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Although the subject matter is niche and not very popular, writing original works on Cat Station is going against the grain. For the author, meeting readers who love the author's writing style is the greatest reward (?o?o)?? This is also part of the author's growth process.

I hope the stories written by the author will bring you a magnificent and unforgettable reading experience.

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Chapter Fifty-Nine: Mountain of Corpses

The sound of Ye Xiao's feet landing on the ground and the swordsman's body falling rang out at the same time. The hunter next to him had already reacted and hurriedly dodged to the side.

"Wh...what was that sound?!" Dong Muge suddenly exclaimed, only then realizing what had just happened.

"Oh no!" Ye Xiao thought to himself, "Idiot, don't make a sound!"

"Ha! There's another sinner here!" Hearing the girl's exclamation behind him, the somewhat deranged Arnold turned around and attacked Dong Muge.

Unable to catch up with the hunter who had already distanced himself, Ye Xiao hurried back, using the sound to pinpoint the location and decisively throwing out his knife.

Sensing the sound of something cutting through the air behind him, Arnold turned around and swung his rapier to block the flying longsword.

The long sword spun and became embedded in the stone floor beside it.

Taking advantage of Arnold blocking the blow, Ye Xiao kicked up the sword that the beheaded swordsman had dropped, sprinted a few steps, and threw it again.

"Ding"

Arnold disdainfully deflected the second sword that flew towards him, and upon hearing Ye Xiao's hurried footsteps, he rushed towards him.

He was also calculating Ye Xiao's condition in his mind, "You're playing with two swords like throwing knives, are you planning to beat me with your fists!"

"Oh, that may not be the case."

Another whooshing sound came from the darkness.

How come he still has weapons?

Arnold's keen eyes spotted the sudden, lunging shadow in the nearby darkness, and he switched his rapier from a forward thrust to a parry.

A dull thud sounded; this time, the rapiers clashed not like metal, but a heavy piece of wood.

The tip of the log stopped just in front of Arnold, unable to go any further.

"Hahaha, picked up a twig?" Arnold laughed maniacally. It turned out to be a broken stick, and the other man's death was imminent. "You think you can kill me with this?!"

"Why don't you take another look?"

"Buzz!" Arnold saw a faint flame suddenly appear on the tip of the stick that was hovering not far from his nose.

His smile froze.

At this moment, Ye Xiao held the staff as if it were a rifle, and the muzzle was already pressed against Arnold's face.

"Bang," Ye Xiao said softly.

The fireball, fired right at his face, ruthlessly blasted him in the head.

The flying flames resembled dazzling fireworks, with sparks scattering all over the ground.

But it wasn't over yet; the flickering firelight gave the hunters hiding in the shadows a clear target.

The sound of an arrow piercing the air came again, and Ye Xiao used Arnold's body as a shield to block the arrow.

Taking advantage of the moment when the other man drew his bow, he darted into the darkness where the firelight could not reach.

"what!!"

Just as Ye Xiao raised his staff to retaliate, a miserable scream suddenly came from the direction of the hunter.

"Whoosh—" A familiar shriek sounded, but this time the sound was so close that it almost pierced Ye Xiao's eardrums.

He vaguely felt something wet and sticky sliding down his feet, so he quickly lit a fluorescent glow on the tip of his staff and was shocked to see a dark tentacle wrapped around his ankle.

What the hell!

Ye Xiao hurriedly slammed his staff hard into the tentacle, and while pulling his foot away, he didn't forget to throw a fireball at the tentacle.

The burst of firelight also allowed him to see his surroundings—the floor around him was now covered with countless tentacles that were wriggling toward him.

He immediately felt a chill run down his spine and threw out several fireballs to illuminate the large area. Then he saw tentacles falling down from the top of the water channels extending from all sides, like dumplings.

Countless tentacles, like black waves, surged from all directions toward the sacred spring in the center of the room.

"This is outrageous!" Ye Xiao hurriedly turned around, picked up the blade stuck in the ground, and rushed towards Dong Muge. He grabbed the still terrified girl and shouted, "Run! Don't stand there!"

"But...where can we run?" Dong Muge looked at the hellish scene around him and couldn't help but feel a little desperate.

Ye Xiao's forehead was covered in sweat as he fired a fireball into the air. He remembered that when he looked at the Sacred Spring Corpse Mountain earlier, the dome above the corpse mountain was not sealed off.

Sure enough, as the fireball flashed by, atop the towering mountain of corpses in the center of the holy spring, there was a circular shaft at the top of the room's arched ceiling.

"Go up, it's connected up there!" Ye Xiao pointed to the vertical shaft in the ceiling with his staff.

"How...how are we supposed to get up there..." Dong Muge stared palely in the direction Ye Xiao was pointing. "...Are we going to have to climb that mountain of corpses?!"

"Either crawl or play with tentacles, you choose." Ye Xiao arrived at the edge of the red holy spring and decisively jumped into the water.

Dong Muge looked around, and seeing the surging tentacles, he finally gritted his teeth and jumped into the water.

The two swam vigorously in the deep red spring, which seemed to be deeper than they had imagined.

Tentacles had swarmed throughout the hall. Not far away, Arnold's body, which was lying on the ground with its head on fire, slowly stood up after the tentacles tore through its skin and burrowed inside.

"Woo——"

Another sharp whistle rang out, and this time, milky white mist rose from the deep red springs.

The air was filled with a misty haze, just like the hazy scene seen in the sacred spring of the Church of Loren.

Ye Xiao's body was already soaked through by the deep red water. Finally, when the mist enveloped the water's surface, he clung to the massive mountain of corpses.

After pulling him up, he didn't forget to turn back and pull Dong Muge, who was choking on water, out of the water as well.

At the same time, Ye Xiao also saw those black tentacles surging into the holy spring and swimming towards this side.

And then there's Arnold's body, with a charred head but unusually agile limbs, leaping into the red spring like an ape and swimming towards the mountain of corpses.

Ye Xiao hurriedly turned around to climb up, but inadvertently saw Dong Muge staring at a corpse with a look of horror on his face.

What are you doing now?!

“This…this corpse…” Dong Muge’s voice trembled.

Ye Xiao glanced at it and was startled to see the brown cloak on the corpse, and the familiar face that, despite its bluish tinge and decay, was still recognizable—

The corpse's face looked exactly like Dong Muge's.

Ye Xiao seemed to understand something for a moment, but this was not the time to think or daydream. He grabbed the girl's arm and shouted angrily, "Don't worry about that! Let's go!!"

The two men struggled to climb to the top, clinging to the layers of corpses.

This massive, putrid mountain of corpses would occasionally throb slightly, like a beating heart.

The stench, the blood, the stains... Ye Xiao no longer cared about these messy things, and just stared at the vertical shaft on the ceiling at the very top as he numbly crawled along.

As he crawled, he vaguely saw several identical corpses, but the tentacles that were already at the foot of the mountain of corpses and were beginning to surge upwards did not allow him to think about these strange things.

After the tentacles touched the corpses at the bottom, they twisted and burrowed into the skin of the corpses as if they had touched Arnold. In no time, the corpses rose from the mountain of corpses as if they were being controlled, twisting their limbs like nimble apes and chasing after Ye Xiao and Dong Muge on the mountain.

Chapter Sixty: Departure

With Ye Xiao's constant pulling and pushing, Dong Muge and he finally managed to climb to the top of the mountain of corpses.

Watching the corpses and tentacles surging towards the mountaintop like a tidal wave, Ye Xiao took out the staff he had been carrying on his back and had Dong Muge wrap his arms around his neck. "Hold on tight!"

Then he thrust his staff downwards with a swift motion, shouting, "Wind Summoning Technique!"

The howling air currents lifted the two bodies upwards as the tentacles and corpses surged up the mountaintop.

They shot vertically up to a height of more than ten meters, just reaching the edge of the vertical shaft on the arched dome.

Ye Xiao tucked the staff back behind his back in mid-air, then pulled out the longsword he had retrieved, gripped it with both hands, and slammed it into the wall of the shaft.

The blade pierced the wall, suspending the two people above the dome. The mountain of corpses, several meters below them, was now covered by countless tentacles. The corpses that had been burrowed into by the tentacles moved about like countless spiders crawling all over the surface of the mountain of corpses.

But perhaps Ye Xiao's movements were a bit too intense, because Dong Muge's hand slipped and he suddenly fell off Ye Xiao.

"what!"

Ye Xiao reacted quickly, releasing one of his hands that was holding the knife and grabbing the girl who was about to fall off the dome.

With only his right hand gripping the hilt, bearing the weight of two people, even Ye Xiao's current physical attributes couldn't withstand it, and veins immediately bulged on his forehead.

Even worse, with one hand gripping the knife and the other gripping Dong Muge's arm, Ye Xiao couldn't reach the staff on his back to unleash the Wind Summoning spell.

The two were instantly locked in a stalemate at the edge of the shaft.

This is so unlucky...

Ye Xiao, who was almost exhausted, felt his scalp tingling. Looking at the densely packed, surging objects beneath his feet and the milky white mist that was gradually climbing up the mountain of corpses, he felt an indescribable sense of unbearable discomfort.

Holding onto Dong Muge with one hand, he dangled precariously in mid-air, about to fall at any moment.

"Don't just stand there... Can you... climb up here..." Ye Xiao gritted his teeth and managed to squeeze out a few words. His current position, where his body was almost being pulled in two, was suffocating him.

“I…” Dong Muge looked at Ye Xiao’s expression, opened his mouth slightly, and gave a wry smile, “I’m sorry… I’m always clumsy.”

After saying that, she actually let go of his hand.

Before Ye Xiao could react, the girl's hand slipped from his palm, drifting down like a leaf in the wind towards the horde of corpses below.

What the hell?!

Without a second thought, Ye Xiao released his right hand and fell into the horde of corpses along with Dong Muge.

As he fell through the air, he took out his staff and chanted:

"Great God, I pray to you, grant me the body of a beast to tear apart the invading enemy!"

A blood-red magic circle instantly spread around him, and white hair grew wildly along Ye Xiao's arms. The moment he landed, he grabbed Dong Muge and stomped his feet on the top of the mountain of corpses, creating a cloud of blood mist.

The surrounding tentacles and corpses were scattered and broken, which was naturally due to the beast transformation spell of Cynthia borrowed from Ella.

Feeling his mental strength rapidly declining, Ye Xiao grabbed Dong Muge around his waist and pushed off with his feet, relying on his immense strength to once again surge up the shaft.

He used his teeth to bite out the blade stuck in the edge of the shaft, and his right hand, which had turned into a wolf's claw, climbed up the stone brick wall.

As if sensing something, the white mist below suddenly rose up like an erupting volcano, surging into the shaft with a sharp whistle.

The wide shaft opening was instantly filled with milky white mist, which surged upwards following Ye Xiao as he struggled to climb.

With the support of the beast-like power, this steep and long passage soon reached its end, which was shrouded in a faint light.

Ye Xiao had never longed to see that deep, bright night sky so much.

He burst out of the shaft and was shocked to find himself in a black hilly landscape with a honeycomb-like topography; he had only emerged from one of countless openings.

White mist also gushed out from these openings, like boiling water from a kettle, accompanied by a persistent shriek.

Before the fog had spread, Ye Xiao found himself seemingly at the bottom of a huge basin, surrounded by towering, steep cliffs.

Without time to think about all that, before his mental energy was exhausted, Ye Xiao jumped onto a cliff and continued climbing.

But this time, the surging mist was faster than him, engulfing his body and rising upwards before he could.

bad!

Just when Ye Xiao thought he would have trouble finding his way because his vision was blocked, his hand touched a rope.

Why would there be climbing ropes here?

Ye Xiao looked around and found that there were four empty ropes hanging on the cliff. He quickly carried Dong Muge on his back, grabbed two ropes with one hand, and climbed up quickly.

With the help of the rope, Ye Xiao no longer needed to use his claws to pry at the rocks, and quickly made his way to the top of the cliff thanks to his greatly enhanced physical abilities from his beast transformation.

He sprinted through the hazy mist, his enhanced strength allowing him to keenly spot a familiar figure.

Wait, isn't that...?

Seeing Eileen being grabbed by a tentacle-covered zombie, Ye Xiao jumped up without hesitation and slapped his claw onto the tentacle-covered face.

Blood splattered all over the stunned young lady's face as her body was torn apart. Ye Xiao didn't bother to say anything, and simply grabbed the dazed girl under his arm and continued running down the mountain.

With his beast-like senses and reflexes, he leaped across the rugged mountain paths and rocks, and even the pervasive fog did little to slow his descent.