Xuanxia

Chapter 690 The Source, the End

"There's a lot of noise outside."

Deep in the cliff waterfall, Lin Wangshu and Hua Xiaolan walked on the water.

Hearing the loud noises coming from outside the cave, both of them looked worried.

After entering the waterfall, there is a very deep cave inside, with twists and turns. After walking for a long time, I still haven't reached the end.

However, the Yinquan water here is indeed much more turbulent, the water constantly splashes large waves, and the number of black spring fish is also quite dense. If it weren't for Lin Wangshu's Water-Bishu Jue, I'm afraid Hua Xiaolan might not be able to stand firmly in this water.

"Coming."

Lin Wangshu said softly: "I can feel that there is something wrong with the water flow ahead."

Almost as soon as the words fell, the two turned a corner and were shocked by the scene before them and stopped at the same time.

There is no road here anymore, it is the end of the cave.

The cave ceiling, which was originally only about one person high, suddenly rose here to a height of thirty or forty feet, with obvious traces of human carving; similarly, the narrow cave, which was originally only wide enough for two or three people to pass through, suddenly became open here.

In other words, someone widened and raised this place to make a huge stone chamber.

And in this stone chamber, there is one and only one large round stone door.

This stone door is carved with countless evil spirits, demons, and terrifying scenes of purgatory. A circle of palm-sized symbols is engraved on the edge of the stone door, emitting a faint dark light. In the center of the stone door, there is a small round window the size of a bowl, and the dark spring water is constantly gushing out from it.

Behind the stone gate, one can faintly hear the sound of roaring water, as if it is a rushing river.

"It seems that this place is the source of Yinquan."

Lin Wangshu said solemnly: "This stone door blocks my detection. There is clearly water behind it, but I can't sense it at all."

"If the legend you told me before is true..." Hua Xiaolan's eyes narrowed slightly: "Behind this stone gate is the Styx."

"good."

Lin Wangshu nodded: "Look at the countless scenes of purgatory and evil spirits carved on this stone door. I'm afraid it has the meaning of the underworld - but why use a door to seal the Styx?"

"Don't study these for now." Hua Xiaolan said softly: "Master Lin, have you noticed that there are no black bone fish here?"

"……right!"

Lin Wangshu was shocked: "There are no black bone fish here! But we just came here and saw a lot of fish in the water. Where did they come from?"

"I'm afraid the secret lies behind this door, or in this stone chamber."

Hua Xiaolan said softly: "Master Lin, I think the runes on the stone door seem familiar. Let me take a look first..."

"I will explore this stone chamber."

Lin Wangshu smiled and nodded: "There is a lot of Yinquan water here, maybe I can use it."

After dividing the work, the two of them immediately started working.

Loud noises continued to be heard outside the cave, and they didn't know what had happened, but at least one thing was certain - if Fu Qingzhou was really dead, there should be no movement.

Since it's still ringing, that... means he can still hold on?

Of course, there is no time for them to dawdle now.

Hua Xiaolan waved her arms, muttered something, her eyes turned dark green, and countless small insects slowly crawled out of her beautiful silver Miao headdress. The insects spread their transparent wings, flew towards the stone gate, and landed on the talismans on the outer circle of the stone gate.

"It's an ancient Miao symbol."

She muttered to herself, "The spell left by the engraver... is it something from Lingwu Mountain? I have never seen it before... Let's try to understand these words first, maybe there are clues... Master taught me some of them back then..."

Seeing that she was already immersed in it, Lin Wangshu also turned his head, slowly rolled up his sleeves, and reached his hand into the water in the stone chamber.

Then, he thought about it and released the Water-Repelling Technique on himself.

The next moment, the Yinquan water touched his skin, and the strong corpse poison immediately caused his arm to begin to turn a strange blue-black color. Soon some small blisters appeared on the skin, and the blue-black color was still spreading upwards along his arm.

Lin Wangshu looked calm and not panicked. He took out the sachet that Hua Xiaolan had given him with steady and quick movements.

He untied the sachet with one hand, without even looking at what was inside, and just put it into his mouth. Then he frowned slightly, and forced the contents in his mouth down without even chewing.

In less than two breaths, the blisters and blue-black color on his arms began to fade rapidly.

"The poison technique of Wandu Mountain is indeed magical." Lin Wangshu smiled and began to circulate his true energy.

The next moment, the originally turbulent water suddenly calmed down!
The water flowing out of the central window of the stone gate seemed to have been forcibly cut off and sealed with a transparent film. Not even a drop could flow out and it just swirled in the window.

"call……"

Lin Wangshu let out a long breath, his face clearly looking a little pale.

Along the way, he cleared the water for Fu Qingzhou and Hua Xiaolan and led them to travel quickly in the water. Afterwards, he fought against the evil slime and set up a small wind and rain formation... He never stopped.

At this moment, he forced the pool water to freeze, and his true energy was almost exhausted.

But he had no intention of resting. After exhaling, he recited the spell again.

As the obscure spell was uttered word by word, a stream of azure blue, ink-like silk flowed out from between his fingers and spread out in the water.

They quickly merged into the strange dark color of the Yinquan water, just like the blood vessels and veins in the human body, forming a dense network and spreading throughout the pool.

"Is this the end of the Styx?"

At this moment, Hua Xiaolan's dark green eyes returned to normal.

She said in astonishment, "Did the people of Lingwu Mountain forcibly extract some of the water from the Styx so that they could use the power in it to practice the art of controlling corpses?"

She couldn't understand all the words on the stone door, but in order to understand one thing, she didn't necessarily need to understand everything.

When she was a child, Hua Xiujiang, the leader of Wandu Mountain, once taught Hua Xiaolan some ancient Miao characters. She recognized 70% of the characters, and after piecing together the content, she roughly understood what was written on them.

This place is the end of the Styx. In order to obtain the power from it, Lingwu Mountain gathered the strength of the entire clan and built this stone gate.

On the other side of the mountain wall is the River Styx. The powerful magic power on the stone gate can penetrate the mountain wall, continuously draw power from the River Styx, and eventually turn it into this Yin Spring.

Back then, the disciples of Lingwu Mountain used the strong death energy and corpse poison in the Yinquan, as well as the mysterious power in the Styx, to cultivate the corpse-controlling technique that made the world dread it.

At this point, although Hua Xiaolan still couldn't understand the witchcraft on the talismans, she understood what they were doing.

It is they who are constantly drawing the power of the Styx...

"Master Lin."

Hua Xiaolan said in a deep voice: "I suspect that the demon or the black bone fish were all formed by the power of the Styx. If we just erase the symbols on it, maybe..."

"I noticed that too."

At this time, Lin Wangshu also pulled his hand out of the pool water.

After he pulled his hand out, the water flow that was cut off at the small window of the stone door suddenly resumed, and the pool water in the stone chamber also slowly became turbulent again.

He looked a little withered and his face was pale, but his tone was still steady and calm: "There is a force in this water that I cannot understand. After leaving the stone chamber, they seemed to be attracted by something and gathered together on their own to become those black bone fish. In other words, those black bone fish are not natural products."

Hua Xiaolan's eyes lit up: "So the demons are also evil?"

"Yes."

Lin Wangshu nodded and said affirmatively: "You can think of the black bone fish as the most basic evil spirits. They are like the streams formed by the rain, dense and endless. The evil spirits are the small puddles, small ponds, and even large ponds."

"Of course, one rain will not form so many puddles and ponds, but when it continues to rain for hundreds or thousands of years, it will naturally form ponds as numerous as the stars."

Hearing this, Hua Xiaolan's face turned pale: "Then, even if we cut off the rainwater, we can't empty the pond. Doesn't this mean..."

Even if they destroyed the stone gate now, they would not be able to make the existing monsters disappear.

"No, there is a way."

Lin Wangshu said in a deep voice: "Since all the evil spirits are transformed by Yinquan, then... it only takes two steps to make them all disappear."

"The first step, as you said, Miss Xiaolan, is to destroy the talisman on the stone gate and cut off the Yin Spring."

"The second step is to drain the Yin Spring water. This way, the evil spirits will become rootless water and will no longer be able to do anything."

As he spoke, he reached into his arms and took out a mirror.

It is the most precious treasure of Lingjing Sect, the Zhaoxuan Mirror.

"Since a small array of wind and rain has been set up in the tiankeng, with the help of this mirror, I may be able to give it a try."

(End of this chapter)