OUTSIDE OF TIME

383 Mystic Nether Tomb

The fog was very thick and quickly spread in this dense mountain forest, enveloping Xu Qing and the captain.

All the surroundings were filled with fog. It was so dense that one couldn’t even see their stretched hands. Even the sky was enveloped by fog.

This fog appeared too quickly and was icy cold. It was impossible for it to have formed naturally. There was a high chance that it was caused by a bizarre entity. Xu Qing felt this clearly when the fog touched him. He felt as though there were countless minute existences hidden in the fog that were trying to enter his body through the pores on his skin.

However, with the life lantern’s protection, the invasion of the strange fog turned fruitless.

“It’s somewhat similar to the fog in the forbidden zone outside the scavenger campsite but it is much inferior.” Xu Qing checked his surroundings. The captain’s aura was also blocked by the fog. He was clearly beside him earlier but he couldn’t sense him now.

However, Xu Qing didn’t worry about the captain. He felt that unless it was in the forbidden zone or forbidden region, it was uncertain who was fiercer compared to the captain…

The shadow, who had just eaten its own kind, revealed a hint of hunger and thirst after this ghost fog appeared. It then started to happily absorb the cold fog.

Xu Qing felt that this scene was like someone had suddenly handed water to the shadow after it had finished eating. As such, it was very happy.

As the shadow absorbed, the fog in front of Xu Qing thinned a little. He calmly walked forward. His target was the source of this strange fog. He wanted to see what kind of bizarre entity it was that had malice toward him and attacked with fog.

As he moved forward, the fog became thinner and thinner under the absorption of the shadow, revealing the trees. Due to the fog, these trees looked sinister like demons and monsters. At the same time, waves of sinister laughter echoed in the quiet forest.

It was hard to tell if it was a male or female voice but both seemed to be present. Moreover, they intertwined and kept lingering around Xu Qing.

Xu Qing narrowed his eyes and controlled the shadow to restrain itself from devouring it. He was worried that if the shadow swallowed it now, it would scare away the true bizarre entity here.

He was going to kill this bizarre entity that had malicious intent toward him!

While restraining the shadow, Xu Qing hid his killing intent and continued forward. He walked through the forest and up the small mountain. An hour later, a blurry shadow appeared ahead in the fog.

He could faintly see that it was a wooden hut.

As he got closer, the wooden hut became increasingly clear in his eyes.

This was a very old hut. The wooden planks on it were tattered and there were large holes in many places. It was as though this hut could collapse at any time.

In front of the door was a rocking chair that was also severely damaged.

There was originally a courtyard and a garden in the surroundings, but now, the courtyard was covered in weeds and the garden was withered. The location of this wooden hut was also somewhat peculiar.

It was halfway up the mountain and was surrounded by dense forest in all directions. The cold wind whistled, stirring the surrounding trees. It was as though countless people were whispering.

Xu Qing’s gaze swept over and he suddenly looked at the rocking chair.

There was clearly no one sitting on the rocking chair, but it moved and swayed slightly. It wasn’t a strong shaking. It was like the wind blew it or an old man in his twilight years slowly moving in it, recalling his life.

Xu Qing’s expression was calm. He remembered that when he arrived, the chair was still. He had only blinked earlier when the wind stirred and it moved.

As such, Xu Qing blinked.

In an instant, a rope appeared in front of the wooden hut’s door.

Seeing this, Xu Qing simply blinked many times. Just like that, the rope distorted and a corpse appeared.

The corpse of an old man hanging on the rope.

It seemed to have been there for a long time as it had already dried. Its withered white hair hung down its head.

Its face was already deprived of all the flesh and looked to be only bones, and the location of its eyes had sunken into black holes. Its mouth was also open, as though it instinctively wanted to breathe before death.

Xu Qing blinked again.

The chair no longer swayed. A blurry figure stood up from the chair and walked forward step by step until it was in front of the corpse. This figure became clear and transformed into a hunchbacked old woman.

She held a stone bowl in her hand that was filled with blood-colored porridge paste and fed it into the open mouth of the hanging corpse, spoon by spoon.

The cold wind grew even colder, and the sounds of crying and laughing lingered everywhere. At this moment, the weeds on the ground swayed in unison. The whole wooden hut looked extremely sinister. Xu Qing could see that regardless of whether it was the old man or the old lady, their faces were extremely pale. Only their lips were red.

Under Xu Qing’s gaze, after the old lady finished feeding half of the blood-colored porridge, she suddenly lifted her hand and broke the old man’s head off.

“Old man, it’s your turn to feed me!” The old lady’s voice was extremely hoarse and grating, like stones rubbing against each other.

The corpse was still floating. There was a hanging rope above it and nothing in the middle. Although the head wasn’t there, it was still as motionless as before.

As for the old lady, she placed the old man’s head to the side. After that, she broke off her head and placed it on the old man’s corpse in the rope.

Her body touched the head of the old man at the side and placed it on her neck.

After swapping the heads, the old man’s eyes suddenly revealed a dark glint. He picked up the bowl and fed it to the old lady.

It was as though they were deeply in love with each other. The old man even seemed to be worried that the porridge would scald his wife. When he fed her, he would often blow at it before putting it in the old lady’s mouth.

This scene was extremely strange.

Xu Qing silently watched them feed each other, not disturbing them. A while later, he saw that the other party didn’t seem to have any intention of attacking him, so he turned to leave.

However, just as he turned and took a few steps forward, the old man and his wife who were showing deep love turned their heads and stared fixedly at Xu Qing. The location of the hut changed and they appeared in front of Xu Qing again.

They grinned, revealing their ghastly mouths and jagged sharp teeth. An eerie voice then rang out.

“Son is back. Do you want to eat porridge?”

When Xu Qing heard this, he calmly glanced at the bizarre entities in front of him and walked toward them. At the same time, the sound of gulping could be heard from under his feet.

There were also pools of sticky liquid spreading out from the shadow. The areas with the liquid corroded rapidly. That was the shadow’s saliva that was flowing out uncontrollably.

It was clearly trying its best to restrain itself.

This scene instantly caused the expressions of the old man and old lady in front of the wooden hut to change.

“Eat them,” Xu Qing calmly said.

As soon as he finished speaking, the shadow that had long been holding back instantly stood up behind Xu Qing, transforming into a huge black shadow tree.

A thousand or so densely packed eyes on it opened at the same time and stared fixedly at the old man and old lady. Some of them even opened their mouths and blew out a terrifyingly sinister wind.

This scene caused the old man and old lady’s bodies to tremble and horror appeared in their eyes. In that instant, the wooden hut became blurry as they tried to escape, but it was too late.

The shadow pounced over and the nearby area instantly transformed into its domain. Everything was covered and only the sounds of chewing and screams continued to ring out. A while later, as the shadow domain shrunk and returned to the shadow under Xu Qing’s feet, it emitted clear expressions of joy and satisfaction.

“Tas… ty…”

The fog in the surroundings also rapidly dissipated because of the deaths of that bizarre entity couple. . After a few breaths of time, there was completely no sign of the fog. Xu Qing continued forward and soon saw the captain walking over.

The captain was eating a black apple as he walked.

There was a bizarre entity sealed on this apple. Its appearance was similar to the old man and old lady. At that moment, it let out shrill cries as it got eaten bite by bite.

After seeing Xu Qing, the captain waved at him. When the two of them neared each other, the captain had already finished the apple. He was savoring the aftertaste as he licked the corners of his mouth and looked at Xu Qing.

“I’m still not full. Why don’t we search the vicinity again?”

Upon hearing the captain’s words, the shadow quickly transmitted its desire to Xu Qing. There was also a pleading tone, as though it was acting coquettishly… It also wasn’t full and was still a little thirsty.

Xu Qing nodded.

This scene caused the Diamond Sect’s ancestor to be vigilant. He could sense that Little Shadow’s fawning skills had clearly increased and the sense of danger immediately intensified.

‘You’re acting coquettish? This is too much! Disgusting!’

Amidst the anxiety of the Diamond Sect’s ancestor, Xu Qing and the captain strolled forward in the forest, searching for bizarre entities. As it so happened, bizarre entities appeared when you didn’t expect them, but now when Xu Qing and the captain were searching for them, they couldn’t find them even after a while.

Although they didn’t find bizarre entities, after walking for a while, they found a field of spirit grass on the withered ground that was filled with anomalous substances.

“There are actually spirit plants here?” The captain asked in surprise.

Spirit grass basically couldn’t grow in the environment of the Grand Affairs Misfortune Passing Mountain. This kind of spirit grass only grew in places where there were no anomalous substances. Usually, the various forces would mark an area and use array formations to dispel anomalous substances before planting it.

Hence, the appearance of these spirit grass here was very abnormal. Looking at their small leaves, they clearly had not received enough nutrition. This was understandable but what was even stranger was that the area where these spirit grass grew was actually a long line. One end extended into the deep mountains and the other end was in the direction of the Immortal Enrichment River.

Xu Qing squatted down and plucked a spirit grass to check. He then touched the soil where the spirit grass grew. After looking at the Immortal Enrichment River, he spoke in a low voice.

“There’s an undercurrent below.”

The captain narrowed his eyes and looked at the ground. Very soon, a dark glint appeared in his eyes, as though it could penetrate the soil and see below. A few breaths later, he laughed.

“Such guts. They dug a hidden water course from the Immortal Enrichment River.” The captain looked at the end that extended into the deep mountains. He immediately went there.

Xu Qing frowned. He felt that this wasn’t safe but when he saw that the captain had gone, he followed. Very soon, the two of them saw the end of this undercurrent.

That place… was actually a great tomb!

There were three sinister blood words on the tombstone.

Mystic Nether Sect