpose for letting you down, which was to ask you to help me clean up my body. With only my own strength, I'm afraid it won't work."

  "Old mushroom, we've all been confused by what you said. What's going on with you? Your corpse, can't you even take care of it?"

  "It's really helpless because my corpse has been occupied by several evil spirits, so I can only beg of you, you are also the second guest I have waited for in these hundreds of years."

  Qin Zhong listened to the old man's words and immediately asked: "So that means someone came before us?"

  "Hmm, just a dozen minutes before you guys arrived, someone came by, but that guy seemed to be lost, always hovering above the Ice Palace. He was clearly not my cup of tea, so I looked for you guys instead."

  Qin Zhong immediately knew that the old man was referring to the bald-headed man wearing a ninja suit. It seemed that this bald-headed man would be their greatest threat if they didn't get rid of him soon. Thinking about this, he decided to first help the old man find his corpse. If he could be of any assistance, it would be a good thing; if not, he couldn't blame himself either.

  Just as a few people were talking, the rapid water flow had already pushed Qin Zhong out for a long distance. Qin Zhong looked back and saw that this river didn't seem to have an end, it just went in the direction he came from earlier. Far away, he could see a towering mountain wrapped in silver, with its entire body inserted into a large cluster of thick fog.

  Qin looked at the water under his feet, which seemed to be steaming with heat. He stretched out his hand to touch it and found it was very warm, probably a hot spring river. Along the way, everything was green, and occasionally on the shore, they could see a few jumping deer, flying wild chickens, but in other places, it was hard to see any signs of life. The whole journey was quiet.

  This ice gate was strange, and in the hot misty water, it seemed to have no intention of melting at all. Just as their ice gate was sliding forward at an incredible speed, a small slope appeared in front of Qin Zhong and others. As they entered this place along the downhill river course, the ice gate flew high into the air from the top of the slope. The ice gate carried three people gliding through the air for tens of seconds before finally landing on a secluded bay with clear water.

  The water flow finally stabilized, and looking forward in the middle of the pond, it seems to be spring here. Far away, it is a dense forest, but the water flow in the secluded pond disperses and flows into the depths of the dense forest.

  Qin Zhong tried to use his hands to push the ice gate towards the shore, and the three of them got ashore. After landing on the shore, the ice gate strangely merged with the dark green water and seeped into the water.

  Just as Qin Zhong was getting familiar with the surroundings, a gust of wind swept past them from behind. The old mushroom stood there, still grinning from ear to ear: "Old me has been waiting for you folks for quite some time now. Was this journey pleasant?"

  Guo Dafu could no longer hold back, raised his hand to punch, and landed a fist right on the old man's chin. However, the old man didn't even dodge, and instead took the punch head-on.

  The old mushroom's face suddenly sank: "You guys take a break, I still have things to do."

  "Where are you going?" Qin Zhong's eyes also suddenly became very cold, who knows when he will pull out his double knives again.

  Yingzi finally finished her prayer: "Qin brother, what's wrong with you? You've drawn your sword again?"

  Qin Zhong pointed to the middle of the hundred-meter-high waterfall with his finger. After Yingzi and Guo Dafu shifted their gaze to the middle of the waterfall, both of them were stunned.

  The rapid current of water, due to the collision with the small slope earlier, plus the distance from the place where it flew down earlier to the surface of the pool was over a hundred meters, the rapid current turned into a wide and large waterfall. And in that waterfall, there was actually a crystal clear white coffin suspended, tightly wrapped by several ice chains.

  "What's that?" Guo Dafu was stunned.

  Yingzi's eyes were good, and she saw that there were actually a few words written on the ice coffin "Snow Coffin".

  "Is this Snow Butterfly's coffin?" A look of puzzlement appeared on Yingzi's face.

  Qin Zhong's eyebrows were tightly locked, and when he turned his head to look for the old man, the old man was already gone. When he turned his head again, he saw that the old man had somehow rushed against the rapid waterfall and reached the top of the ice coffin. With both arms waving, he forcefully pulled open several ice chains, and the ice coffin fell into the abyss with a loud splash.

  The ice coffin floated up and down in the water several times, after which it began to melt rapidly along with the ice chain. Qin Zhong and the others stared unblinkingly at everything happening in the pool.

  In the ice coffin that had been cracked open, a corpse floated on the surface of the water. From afar, the corpse did not appear to have rotted or dried out; it seemed to be well-preserved. Although the dense forest outside emitted a scent of dampness, it could not overpower the strange fragrance emanating from the corpse.

  Look again, the old mushroom suddenly jumped high from the water surface, I don't know how much hatred he had for his own corpse, his feet constantly and fiercely trampling on his own corpse.

  The corpse was trampled in the water, bubbling up with a gurgling sound. Before long, the corpse seemed to have drunk its fill of water and began to sink to the bottom.

  Qin Zhong looked more and more puzzled, but just as he was puzzled, the corpse seemed to be awakened. It slowly floated up from the water, grabbed the old mushroom's feet with one hand, and pulled it violently into the water. However, when it saw Qin Zhong and the others, it put down the old mushroom, seemingly ordinary, and swooped towards Qin Zhong and the others in the water, sticking to the surface of the water.

  Qin Zhong saw the danger approaching again, and the first person he wanted to protect was of course Yingzi. Unfortunately, the corpse's hands grabbed Guo Dafu's neck, who was also a virgin.

  Guo Dafu's hands were tightly grasping the corpse's arms, trying to break free from his grasp, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't shake off the corpse.

  Qin Zhong saw that things were not going well, his legs were strong, and the two steel knives flew towards the corpse's hands like lightning. He opened his bow left and right, and slashed dozens of times in a row. The bones of the corpse's hands were all chopped into bone pulp by Qin Zhong, but those hands still tightly grasped Guo Dafu's neck and refused to let go.

  As Guo Dafu's face turned purple, Qin Zhong took another risk and used the steel knife in his hand to stick to the skin on Guo Dafu's neck, prying it open from the inside out, and pried open the pair of hands that had been stuck together. The black blood flowing out of the corpse continued to emit a foul odor, and the scattered debris of the corpse on the ground was already in disarray.

  Qin Zhong immediately pulled Guo Dafu back onto the road leading to the woods, letting Yingzi support Guo Dafu as he slowly caught his breath. But just then, a movement from the corpse stunned Qin Zhong.