193: Chapter 193 The Roar of the Corpse at the Bottom of the Spring, the First Appearance of the Lotus!

Boom!

Lin Yi spat out divine radiance from his palm, directly dragging that spring eye from the bottom of the well.

As soon as the spring eye left the well, the black patterns all around pounced over like mad.

For a moment, the black water churned beneath the well mouth, the sound of the water resembling wails, extremely eerie.

Xu Chen was so startled that he jumped backward.

"This fellow is anxious!"

Lin Yi stared at the bottom of the well, his expression unchanged.

"I was just waiting for it to get anxious!"

He swung his hand in a slash, Sword Intent pressing down, and those thickest black patterns at the bottom of the well suddenly stiffened.

At that very moment, a heavy slapping sound suddenly came from the bottom of the spring.

Thump!

The entire cliff shook along with it.

Everyone looked up in unison.

The black water at the bottom of the well suddenly exploded, and a huge long-tailed beast shadow covered in rotting flesh slowly arched out from the depths.

The thing looked like a crocodile, its skin and flesh half-rotted, draped in a layer of dense Death Qi, with no eyeballs in its sockets, only two clumps of gloomy gray flames.

As soon as it poked its head out, the surrounding spring water was stirred into bubbling.

Xu Chen's expression changed.

"This bottom of the spring actually keeps a living creature?"

Chu Wanqing's fingertips tightened, and the zither strings instantly pulled taut.

"Don't just stand there."

"It's coming up."

Lin Yi raised his hand to put away the spring eye, and the moment he turned, his eyes were full of killing intent.

"Clear the field!"

"Leave no one behind!"

As he spoke, the heavenly emperor cauldron pressed down directly.

Those few Cultivators by the well who hadn't managed to retreat were instantly shaken by the cauldron's light, blood spilling from their mouths and noses as they stumbled backward.

Further away, a few people who had wanted to take advantage of the situation finally panicked when they saw this and turned to run.

But just as they turned, that ancient corpse beast under the spring had already poked out half its body.

It let out a low roar, then swung its long tail violently, causing large amounts of rubble to crumble from the edge of the cliff.

A Cultivator who was running the slowest was swept by the tail wind, flying sideways and crashing into the rubble at the cliff's edge.

Rubble rolled down, and dust rose everywhere.

In the blink of an eye, the people at the edge of the cliff had been cleared out.

Immortal light flickered in Lin Yi's eyes as he scanned the crocodile-like ancient corpse beast back and forth.

This thing's strength far exceeded a Peak Saint King; it was the true guardian beast of the well.

Xu Chen clutched the ancient desolate hall, gritted his teeth, and a fierce look lit up in his eyes.

"Big Brother, how do we fight it?"

Lin Yi slashed out with joined fingers, a flash of sword light causing the green fire on the cliff to flicker.

"Use the hall to smash its belly!"

Xu Chen hugged the ancient desolate hall and swallowed dryly.

"Big Brother."

"This thing's belly is so thick; if I miss, will it swallow me as a snack first?"

Chu Wanqing glanced at him.

"Xu Chen, don't worry."

"With your physique, you aren't even enough to get stuck in its teeth; it won't hurt!"

Xu Chen's mouth twitched.

"Sister Wanqing, your way of comforting people is getting wilder and wilder!"

As soon as he finished speaking, that ancient corpse beast went completely mad.

It roared, and the black water at the well mouth surged into the sky with a boom, crashing down onto everyone mixed with dense Death Qi.

Lin Yi stomped his foot.

The haotian pagoda hung in mid-air, its divine brilliance pressing down, and large swaths of black water were frozen in place as soon as they approached.

The black water hung in the air, but the stench became even more pungent.

Xu Chen was almost moved to tears by the smell and raised the ancient desolate hall to hold in front of his forehead.

"What does this thing eat? The smell is so aggressive!"

Lin Yi's gaze sharpened.

"Qingyue, try to use Hunyuan Origin Qi to lock its vital point!"

"Three inches below the left chest!"

Shen Qingyue's palm released ripples of Origin Qi, which spread across the ancient corpse beast's chest and abdomen.

Outside that layer of rotting leather armor, Death Qi was tangled into a thick shell.

To others, it looked the same all over.

Only when the Origin Qi probed inside did that Death Qi recede.

Shen Qingyue's gaze sharpened, and she pointed to the spot Lin Yi had indicated.

"That's right, it's here!"

Chu Wanqing pressed down on the zither strings with her fingertips, and sound blades instantly spread out.

"Then this Young Miss will peel off its shell first!"

Clang!

As the zither sound rang out, a dozen sharp edges cut toward the same spot on the ancient corpse beast's chest and abdomen.

The first round landed, only scraping off a layer of blackened rotting flesh.

The second round slashed again, bone fragments flying and foul blood splattering everywhere.

The ancient corpse beast felt the pain, its gray flames flickering violently, and it swept its tail horizontally toward Chu Wanqing.

Chu Wanqing raised her eyes, tapped her toes on the ground, and swept away, skimming the edge of the cliff.

The tail wind brushed past her side, smashing a boulder behind her into dust.

Xu Chen's face twitched as he watched, and he let out a strange cry as he lunged forward.

"Who are you swinging your tail at!"

"I'll open a hole in your belly first!"

He swung both hands, and the ancient desolate hall smashed toward the ancient corpse beast's underbelly.

Bang!

With a muffled sound, the ancient corpse beast's entire belly caved in.

Xu Chen himself was also jarred by the recoil, baring his teeth as his arms went numb, and he almost fell over.

"Damn!"

"This belly is really hard!"

Lin Yi flashed over, arriving in front of the crack opened by the sound blades and the ancient desolate hall, his fist wrapped in Grandmist divine light as he struck down fiercely.

Boom!

This punch landed like it had smashed through a divine mountain.

Rotting flesh exploded.

Black blood mixed with bone fragments sprayed into mid-air.

The ancient corpse beast reared its head and hissed, its whole body arching backward, causing the well mouth to shake violently as it collided with it.

Lin Yi shook his arm and followed up with another punch.

But the ancient corpse beast still hadn't fallen.

It opened its foul-smelling maw and violently spat out a ball of gray-black corpse fire, pouncing toward Lin Yi's face.

Su Yuxi had been watching the battlefield the whole time; at this moment, her eyes turned cold, and she raised a streak of Dao light from her sleeve.

The aura of the Innate Dao Fetus transformed into a bright, snow-white light blade, slicing straight into the center of the corpse fire.

Hiss!

That ball of corpse fire was split in two.

The waves of fire grazed past Lin Yi, burning two black pits into the ground in the distance.

Su Yuxi took a step forward and spoke coldly.

"Lin Yi, follow up with another sword strike!"

"Its Divine Soul is still there!"

Lin Yi had already intended to do so; he joined his fingers into a sword, and the swirling Death Qi all around seemed to meet its nemesis, shrinking backward in unison.

The ancient corpse beast's pair of giant gray-flame eyes flickered, and it instinctively retreated toward the well mouth.

Xu Chen watched with amusement, clutching his numb arm and shouting:

"Yo!"

"Weren't you quite fierce just now?"

"Do you know fear now?"

Lin Yi raised his hand and slashed.

Splat!

The sword light cut all the way into the ancient corpse beast's smashed chest and abdomen, shredding the broken Divine Soul inside it into pieces.

The ancient corpse beast's movements suddenly froze.

The next instant, its massive body crashed down onto the edge of the cliff, half its head buried in the rubble, and it stopped moving.

The black water at the well mouth also fell back down.

The surrounding Cultivators who hadn't run far saw this scene, and their faces all turned pale.

Some who had just wanted to fish in troubled waters didn't even dare to raise their heads now and turned to run.

Xu Chen clicked his tongue twice at the group and violently threw the ancient desolate hall.

"You could have just run away earlier, but you had to stay and watch the excitement!"

"Eat a hall from yours truly!"

Boom!

The ancient desolate hall smashed down fiercely, and none of the fleeing crowd survived.

Lin Yi's gaze remained locked on the ancient corpse beast.

"Xu Chen!"

"Open its belly!"

Xu Chen was stunned for a moment, then looked up at the large, rotting, blackened belly.

"Big Brother."

"You really think highly of me."

"You're making me do this job too?"

Chu Wanqing smiled amusedly and tilted her chin at him.

"Xu Chen."

"This is a chance for you to show what you can do! Perform well!"

Xu Chen muttered, but still hugged the ancient desolate hall and approached.

"Fine!"

Bang! Bang! Bang!

He smashed it three times in a row, and the ancient corpse beast's abdominal cavity was finally smashed open.

A more pungent stench rushed toward his face.

Xu Chen retreated three steps on the spot, almost vomiting his dinner from the night before.

"My God!"

"This thing's stomach, I'm afraid it's been pickled for tens of thousands of years!"