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Chapter 426 The River Styx Changes Course
"It's that cat again! Corpse Envoy, go and take care of him!"

One of them pulled the scissors from the ground and said.

"I'd like to solve it, but I need to be able to catch it. I don't know what's wrong with that black cat, it even uses the River Styx as a shield. Last time I almost lost control and got myself killed."

The Corpse Envoy stared in the direction the cat had gone and said expressionlessly.

The guide, holding paper scissors, looked at the corpse messenger with a somewhat gloomy expression.

“What we’re doing this time is a major event that the organization has been planning for a long time. Any unexpected events that could affect this event are not allowed to happen. If you don’t want to do this job, then leave here and find someone else to take your place.”

The Corpse Envoy stared at the Guide with a stiff face, said nothing, and chased after the direction the Underworld Fox had left in.

Watching the departing figure of the Corpse Messenger, the Guide looked up at the River Styx floating above his head, a look of intoxication in his eyes.

"It's almost enough, almost enough. When that happens, the whole world will know the name of our divine messengers!"

The guide watched all of this with a look of madness on his face.

Suddenly, he froze.

His gaze drifted away from the river and landed on a spot on the cave ceiling.

Three people, six pairs of eyes, stared at each other.

The guide's expression changed drastically.

"who are you!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he threw the paper scissors in his hand away.

The light paper cutter, going from slow to fast, flew dozens of meters in just one second and shot into the location of the two heads.

However, given the distance, there was time to react, and by the time the paper scissors arrived, the two heads had already separated.

The guide's face turned ugly. He slashed his palms open and faced the paper scissors from afar.

The moment he sensed the paper cutting, Jieyin began to shake his hands.

Bang, bang, bang! The sound of banging came from the top of the cave wall, and countless pieces of gravel and dust fell from that location.

Half a minute later, the area within a ten-meter radius of that hole had become riddled with holes.

The guide saw the passage, but did not see the two severed heads from before.

Reach out and summon the paper cutouts back from the air, holding them in your hand.

Upon hearing the commotion, the Corpse Envoy leaped out of the cave he had just left and landed with a thud next to the Guide.

"what happened?"

The guide looked at the passage above.

"There was someone there just now, but they ran away."

The corpse raised its head.

"I gonna go see?"

The guide turned his head and glanced at the corpse messenger.

"By the time you get up there, they'll have vanished!"

As he spoke, the guide held the paper scissors in his hands and inserted them into his heart.

Upon seeing this, the Corpse Envoy's stiff face trembled involuntarily, and he then moved away from the Guide.

"madman."

The Corpse Envoy cursed under his breath, then realized something was wrong and took a few steps back.

Just then, the guide unleashed a surge of Yin energy comparable to the River Styx above his head.

"Please, Your Excellency, descend!!!"

After a frenzied roar, the paper scissors stuck in the guide's heart throbbed like a heart, and then they were pulled out of the guide's chest and floated in front of the guide.

At this moment, the pale-faced guide gripped the paper scissors with a fanatical expression.

It looked up at the River Styx above and made a scissor-like motion in mid-air.

Click!

The sound of scissors closing was heard, and a twenty-centimeter crack appeared in the section of the River Styx that the guide had pointed to.

As the Styx River plunged into the crevice, the guide took out the scissors and cut through the passage above his head.

Click!

Another crack appeared, and then fluorescent water gushed out from the crack in the passage.

With two cuts, a pipe-like structure was formed, guiding the waters of the River Styx into the passage above their heads!

As the water poured into the cave, the guide's face turned crazed.

"Where the River Styx flows, all life is extinguished!"

After saying this, the paper scissors in the guide's hand fell to the ground, and he himself fell backward.

Seeing that everything had returned to calm, the Corpse Envoy walked over from behind and picked up the paper scissors.

Looking at the guide on the ground and sensing the death aura emanating from his body, the corpse envoy uttered two words.

"Stupid!"

After cursing, the Corpse Envoy raised his right hand and inserted his one-inch-long, dark green fingernail into the corpse of the Guide Envoy.

In less than ten seconds, when the Corpse Envoy raised his hand again, the Guide had already opened his eyes.

However, unlike the previous pair of eyes, these eyes were covered by a layer of white substance.

"Go find that cat."

After the Corpse Envoy finished speaking, the Guide's body made a cracking sound.

Then, it lay down on the ground and, using all four limbs, quickly left its original spot and entered the cave where the black cat had just left.

The Corpse Envoy glanced at the paper scissors in his hand, then at the crack above his head from which the waters of the River Styx were constantly gushing out, and couldn't help but curse "idiot" again.

"Do you think that hole is straight without any twists and turns?"

"With a brain like yours, even if you offered yourself to an adult, they'd find you too stupid!"

With that, the Corpse Envoy headed back the way he came.

After all, the death of a guide had to be reported.

But after taking only a few steps, the guide he had turned into a walking corpse disappeared from his senses.

"Huh? What's going on?"

The Corpse Envoy was stunned. That cat was at most a vengeful ghost, but the power he had just bestowed upon the Guide was comparable to that of a fierce demon.

How did it just disappear?
Could there be something else here?

The Corpse Envoy sensed something was amiss, so instead of looking for the black cat, he quickly headed towards his destination to report the situation.

It seems this place has been infiltrated.

Just half a minute after the corpse messenger left, a black cat emerged from the hole.

After looking around, it ran back towards the cave wall.

This time, it's faster and more agile!

……

Song Feng and his two companions were running quickly.

What they had just experienced terrified them.

When they first discovered there were other people in the space below, they were curious and assumed they were other tomb raiders.

But when one of them left at an abnormal speed, they realized something was wrong.

As luck would have it, they were spotted by the remaining person.

The memory of the scissors moving freely through the cave sent chills down their spines.

If they hadn't run slowly, they would have had even more holes in their bodies.

But that's not all.

Just as they were running back through the cave, they heard a clear sound of flowing water behind them.

Turning around, Song Feng and Song Bin's expressions both changed.

The water from that fluorescent river actually flowed into their passage!
Knowing how dangerous the river was, they naturally wouldn't consider trying to see if they would die if they went in.

Their bodies are no match for those stones; if they were caught, they would be completely obliterated!

However, the cave was narrow and the ground was uneven. The three of them had to be careful not to slip while running, otherwise, if they twisted their ankles, it would be the end of them. As a result, their speed was slow.

Seeing that the water was already two or three meters behind him, Song Bin, who was running at the back, threw a reed behind him, hoping that the reed could help him.

But to everyone's surprise, after the reeds were swept away by the current, not only did it not stop them, but it also caused a wave to surge up in the river and rush forward.

It was only ten centimeters away from touching Song Bin's heel, which scared Song Bin so much that his face turned pale.

As if things weren't bad enough, they encountered a passage leading upwards not far ahead.

If flat roads are already this difficult, wouldn't uphill roads be a death sentence?

Song Bin was somewhat desperate, but he mechanically followed the two people in front of him up the slope.

Then he realized that the sound of water behind him had stopped getting closer!
When Song Bin turned around, he discovered that the fluorescent river had not flowed up the slope, but had instead corroded the rocks directly in front of him, creating a new path, and flowed away.

The ordeal left Song Bin's legs weak, and he had to be pulled by Li Jun to run for a while before he recovered.

Ten minutes passed.

The three of them breathed a sigh of relief as they approached the location of the tomb where they had been.

"What exactly happened between those two people?"

Song Bin couldn't help but ask.

"I don't know, but they're definitely not good people. They attacked us without saying a word after discovering us. What kind of good person could they be?"

Song Feng replied that he still felt lingering fear about the experience.

I just came here to deal with some minor evil spirits, accumulate some good karma, and upgrade my talisman. How did I end up encountering something like this?

Song Feng couldn't understand it, and he also couldn't understand the methods those two people used.

How could a river that floats in the air be manipulated?

Who exactly are those two people?

"arrive!"

Li Jun's voice brought Song Feng back to his senses.

Turning his head to look behind him, Song Feng followed the two into the tomb.

"Sir, you're back?"

Inside the main burial chamber, the large shovel and the dog-nose were eating something, presumably sent down from Tang Cai above.

But no one answered them.

Hei Xiazi walked to the rope and tugged at it three times before pulling Song Bin to his side and tying the rope around his body.

"go!"

Song Bin didn't hesitate; he pulled himself up while being pulled up.

Big Shovel and Dog Nose, watching this scene, seemed to sense that something was wrong.

"what happened?"

The two were getting anxious, looking at the rope as if they wanted to rush straight up to it.

But when Li Jun glanced at them, they stopped in their tracks.

"You two are the last to leave."

After saying that, Li Jun looked at Song Feng.

"Sir, you can go first."

Song Feng shook his head.

"You guys go first, I'll go last, don't worry about me."

Although the situation was urgent, he still had stickers to escape, so staying until the end was a safe bet.

Song Feng's words relieved the two men with the big shovel. As long as someone was at the bottom, it meant that someone was taking the risk!

Li Jun did not refute. After the rope was lowered, he looked at the two men with the big shovel.

"on!"

Big Shovel rushed over without hesitation, grabbed the rope and started climbing, much faster than Song Bin, making Dog Nose below grit his teeth in hatred.

Song Feng ignored everything else and walked up to the Netherworld Fox figurine.

He originally intended to put the Netherworld Fox figurine away, but when he got closer, he realized something was wrong.

The appearance of this ghost fox figurine seems to have changed!
Because he and Song Bin made them by hand, he was very familiar with these two ghost fox figurines.

But now, this ghost fox figurine has become quite exquisite.

Suddenly, the image of Mingli retrieving ghosts from the river flashed through Song Feng's mind.

He had already seen two ghosts swallowed by the Nether Fox, and before they could even search for it, it had swallowed several more.
Song Feng's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that the Netherworld Fox Puppet had become self-sufficient, killed enough ghosts and monsters, and advanced to the level of a Yin General?
Looking at the Netherworld Fox figurine in front of him, Song Feng suddenly didn't know whether he should take it away!
If the ghost is taken away, the ghost fox will be summoned back to the palace, and it will no longer be able to retrieve ghosts.

We can't take it away. If the two guys catch and kill the Nether Fox, the Nether Fox figurine will be destroyed.

A Yin-Yang Master-level Netherworld Fox Figurine is far too precious for him.

While Song Feng was hesitating, he heard Li Jun's voice.

"Sir, I'll go upstairs now."

"Um...wait!"

Song Feng looked at Li Jun and immediately walked over to him, taking the bag that Li Jun had originally been carrying on Song Bin's back off.

Joy was in his eyes!

He looked around and placed the ghost fox figurine from his bag into the stone coffin.

Watching the Nether Fox crawl out of the stone coffin and rush towards the side chamber they had come from, Song Feng smiled.

Immediately, he walked over to the Yin General-level Netherworld Fox Figurine, picked it up, and put it in his bag!

Since you're afraid of losing it, then keep at least one as a backup!
As for the other one, let it develop freely. If it's lucky, it can also become a Yin Marshal. If it's unlucky, he won't feel bad about losing it, since he already has a Yin Marshal as a backup!
After doing all this, Song Feng urged Li Jun to climb up.

When the rope was thrown down, Song Feng glanced at the coffin and left the tomb with some anticipation.

……

The Corpse Messenger sped along, reaching the end of the River Styx.

There is a huge crack two meters high there, from which the waters of the River Styx flow.

However, this crack is different from those dark cracks.

Around the crack, dozens of paper scissors were stuck, looking like dozens of nails, preventing the crack from closing.

On the ground next to the crack, eighteen people wearing hooded robes sat in a circle.

Each of these people had a scar on both palms and on their chest, exactly the same as the one on the guide who had died earlier.

The difference is that these eighteen guides did not die.

"what happened?"

A guide with three blood droplet patterns printed on his chest opened his eyes and said.

Three blood drops represent a high-ranking guide.

The guide who died from manipulating paper cutters was a low-level guide.

"Traces of other people have been discovered, and the existence of the suspected Styx has been exposed."

As soon as he finished speaking, the senior guide stood up from the ground.

"Has it already been exposed?"

Looking at the huge crack, the senior guide laughed.

"Then let's expose it. Since they want to see, let them see to their heart's content!"

Turning around, the senior guide looked at the seventeen junior guides behind him.

"It's time to let the Great Xia know what the consequences are for offending the Divine Envoy!"

With a wave of his hand, nearly half of the paper scissors that were stuck in the crack fell off and flew into the hands of the seventeen low-level guides.

Because the paper cutter was removed, the crack shrank by a third, but it did not close completely.

The senior guide looked at his subordinates holding paper scissors and announced in a cold voice, "The Styx River is changing course, begin!"

……

(End of this chapter)