Chapter 58 The White-Clothed Maiden

  I hastily carried Wu Zihan, Xiao Lao and Cangcang helped Fu Ma up, and the few of us rushed to the back of the three-headed statue, looking into that huge black hole. Wu Huan stood not far from the entrance of the cave, staring straight at the giant eye, as if he was not afraid of being swallowed.

  I asked Old Xiao in a low voice: "Is this the legendary Gui Yu?"

  Xiao Lao furrowed his brow and said, "That's not right. In the 'Liezi - Tang Wen', it says that east of Bohai, there is a vast chasm, several billion miles deep, with no bottom. It's called Gui Yun, which seems similar to the bottomless pit now, but where's the water? According to my knowledge, Gui Yun should be at the bottom of the sea."

  "Gui Xu?" Yang Cangcang thought for a moment, "I used to hear my ancestors mention it, saying that there are two kinds: the Eye of the Far East and the Eye of the Far West."

  "Didn't Old Xiao say that the five ancient countries were actually the five sacred mountains in our mythological legends? They were located near Guiyun, but after a war with Longbo Country, the people of Dàiyú Country fled here?" Fu Ma analyzed.

  "There's water here." I said seriously, "You guys forgot when we passed through the array last time, we encountered that nameless sea, and there was a sunken ship in it. I still have a wooden box from that sunken ship in my bag, but I don't know where it is."

  "This might be the entrance to Gui Yu, whatever it is, it must have something to do with Gui Yu. Let's take a look and see what that little scoundrel Wu Huang is up to." Xiao Lao's eyes were fixed on the giant black hole, hardly leaving it.

  "Must every opening of the tomb result in so many deaths?" I sighed and asked.

  "It shouldn't be, it's obvious that this altar has been abandoned for a long time. I've only heard that only the heart of Gui Yun can open Gui Yun, and also that Wan Nian Gui Yun will automatically open once. Such a cruel method is obviously a dark cult's evil spell." Xiao Lao said angrily.

  "Right, it's always said that the heart of Gui Yun is in the ancient temple of Taihang Guo, but I haven't seen it?" I asked, looking around.

  Wu Huang chuckled twice beside him: "Dark Church? What is darkness, what is light? Since ancient times, the king has been victorious and the bandits have been defeated. The power of my Mingyin Sect is not just this. You few are still better off watching in the corner, don't make reckless comments. After the sacrifice is over, I will clean you up."

  Suddenly, the giant eye stone cave fell silent, and the wind force that was sucking inward stopped. We were all stunned, is this it? Wu Huang also furrowed his brow, muttering to himself: "What's going on?"

  The mother-in-law cautiously walked to the entrance of the cave and looked inside, Old Three also curiously followed her over. The mother-in-law turned on her flashlight and shone it in, "What did you find?" Wu Huang asked.

  "Nothing... nothing at all, just darkness." The mother director replied tensely.

  Yang Cangcang quietly approached the edge of the stone cave, her eyes adjusted to the dark and could see the farthest. She was startled at first, then quietly walked back again.

  "Can you see anything?" I asked.

  Yang Cangcang's whole body shook: "It's very deep inside, so deep that it's hard to imagine, a piece of darkness, vaguely visible as if you can see a door, a stone door, tightly closed, surrounded by many resentful eyes."

  Suddenly, the entrance of the cave started to blow strong gusts of wind again. Unlike the previous time when it sucked air into the cave, this time it was blowing outwards with incredible force, sending the mother and old three tumbling to the ground. They fell heavily on their buttocks, looking utterly disheveled. Yang Cangcang couldn't help but laugh uncontrollably at the sight. As I watched, I noticed that something seemed different from before - the wind blowing out of the cave was getting darker, as if it contained some sort of substance.

  Xiao Lao's face was covered in sweat as he shouted: "No... it's no good."

  Apart from the endless dark wind, it seemed that many things had crawled out of the cave. When I took a closer look, I gasped in shock. They were all sorts of creatures with spider legs and toad bodies, scorpion tails and centipede bodies, snake-headed human-bodied monsters, and all kinds of dense, unseen insects.

  Fu Ma's face turned pale: "What are these things?"

  Xiao Lao Da exclaimed: "These are all creatures from the abyss, their nature is extremely brutal, this is the end, once they crawl out of the desert, it will be difficult to eliminate them. What we can see are just low-level creatures, but these waves of invisible black smoke are the most troublesome. Let's quickly get on top of this statue, or else we'll be eaten by these insects."

  Mother and Old Three were frightened when they heard it, and quickly got up from the ground and climbed onto the three-headed god statue.

  Wu Ying burst into loud laughter: "You can't even protect yourself, yet you want to protect others? Lovely little creatures, thank your Uncle Wu Ying, if I hadn't opened this door, you would never have seen the light of day."

  Grandpa took advantage of everyone's attention on the giant black hole and quietly moved to my side. I hurriedly went to support him, whispering: "Grandpa, are you okay?"

  "Nothing, child," Grandfather said with a wave of his hand. "These deep-sea creatures can't be left unattended. I'll go close the entrance to this cave. After you leave, remember my words and head to Chessboard Mountain to find the Guardian of the Thousand-Year-Old Chessboard hidden within the Ghostly Axe's Verdant Piles."

  I nodded: "Grandpa, how are you going to close this black hole?"

  Grandfather smiled slightly, as gentle as usual: "I have my own way." Grandfather slowly climbed down from the top of the statue, and when he was about to reach the middle head's mouth, he glanced at us with a surprised expression: "You two quickly stop him."

  The mother and the third son showed a male color, their mouths close to the ground. The altar was already crawling with dense, deep-sea creatures. They didn't dare to go down recklessly, but they couldn't not go either. They symbolically crawled forward a few times, trying to get closer to Grandpa. Suddenly, a voice jumped out: "Hurry up and stop him! If you don't, you two won't be able to remove the poison, and will directly become food for the worms!"

  Mother heard, along the statue quickly crawling forward, grandfather standing at the mouth of the statue laughed loudly: "Good grandson, I am the last array spirit of this universe array, I died, this universe array will stop, your beautiful dream is likely to fall through." After finishing, Grandfather looked up and took a last glance at me with a slight smile, then jumped into the mouth of the statue.

  The statue emitted a rumbling, chomping sound. Tears had already blurred my vision. I let out a loud cry: "No—" The gusts of wind in the black hole suddenly weakened. Wu Ying jumped up like thunder and rushed to the entrance of the cave to observe the situation.

  I suddenly felt my whole body burning, an unbearable itch inside, as if tens of thousands of insects were crawling, I rolled off the statue and fell to the ground, the insects on the ground scattered instantly, as if they didn't dare approach me. I rolled around on the ground, feeling like I was going to die, the nine worms flew out of my ears, their bodies emitting a white glow, frantically flying around the room.

  Yang Cangcang panicked: "Jun Yang, what's going on?"

  "The Rakshasa curse is being lifted because the person who cast it has died, but I'm afraid he can't control such a powerful force." A voice came from behind.

  Yang Cangcang was overjoyed: "Zihan, you're better now?"

  Wu Zihan nodded: "I've recovered a bit of energy."

  The giant black hole is shrinking bit by bit, and the desperate Wu Ying grabs a blue demon to block the entrance, but it has no effect at all. Yang Cangcang says happily on top: "Fake goods, your plan seems to be going down the drain."

  Suddenly, a human hand stretched out from that black hole, and everyone was shocked. Was there still a human in this desolate place?

  Suddenly, Wu Huan's eyebrows opened and he smiled, "That's not necessarily true." He looked like the motherly director ordered: "Go bring him up here."

  The mother bureau director was trembling with fear, the creatures that crawled out of the hole were all deformed, and the humans who climbed up were even more terrifying. Wu Guang shouted loudly: "Hurry up, the black hole will close soon."

  Mother and Old Three rushed over, grabbed the hand together, and pulled the person up. We held our breath and stared at the black hole. I was in great discomfort, but I also forced myself to look past it.

  That person seemed to be very heavy, and Director Mu and Old Three had used all their strength but still couldn't pull him up. Wu Heng shouted "Useless!" and personally went forward to pull together with them, finally pulling him up. The giant black hole also completely closed at the moment he came up.

  I took a closer look, and my eyes widened in shock. The one who came out of the cave was a woman, dressed in white, holding a box with her left hand, her hair disheveled, and her eyes were eerie, blood-red. She swept her gaze over us, finally fixing it on me.

  And this woman I am extremely familiar with, previously at the old man Tianji's place, after I killed those mirror corpses and returned to school, I had repeated the dream of Wednesday several times, each time a white-clothed woman appeared staring at me, and she was that very woman.

  "Mom, there's a female monster coming up."

  Lao San tilted his head and smiled slightly: "You're quite pretty, little girl, what's your name?"

  Yang Cangcang glared at Lao San and cursed: "Shameless."

  Wu Huang seemingly didn't anticipate everything in front of her, first she was slightly stunned, then her eyes fell onto the box in her hand, saying: "Give me the box in your hand."

  The woman in white clothes seemed not to have understood, tilting her head and staring at everyone without saying a word.

  Wu Zihan suddenly rushed to the side of the woman in white, and with a dagger, slashed at the two men, who were now clutching their arms in pain.

  "Unbelievable! You've actually recovered?"

  Yang Cang was shocked and asked: "Zihan, who is this woman? Is she a friend or an enemy, we don't even know yet, why are you helping her?"

  Wu Zihan looked at us and said: "You know her, she is Hongtian."

  "Hongtian?" We were all shocked at once. The wooden box we found in the sunken ship earlier had a notebook with a photo of a baby girl with red pupils. At that time, Lao San even said she was a monster. On the back of the photo was written "Hongtian", was it her?

  Everyone was shocked with their mouths agape, Wu Huang quickly moved to Hong Tian's side, the box in her hand suddenly emitted a burst of intense light, and finally we had no choice but to close our eyes.

  When I woke up again, I was lying on a bed, looking at the layout of the room, and I should be in a hospital.