My Silly, Sweet Wife

Chapter 1437 - 1356: The Peculiar Barrier

Ye Guichen and Feng Wuxiu continued to walk down.

Fortunately, they did not encounter any more strange occurrences.

But just as they hadn’t gone far, another group arrived at the place they battled the monster.

This group was none other than Dugu Yue and his men.

Examining the messy scene, Dugu Yue looked closely and didn’t find anything unusual.

At that moment, a sharp screech suddenly echoed.

The creature, neither entirely like a bat nor unlike one, which Ye Guichen encountered earlier, appeared again.

This time, there were two of them.

They moved incredibly fast, and one of them leapt forward and grabbed a person.

Then, it tore forcefully.

It ripped a disciple of Wan Jian Villa into two halves.

The other monster, moving at about the same speed, also tore another disciple into two halves.

"Second Master, Second Master, save us!"

The group fell into chaos at once.

There were less than ten people originally, and now following Dugu Yue down here, they were already quite fearful.

Yet they didn’t expect such creatures to appear now.

Dugu Yue couldn’t clearly see what the creature was, he just swung his twin swords at the black shadows.

But Dugu Yue’s Sword Dao was not strong; it wasn’t even a tenth of Ye Guichen’s prowess.

Moreover, these two creatures seemed different from those Ye Guichen encountered.

Even after slashing several times, Dugu Yue still hadn’t injured them, while the creatures had already torn all the disciples around him into halves.

The smell of blood filled the surrounding air.

Cold sweat broke out on Dugu Yue’s back.

He couldn’t comprehend where these things were coming from.

Wanting to retreat, he felt as though something in the darkness was watching him.

"Screech!"

A sharp cry rang out.

Dugu Yue suddenly lifted his head, seeing a shadow lunging toward him.

"Ah!"

Swash!

He swung his sword down.

Dugu Yue slashed a sword toward the creature.

This strike visibly injured the creature.

But before Dugu Yue could process what had happened, an enormous danger surged from behind him.

Dugu Yue had no time to react and could only try to dodge slightly.

However, how could he evade the speed of the creature?

Only a tearing sound could be heard.

His right arm, along with his clothing, was ripped open with a massive gash.

Intense pain and bone-chilling cold quickly surged.

Dugu Yue sensed the threat of death, casting aside thoughts of fame and fortune.

"Ahhhh!"

He executed the Twin Dragon Swordsmanship, with two swords swirling around him.

Simultaneously, Dugu Yue stuffed a handful of pills into his mouth, and his eyes turned blood-red, even his hair became red.

If anyone witnessed this scene, they would surely be shocked.

Because Dugu Yue’s aura was rapidly escalating.

In the blink of an eye, he broke through the Foundation Establishment Realm and entered the Golden Core Realm.

However, the murderous aura on his body became increasingly intense.

"Die!"

Dugu Yue seemed like a different person, frantically wielding his treasure swords at the two monsters.

After chopping, Dugu Yue felt he had cut them into pieces, yet he knew that if he continued like this, he would truly lose his mind.

The urgent task at hand was to quickly find a safe place to stabilize his sanity.

Gazing deeply in the direction where Ye Guichen had left, Dugu Yue hurriedly retreated.

Soon, he arrived at a spacious cave.

Dugu Yue sat cross-legged, taking out a small black bottle from his storage ring.

He poured out all the black pills from the bottle and swallowed them.

After consuming these pills, Dugu Yue activated the True Qi within him, striving to expel the poison of those pills from his body.

Dugu Yue was well aware that though the pills could temporarily unleash his potential, they would cause him to lose his sanity.

If he was not careful, he would become possessed.

Yet, driven by power and desire, he still carried these pills with him.

Dugu Yue originally didn’t expect to take such poison pills, but in today’s situation, not consuming them might lead to certain death.

"It shouldn’t take long before the Villa Master sends someone over here. I must expel the pill’s poison from my body before they arrive; otherwise, if they find out, the Villa Master will suspect me."

Dugu Yue thought as he quickly began meditating.

However, the poison from the creature was not so easily expelled from the body.

After meditating for more than half a day, the arm scratched by the creature remained extremely stiff, and the poison even started spreading throughout his body.

Dugu Yue gritted his teeth, realizing that if things continued this way, he might not only succumb to the pill’s side-effects but also die from the creature’s venom.

"Damn it, what exactly is that creature?"

A flash of ruthlessness crossed Dugu Yue’s eyes as he took up a sword and, with a swishing sound, chopped off half of his arm.

That arm, once it fell to the ground, instantly solidified.

Even harder than before, as if it had turned into a stone.

"Wh-what’s going on here?"

Dugu Yue widened his eyes in disbelief.

...

Ye Guichen and Feng Wuxiu had reached nearly three hundred meters underground, recalling what Yang Buxiu had said at the time.

Although he didn’t know if Yang Buxiu was telling the truth, Ye Guichen didn’t dare to take the risk.

If it was really as Yang Buxiu said, people at around three hundred meters underground would suddenly be pulled by a mysterious force and die on the spot.

That would be too terrifying.

So, Ye Guichen stopped and didn’t let Gui Tuo and the others rush forward but released a ghost to continue descending.

There was no anomaly.

The ghost ventured a certain distance downward and returned quickly.

Ye Guichen frowned, puzzled: "Could it be that Yang Buxiu has deceived me again?"

Seeing Ye Guichen’s peculiar expression, Feng Wuxiu curiously asked, "Mr. Ye, what’s wrong?"

"I don’t know. Earlier, someone from the Yin Ghost Sect said that people would die strangely at this spot three hundred meters underground, so I wanted to test it."

As Ye Guichen spoke, he commanded Little Black to go forward again.

The result was again no anomaly.

"Could I have been fooled again?" Ye Guichen scratched his head, regretting not keeping someone from the Yin Ghost Sect. Otherwise, he could have used them to test whether people would truly die here in a bizarre manner.

"Mr. Ye, let me try." Feng Wuxiu, seeing Ye Guichen’s conflicted expression, volunteered.

Ye Guichen shook his head: "We can’t take that risk. What if something unexpected happens..."

However, before Ye Guichen could finish speaking, Feng Wuxiu had already stepped forward, directly passing the approximately 300-meter mark.

The next second, an astonishing scene unfurled.

It was as if a bizarre force directly enveloped Feng Wuxiu’s body.

Feng Wuxiu instantly collapsed to the ground, twitching twice before becoming motionless.

It seemed as if there was an immensely powerful barrier here, and if someone touched it, they would be killed by the force within it.

"This..."

Ye Guichen was dumbfounded, not expecting that Yang Buxiu hadn’t lied to him, yet he still extended his hand, using the Evergreen Technique of the Yi Wood to conjure a vine.

The vine swiftly wrapped around Feng Wuxiu.

Ye Guichen pulled the vine back, dragging Feng Wuxiu up.

Lowering his head, he saw Feng Wuxiu bleeding from all seven orifices, barely alive, though it was clear he wouldn’t survive long.

What was happening?

Instantly killing someone?

Such an ability couldn’t possibly be achieved by an ordinary expert.

Ye Guichen was stunned, wanting to use the Evergreen Technique of the Yi Wood to restore Feng Wuxiu’s vitality, but it had no effect whatsoever.

"Master, it seems that the barrier doesn’t affect yin entities much."

At this moment, Gui Tuo thoughtfully remarked.

"Yin entities?"

Ye Guichen was taken aback, recalling that when he previously sent remnant souls down to explore, there seemed to be no sensation.

Could it be that this barrier targets only the living?

With this thought, Ye Guichen had no other recourse but to summon the Jiuyou Tower and release yin energy into Feng Wuxiu’s body.

To his surprise, this actually had an effect.

As the yin energy entered Feng Wuxiu’s body, his aura gradually recovered, and his deathly appearance vanished.

Soon, he slowly opened his eyes.

However, those eyes exuded a chilling aura, making it seem like one was looking at a yin ghost rather than a living person.

"Mr. Ye..." Feng Wuxiu stood up, "Am I not dead yet?"

Ye Guichen did not respond immediately but checked Feng Wuxiu’s pulse.

To Ye Guichen’s astonishment, Feng Wuxiu’s pulse was extremely slow.

A normal person’s pulse would exceed sixty beats, but Feng Wuxiu’s pulse would take a long time to beat once, making two or three beats a minute a challenge.

Moreover, Feng Wuxiu’s body temperature was abnormally low, several degrees lower than before, at most around six or seven degrees.

"Feng Wuxiu, how do you feel?" Although skillful in medicine, Ye Guichen had never encountered such a scenario.

Previously, injuries from monsters resulted in a body temperature around ten degrees, which was already astounding, and now even the pulse had changed.

Utterly bizarre.

Feng Wuxiu shook his head: "Mr. Ye, I can’t describe it, but strangely, I feel an urge to suck blood."

Licking his lips, Feng Wuxiu glanced at Ye Guichen’s neck, then shuddered in fear and quickly lowered his head: "Mr. Ye, I—I dare not."

"Suck blood?"

Ye Guichen took a deep breath, a terrifying thought flashing in his mind.

Could it be, by a twist of fate, Feng Wuxiu had turned into some creature that was neither human, nor corpse, nor ghost?

Especially with that previous reaction, climbing the rock wall like a gecko.

And now, having a desire to suck blood.

"Feng Wuxiu, stay here and rest, don’t move around. Wait for me to return."

Ye Guichen had no idea what had happened to Feng Wuxiu, but from Feng Wuxiu’s experiment earlier, he could ascertain that there was certainly a large array here.

That array likely protected what Yang Buxiu described as some kind of ghost pill underground.

As for whether it’s indeed a ghost pill, Ye Guichen was uncertain.

But given that something was being protected, wouldn’t leaving without investigating be a waste?

However, since that barrier was so formidable, Ye Guichen dared not proceed recklessly.

After contemplating for a long time, Ye Guichen thought of a plan.

If that barrier could overlook yin ghosts, then it’s very likely that the underground entity was meant to attract yin ghosts, deterring the living from entering.

In this case, if he maximized the yin energy within him, making himself appear as a yin entity, could he sneak past?