Chapter 78: Parting Ways

Song Wen looked thoughtful.

He didn't take Zi Yi's hostility too seriously. He was confident that even if he couldn't beat Lao Chun and Zi Yi, he would be able to survive.

With just the Blood Escape Technique, Zi Yi and Lao Chun wouldn't be able to catch up.

He was thinking whether it was safer to go alone to get the empty cicada wood, or to go with Xuan Ye, who was familiar with the terrain.

After thinking for a while, Song Wen said.

"Okay, I'll accompany you to get the snake scale fruit first, but you have to promise that after getting the snake scale fruit, you'll accompany me to get the empty cicada wood."

Xuan Ye's face lit up, and he said, "Don't worry, as long as you get the snake scale fruit, I will definitely accompany you."

Song Wen nodded, which was considered to be an agreement with the other party's promise. As for whether the other party could keep his promise, Song Wen didn't bother.

If the other party regretted it at that time, Song Wen had his own way to make the other party fulfill his promise.

Soon, the five people arrived at the fork in the road that Xuan Ye mentioned.

Knowing that Xuan Ye, Niu Ding and Song Wen were all going to the left and heading for the snake cave, Zi Yi said goodbye to the three of them straightforwardly. Her father was deeply poisoned and there was no time to lose. She had to hurry up and head towards Lian Qiao Huang.

After seeing Zi Yi and the others leave, Xuan Ye also led Song Wen and Niu Ding to the left passage.

As he walked, he said.

"Niu Ding, can you tell us now where your brother's body is?"

On the way before, Niu Ding did not reveal the specific location of his brother's body.

"According to the survivors who were with my brother, they came to the cave to get the snake scale fruit, but before they reached the snake cave, they were attacked by a group of ghosts. There were many ghosts among the ghosts whose strength was comparable to that of a cultivator in the late stage of Qi training. My brother fell into the encirclement of the ghosts and could not escape."

"If attacked by a ghost, it is possible to find the body, but if attacked by a zombie, the possibility of finding the body is extremely low."

Xuan Ye sighed.

Ghosts feed on souls and the spirit of cultivators, while zombies feed on corpses and flesh and blood. If killed by resentful ghosts, the corpse can be left intact, but if killed by zombies, basically no bones are left.

"By the way, how long has it been since your elder brother got into trouble?" Xuan Ye asked again.

"One month!"

"Has it been a full month?" Xuan Ye muttered softly.

Xuan Ye didn't care whether he could find the body of elder brother Niu Ding. As long as he accompanied Niu Ding on the journey, he would have fulfilled his promise. What the final result would be was not something he could control.

Xuan Ye was more concerned about the information revealed in Niu Ding's words.

In the previous chat, Xuan Ye knew that elder brother Niu Ding's cultivation was the eighth level of Qi training, and people with such strength were surrounded and killed by resentful ghosts.

If the three of them met that group of resentful ghosts, they would probably be in great danger.

A month has passed, and I hope those resentful ghosts who like to wander around have left.

The three of them walked forward in the winding passage for more than an hour.

The passage, which was originally about five meters wide, suddenly became spacious, and an irregular cave about a hundred meters wide appeared in front of the three of them.

There were hundreds of nests of various sizes on the walls of the cave.

Niu Ding pointed to the cave a hundred meters ahead and suddenly said, "This should be where my eldest brother got into trouble."

Niu Ding's words made Song Wen and Xuan Ye's hearts tighten, and they became extremely cautious, and their steps stopped involuntarily.

The cave was very quiet, so quiet that Song Wen could hear his own heartbeat and breathing.

"Everyone, don't talk, communicate with the sound transmission technique."

Xuan Ye's sound transmission sounded in the minds of Song Wen and Niu Ding.

"Niu Ding, hurry up and find your eldest brother's body, and be careful not to make too much noise. Those nests always give me a very dangerous feeling."

With the mental strength of a seventh-level Qi training cultivator, the coverage range is generally about a hundred meters. Of course, everyone has different talents, so there will be slight differences, but the difference is generally not too big, unless it is someone who has specially practiced spiritual power, then he can obviously exceed this range.

The three of them are now about 200 meters away from the cave, which is far beyond the spiritual power exploration range of Niu Ding and Xuan Ye.

They can only use the light of the fluorescent stone to vaguely see the nest on the cave wall in the distance.

Niu Ding was about to walk slowly into the cave to search for his brother's body, and he heard Song Wen's voice transmission.

"Don't look for it, there is only one body in the eighth nest on the far left, from the bottom up, and there are no other human bodies in other nests."

Hearing Song Wen's voice transmission, Niu Ding and Xuan Ye were both full of disbelief.

The nest is more than 200 meters away from here, and Song Wen only has the sixth level of Qi training.

Could it be that Song Wen has hidden his cultivation?

He is a cultivator who has perfected Qi training!

"Don't think too much, I just have stronger mental power than ordinary people." Noticing the two people's shock, in order to prevent them from thinking too much and causing unnecessary trouble, Song Wen explained to them through voice transmission.

After hearing Song Wen's explanation, the two did not hesitate too much, and Niu Ding asked through voice transmission.

"Brother Guo Tao, are you sure?"

Song Wen nodded and replied, "Yes, the body is ten meters inside the entrance of the nest. It is a male body. The body is tall and seven feet tall, but the body has been dehydrated and turned into a mummy."

Niu Ding's face was happy and he said through voice transmission.

"It should be correct. It is the body of my eldest brother."

Seeing that Niu Ding was about to run towards the nest, Song Wen reminded him through voice transmission.

"Fellow Daoist Niu, you'd better be careful. There are many criss-crossing paths inside those lairs, and they are connected vertically and horizontally, so deep. Although I didn't sense the existence of ghosts, I always had a feeling of trepidation. I'm afraid it's not so easy to get your brother's body back."

After entering the cave, Song Wen has been using beetle Gu to explore the way.

Beetle Gu has initially explored the periphery of the nest and found no ghosts. However, Song Wen did not let Beetle Gu penetrate deep into the nest. He was worried that the ghosts in the nest were powerful and discovered the existence of Beetle Gu. Losing the Beetle Gu for this was not worth the gain. .

Anyway, it was Niu Ding who ventured into the lair, not Song Wen. He was able to find out where Brother Niu Ding's body was, which was considered to be the most benevolent thing he could do.

Seeing that both Song Wen and Xuan Ye said that the nest was dangerous, Niu Ding, who was a little impatient, stopped and sent a message to ask for help.

"Fellow Daoist Xuan Ye, what are your ideas?"

Xuan Ye said in a message.

"Right now, we don't know the situation inside the lair. It's too dangerous to act rashly. We still need to try to find out whether there are ghosts in the lair. If there are ghosts, how many ghosts there are and what their strength is."

Niu Ding said, "According to what my elder brother's colleagues said, they encountered more than a hundred ghosts here at that time, including no less than twenty powerful resentful ghosts."

"There are twenty powerful resentful ghosts that are as powerful as those in the late stage of Qi training!"

When Song Wen heard this, his eyes widened immediately. There were more than twenty resentful ghosts here, which gave him the urge to run away immediately.

With such a large number of resentful ghosts and nearly a hundred weaker ghosts, is this something that a monk in the Qi training period can resist?

What kind of treasure does Brother Niu Ding have on his body that is worth taking such a big risk to retrieve the body?

Song Wen no longer believed that Niu Ding was really willing to take such a big risk just for a corpse.