319: Chapter 319 The eerie stone village, the red-robed monster on the altar!

Amidst the gray mist, an Armored General standing ten meters tall sat atop a Giant Skeletal Tiger, looking down at Su Yang from his high vantage point.

"The scent of the living! Hand over the woman behind you and kneel obediently to meet your end. This general can give you a swift death and spare you some physical suffering!"

Facing the mountain-like behemoth, Su Yang's eyes remained calm, his face showing not the slightest ripple of emotion.

"A pile of rotten bones buried in the dirt, yet you dare to shout and bluster before me."

Su Yang's voice wasn't loud, but it reached the Armored General's ears clearly.

The Armored General flew into a rage.

The green ghost fire within its helmet flared up instantly, crackling and popping as it burned.

"Seeking death!"

It gripped its rusted greatsword with both hands and squeezed its legs against the Giant Skeletal Tiger beneath it.

The giant tiger let out an ear-splitting roar, its four thick bone claws kicking off the ground with a violent shove.

Its massive body, accompanied by a thick, foul stench, pounced directly toward Su Yang.

The five-meter-long blade tore through the air, carrying a whistling gale as it hacked down toward Su Yang's head.

Before the blade could even land, the withered leaves on the ground were already sliced into powder by the sharp Saber Qi.

Qin Xueji's face turned pale with fright; her hands gripped Bai Li's sleeves tightly, and even her breathing came to a halt.

A flash of excitement crossed Chu Ling's eyes, and she was just about to draw her sword and charge.

But Su Yang stood where he was, not even making a move to dodge.

He slowly raised his right hand.

"Boom!"

The dazzling golden Pure Yang True Fire instantly enveloped his right fist completely.

The golden flames illuminated the dim surrounding woods, emitting a high temperature capable of incinerating all things.

Meeting the rusted greatsword that was crashing down upon him, Su Yang punched directly upward.

Clang—!

An ear-shattering metallic crash echoed through the forest. A large spray of sparks flew in all directions.

The giant blade the Armored General took such pride in was snapped in two in the middle, as if it were a fragile cracker, the moment it touched the Pure Yang iron fist!

The broken blade segment spun away through the air, snapping several thick, black withered trees in succession before sinking heavily into the mud.

"What?"

The Armored General hadn't even recovered from its shock.

Su Yang's figure had already moved.

His right leg snapped up, creating a sharp sonic boom.

An incredibly heavy whip kick, like a battleaxe, slammed violently against the Giant Skeletal Tiger's massive head.

Bang!

The giant tiger's hard skeletal skull was kicked into pieces by this single strike. Bone fragments flew everywhere.

The massive skeleton instantly lost its balance and collapsed with a crash, turning into a pile of useless scrap bones on the ground.

The Armored General fell from mid-air along with it, crashing heavily into the mud.

Just as it tried to struggle to its feet, a foot burning with golden flames stepped ruthlessly onto its chest.

The hard ancient armor instantly dented under Su Yang's foot, letting out the sound of straining metal cracking.

"You... what kind of monster are you..."

A trace of fear finally entered the Armored General's voice.

Su Yang remained expressionless, not even bothered to waste another word.

He suddenly applied force with his foot.

The Pure Yang True Fire was like a flood bursting through a dam, surging frantically from the sole of his foot into the Armored General's body.

"Ah—!!!"

A shrill and miserable howl echoed through the gray mist.

Golden flames erupted from the gaps in the armor.

In less than ten seconds, the ten-meter-tall Armored General was burned into a pile of black ash that scattered with the wind.

A light breeze blew.

Only a fist-sized green Soul Crystal remained on the ground, emitting a dense, chilling aura.

Su Yang flicked his toe, kicking the green Soul Crystal into the air, then caught it with a casual grab and tossed it to Chu Ling behind him.

"Take this and eat it as a snack."

Chu Ling reached out and caught the Soul Crystal, her ice-blue eyes sparkling with a light of joy.

She nodded obediently: "Thank you, Boss."

Mary flapped her black bat wings and descended from the air.

She was wearing tight leather clothes that fully displayed her explosive figure. Looking at the ashes all over the ground, Mary curled her lips in disdain.

"How boring, Boss turned it to ash in just a few moves. There wasn't even a drop of blood; I thought I could have a full meal."

Su Yang patted the dust off his hands and turned to look into the depths of the forest.

"Let's keep moving. There's bound to be more interesting things inside."

The group followed behind Su Yang, continuing to traverse the gray-shrouded forest.

The further they went, the scarcer the black withered trees became.

The layer of withered leaves underfoot also gradually disappeared, replaced by hard, black mud ground.

The gray mist in the air grew even thicker, and visibility dropped to less than ten meters.

The surroundings were so quiet that not a single sound could be heard—no chirping of insects or birds—as if they had walked into an absolute dead zone.

"Boss, the mist ahead is too thick; I can't see anything clearly," Qin Xueji reminded him softly, her voice a bit tight with tension.

Su Yang raised his right hand and flicked a clump of golden Pure Yang True Fire from his fingertip.

The flame spun in mid-air, transforming into a bright lantern that instantly and forcefully dispersed the gray mist for a hundred meters ahead.

After the mist scattered.

What appeared before everyone was a dilapidated Stone Village.

The houses in the village were all built from irregular black stones, and their designs were quite bizarre.

Every house lacked doors and windows, having only a pitch-black opening that looked like a large mouth waiting to swallow prey.

The streets were empty, and the ground was paved with gravel.

The entire village exuded a suffocating sense of desolation and eeriness.

Bai Li swayed the round fan in her hand, her purple eyes carefully observing the surrounding buildings.

"There's a village on the outskirts of the Netherworld? How strange. There is absolutely no aura of living people here, and I can't even detect any fluctuations from ghosts."

Bai Li's eyebrows knit slightly as she spoke softly.

"Whether it's human or ghost, we'll know once we go in and look."

Su Yang took the lead and stepped onto the village street.

The group walked into the village.

The surrounding black stone houses stood silently, without any movement.

Just as they had walked less than fifty meters into the village.

A sudden change occurred!

The black ground beneath their feet suddenly began to shake violently.

It was like a powerful earthquake; the gravel on the ground jumped up and down.

Boom!

The black stone houses on both sides of the street actually collapsed all at once.

Countless black stones smashed onto the ground, kicking up clouds of dust.

Immediately after, from beneath the ruins of the collapsed houses, came a series of hair-raising rustling sounds.

Swarms of mummies crawled out from underground!

These mummies were dressed in tattered ancient cloth clothes.

Their flesh was dried and shriveled, clinging tightly to their bones.

There were no eyeballs in their sockets, only pitch-black hollows.

The number of mummies was immense, packed densely together; at a glance, there were at least a thousand of them!

Their speed was startlingly fast; they moved on all fours, crawling rapidly over the ruins and streets like giant spiders.

In the blink of an eye, they had blocked all the paths in every direction, forming a massive encirclement.

"What disgusting things!"

Mary let out a scream, her bat wings on her back flapping violently as she flew directly a dozen meters into the air.

She hated these moldy mummies most of all; just looking at them made her nauseous.

Chu Ling, meanwhile, was as cold as frost, her ice-blue gown swaying in the wind.

A ghostly blue chill instantly erupted from her, and the surrounding temperature plummeted.

"A bunch of trash, yet you dare to block the way."

Chu Ling was just about to start a slaughter.

Just then.

From the very depths of the village, a dull and powerful thumping sound suddenly echoed.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

The sound was very rhythmic, as if a giant war drum was being beaten.

With every drumbeat, the swarm of mummies surrounding them became even more frenzied.

Strange rasping sounds came from their throats, and their crawling speed increased again as they surged frantically toward Su Yang's group of five.

Su Yang looked toward the depths of the village.

With the help of the Pure Yang True Fire's light, he pierced through the layers of gray mist.

At the end of the street, he could vaguely see a towering black stone altar.

Upon the altar stood a figure dressed in a voluminous red robe.

The Red-Robed Person had their back to the group and was holding a hammer made of bone, forcefully striking a giant leather drum in front of them.

The drumbeats were coming from right here.

The corners of Su Yang's mouth curled up slightly, revealing a smile full of Battle Intent.

"Playing God and ghosts. I'll go meet him."

As soon as he finished speaking, Su Yang's legs suddenly exerted force.

Bang!

The bluestone slab beneath his feet shattered instantly.

Su Yang transformed into a streak of dazzling golden light, like a cannonball fired from its barrel, soaring directly over the heads of the Mummy swarm and charging straight for the black altar in the depths of the village.

Dozens of mummies that jumped up to try and block him were instantly incinerated into fireballs the moment they touched the protective golden light on Su Yang's body, falling to the ground as ash.

The golden light was incredibly fast, crossing the distance of several hundred meters in the blink of an eye and landing steadily atop the altar.

Hearing the commotion behind it, the Red-Robed Person stopped beating the drum.

It slowly turned around.

Beneath the voluminous hood of the red robe, there was actually no face!

No eyes, no nose.

Only a bloody maw that split open to the ears, filled with densely packed sharp fangs.

Thick, foul-smelling blood dripped from the fangs onto the leather drum, making a hissing sound of corrosion.

The monster let out a piercing screech and raised the bone hammer in its hand, smashing it down violently toward Su Yang's head.