782: Chapter 231_1 782: Chapter 231_1 Cao Zhen couldn’t figure it out.
The cave seemed completely unremarkable, yet when they took refuge inside, all the skeletons and resentful spirits stopped in their tracks.
Inside the cave, the other three were also puzzled.
“We don’t know either.”
“We’ve been in this cave for a while now.
Those resentful spirits and skeletons just linger outside the cave, they have never tried to come in.”
Upon hearing the questions, the three of them immediately started to respond, their hearts filling with worry at the same time; what they feared most now was the newcomers attacking them or driving them out.
Cao Zhen looked at the few people, unable to glean much from their answers, then let his gaze fall around the cave.
But no matter how he looked, the cave appeared to be just an ordinary cave, showing nothing unusual.
He simply could not understand why the skeletons and resentful spirits wouldn’t enter it.
As he pondered, Linghu Gudu suddenly thought of a question and asked the three, “If these skeletons and resentful spirits won’t come into the cave, have you tried attacking them to see if they’ll run away?”
The female cultivator among them immediately shook her head and said, “No, after we hid here, we’ve been at the deepest part of the cave the whole time and never tried to attack them.”
What a joke.
When they discovered that the resentful spirits and skeletons wouldn’t enter the cave, all they felt was relief.
Why would they attack those skeletons and resentful spirits?
The cave didn’t seem to have anything special about it.
What if their attack drew the skeletons and resentful spirits into the cave?
Could it be that these people want to provoke those skeletons and resentful spirits intentionally?
Though they said they had Four Complete Golden Pill of Ten Strange Phenomena, with so many resentful spirits and skeletons, and they also had to protect the Golden Core Sixth Layer, they shouldn’t do that, should they?
They…
As the female cultivator was thinking, Linghu Gudu had already turned around, his mana coursing rapidly through his body, a hint of blue light appearing between his hands.
The next moment, he raised his hands and swung them fiercely outside.
In an instant, outside the cave, in the sky above, droplets of water suddenly appeared, falling like torrential rain, focusing on two skeletons as they crashed down upon them.
Water droplets the size of raindrops hitting the skeletons made heavy sounds, as if meteorites from the heavens were falling to the ground.
Suddenly, clear cracks appeared on the bodies of those two skeletons.
A single water droplet could cause a crack, but under the relentless barrages, the two skeletons swiftly disintegrated, their bones scattering across the ground.
Behind them, the initial three people in the cave, seeing someone take action, instantly felt their hearts jump to their throats.
This one attack had better not lure those skeletons and resentful spirits into the cave.
Thankfully, in the terrified gaze of the three, those skeletons and resentful spirits just roared and howled continuously outside the cave but did not enter.
The attention of the three then returned to the piles of skeleton bones outside the cave.
They had fought with those outside skeletons before and had realized the terror of those skeletons.
They couldn’t even kill a single skeleton in short order, despite their full strength.
Now, with the newcomer’s move, two skeletons had so easily perished.
“These skeletons are a bit weak,” Linghu Gudu said, looking at the dead skeletons and then back at Cao Zhen, “The ones chasing us before were clearly much stronger.”
Inside the cave, the gazes of the three widened further, thinking the skeletons and resentful spirits were strong enough already.
Were there stronger skeletons?
So, not all the skeletons here are equally powerful?
And there are a lot of them?
Cao Zhen nodded slightly and agreed, “It’s apparent they are weaker.
So, the strength of these skeletons might be determined by their strength in life.
However, with our skeletons, there was a sudden whirlwind, and these skeletons…”
Cao Zhen turned back to the three inside the cave and inquired, “How did you come across these skeletons?
Was there a sudden wind blowing?”
The female cultivator hurriedly answered upon hearing the question, “Indeed, there was wind, but the skeletons had appeared even before the gusts started.”
Cao Zhen continued to ask, “No tornadoes?”
The female cultivator, puzzled, shook her head, “No.” Tornadoes?
They hadn’t encountered any tornadoes.
Moreover, they were all at the Golden Core Stage.
What tornado could scare them, unless it was a particularly massive one?
Cao Zhen turned back to the others and whispered, “So, the appearance of these skeletons and resentful spirits probably isn’t related to tornadoes.
Then why did they suddenly appear?”
Cao Zhen looked up at the sky, “Could it be because of the night?”
That night, they did not leave the cave, and after gauging the strength of the skeletons, Linghu Gudu did not attack again either.
In his words, since the skeletons had nothing on them, and there was no benefit in killing them, why exert the effort?
Moreover, they speculated that the emergence of these skeletons and resentful spirits had something to do with the night.
They would wait for daylight to see whether the skeletons and resentful spirits would disappear.
If they did, then all the better; if not, it wouldn’t be too late to take action and kill them then.