Xuanxia

Chapter 908: Ghost Master
Fu Qingzhou's shock was quickly suppressed by him.

Hundreds of years have passed, and it is difficult to judge whether rumors are true or false.

Without any real evidence, Huo Yaer's casual words cannot be taken seriously... Besides, this matter is not important to Fu Qingzhou.

"Keep going deeper."

He said calmly: "Looking for the Styx."

After saying this, he was the first to pass between the four statues.

When passing through the four statues, he clearly felt as if he had passed through an invisible "membrane", which was like a layer of cold water mist. His whole body felt cold when he passed through it, but it did not seem to cause any effect, except that the temperature was lower.

Huoyar and Ayiguli obviously felt the same way.

"It's suddenly so cold..."

Ayiguli hugged her arms and murmured, "I feel like the blood in my body is freezing."

“Only when we get here can we be considered to have truly entered the Styx Valley.” As Huo Yaer spoke, he exhaled low-temperature condensed mist: “This cold is like deathly air. Ordinary practitioners cannot practice magic here, but it is different for ghost practitioners… This place is a true holy land for ghost practitioners.”

Fu Qingzhou said nothing and continued walking forward with his hands behind his back.

After passing the four statues, there is an extremely steep downward stone staircase, and the terrain also drops sharply.

Fu Qingzhou recalled the scene he saw in the projection after he merged with the Eye of the Ancestral Spirit—the water of the Styx fell from the sky, destroying the ridge of an entire mountain, and the land sank lower and lower...

It seems that if we go deeper from here, we can find the River Styx.

After walking down the stone steps a few steps, I finally saw some buildings.

But, all of these are now wreckage.

As you go down the stone steps, you will occasionally see small paths extending towards the concave mountain walls on both sides. The paths lead to large and small buildings. Although they have been weathered, decayed and dilapidated over the past thousands of years and are now just ruins, you can still see how grand this place was in the past.

The thousand-foot-wide martial arts arena, the hundred-foot-tall tower column remains on the mountain wall, and the main hall that was half collapsed but still not shorter than the main hall of the imperial palace...

"This place must have been great in the past, right?"

Ayiguli looked at these and said in shock: "Such a powerful sect would actually fall..."

"That's the way of heaven. It goes on and on in a cycle."

Fu Qingzhou said leisurely: "The strong are not always strong, and the weak are not always weak. Everything has its destiny."

Pretend to be cool without making any noise.

Huo Yaer looked at him deeply.

The three of them continued to move down, but after a few steps, Fu Qingzhou suddenly stopped and slowly turned his head.

There is a small path on the right side of the stone steps here, extending to a deep cave in the distance. This cave is inconspicuous, but after Fu Qingzhou came here... the curse mark on the palm of his right hand was actually painful, as if being pricked by a needle!

There is something here!

"What's wrong, Lord Ancestor?" Huo Yaer asked suspiciously.

Fu Qingzhou did not respond to her. He turned around and walked towards the cave.

He is now an ancestor spirit and does not need to explain anything he does.

Sure enough, seeing that he didn't say anything, Huoyar didn't dare to ask any more questions, but just followed with Aiguli.

Fu Qingzhou clenched his right fist and walked towards the cave... As he got closer to the cave, the pain from the curse mark became more and more obvious!

Not only that, an unimaginable pain and numbness began to spread throughout his body along the curse marks!
He had experienced this feeling...

It was when I was soaking in the Phoenix Blood Pool!

What on earth is this...

"Who is coming?"

At this moment, an ethereal and gentle voice came from the deep cave!

Fu Qingzhou's pupils shrank.

There are still people alive in the Styx Valley? !

Not only him, Huo Yaer also seemed to be under stress. His eyes widened instantly, and he suddenly raised the bone staff, and the spiritual energy around him surged.

"Don't act rashly."

Fu Qingzhou tilted his head slightly and said something to her behind him.

Huo Yaer's eyebrows twitched slightly and he narrowed his eyes, but he still slowly put away the bone staff, and the spiritual energy surging around him also subsided.

Fu Qingzhou ignored her and continued walking into the cave.

As they walked, he said calmly, "You two, stay here."

Ayiguli immediately agreed. Huoyal frowned, but in the end, she said nothing and nodded her head. Fu Qingzhou clenched his right fist.

The pain that once tortured him to death in the Phoenix Blood Pool is nothing to him now.

He endured the severe pain and numbness and itching and stepped into the cave.

"Who is coming?"

In the cave, that ethereal and gentle voice was heard again.

Fu Qingzhou just opened his mouth slowly and asked softly: "Master Gui, Biyun?"

The sounds in the cave fell silent and were no longer heard.

Fu Qingzhou narrowed his eyes slightly and continued to go deeper.

After entering the cave, the temperature dropped significantly, and even tiny frost and ice crystals began to appear on his clothes and hair.

There were no torches in the cave, it was very dark, with only a faint light coming from the deepest part.

Fu Qingzhou's eyes moved slightly.

The reason why he guessed that the person in the cave was the evil master Biyun was very simple.

There are only four masters of the Styx, and Laogui is definitely not one of them. Xiaoyun ran to Lingwu Mountain and has been killed, and Wuyun... also died in southern Xinjiang.

In this way, there would probably be no one else who could cause such a violent reaction in his curse mark.

He walked deeper and deeper, and after turning a few corners in the small cave, he finally reached the end.

Then, Fu Qingzhou paused, a little surprised.

At the end of the cave, there was only a corpse.

A corpse that had long since decayed, with even the skeleton shattered to the ground!

The corpse was lying in disarray on the ground, with only the skull still barely intact, but it was also covered with spider-web-like cracks... and the faint light was actually coming from this skull.

Through the two eye sockets of the skull, you can see a bright white light shining in the skull!

Seeing Fu Qingzhou coming, the ball of light trembled slightly and made a sound.

"Your aura... is so familiar... Did Master send you to save me..."

Fu Qingzhou's eyebrows twitched slightly.

He squatted down and looked at the ball of light in the skull.

This is probably really the evil lord Biyun.

It's just that he had been dead for many, many years, and only because he practiced the Nine Revolutions of the Styx magic, he managed to preserve his residual soul. This is how he could remain conscious and intact after countless years.

"Answer me first, are you Biyun?" Fu Qingzhou asked.

The ball of light trembled slightly: "Yes...I am."

Fu Qingzhou sighed softly.

"The master you are talking about is Soul Master Cang Yun?" he asked again.

The ball of light trembled again, but this time the tone of voice changed slightly: "You are not someone he sent? But you clearly have his aura on you, who are you?"

"He has been dead for many, many years." Fu Qingzhou squatted beside the skull, staring directly at the ball of light, and said slowly: "It has probably been hundreds or even thousands of years since your Styx Valley was destroyed."

"W-what?!"

The ball of light vibrated a little more violently.

After a long while, it let out a helpless bitter laugh: "So, so much time has passed while I was half awake and half asleep? Yes, yes! If Master was still alive, how could he have allowed those people to attack the valley?"

Fu Qingzhou pursed his lips: "You believed my words so easily?"

"hehe."

The ball of light——Biyun chuckled: "Where do you think I got the name of the Master of Tricks?"

"Everyone says that I am full of tricks and can play with people's hearts, but they don't know that I was born with a very strong spiritual perception power. No one can lie to me!"

Fu Qingzhou was shocked.

"the same as you."

Biyun said leisurely: "Can you tell me who you are? Do you know Master?"

"Me..." Fu Qingzhou's eyes moved slightly: "I don't know your master. What I know is the soul after his death..."

(End of this chapter)