Chapter 411: Soul Return Curse
The blood-red moonlight penetrated the mist. The moment Su Han put the blue light into the jade bottle, the roar of a mountain collapse was heard in the distance.
This cursed wasteland is wriggling, like the prelude to the awakening of some ancient monster.
The gravekeeper wiped the clotted blood from the long knife, and the blue flame on the blade flickered:
"Those bugs crawled out of the breath of the Abyss."
He suddenly pointed to the southeast, his skinny fingers trembling, "Look at the pattern of the fog."
Su Han narrowed his eyes.
The originally chaotic black fog is reorganizing, turning into countless twisting tentacles pointing straight to the north.
The dried blood on the ground suddenly boiled and evaporated into scarlet steam with the smell of rotten flesh, reflecting an eerie purple light under the moonlight.
“Something’s wrong.”
Biyao suddenly pressed her painful left shoulder, and the blood scab began to crack again.
She looked at her pale palm, where spider-web-like golden lines appeared. The mark left by swallowing the aura of the Eclipse three days ago was spreading.
"There's something poisonous in this fog, something more terrible than the Gums we encountered."
Before he finished speaking, the entire space suddenly twisted. The originally barren ground was covered with dark thorns, each of which was spinning and oozing sticky marrow.
Su Han swung his sword to cut off the thorns that were rushing towards Bi Yao, but found that new shoots with bone spurs kept emerging from the broken ends.
The plants were like living wounds, engulfing the gravel with a teeth-grinding growth sound.
“Hold your breath!”
The gravekeeper suddenly shouted loudly, and the blood talisman on his palm exploded with golden light.
As soon as the pale barrier in front of the three people took shape, it was corroded and cracks appeared.
A half-human-high scavenger insect emerged from the ground, its shell inlaid with wriggling compound eyes, and its mouthparts spewed out sour and poisonous mist.
Su Han's sword blade created sparks on the insect armor.
This insect corpse corroded by demonic energy was a hundred times tougher than an ordinary Gu corpse. After the sword energy penetrated the shell, it was mostly swallowed up by the worm-like demonic patterns inside the shell.
The gravekeeper's long sword, with a blue flame, chopped at the insect's belly, but was bounced back several feet away.
Biyao suddenly bit her fingertips and drew a bloody talisman in the air.
The shadow of a phoenix could be vaguely seen in the golden flames rising from her body, wrapping the scavenger bugs into charred fireballs.
But the insect corpse screamed in the flames, and countless tiny poisonous insects emerged from their shells, gnawing holes in the flames. "These are not ordinary insects!"
Bi Yao staggered back, black blood oozing from the corner of her mouth.
The golden pattern on her palm had spread to her forearm, and the flowing demonic energy could be vaguely seen under her skin.
"The Abyss is contaminating them and making death a new carrier."
Su Han suddenly remembered the jade bottle in his palm. When the carrion worm exploded, he caught a glimpse of a blue light flashing deep in the worm's belly.
That familiar yet strange feeling of resonance was exactly the same as the feeling when he devoured the spirit three days ago.
The jade bottle became hot in the palm of his hand, and the faint light inside suddenly trembled violently.
“Stand back!”
He pushed Bi Yao towards the gravekeeper, and the Xuantian Sword ignited with an unprecedented green flame.
When the mutated poisonous insects pounced on him, he took the initiative to cut his wrist, and the sword tip, covered with gushing blood, pierced into the ground.
The moment the evil spirit spread along the blood, the entire wasteland was suddenly filled with the cries of countless children.
The thorns on the ground retreated frantically, and the swarm of insects fled in all directions like a group of beasts seeing their natural enemies.
The crying sounds were getting closer and closer, and finally condensed into a transparent figure of a little boy.
He stood barefoot in the blood mist, the spider silk wrapped around his fingertips was melting quickly: "Save us!"
Biyao's barrier just shattered at this moment.
She staggered and held onto Su Han's arm, and was shocked to find that the insect corpses infected by the evil spirit were now beginning to melt into dark green slime.
"Is this the Resurrection Curse?
Use blood spiritual power to reversely purify the Gu worm? "
"no!"
The gravekeeper suddenly shouted and blocked the two men.
He slashed at the spider web that appeared in the void with his long sword, and the dark blue flame on the blade turned into dark red.
“It’s the bait of the Eclipse!
It is using the memories of the dead to lure your spiritual power—"
Before he finished speaking, the boy's body suddenly swelled ten times in size. (End of this chapter)