Ch 533: Well Said!

I don’t know if it was Jiang Nanyu’s illusion, but after she finished speaking, the buzzing sounds, like mosquitoes disturbing the peace, disappeared for a moment.

Immediately afterwards, the sounds that had been enthusiastically calling to her, trying to trick her into opening her eyes, changed their tone—

“Jiang Nanyu!”

“Little vixen, I’ll gouge out your eyes!”

“Bitch, bitch, bitch!”

“I’ll have you pay for my son’s life!!!”

Countless voices intertwined in her ears, filled with various emotions of anger, resentment, and hatred. They continuously shrieked and roared, only to force Jiang Nanyu to open her eyes.

Jiang Nanyu dug her ears, calmly throwing a punch.

Sure enough, her fist was like hitting air, and she stumbled, almost falling to the ground. Luckily, the General’s tail firmly encircled Jiang Nanyu, otherwise, this woman would have been thrown away.

“AAAAH, what are you doing!” the General shouted angrily.

Jiang Nanyu lightly coughed, shaking her arm: “I just wanted to see if what you said had a physical form.”

Although she couldn’t see, Jiang Nanyu’s hearing was extremely sharp. She could accurately pick out clues from so many sounds.

“Stupid girl, left.”

Jiang Nanyu curled her lip and whispered, “Venerable Ancestor, can you see what it is?”

The Demon-Slaying Sword is a Sword Spirit, without facial features, so these things are inaccessible to it.

“I can’t see clearly. These things are hidden in the thick fog; they feel like the fog itself, formless. But I see some animal corpses on the ground that have had their souls sucked dry and fallen to the ground…”

The Demon-Slaying Sword’s words gave Jiang Nanyu some confidence. Recalling the folk tales about the Bewitching Ravine, she now understood they weren’t entirely fabricated or exaggerated.

These things that can absorb people’s souls are probably not from the Mortal Realm.

No wonder it’s called the “Path to the Underworld”.

“You wandered around here all night. Did you find the barrier entrance to the Underworld?” Jiang Nanyu patted the big fat cat in her arms and asked.

“How did you know?” the General blurted out.

“These things are definitely not from the Mortal Realm. And you said you saw them in the Underworld before, so they must have come from some unknown

barrier entrance.” With the General’s answer, Jiang Nanyu confirmed her guess. “The Mortal Realm’s Path to the Underworld connects to the Underworld’s Path to the Underworld. No wonder people can enter but not leave.”

If they were cultivators, there would still be a chance of survival, but for ordinary common people, they would really have to leave their lives here. Not only would their skeletal remains decay and turn into nutrients, but their souls would also become nourishment for these things.

“But speaking of which, you, a Mysterious Netherworld Spirit Cat, can’t eat them?” Jiang Nanyu patted the rather heavy creature in her arms.

“They’re so disgusting,” the General said disdainfully.

“You’ve eaten them?”

“No.” The General felt a little guilty and tried to explain. “What if they also suck away my soul? So last time, when I saw them from afar, I ran away…”

The voice got smaller and smaller towards the end.

“You say they’re disgusting when you haven’t even eaten them?” Jiang Nanyu was amused. “You’ve eaten too much King Crab and abalone, your tastes have become too refined! You’re just making excuses!”

The General hugged Jiang Nanyu tightly, and then—

played dead.

“Be careful, this fog is very eerie,” the Demon-Slaying Sword warned.

“Venerable Ancestor, didn’t you and Master Zhong come to this place before?” Jiang Nanyu asked.

“I should have, but it’s been a thousand years. My memory is already blurry, and the Taoist Priest also said ‘times change’. After so many years, it’s changed drastically,” the Demon-Slaying Sword said solemnly. “I have a feeling that after passing through this fog, the Netherworld Barrier shouldn’t be far.”

“What about my Master?”

“You got separated after the fog came.” In fact, the Old Taoist had proactively entered the fog after those things appeared, but the Old Taoist didn’t allow it to mention it, so it didn’t.

Anyway, it couldn’t harm this girl.

Jiang Nanyu slowly walked forward. Suddenly, a chilling voice appeared behind her: “Jiang Nanyu…”

This voice…

Jiang Nanyu couldn’t see clearly, so she could only ask softly, “Is this real?”

It was Daoist Changhua’s voice.

“It’s real! Run!”

As soon as he finished speaking, a rope wrapped around Jiang Nanyu’s leg, and before she could react, it pulled hard.

The General “Aow!” cried out and fell from Jiang Nanyu’s arms.

Jiang Nanyu was pulled backward by the rope. The Demon-Slaying Sword automatically unsheathed itself in mid-air and fell into her hand. She raised the sword and fiercely slashed at the rope!

With the rope severed, Jiang Nanyu rolled to avoid the ensuing attack. A “boom” exploded beside her.

Jiang Nanyu didn’t remove the cloth from her eyes. Her ears twitched, and then she instantly threw out a Talisman!

The Talisman instantly transformed into a light shield, timely blocking a ferocious Killing Aura.

“This thing isn’t human!” the Demon-Slaying Sword shouted.

Jiang Nanyu sneered, “Well said.”

She quickly spun the Demon-Slaying Sword in her hand, her lips moved, and the next second, a black, agile figure rushed out of the fog, let out a low growl, opened its mouth, revealing sharp teeth, and lunged directly at Daoist Changhua on the opposite side!

Daoist Changhua was also in a state of closed eyes, throwing out a sharp claw weapon. The General reacted quickly, dodging before it hit. The sharp thorns on the claw weapon scratched off a small bit of its fur.

At the same time, the surrounding fog continuously moved towards the direction of their battle, instantly leaving a visible range of less than ten meters in diameter.

In the fog, terrifying sounds intertwined with eerie, disordered shadows, constantly pressing towards them. Jiang Nanyu sensed a dangerous aura, a chilling coldness instantly crawling up her back.

The fog slowly gathered together, condensing into a Blood Maw, about to swallow Jiang Nanyu whole, when a Golden Light suddenly appeared—

The next moment, the Heavenly Master’s Mirror descended from the sky, stopping above Jiang Nanyu’s head. The golden light enveloped Jiang Nanyu!

“General, come back!”

As soon as she finished speaking, the General, without hesitation, leaped into Jiang Nanyu’s arms.

Jiang Nanyu felt the familiar, warm power and grinned at Daoist Changhua in the distance: “Old Bi Deng, here’s a Big Gift for you!”