Terrifying Heavens: I'll directly worship the Black Law of Fengdu!

Chapter 344 The Cursed Ruins Underwater
When Li Xuan returned to his residence, he saw a fat boy dragging his heavy steps past, moving very slowly and leaving wet footprints in his wake.

The Vortex Curse will transform anything into a vortex-related form.

Humans face two fates: one is to have their bodies elongated and twisted into a rope-like shape, and the other is to develop swirling marks on their backs, slowly transforming them into snail-like beings over time...

This chubby boy was the first snail in the vortex.

With no one else around, Li Xuan called out to the obese boy, "Hey, you don't look too good."

The obese boy stopped and looked at Li Xuan slowly before speaking slowly, "I... know... but I don't know... what happened."

He pointed to his slightly swollen back and said, "I...it hurts so much here...it feels like...it's going to split open."

Li Xuan stepped forward and pulled open the back of the fat boy's shirt. His back was bulging like a hunchback's, with a vortex-like tip emerging from it, a sign that he was about to transform into a snail-man.

He said, "Close your eyes, and I'll try to see if I can help you."

The obese man obediently closed his eyes; perhaps he had already resigned himself to his fate and was waiting for death.

Li Xuan took out a cinnabar brush and wrote an exorcising talisman on the fat man's back, chanting: "I cleanse my body with the moon and refine my true nature with the sun. Immortals assist me, and jade maidens aid my form. The twenty-eight constellations follow my direction. To the left are the six Jia, and to the right are the six Ding. In front are thunder and lightning, and behind are wind and clouds. All evil and filth are swept away by this energy and purified. So be it!"

With swift, flowing strokes, the cinnabar ink left behind resembled scalding lava, burning black marks onto the obese boy's back.

He let out a slow scream, trying to grab his back, but he was too slow, and Li Xuan easily brushed his hand aside...

The Taoist purification incantation caused the obese boy great pain; the area on his back where the incantation was drawn cracked open with countless small fissures, from which a large amount of round, gravel-sized material flowed out.

Upon closer inspection, Li Xuan discovered that they were actually a large number of tiny snail shells!
The purification spell is effective against curses!

Somewhat surprised, he took a cinnabar pen and wrote another talisman on the fat boy's forehead, then recited the purification incantation once more!

The obese boy started vomiting, also vomiting a large amount of small snail shells that looked like sand. In no time, a large pile of snail shells accumulated on the ground...

Amidst heavy breathing, the obese boy had lost a considerable amount of weight, and his movements became much more fluid, no longer feeling so dragging.

pat!

The boy collapsed to the ground and fell unconscious.

His mental state was much better than before; his face was no longer haggard and pale, and he had regained some color...

Li Xuan casually flicked an arc of electricity onto the snail shells on the ground. With a crackling sound, the little creatures began to stir, then all turned into a dried-up pool of brown liquid…

The boy woke up from the ground and looked at his hands in surprise as he got up.

My body feels so light.

The talismans on his forehead and back had been wiped off, and he was slightly dazed, unable to remember why he had fallen asleep on the ground.

There was no one around...

Li Xuan has already gone back.

The boy felt like he had a very long dream in which his body grew heavier day by day, and eventually he was going to turn into a snail.

Behind the window on the second floor of the house, Li Xuan silently watched the boy's light-footed figure leave. He was in a good mood; his magic seemed to be amplified in this world.

Let's explore that pool in the middle of Blackvortex Town tonight and see what the vortex ruins really are...

late at night.

Li Xuan went out dressed in dark clothes, with a clear purpose: he headed straight for the center of Black Vortex Town.

The pool wasn't large, it was very round, about 1000 meters in diameter, and the surface was calm. There were no whirlpools of various sizes like those in the town's ditches... The whirlpool ruins are in the story and will only appear later.

At that time, almost all the people in the town had turned into long, slender monsters, who, together with another normal-looking man, built long houses that looked like mosquito coils.

All the houses in the town are connected together.

The pond in the center of the town dried up, revealing a circular opening with spiral staircases leading downwards. The male and female protagonists fell into the staircases as they descended, eventually reaching the ruins.

However, it is clear that the time is not yet right.

The pond was full, and you couldn't tell how deep it was at the bottom.

Li Xuan took out yellow paper, drew a talisman on the spot, turned the talisman into ashes and swallowed it, then made hand seals and silently recited the incantation for the Seventy-Two Arts [Entering Water].

thump!
He leaped into the water!

With the blessing of [Entering Water], Li Xuan did not feel short of oxygen in the water. Now that his cultivation level has improved, he can easily see through the dark environment underwater.

Sure enough, the bottom of the lake was cylindrical, with a staircase going down in circles, just like in the comics.

Li Xuan sat cross-legged, his body became heavier, and he fell at an extremely fast speed. Before long, the surrounding environment became increasingly dark, and he landed on a small hill.

This hill is made up of a large number of strange bones.

He discovered that these bones, apart from having a normal human skull, were all made up of long spines and leg bones.

So that's how it is. They might be the residents of Black Vortex Town who were wiped out by the Vortex Curse last time.

Li Xuan saw the ruins, a large vortex-shaped building over twenty meters high, constructed from various shapes of snail shells. It had doors and windows, and he could even see the furniture inside.

He swam into the doorway.

zizi...

The Inspector of the Three Realms and the Gods Seal inside the gourd at his waist began to heat up; this was a warning that would only be issued when encountering evil spirits that might be a bit troublesome for Li Xuan.

Li Xuan landed on the ground, his pupils trembled, and he instantly entered the form of double pupils, his gaze piercing through layers of darkness to the deepest part of the ruins...

He saw that the interior of the ruins was an empty hall, with no floors or rooms.

In this hall, there were haphazardly strung black chains binding a lump of... what appeared to be a lump of conch meat that had been picked out of its shell...

The fishy, ​​pungent smell of marine life hits you right in the face.

Li Xuan didn't know why he could smell the odor even in the water, but the smell was so strong it almost made him break apart.

In some ways, sea snails look quite similar. This nearly ten-meter-tall conch shell has two eyes, and it slowly wriggles its body, "staring" at the uninvited guest who suddenly intrudes. Its body is covered with various swirling patterns, and its tail is a curled-up, slightly luminous, dark brown mosquito coil tail.

This... is the source of the vortex?

Li Xuan is a bit malfunctioning, so what should we do with this thing? Just kill it?
The conch shell exuded a heavy aura of curse, and the water around it swirled with undercurrents. A large amount of sticky substance secreted from the conch shell's skin floated back and forth in the water...

Just then, a muffled voice rang out: "Hungry...so hungry..."

The conch shell slowly opened its mouth, revealing a dense array of human faces—men, women, young, and old—all repeating in unison, "So hungry..."

Li Xuan sensed something was wrong and decided to leave.

A sudden undercurrent swept him up and pulled him towards the conch shell...

(End of this chapter)