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Chapter 429 The River That Cannot Be Eradicated!

Chen Xin did not go directly to the headquarters of the Bureau of Public Opinion Investigation.

He first returned to the Sanshan camp to take a look at the news about the underground river.

This message was released by a ghost messenger, describing a fluorescent river floating in an underground space, whose concentration of yin energy was almost the same as that of the underworld.

The river is haunted, and it dissolves whatever it encounters.

Furthermore, when this underworld official discovered the river, he also encountered extraordinary humans who could control scissors to launch remote attacks.

Those people can even manipulate the river water to launch attacks!
The message description ends here, without providing specific location information.

Below this message, the required merit points are listed: 500!

It has to be said that with more underworld messengers, the corresponding facilities in the underworld's residence are used more frequently, and all sorts of strange things have started to appear in the task bar.

Chen Xin was even considering adding more taskbars.

Chen Xin was interested in this news. He had never heard of anything like this before. It was something that could appear in the mortal world and have a level of yin energy comparable to that of the underworld.

He originally intended to purchase it with 500 Yin Virtue, but the illusion told him that the message was related to the Nether Fox who had rapidly advanced to the Yin Si level!

Chen Xin was surprised, so he reviewed the promotion process of the Netherworld Fox puppet at the Yin Si level. After seeing how the Netherworld Fox had been promoted, he laughed.

"Can this still happen?"

After laughing, Chen Xin became even more interested in the river that the Dark Fox had used as a self-service hot pot.

Upon learning that the Netherworld Fox Figurine was still within the area of ​​that river, Chen Xin directly used the "Complete Guide to Suppressing Objects" to send his consciousness there.

……

In the underground space, in a cave corroded by the waters of the River Styx.

A black cat was staring at the River Styx flowing overhead when, suddenly, it leaped up and skimmed across the riverbank.

When it appeared above the cave ceiling, it had completely swallowed a ghost, and the dissipated claws had returned to their original state.

As the waves of the River Styx crashed towards it, it stomped on them and shot onto the side cave wall.

With a single stroke of leverage, it swept across the River Styx once more, and immediately another ghost appeared in its mouth.

Before the first wave of the Styx had even subsided, the second wave had already begun to rise.

However, the speed of the Styx Waves was already too slow for the Black Cat, so whether the second wave was approaching or not was irrelevant to the Black Cat.

Using the same trick again, waves surged from the cave where the River Styx flowed, turning the originally regular cave into various irregular pits.

After wreaking havoc on the River Styx for over a hundred meters, the black cat seemed to know what was about to happen and quickly left the spot.

The moment the black cat left, the entire River Styx suddenly 'angered,' with streams of water swirling around it, filling and dissolving the entire cave!
Half a minute later, the cave, which was originally four meters in diameter, had expanded to ten meters, but that was all.

Meanwhile, the black cat that had been stealing fish had already run to another cave and set its sights on another River Styx!
Just as it lowered its body, preparing to repeat its old trick, a ghost fox figurine suddenly appeared beside it.

The black cat was startled and ran away in a flash.

After it left, a similar black cat appeared on the ghost fox figurine.

"If the offspring of the spirit could advance to the Yama level, this guy would probably reach the top of the Underworld level if he continued to consume it for a while longer!"

Chen Xin, who had deployed the ghost fox figurines, was both amused and exasperated.

He looked up and gazed at the river above him.

"The yin energy is indeed very strong, but something feels off."

Chen Xin looked at the river through the Nether Fox, then controlled the Nether Fox to leap to a side wall where it was closer to the river.

As he got closer, he could see more clearly that the fluorescent river was actually jet black; the so-called fluorescence was merely an outward manifestation of excessively dense Yin energy.

If it weren't for the Nether Fox's eyesight, Chen Xin himself wouldn't have been able to see those dark figures in the river.

Despite seeing what was in the river, Chen Xin still couldn't figure out where this strange thing came from!
After thinking for a moment, Chen Xin cast a net over.

After the Yama-level net was placed on the face of the Nether Fox, it automatically closed and adhered to its surface.

Through the mesh screen, Chen Xin could see more clearly.

The river was indeed teeming with ghosts, but they all seemed to be of the level of fierce ghosts. After watching for five minutes, Chen Xin did not see a single ghost that was higher than the level of fierce ghosts.

But through the sieve, Chen Xin suddenly discovered something: the river itself seemed to be emanating an aura similar to that of the Black Abyss, but this aura was different from the Black Abysses that Chen Xin had seen before.

Strange, extremely strange!

"What the hell is it?"

Chen Xin immediately activated the source-tracing effect of the net sieve and used it on the river.

Following the direction of the energy, Chen Xin controlled the Nether Fox to give chase.

Since we can't see what's strange about this river, let's go straight to its source!
During the rush, Chen Xin suddenly thought of something.

This doesn't seem to be a tomb, so why could the Nether Fox travel so far?

After leaving the cemetery, this was the largest area that Chen Xin had ever seen the Netherworld Fox run.

Chen Xin suddenly looked at the river.

"Is it because of this river?"

Chen Xin guessed that this was probably the only thing that could be found.

After running for about ten minutes, Chen Xin suddenly made Mingli slow down.

After lying in wait for about a hundred meters, Chen Xin saw the scene in the distance.

"The Netherworld Rift?"

At a glance, Chen Xin recognized the crack!

Is the source of that river the underworld?

Chen Xin was somewhat surprised, but then he felt something was wrong. Even if it came from the underworld, there was something strange about this river.

Suppressing his doubts for the time being, Chen Xin turned his gaze to the crack in front of him.

Besides the huge crack, there were six smaller cracks before it.

Six small cracks divided the river into six tributaries, diverting them in different directions.

The river that Chen Xin traced back to was just one of six rivers!
"What are you doing?"

Chen Xin didn't understand, but he knew it wasn't a good thing because he recognized the people in front of the cracks.

The messenger of the gods!

With them around, what good things can possibly happen?
Under the scrutiny of the net, Chen Xin saw through the true nature of the guides. Immediately, he stopped hiding and controlled the Nether Fox to leap out.

The appearance of the Nether Fox clearly startled all the divine messengers.

"That's it!"

Upon seeing the Nether Fox, the Corpse Envoy immediately cried out.

"what is it?"

The senior guide frowned and asked, looking at the cat-like figure approaching from the underworld.

"I don't know either. This thing has been feeding on ghosts and spirits from the River Styx. I tried to catch it before, but it escaped several times. I never expected it would dare to provoke me to my face!"

The Corpse Envoy's words surprised the Senior Guide.

"Eat the ghosts and spirits from the River Styx? Wasn't it carried away by the River Styx?"

"No, I don't know why either. Although it can be injured by the River Styx, it recovers very quickly."

The senior guide nodded and said to the corpse messenger, "Go and capture it, take it back and study it."

Seeing that the corpse did not move, the senior guide said again, "I will help you block its retreat. Go."

"it is good!"

Having said that, the corpse envoy's stiff body shot out!

At the same time, the senior guide also moved the paper scissors in his hand, and a crack appeared on the river behind the Nether Fox, cutting a branch out of the River Styx.

As the paper scissors continued to open and close, the cut branch was divided into dozens of lines, instantly blocking the path to the cave behind the Nether Fox.

Upon seeing this, the Corpse Envoy revealed an imperceptible smile on his stiff face.

This time, let's see where you run to!
But then, the Corpse Envoy sensed something was wrong. Why didn't the black cat run away this time?
With less than two meters left, the black cat was still walking towards him.

He had a bad feeling, but since things had come to this point, how could the Corpse Envoy retreat?

Immediately, his fingernails grew longer. Just then, he saw the black cat move, its gaping mouth instantly becoming the same diameter as the cave.

It's even more comprehensive than the network of blockades formed by the Styx River behind it!
The corpse messenger had no time to react before it was swallowed whole by that huge mouth.

"It's over!"

This was the Corpse Envoy's first reaction, but then he found himself passing through the giant mouth and falling to the ground behind the black cat.

"Fake? A hallucination used to fool people?"

The corpse felt it had been tricked and immediately turned to pounce on the black cat.

The idea was good, but there was no physical reaction.

Looking at his aching limbs, the Corpse Envoy's eyes widened.

His body had never been this flexible since he gained the power of the ghoul!
How is this going?

Even now, the Corpse Envoy doesn't believe that the ghost inside him is gone; he thinks that the black cat did something to him!
Chen Xin turned his head and glanced at the Corpse Envoy, feeling somewhat puzzled.

The Nether Fox can't deal with the Guide, but dealing with you, a Yin cultivator, is a piece of cake for it.
Even though the Netherworld Fox is still at the Yin Si level, it can devour as many ghosts as there are Yin cultivators of the same level!

With his mouth closed, Chen Xin watched as the leading guide held paper scissors and cut at him from a distance. With a single leap, he dodged the crack that appeared out of nowhere and the Styx water that spewed out from it.

The clicking sound kept coming from the paper scissors in the guide's hand, but the Nether Fox was not hurt by any of the cracks.

As for the Styx waters that appear in the cracks, they are easier to avoid.

In the blink of an eye, Mingli was only five meters away from the guide.

Seemingly frightened, the guide stepped back and hid among the lower-ranking guides.

"Let's do it together!"

Immediately, more than ten cracks appeared in front of Chen Xin!

"Tsk!"

With a sigh, Chen Xin summoned the Nether Fox back. There was no need to fight it head-on; even if a Netherworld-level creature was destroyed, it would still require two thousand merits to revive it.

The sudden disappearance of the Nether Fox led the high-ranking guides to mistakenly believe that the Nether Fox had been swallowed by the Styx River waters drawn out by the rift they had created.

The senior guide, relieved, looked at the corpse on the ground and murmured, "What exactly was that thing?"

"That's a ghost fox."

An unfamiliar voice rang in the guide's ears. As the guide turned his head, he saw a hand that stretched out from the void, wrapped in black mist.

The environment changed, and the guide found himself in a pitch-black space.

Before he could even shout, he found himself atop a giant bronze pillar.

"Where am I? Who are you?!"

Before he could finish shouting, the senior guide saw his subordinates appear out of thin air one after another, and one by one they were trapped on the bronze pillar.

After everyone had entered, a voice rang out.

"Once you enter the Copper Pillar Prison, you will suffer the punishment of the Copper Pillar."

As soon as he finished speaking, the bronze pillars began to scald.

Screams echoed through the darkness.

……

Chen Xin, who had arrived in the cave, had already had Brother Chicken burn all the paper cutters on the cracks.

Without the paper scissors, the crack actually healed itself.

"That saves me some bad karma, but what's on the other side of the crack?"

Chen Xin took out a raven feather and threw it over.

Before he could even project his consciousness, the crow feather had already vanished.

Through the "Complete Collection of Town-Suppressing Objects," Chen Xin witnessed the final scene of the raven feather dissipating.

It seems to have entered a dark, mysterious body of water.
As the crack closed, Chen Xin watched the river water, having lost its support, begin to flow away into the six caves.

Chen Xin waved his hand, and Chicken Bro rushed over!
The crowing of a rooster echoed through the cave, and pale flames ignited the yin energy, filling the entire cave.

For a moment, apart from the flames, nothing else could be seen in the cave.

The flames finally went out several tens of seconds later.

But there was no smile on Chen Xin's face.

The flames went out not because Brother Chicken's flames won, but because the river flowed out of the realm of flames.

Without the continuous supply of yin energy, the flames naturally dissipated.

The fire that was so big just now only ignited the yin energy that was dissipating from the river; it did not burn the ghosts and spirits in the river at all.

"That river is even stronger than the Black Abyss?"

The Chicken Bro, at the Yama level, is capable of instantly killing Blood Calamity in groups and fighting most of the Black Abyss alone.

But just now, it seemed that the defenses hadn't been breached?
Chen Xin was somewhat surprised.

Chen Xin walked forward for a distance and caught up with a river.

This time, he summoned Huang Ying, Huang Ying carrying the Yama-level Sorrow Staff!

Since we can't break through the river's defenses, then let's not try!

Immediately, Chen Xin activated the [Night Walk] ability of the Yama-level Sorrow Staff, and Huang Ying carried the Sorrow Staff and began to walk through the cave.

Within the [Night Walk] area, all ghosts and spirits will be attracted, creating a scene of a hundred ghosts walking at night.

This time, it seems, will be no exception.

The ghosts in the river began to struggle and emerge from the water one by one.

Upon seeing this, Chen Xin smiled.

"With so many protective charms, how could we not subdue you?"

At this moment, within the range of the Staff of Sorrow's power, some ghosts had broken free of the river and were heading towards Huang Ying.

But after walking less than three or five meters, they turned into a cloud of yin energy and returned to the river!
All evil spirits that break free are like this!

Chen Xin's face darkened, and he summoned the Nether Fox once more!
It seems that only the Nether Fox can directly snatch the ghost from the river and digest its evil spirits before it can be recalled.

Thinking this, Chen Xin had Huang Ying cooperate with the Nether Fox to summon the ghosts in the river once again.

This time, with the Nether Fox present, more than ten of the hundreds of ghosts summoned were directly devoured by the Nether Fox.

The others had just returned when they were summoned back again.

This process was repeated until the Nether Fox had devoured over a hundred animals, at which point the second stage of [Devouring Fiends] could be activated.

The leopard, which was only thirty or forty centimeters long, suddenly transformed into a three-meter-long, dark-skinned black tiger.

After the tiger appeared, it looked at the hundreds of ghosts that had just been summoned and let out a roar.

After the sound waves were transmitted, all the ghosts were dispersed, turning into wisps of black smoke that shot towards the mouth of the Nether Tiger.

In that instant, no fewer than a hundred vengeful ghosts were devoured by the Nether Tiger, but the subsequent ghosts were summoned back by the river as they were being shot at.

Even the Nether Tiger, transformed into a Nether Fox, could not overcome that river!

However, overall, the efficiency is much higher now.

Just as Chen Xin was about to let Minghu continue, the river finally couldn't hold back and began to surge violently.

This time, it flowed backwards.

After Chen Xin led Huang Ying into the Netherworld, he left only the Nether Tiger behind.

Seemingly challenged by the river, the Nether Tiger roared and charged straight towards the River Styx.

The enormous tiger's mouth opened wide, as if it were about to swallow the entire river whole.

But as soon as it made contact, the Nether Tiger couldn't even stop the river in its tracks; it was immediately submerged.

In the netherworld, sensing the information about the shattered Netherworld Fox Figurine, Chen Xin frowned deeply.

This river seems a bit tricky!

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(End of this chapter)