Chapter 159: Entering the Corpse Mountain Range

  "Thank you for reminding me. Ye Chen said thank you."

  "Hey, little brother, if you must go, why not find some people to go with? You can all travel together and watch each other's backs in case of danger. This time, the Spiritual Spring Sacred Grounds is recruiting disciples, and many people are going to participate in the selection. It's easy to find someone to accompany you."

  "Haha, boss you're really a kind-hearted person, thank you for the map." Ye Chen waved the map in his hand and put it into his pocket, then turned around and left.

  Until Ye Chen and the cat carrying Xiao Xianfeng completely disappeared at the gate of 'Bai Xiaoge', most people in 'Bai Xiaoge' were still looking at the place where they disappeared.

  As soon as Ye Chen and the others disappeared, someone spoke up. It was a young man who looked to be in his early twenties, with a hint of coldness flashing in his eyes. "This person is so young," he said. "I think he's at most twenty years old, yet he has cultivated to the second stage of the Life-Death Realm, where the Spring of Life bursts forth. Moreover, based on my speculation, he probably hasn't joined any major sects or factions, which means he doesn't have any powerful backing."

  "Hey, Liu Feng brothers, what do you mean?" Next to him, another young man wearing a yellow shirt narrowed his eyes, wanting to speak but hesitating.

  "Yang Xiao, can't you see that the white big cat is not an ordinary spiritual beast? I didn't expect that kid to be so lucky and get such a spiritual beast. According to the ancient records of my Liu family, it's highly likely that the white big cat has a hint of ancient bloodline." Liu Feng's face was filled with envy and his eyes were cold and menacing.

  "Or are we..." The man in yellow, Yang Xiao, made a throat-slitting gesture.

  "Of course, that kind of spirit beast is not something he deserves to own. However, I sensed a dangerous aura from this person, and our realms are equal, so we don't have the upper hand. I need to return to my family to ask for two powerful experts to come and assist us. After the matter is settled, you, Yang Xiao, will definitely receive benefits. For now, Brother Yang, please keep an eye on him and see where he settles down. I'll hurry back as soon as possible."

  "Brother Liu, go back to your family and ask for a master to come, I'll definitely help you keep an eye on that kid." Yang Xiao replied with his mouth full.

  The middle-aged man in Bai Xiaoge's pavilion showed no expression when he heard this, presumably because he had seen and heard too many such things before, and they were no longer surprising to him.

  Leaving Bai Xiao Ge, Ye Chen didn't stay in Fu Shi Cheng for long and directly exited the south city gate. However, he sat down on a small hill on the grasslands outside the city.

  Ye Chen took out the map and unfolded it, on which was clearly marked the route from Fushi City to Lingquan Blessed Land, except that a corner of it was cut off by a large mountain range.

  Staring at the mountain range on the map with broken roads, Ye Chen knew that was what they called the 'Corpse Mountain Range', and it seemed that this city was also named after it.

  "Fú Shī mountain range, corpse monster, demon? Didn't you come to deliver the magic core?" Ye Chen rubbed his nose. Although Fú Shī mountain range sounded terrifying, it was just a peripheral area. Ye Chen was extremely confident and didn't need to find someone to accompany him on the journey. Moreover, he didn't like walking with strangers, which might be even more dangerous. Who could guarantee that the person who called you "brother" one second ago wouldn't stab you in the back the next?

  The route on the map was all remembered in his mind, and a flame suddenly burst out of Ye Chen's hand, burning the map to ashes.

  Looking at the map that was slowly burning into ashes, Ye Chen shook his head. This was indeed a low-grade top-quality spiritual herb, but now the map was useless and keeping it would only take up space.

  About a kilometer behind Ye Chen, the yellow-robed man named Yang Xiao cast his gaze over and saw Ye Chen leaving the city, then burning the map. He felt slightly puzzled in his heart, not knowing what Ye Chen was after.

  "Is he going to memorize the route and then cross the Fushi Mountain Range alone to reach the Spirit Spring Paradise?" Yang Xiao's eyes narrowed slightly, a cold smile spreading across his face as he thought to himself: "You little brat, you're simply asking for death. It seems that as long as I follow you, perhaps I won't even need to take action and your life will still be in danger. As long as that Spirit Beast is fine, haha, everything will be perfect."

  Just as Yang Xiao was secretly laughing coldly, Ye Chen's mouth also curled up with a hint of cold smile. How could he not have discovered someone following him with his strong divine consciousness?

  After entering the city of Fu Shi, those cultivators' gaze at Miao Miao had long made Ye Chen vigilant. He wasn't a naive young man and had been careful about others' schemes all along. When leaving the city, he discovered the existence of the yellow-robed man.

  "Hmph, greed will be paid in full. Since you're delivering yourselves to my doorstep, I don't mind using your flesh and blood to refine the 'Human Spirit Elixir'!" Ye Chen muttered to himself before unfolding his movement technique and quickly heading towards the Fowei Mountains.

  After Ye Chen's figure disappeared, the yellow-clad man Yang Xiao turned around and returned to Fushi City, rushing straight to the Liu family.

  Ye Chen went alone to Fushi Mountain Range, Yang Xiao immediately set out to find Liu Feng to inform him of this news.

  Outside the Liu family's large courtyard, Yang Xiao hurriedly came, just in time to meet Liu Feng who was walking out of the courtyard with two masters.

  "Yang brother, where is that little guy?" Liu Feng asked as soon as he saw Yang Xiao.

  "Brother Liu, you definitely wouldn't have expected that the little brat didn't stay in Fushi City for even a moment and directly left the city. He went to the Fushi Mountains alone." Yang Xiao's face was filled with cold smiles.

  "Oh? Someone went to the Fushi Mountains?" The cold glint in Liu Feng's eyes jumped, and he said in a low voice: "Looking for death on his own, it's good now, and it saves us some effort. We'll follow him, wait for the right moment to strike, and snatch the spiritual beast."

  Hahaha!!!

  Yang Xiao and Liu Feng looked at each other and burst out laughing, as if they had already determined that Ye Chen was doomed to die. The ancient exotic beast with the blood of the ancient species also seemed to be in their pocket.

  "Young master, has that person's identity been clarified? If he were to be a disciple of some big family, it might bring trouble." One of the two black-clad men following behind Liu Feng said.

  "What does it matter what his identity is, as long as he's not a disciple of Lingquan Fudi, he's dead for sure. Moreover, with the corpse mountain range being infested with corpse demons and evil spirits roaming about, who can tell how he died?" Liu Feng said coldly.

  "Yes, young master is right. If that spirit beast is indeed a descendant of the ancient alien species, then offending an entire family would be no big deal!" Another black-clad man chimed in.

  "Alright, let's go. The Fushi mountain range is so vast, we can't afford to lose each other. I, Young Master, must succeed, and there can be no mistakes. Do you understand?" Liu Feng looked at the two black-clad men with a serious expression.

  "Understood, young master! Don't worry!" The man in black nodded in response.

  Liu Feng took two men in black and Yang Xiao quickly left the city of Fu Shi, rushing towards the mountain range of Fu Shi. Ye Chen also rushed along the way, this grassland was really too big, it took three days for Ye Chen to reach the end of the grassland.

  The end of the prairie is a towering mountain range with gray-black mist swirling around it.

  The vast mountain range was so large that it was impossible to estimate its size, stretching endlessly in both directions. The mountains rose and fell in a continuous undulation, as if they had cut off a piece of the sky. Moreover, Ye Chen knew that what he saw was only one corner of the iceberg at the edge of the Fushi Mountain Range.

  In the front of the great mountain range, especially near the middle section of the mountain range, there is a thick grayish-black fog that gathers into thick clouds floating in the sky, making the entire sky dark and gloomy.

  "This is the Fushi Mountain Range!"

  Looking at the vast mountain range in front of him, Ye Chen was shocked. Now that he had seen it with his own eyes, although he hadn't entered it yet, he already knew how terrifying it was inside.

  In the grayish-black mist in the central mountain range, a cold and gloomy aura emanated, making Ye Chen feel a sense of eeriness even from a distance. It was as if countless peerless demons and ancient corpses were lurking within.

  Ye Chen followed the route on the map and flew towards the Fushi mountain range, fortunately only passing through the peripheral area. If he had really crossed over to the central region of the Fushi mountain range, Ye Chen thought about it and felt a chill run down his spine.

  Very soon, Ye Chen and Miao Miao, who was carrying Xiao Xianfeng, entered the range of Fushi Mountain. As soon as they entered Fushi Mountain, the air was filled with yin energy and corpse energy. This place was still on the periphery, but the gray gas lingered, and within Ye Chen's line of sight, he could only see more than ten miles away.

  "Waaaahhhh....."

  In the mountains, eerie and terrifying sounds occasionally rise from unknown places, echoing continuously in the mountains, making people's hair stand on end.

  Ye Chen was extremely vigilant in his heart, and he extended his powerful divine sense to be on guard not only against the corpse monsters and demons but also against anyone who might be following him to launch a sneak attack.

  The Fushi mountain range was shrouded in a gray mist, the grass and trees were withered and dead. The big trees that Ye Chen passed by had almost all lost their leaves, leaving only bare tree trunks. The ground was uneven and pockmarked, and some of the stones on the side of the road were stained with dark blood, emitting a strong fishy smell.

  Ye Chen's eyes scanned the surroundings, and he saw that the trunks of those withered trees had marks on them from time to time, as if they had been scratched by sharp claws. The marks were very deep and black. Human bones and animal bones could be seen everywhere in the fields.

  All the way forward, Ye Chen saw such scenes everywhere. Moreover, this Fushi Mountain Range was simply a huge cemetery.

  Along the way, Ye Chen saw all sorts of graves, but most of them were dilapidated and collapsed, as if they had been robbed.

  The tombstones of those graves were also broken, with black claw marks left on them, and even dry bloodstains.

  "Quack quack..."

  Suddenly, a few caws of ravens came from the front. Ye Chen focused his eyes and saw that a group of black ravens were pecking at a rotting corpse, making people feel nauseous.

  "Quack quack..."

  It seemed to have sensed the presence of a human, and the group of crows turned their heads towards Ye Chen, instantly startling him. The eyes of those crows were actually blood-red in color, extremely piercing.

  Blood-red eyes gleamed with ferocity, a group of crows cawed loudly, suddenly abandoning the rotting corpse, flying up in unison, a dense black mass, revealing a menacing glow as they swooped towards Ye Chen.

  "Oh no, big brother!" Little Xianfeng exclaimed, immediately covering her eyes with her small hands, looking frightened.

  "Don't be afraid, Xian'er!"

  Ye Chen raised his hand and made a stroke in the void, instantly illuminating the dark sky with a dazzling golden light.