319: Chapter 313 Blood Curtain 319: Chapter 313 Blood Curtain “Immortal Master, what’s wrong with you?
What has happened?”
Taoist Wang, sitting on the boat’s deck and massaging the bruises on his buttocks, occasionally humming in discomfort, noticed Chen Hai’s unusual expression.
He quickly spoke up to inquire.
In front of Chen Hai, this fellow had completely abandoned any pretense of dignity; he certainly wouldn’t continue to put on the air of a profoundly accomplished man.
His eyes, crafty and restless, swept around incessantly.
Even though the pain he felt was somewhat intense, he hadn’t forgotten to sneak peeks at Chen Hai from time to time.
As an old hand in Jianghu, his skill at reading people and situations was quite impressive.
Chen Hai had barely shown a hint of losing composure, yet Taoist Wang had sensed it immediately.
While questioning Chen Hai, he naturally did not forget to glance around the water near their awning boat.
After observing nothing unusual in the water, he finally relaxed a little.
“It’s nothing, you mind your own business!” Chen Hai absentmindedly muttered a response.
The tomb robbers who nearly bankrupted Dong Dahai, the green-haired zombies, the underwater creatures, and that fearsome blade he had glimpsed several times through divination…
Frowning deeply, Chen Hai’s thoughts were preoccupied with these matters.
When he connected all the clues together, his gaze towards Steamed Bun Mountain to the north of the reservoir changed significantly.
“This rare Feng Shui treasure site may have already been occupied!”
“If my estimate is not wrong, there should be a great tomb beneath the mountain.”
“The fearsome blade that I have glimpsed several times is very likely within that great tomb!”
“Those tomb robbers must have once entered the great tomb and then were corroded by the ominous aura of the fierce blade, finally transforming into monsters…”
With thoughts rapidly chasing each other in his mind, the more Chen Hai pondered, the more he felt that his speculations were very likely correct.
“Taoist Wang, do you see that Steamed Bun Mountain?”
“Let’s go over there!”
“After rowing the boat to the foot of the mountain, find a place to dock, and we’ll go ashore directly!”
After a moment of thought, Chen Hai waved his hand and called out to Taoist Wang.
Compared to eliminating the underwater creature, the existence of the fierce blade held a greater allure for him.
If underneath Steamed Bun Mountain, as he suspected, there truly was a great tomb.
Based on the mark he sensed, the underwater creature should have already entered the great tomb at this moment.
Under the current circumstances, whether it was for the fierce blade or to slay the underwater monster, it was necessary for him to follow closely into the tomb beneath the mountain.
“Steamed Bun Mountain?
Is it that mountain over there?”
“Has the creature hidden in the water already fled over there?”
Taoist Wang swiftly sat up; although these were his uttered thoughts, his hands were not idle.
After confirming the location of Steamed Bun Mountain indicated by Chen Hai, he paddled the oar gently, steering the boat towards that direction.
After nearly twenty minutes, they found a relatively flat spot at the foot of Steamed Bun Mountain and docked the awning boat.
Seeing Chen Hai leap from the boat ashore,
Taoist Wang, slightly puzzled as to how the water monster suddenly ran to the mountain, hesitated briefly before following him off the boat onto the shore.
“Immortal Master, what do we do now?
Head straight up the mountain?”
Glancing around and then looking up at the lush trees and densely growing wild grass on Steamed Bun Mountain, he voiced his confusion.
“Don’t rush, wait for a moment!” While responding off-handedly, Chen Hai had already seated himself cross-legged.
If the underwater monster could enter the great tomb,
It’s very likely that there are passages beneath this stretch of water leading into the tomb.
Inside the water, the limitations on Chen Hai’s strength were far too significant.
Not to mention, he had no idea where the underwater passages were!
Even if he knew the exact location of the passage, unless it was absolutely necessary, he was utterly unwilling to follow that monster and enter the tunnel through the water!
At this moment, he was seated with his legs crossed, trying to have his Divine Soul leave his body to see if he could find another route into the Great Tomb.
The Steamed Bun Mountain in front of him was just under a hundred meters tall.
Unfortunately, due to the overly dense trees and weeds, and the area being rarely visited, there was simply no path to climb the mountain.
If Chen Hai’s Physical Body were to move, his journey through it would not only be difficult but certainly inconvenient.
However, there were no such restrictions for soul departure.
Besides being incredibly fast, he could completely ignore all obstacles on the mountain.
Even amidst the rocks and soil, he could burrow into them and pass through directly.
With these conveniences, Chen Hai wanted to confirm whether there indeed was a Great Tomb under the mountain and whether there really was a passage nearby to enter the tomb.
His direct departure of the Divine Soul would naturally be much easier.
Of course, he dared not let his Divine Soul stray too far from his Physical Body.
After all, this place was not benevolent land; once his Divine Soul departed, his Physical Body would become his greatest vulnerability.
Legend has it that Tie Guaili, the leader of the Eight Immortals, had to occupy the body of a person who had just died because his body encountered troubles after his soul departed.
In the end, he not only ended up with an ugly appearance but also became a cripple…
Chen Hai, for one, did not wish such a fate to befall him.
It was precisely for this reason that since his initial Object Control and his ability to manipulate flames, the frequency of his soul departures has significantly decreased.
Additionally, Chen Hai knew from the Holy Inheritance he received that the more frequent the soul departures, the weaker the connection between soul and Physical Body.
Right now, this situation posed no impact on him.
However, once he reached the end of his Object Control journey and sought Ascension to Sage, the lack of a strong connection between soul and Physical Body would become troublesome.
Under the current circumstances, had his Physical Body not been inconvenient to move around, Chen Hai would not have considered using soul departure!
Within mere minutes, with his Divine Soul’s extreme speed, he had circled Steamed Bun Mountain twice.
Regretfully, due to the mountain’s plants being excessively lush, he had almost no chance of finding a way into the Great Tomb just by using his eyes.
Having returned near his own body, he saw Taoist Wang patrolling back and forth with a fish spear, guarding his Physical Body.
Chen Hai hesitated for a moment before his soul cleanly sank into the earth and rocks.
He sensed the location of the mark he left on the water monster, not bothering to beat around the bush and directly heading in that direction.
“A Fengshui Array?
What kind of Array is this?
It even prevents my Soul Body from crossing, unable to take even one step over Thunder Pond?”
While heading towards the inside of Steamed Bun Mountain where the mark was, barely ten meters in, Chen Hai was forced to stop temporarily.
The rocks in front of him seemed perfectly ordinary, with nothing unusual about them.
Yet, as soon as his Divine Soul approached, a blood-colored light curtain appeared out of nowhere.
Upon touching this blood light, Chen Hai felt as if he was being forcibly squeezed out of this space, an indescribable sensation that was extremely uncomfortable.
To be frank, the Divine Soul without the protection of a Physical Body is quite fragile and easily restrained by certain things!
Back when he had just finished his college entrance exams in Shuang State, confronted with the Spirit of Obsession, a bloodied sanitary pad was enough to knock her down from the ethereal plains, revealing her True Form.
Folklore mentions that things like Rooster Blood, Black Dog Blood, or certain filthy items all have certain restraining effects on pure spirits.
A Divine Soul separated from its Physical Body is quite similar in form to these spirits!
Chen Hai’s Divine Soul may be countless times stronger than that of an ordinary person’s, but it was merely more solidified, with its essence relatively unchanged!
He did not know what this layer of blood curtain was in front of him, but he only knew that getting close to it felt extremely uncomfortable.
The only upside of the curtain’s appearance was that it made him more certain of the existence of the Great Tomb within Steamed Bun Mountain.
After changing several spots, as long as he penetrated into the mountain to a certain depth, this blood-colored light curtain would inevitably appear.
It seemed that this blood curtain completely enveloped the entire Great Tomb.
Having ascertained this fact, Chen Hai felt resigned and had no good solution for it!
His Divine Soul, which had left his body, simply could not enter the Great Tomb; he could only look for alternatives outside the tomb, like some thief’s tunnel perhaps.
Half an hour later, at the foot of the mountain and close to the reservoir shore, Chen Hai, seated cross-legged, finally opened his eyes with a joyful expression and stood up.