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A ghastly wind struck.
The evil spirit in the ghostly mist struck out silently.
A ghostly hand probed out, seemingly the demonic claws of a ghostly creature from the Underworld, its skin ghastly white, its nails pitch-black with a demonic metallic lustre, violently grasping at Qin Li’s spine.
“Hmph!”
Qin Li snorted coldly.
A palm blasted out with all his might, heavy by a thousand pounds and also bearing a piercingly bright off-fire golden light.
Bang!
A muffled sound.
The miserable white ghostly hand directly shattered.
“Nyah!”A mournful ghostly cry rang out from the ghostly mist, shocking the heart and soul and dazzling the eyes.
The evil spirit seemed to understand that Qin Li was not to be messed with and retreated of its own accord.
“Want to leave, no way!”
Qin Li backhandedly grabbed it, wanting to capture the evil spirit and see his true colours.
However, the evil spirit seemed to have fused with the ghostly mist, disappearing in a puff of smoke, and the ghostly mist also receded like a tidal wave, vanishing without a trace.
“The ghost mist receded?”
Old Iron Head was filled with incredulity.
“What just happened?”The crowd was dumbfounded after the robbery.
In the end, everyone turned their gazes towards Qin Li, as everyone was in the circle, and he was the only one who was outside the circle, unharmed.
“Mr Jin, did you encounter an evil spirit?”Su Qingxue asked in a low voice.
Qin Li clenched his fist and nodded, “It tried to sneak attack me, but unfortunately, I detected it and countered with a slap. It has escaped with serious injuries, and the ghostly mist has retreated back!”
Sniffing!
The corners of the old iron head’s mouth twitched, “Young man, there has to be a limit to bragging. Lord Mine is an existence that can devour and kill Immortal Elders, so how could you injure it?”
Zhang Yuanwu found an opportunity to make a big mockery, “Heh! A loose cultivator who hides his head and still dares to speak loudly, he really thinks he’s an Immortal King!”
Zhao Lingzhi despised, “Hate men who are incapable and still talk big, disgusting!”
Qin Li ignored the taunts and instead clenched his fists, saying, “I did exchange two moves with the Evil Spirit, the first one wasted one of its hands, and the second one grabbed a handful of hairs off its body!”
Hair!
Evil Spirit’s hair!
The crowd was flabbergasted and came over.
Su Qingxue curiously said, “Mr Jin, can you spread your palms?”
Qin Li slowly spread his palm.
Inside!
There was nothing ……
The crowd looked at each other, revealing sounds of shame and laughter.
Qin Li was a little stunned, “It doesn’t make sense, that scratch just now was indeed the feel of hair.”
Zhao Lingzhi shook her head, “Alright, it’s all been revealed, and you’re still dead set on not admitting it. Isn’t it just trying to put on a formidable appearance to get my lady’s attention!”
Zhang Yuanwu laughed out loud, “See how much he acted like that, he even caught a handful of hair from the evil spirit, is it hard to believe that the evil spirit is air, how come there is nothing?”
“Alright!”
Su Qingxue interrupted, “Our priority is to find the direction and continue deeper.”
“Miss Su, we’d better go back! That Lord Mine comes and goes ghostly and terrifying, it’s important to save our lives!”Zhang Yuanwu’s face changed drastically, he was really wimpy, if he had known that the mine pit was so dangerous, he wouldn’t have come even if he was beaten to death.
Old Iron Head, however, said, “This you can rest assured, the mine adult should have killed three people, eaten enough, so it chose to retreat, without half a month’s work, it will not come out.”
The crowd breathed a long sigh of relief.
“Let’s set off!”
Su Qingxue led the way in front.
The crowd hesitated for a moment and followed.
The following journey was very calm and there were no accidents, coupled with the fact that Lord Mine had left and Old Iron Head had agreed for everyone to speak to relieve their boredom.
It was almost a day’s walk.
Ahead!
A bit of faint fluorescent light appeared.
Walking in and taking a look, it was a fourth grade Earth Yin Chi.
Old Iron Head laughed, “This is a good omen, signalling that the land of life is beneath our feet, let’s stop and cultivate for half a day.”
The crowd breathed a sigh of relief and sat on the ground.
This trip down, encountering evil spirits, caused everyone’s mood to be extremely low.
Su Qingxue was a bit embarrassed and enlivened the atmosphere, “Why don’t we talk about our respective stories to relieve the pressure.”
Zhao Lingzhi simply said, “One person tell a story, have fun.”
The crowd also felt that this proposal was good.
And so.
The seven people sat down around Yinzhi.
“I’ll start.”Zhao Lingzhi volunteered, “In our Earth Flame Sect, there is a supreme genius, Gu Yanzhi, he’s our eldest senior brother, handsome, with a high level of strength, he’s already an Immortal Zun now, and he’s also a fourth grade refiner ……”
There was a whole lot of rambling, all of which was flowery content, causing everyone to be speechless.
“My turn!”
Old Iron Head took a puff of dry tobacco and said:
“Among us miners, there is a story circulating. If a corpse is left in a mine cave and is saturated with Yin Qi day and night, after tens of thousands of years, it might give birth to a spirit and give birth to new life, which we call Living Corpse Spirit!”
Zhang Yuanwu couldn’t help but interrupt, “Isn’t this just something like a zombie skeleton soldier? What’s so peculiar about it.”
Old Iron Head shook his head and said, “The so-called skeleton soldiers are nothing more than the product of demonic spirits clinging to the remains of the dead, whereas what I’m talking about is a completely new kind of life.”
“As we all know, all living things are born from living things, however, living corpse spirits are born from dead things, they have great power as soon as they are born, yet they are not tolerated by heaven and earth, they can only hide in the mines, catalysing ghostly mists and devouring innocent absentee workers who pass by.”
Zhao Lingzhi’s heart trembled, “You’re saying that Lord Mine is a living corpse spirit!”
The crowd felt furtive in their hearts.
Su Qingxue suddenly said, “Living Corpse Spirit, I’ve also heard of it slightly.”
“As a refiner, I often deal with ores, so I heard of a legend. A long time ago, a mine spawned a living corpse spirit, and so many miners died that nine Immortal Dukes teamed up to go down to the mine pit, only to be brutally murdered.”
“Until a supreme person came from the Western Region, the Ten Thousand Swords Immortal King. With his heavenly strength, he descended into the mining pit and beheaded the living corpse spirit. After dragging the monster out of the ground, while the living corpse spirit unexpectedly evaporated under the sunlight, leaving only a puddle of fishy black water.”
The more the story was told, the more evil it became, and the crowd sucked in a breath of cool air.
Qin Li was a bit surprised that he was actually able to hear Master Wan Jian’s story, but in the Record of Soldiering Disasters, it seemed that there were many strange and ghostly stories about the mines recorded.
“By the way, I have a story here about a living corpse spirit.”Qin Li said slowly:
“Living corpse spirits are non-living and non-dead, er are a bizarre existence that possess spiritual intelligence and know how to enter and exit. Some living corpse spirits even yearn for earthly prosperity. That’s why they kill miners, peel off human skin, and put it on themselves, using it to walk the world.”
“The most marvellous thing is that the living corpse spirit will eat the brains of the dead and gain a part of their memories, so it imitates them in such a marvellous way that no one will even notice the abnormality. To put it politely, it is likely to be mixed among us ……”
The moment these words came out.
The atmosphere of the entire room was instantly weird.
The crowd only felt a chill that ran from their tailbone to their brain.
Su Qingxue was also enthralled by what she heard and couldn’t help but ask, “Mr Jin, is there any method to find out the living corpse spirit in human skin then?”
Qin Li explained, “Of course there is a method, pulling the hair will do! The hair of a living person is rooted in the scalp and penetrates deep into the flesh and blood, making it difficult to pull it out. But the hair of a living corpse spirit is only attached to a human skin, so it’s easy to pull it out.”
Hearing!
The crowd couldn’t help but pull out their hair.
Zhao Lingzhi still felt uneasy, it so happened that next to her sat Old Iron Head, she felt her hands itchy, couldn’t help but pull it so ……
Snap!
Easily pulled down a handful of hair.
“Ah!”Zhao Lingzhi’s eyes glazed over and she shrieked out in shock.
The rest of the people were also horrified when they saw this situation, and they hurriedly drew their blades and pointed them straight at Old Iron Head.
“Calm down!”Old Iron Head said in panic.
Zhao Lingzhi said in fear, “Old Iron Head, why does your hair come down when you pull it.”
Old Iron Head could not cry, “I was already bald and only have a circle of hair left at the back of my head, which is fragile, and the little girl’s hand is strong, thus it came down as soon as I pulled it.”
Qin Li cried and laughed: “Just a story, don’t take it seriously. If we kill Old Iron Head, who will take us back!”
“Right, right, right!”Old Iron Head nodded desperately.
Su Qingxue also stepped forward to mediate, “Alright, it’s not easy for everyone to rest for a while, don’t make a scene anymore.”
Only then did the crowd stop and put away their blades.
Old Iron Head breathed a sigh of relief, not forgetting to glare fiercely at Qin Li.
Qin Li smiled without saying anything.
Not long after!
The crowd set off once again.
About a few thousand metres deeper into the ground, they seemed to come to a silent zone.
The originally wide mining cave had shrunk in diameter and was somewhat narrower, the temperature had fallen below freezing, the underground water was frozen, and the crowd had encountered quite a few Icegrain Steel ores.
“Alright, I’ll send it here, there’s an ice-steel layer below, so I won’t go down.”Old Ironhead said.
