Nine Nether Heavenly Emperor
Chapter 430 Pale Hands

Chapter 430: Chapter 430 Pale Hands

"Young Master Feng, I feel that not only is that freak odd, but the old man leading the way up ahead is also strange. We should still be on our guard!" The Kirin King looked towards Ning Cheng leading the way ahead and whispered to Shi Feng.

"I understand," Shi Feng nodded and fixed his gaze on Ning Cheng in front, he said.

Then, led by Ning Cheng, Shi Feng and the Kirin King cautiously continued deeper into the Death Forbidden Land. Although they now had Silver Stones, there were still some bizarre arrays existing in the Death Forbidden Land.

Last time they had been lucky, breaking out of an array, but the next time, they didn’t know if they could still be that fortunate, so they had to be careful.

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"Silver Stones, huh? Still four pieces!" Not long after Shi Feng and the others had left, a figure appeared amidst the dense grey-white fog, nearly invisible, and a deep, cold, mocking laugh could be heard.

"Hehe, just perfect. Soon, those four Silver Stones will be all mine! Hmm?" As the figure with a gloomy expression looked ahead, his brows suddenly furrowed, and a sense of unease emerged in his heart. Following that, a slender, womanly pale hand, as white as jade, rested on his shoulder.

But this pale hand was overly white, with a ghastly pale color. The Martial Artist slowly turned his head, and his face changed dramatically, "Agh!" A piercing scream of agony resounded immediately throughout the Death Forbidden Land.

...

"Hmm?" A shrill scream came from not far behind, and Shi Feng immediately halted and turned to look back.

The Kirin King also turned around, looking back with Shi Feng and sighed, "Another Martial Artist has met his death at the hands of that Mysterious Power in this Death Forbidden Land."

As he spoke, the Kirin King glanced gratefully at the Silver Stone he kept close to his chest, feeling fortunate that he had it, or else he might have been dead too.

"Wait here for me! I’ll be right back!" Shi Feng told the Kirin King and Ning Cheng, then with a swift movement, he dashed back the way they had come. As the path had just been traveled by them, it didn’t require as much caution.

Shi Feng hurried back, still following the principle of not wasting any opportunity. Many of the Martial Artists who had entered the Death Forbidden Land were at the Martial Venerable Realm, such chances were rare and valuable.

Before long, Shi Feng arrived at the place he’d originally been and saw a corpse lying on the ground not far away.

It was a middle-aged Martial Artist, around fifty years old, with Martial Arts Cultivation roughly at the Three-star Martial Venerable Realm. And such a powerful person had now become a mere corpse, lying amidst the ruins of the Death Forbidden Land.

Shi Feng stood over the body, looking down upon it. The Power of Death from the corpse had already dissipated, the Soul Power was also gone. However, Shi Feng noticed something different about this corpse compared to the others that had died before.

There was a fist-sized hole in the neck of the body, as if struck by some creature, the neck shattered, resulting in death. At this moment, fresh red blood was still flowing from the hole in the neck.

From his leaving till his return, it had only been a few short minutes, and within those few minutes, a Three-star Martial Venerable had been slaughtered here.

What on earth could have done this? Was it a martial artist who entered the Death Forbidden Land? Or was it some mysterious creature within the Death Forbidden Land itself?

Shi Feng pondered as he looked at the corpse, then stretched out his right hand towards it. The blood of a Three-star Martial Venerable realm martial artist was something Shi Feng would never allow to go to waste.

Almost immediately, a stream of bright red blood gushed from the blood hole in the martial artist’s neck, spraying into the palm of Shi Feng’s hand and quickly being absorbed by him.

The body of the middle-aged Three-star Martial Venerable realm martial artist quickly withered, turning into yet another dried corpse in the Death Forbidden Land.

"What is this!" Just as Shi Feng had drained the blood from the body and stripped off its storage ring, a loud shout came from ahead. It was the voice of the Kirin King.

"Hmm?" Hearing this voice, Shi Feng’s figure shifted again, rushing towards the direction where he had come from and quickly returning to the place where he had parted with the Kirin King.

By then, Shi Feng saw the Kirin King staring at the ground ruins with a vigilant expression, his Primordial Power churning. With a "bang," Shi Feng landed beside the Kirin King and asked, "What happened?"

The Kirin King still stared at the ground with a guarded look, unwilling to relax even with Shi Feng’s arrival. "Just now, I saw what seemed to be a woman’s hand—very pale—suddenly reaching out from the ground, and then quickly retracting back into it after I noticed."

"A hand coming out of the ground?" Hearing the Kirin King’s words, Shi Feng also narrowed his brows and stared at the ground ruins, releasing his Soul Power to probe, but despite the search, he detected no signs of life.

"Did anything happen to you?" Shi Feng turned to ask Ning Cheng, who had also halted in his tracks and was looking over.

"No... nothing!" Ning Cheng shook his head and said, "I was walking ahead, he was behind me, I definitely couldn’t see anything! And besides, I am like a Heaven’s Chosen One; he’s the kind who’d only survive for two Chapters. If something were to attack, it would definitely target him according to the plot. In novels, if the protagonist is to die, it’s always in the grandest way possible..."

Listening to Ning Cheng’s ramble, Shi Feng didn’t bother with him any further. His Soul Power sensed again, indeed detecting no lifeforms, he then raised his head and said to the Kirin King, "Let’s go! Keep an eye on the ground too!"

"Yeah, of course," the Kirin King replied, his expression grave as he nodded.

After pausing for a moment at this spot, the three of them continued to move deeper into the area.

About half a day had passed since then, and nothing had occurred. They hadn’t encountered any dangerous arrays like the ones before, nor had they seen the pale hand the Kirin King mentioned.

"Oh! Wow!" Suddenly, a bizarre cry from the perverted Ning Cheng came from ahead, and Shi Feng saw that up front, the pervert had abruptly halted his steps.

"What’s wrong now?" Shi Feng asked and then walked forward to Ning Cheng’s side. Soon after, the Kirin King followed. That was when Shi Feng and the Kirin King discovered why the perverted Ning Cheng had stopped so suddenly.

Before them, a wide river stood in their way, barely visible across due to the thick grey-white fog, with no signs of the other side. But most striking was the color of the water—it was jet black, like a sea of ink.

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