Chapter Eighteen: Undercurrents Surge

  Cha Qian and his men naturally had to cross the Mercury River, now not only for that thing but also because Jiang Yunshui might be somewhere after crossing the river.

  So for this reason alone, it is already sufficient that Zhang Qian and his party must have crossed the mercury river.

  However, the situation in this mercury river is a bit unusual. Zha Qian and his team were also extremely cautious and did not act rashly.

  At this moment, the two people in the mercury suddenly entered the mercury, and their figures appeared vaguely in the mercury.

  Zha Qianzhong said to Zhou Futong, "The situation has become complicated now. Why don't you take some people and find another way? I'll see if I can cross this mercury river."

  Zhou Futong looked at Cha Qianzong with concern and said, "Second brother, since we arrived at 'Emperor's Crown Mountain', I've been feeling uneasy, just like that one time big brother did."

  Cha Qian didn't say anything, but he also had this feeling. This time when he came to "Emperor's Crown Mountain", he felt somewhat unwell too.

  Zhou Futong bid farewell to Cha Qianzong and then led a group of ten people walking along the right bank of the Qu River, gradually disappearing into the distance with only a few torches visible.

  After seeing off Zhou Futong, he looked solemnly at the mercury river in front of him. Now, he had to cross the range of mercury vapor before he could cross the mercury river.

  This time, Zhao Qianzhong invited Pang San to come together with everyone else to discuss how to cross the mercury vapor and then cross the Mercury River.

  Now, among the remaining eight people brought by Pang San, the leader named Wu Jiang said: "Master Cha, this mercury can be condensed with lead foam or sulfur."

  After hearing Wu Jiang say this, Cha Qian also understood that the mercury would condense when it encountered lead, and would solidify when it encountered sulfur. If lead or sulfur powder were sprinkled in the air, they would indeed cause the mercury vapor to re-condense and fall back into the Mercury River.

  However, Wu Jiang was looking at the two people inside the mercury gas and secretly blaming himself for being too rash. The main reason was actually just showing off and trying to make an example out of someone, unfortunately, he didn't think that this would result in losing his own two men.

  Fortunately, organizations like the Waste Sub-organization had prepared some lead blocks and sulfur, because sometimes these things would be necessary in the tomb. However, they didn't bring much with them, and it was unclear whether they could re-condense a portion of the mercury vapor.

  The brothers of the Haoziying camp who stayed by Zhang Qian's side quickly started grinding the lead blocks and sulfur particles they brought, and soon these two things were ground into powder.

  After putting on the "medicine mask" over their mouths and noses, the people from Gangziying and Wujiang carried the lead powder and sulfur powder to a place near the mercury vapor, then carefully sprinkled these powders into the mercury vapor.

  About a third of an hour after the people from Huoziying and Wujiang retreated, the mercury vapor that had been sprinkled with lead powder and sulfur powder actually began to change.

  The mercury vapor that was originally diffused in the range of the mercury river suddenly began to disappear, but it didn't evaporate, instead it fell back into the mercury river.

  But after all, there wasn't much lead powder and sulfur powder, so it only opened up a small area.

  Cha Qian led the troops to encircle the camp, and Wu Jiang led his own men to quickly disperse to the place where the mercury vapor was located. Before that, they had deliberately avoided Wu Jiang's earlier entry into the mercury vapor of the two people, so at this time, except for the mercury river, there were no other unusual places in the scattered mercury vapor.

  Pang San Ye was also forced to follow, and several people in the camp took out the "Lian Tian Suo" and swung it around a few times before finding the right direction and throwing it to the other side of the mercury river. The hook on the other end of the "Lian Tian Suo" directly hooked onto the ground, and as the rope tightened, the hook slowly sank deeper into the ground.

  The people of Haizi Camp had already fixed the head, and Zha Qian had arranged the order to cross the Qu River. Although the "Lian Tian Suo" was swaying unstably, it was after all a row of "Lian Tian Suo Bridges", and three people could quickly pass through on it.

  Those who want to cross the mercury river naturally dare not linger on this "sky ladder bridge", and would like to step over this "sky ladder bridge" at once.

  After Pang San Ye had gone, only Cha Qian Zhang and the three people from Hao Zi Ying were left on this side. After glancing in the direction that Zhou Fu Tong had departed, Cha Qian Zhang also crossed over "Lian Tian Suo Bridge".

  After passing over this "Lian Tian Suo Bridge" and safely crossing the Qu River, even General Cha Qian couldn't help but secretly let out a sigh of relief.

  However, behind them, the mercury vapor inside the Mercury River began to reappear. Although it didn't spread throughout the entire river like before, it wouldn't take long either.

  Zha Qian led the people from Haoziying to continue moving forward. Pang Sanye glanced at Wu Jiang and others, then followed Zha Qian's group as they left.

  Wu Jiang and the remaining seven people looked at the two blurry figures in the mercury river opposite, knowing that this time it was truly "separated by yin and yang". Wu Jiang and his seven men bowed their heads to the two people inside the mercury.

  After Cha Qian and his men disappeared, the quiet riverbank suddenly had footsteps again. It wasn't Zhou Futong and his men, but rather the five people that Pang San Ye had invited, who had been waiting for Cha Qian and his men to leave before they came out.

  The five of them naturally formed a group and they also saw the place where mercury vapor began to reappear, knowing that they couldn't delay any further, they rushed towards there.

  These five people also have their own method, which is a wooden board with more than ten springs added to it. Then one person in the middle quickly sprints and steps on the board with one foot, and the entire body soars into the air.

  This man turned a few somersaults in the air and landed steadily on the opposite side, leaving four people to follow suit, and soon they crossed the river.

  After these five people left, the old fourth of "Chuanshanmen" also came here. However, this old fourth did not rush to cross the mercury river after the mercury vapor diffused again, but instead showed a very strange smile and walked towards those two people who were still in the mercury vapor.

  Just as Lao Si of Chuanshanmen stopped not far from the two, the two people in the mercury aura walked out slowly and also waved at Lao Si of Chuanshanmen.

  Chuān Shān Mén Lǎo Sì jú rán yī bù cuàn xiàng dāng zhōng yī gè rén qù, nà shēn shǒu kuài de bù dé le, yī bǎ jiù zhuō le dāng zhōng yī rén de jiān bǎng lái, rán hòu yī xià zi jiù zhuō zhe nà rén tuō lí le gǒng qì de suǒ zài.

  As soon as the man was pulled out by Lao Si of Chuanshanmen, he suddenly underwent a change, with patches of dark green and black appearing on his face, and black blood seeping from his mouth and nose.

  He didn't care about these things, but instead tore open the man's chest with one hand, and then his hands quickly penetrated the man's chest like lightning, and he even pulled out the heart and lungs from inside.

  Chuān Shān Mén Lǎo Sì directly plucked out that heart, but instead stuffed the lung into his own mouth and nose. Then, with one hand covering this piece of lung, his body retreated more than a dozen steps back. After reaching the edge of the Quicksilver River, he suddenly sprang up into the air, like a swallow in flight, lightly landing on the opposite bank of the river.

  Lao Si of Chuan Shan Men threw that lung over there with one stroke, then his figure flashed and he started chasing forward.

  What happened here, of course, no one saw, but in the mercury river, a wave of ripples gradually emerged from inside, revealing a huge head, which looked surprisingly similar to the one Jiang Yunshui encountered!

  But that's not the end of it, in this mercury river, after that huge head appeared, one by one, a series of huge heads emerged from inside, looking dense and messy, if someone saw it, they would definitely feel uncomfortable.

  And these huge heads emerging from the mercury river began to crawl towards the shore where Zha Qian and his party had crossed, each one initially appearing very clumsy, but after leaving the mercury river and lingering on the shore for a moment, they underwent a transformation.

  From under them, like a transparent placenta being pierced, a black and sticky substance appeared inside, which supported the body of the giant brain, and then moved forward directly, like a snail, but much faster than a snail.

  As the giant-headed groups emerged from and left the Mercury River, the mercury water inside the river also decreased a lot compared to before, and even the surrounding mercury gas dissipated a lot.

  After the giant heads stopped appearing in the Mercury River, the amount of mercury water decreased by half or more. It can be imagined how many giant heads came out from inside.

  Just as these huge heads emerged from the mercury river, the stone monument where they were located was already densely covered with small cracks. At this time, it finally collapsed completely, and the black liquid flowing out of it became a feast for the monsters here.

  And after swallowing those black liquids, whether it was the giant brain-like thing or the "Yin Mian Tou", they all began to undergo a transformation.

  It doesn't matter if this transformation takes some time, and it's not too obvious yet, but the fact that these two things are so greedy to swallow this black liquid makes me think that this thing is a great tonic for them.

  Even the "Wall Wraith" stretched out its own black, branch-like tentacles in this direction, soaking them in the remaining black liquid.

  Moreover, it was seen that the black liquid disappeared quickly and was absorbed by the dark branches of the wall demon.