C2391 Spirit's Death

Although Little Fang's mountains had been destroyed, there was definitely something more hidden here!

In actuality, this wasn't just a thought born in Lin Bai's heart after he'd felt the stealthy probing aura this time around as he entered the small mountain range. He still remembered clearly that last time he had come to the small mountain, the forbidden snake had warned him that there seemed to be some terrifying aura hidden within the small mountain.

However, at that time, he had already fallen out with the Spirit Spring Martial School and didn't want to argue with the small mountain because of the auction. That was why he didn't try to find out what that aura was.

However, after entering the small mountains, he felt as if something was secretly spying on him. This feeling didn't stop even when he was fighting Patriarch Netherworld. He continued to watch from the sidelines.

Furthermore, from what he had seen, based on the fact that the small mountain had spirit stone mines, if the Spirit Spring Martial School wanted to get their hands on this place, why would they send only Patriarch Netherworld and this young man here? Furthermore, they did not encounter any sentries along the way.

Most importantly, when he had hidden himself just now, he had clearly seen this young disciple of the Spirit Spring Martial School talking about "could that thing be chasing him", and he couldn't hide the fear in his eyes.

He couldn't help but be curious as to what the things spying on him were.

"Senior, do you mean that it wasn't you who killed the guard from the Spirit Spring Sect?" Upon hearing Lin Bai's words, the young man immediately widened his eyes as he looked at Lin Bai in disbelief and asked doubtfully.

"It's not me, I don't have that kind of leisure …" Lin Bai smiled indifferently. After replying to the young man, he asked with some doubt, "Are you saying that your Spirit Spring Sect didn't actually send just the two of you here, but rather, that everyone else was killed?"

Cold sweat kept dripping down his forehead, and he was even looking around from the corner of his eyes. It was as if he was secretly hiding something that he was afraid of, a god of death that could easily take away his life.

"I'm asking you, don't look around. Do you think that if that thing can kill you, I won't be able to kill you?" Seeing the young man's panicked expression, Lin Bai couldn't help but slightly furrow his brows. His eyes coldly stared at the young man, and his voice was filled with a cold killing intent as he lightly said, "Tell me everything you know!"

"Junior does not dare, junior does not dare …" As soon as Lin Bai said this, the young disciple of the Spirit Spring Sect broke out in a cold sweat. He kowtowed to Lin Bai and begged for mercy while recounting everything that had happened.

It was as Lin Bai had expected. After learning that the Little Fang Mountains possessed a spirit stone vein, there was no one in the Spirit Spring Sect who didn't want to get their hands on it. Even though Tie Yuan did not tell them the exact location of the spirit stone vein in the back mountain and even though the Spirit Spring Sect had reached an agreement with the other sects that were after this place, they still could not help but send their disciples here to guard the ruined Little Fang Mountain, to prevent anyone from coveting this place from entering.

In order to guard the spirit stone vein, the Spirit Spring Sect had invested quite a bit. Not only did they send out the ancestor of the Underworld, an elder who had quite a high status in the Spiritual Spring Sect, but they also sent out several core disciples as well as many other unrated disciples like the young man who was scared to death.

According to the Spirit Spring Sect's Sect Leader, Jiang Wanli, just the Patriarch of the Underworld alone should be able to deal with the assault of a strong opponent. In addition to that, there were many core disciples and unranked disciples who could be used as cannon fodder. Even if some sect were to attack this place, they should be able to deal with it.

However, no one expected that after they had entered the small mountains, they had encountered an extremely strange situation.

On the first night after he had entered the ruins of Little Fang's mountain, the ancestor had sent out many unrated disciples to guard the mountain as a secret sentry, as usual. As soon as there was any movement, they could use them to inform the others who were stationed at the back of the mountain and prepare to respond.

In the beginning, everyone had held some disapproval towards forefather Netherworld's arrangements. After the battle at Little Fang Mountain, all the sects were destroyed without a single person remaining. Moreover, the Spirit Spring Sect had the power and influence to rule over all the sects. In their minds, no one would dare break into this place.

And at the very beginning, just as they had thought, the whole night was calm and peaceful. However, when morning arrived, something strange happened.

The Yellow Springs Grandmaster and the other core disciples were waiting at the back of the mountain until late in the morning. They actually didn't wait for those untouchable disciples to return, as if they had already escaped from the small mountains in the dark of the night.

In a fit of rage, Ancestor Huang Qian led a group of core disciples to inspect the positions of the hidden sentries. However, after searching for a while, their hearts sank to the bottom.

Those unrated disciples that had been sent as secret sentries by the forefather had all been silenced overnight. Their heads had been separated from their bodies and their corpses exposed in the wilderness.

Moreover, the strangest thing was that even though so many people had died, on that night, they did not even notice the slightest movement. Moreover, on the dead disciples' faces, there was even a calm expression, as if the death god had directly killed them without any warning, and did not leave any strength for them to retaliate.

This change had disturbed all the disciples of the Spirit Spring Sect. In order to calm the situation, the ancestor of the underworld had led a group of core disciples to search the entire small mountain. It wouldn't even be an exaggeration to say that they had dug three feet into the ground. However, no matter how much they searched, they couldn't find anything unusual.

It was as if there was a ghost that had killed a man in ten steps and left no space in the air, completing all of this.

After the night came again, for the sake of caution, he still sent out hidden sentries to guard the surroundings. This time, not only the unranked disciples were there as sentries, there were even several core disciples accompanying them.

These core disciples were all the young talents of the new generation of the Spirit Spring Sect. They were all famous in the hidden world, especially after the destruction of the small mountains.

But that night, when forefather Netherworld was leading everyone to investigate the hidden sentries he had placed, he discovered that they had all been slaughtered and not a single one had survived. Moreover, it was still the same as before. No one had any abnormal reactions, and before they could even scream, their lives had already been taken by the god of death.

The most important thing was that after forefather Netherworld had discovered this anomaly, he'd personally searched the entire small mountain, but still came up empty-handed.

If it was said that the deaths of a few unrated disciples who were treated as cannon fodder was not a big deal, then the deaths of these core disciples could be said to have completely snapped the strings in the hearts of the crowd.

For a while, those who had come to the Spirit Spring Sect were all panic-stricken. Rumors even started to spread among these people that people from the Spirit Spring Sect, who had caused so much damage in the Little Fang Mountain, had come here to take their lives, and that the ghosts of the people from the Little Fang Mountain Sect had come here to take their lives. It was also because the ghosts had taken their lives that no one had realized it.

Rumors were flying everywhere. When night fell again, no one was willing to walk out from the back of the mountain and become a sentry guarding outside the mountain. In a situation where people were terrified, the violent ancestor directly used his lightning methods to kill several unrated disciples who didn't want to be hidden guards, as well as a core disciple of an elder who used to be on bad terms with him.

Under the suppression of this bloody thunderbolt, the situation finally settled down. Although the crowd was extremely unwilling, they still followed Elder Huang Quan's instructions and left the back of the mountain, becoming the hidden sentry. After calming the situation down, for the sake of safety, the ancestor of the Underworld had set up a very small area around the sentry posts. He was calling them from beginning to end, trying to find the culprit as best as he could.

Even the ancestor himself walked out from the back mountain and hiddenly checked the sentries. He wanted to see who it was that dared to go against the law of the world, even dared to act so viciously towards the Spirit Spring Sect in this hidden world.

However, things were still progressing in an unimaginable way. Other than Patriarch Netherworld, who was usually present everywhere, no one else was still alive from the sentries that had been sent out this time!

The most frightening thing was that even though forefather Netherworld was moving between the various secret sentries, he still hadn't detected any hints or traces of the person who'd tried to assassinate him. It was as if that person could freely travel through different spaces. After he was done, he would be able to escape unscathed, and any traces left behind would be annihilated, making others unable to search for him.

It wasn't that the Yellow Springs forefather hadn't thought of asking the sect for help under this strange circumstance, but the corpses of those he'd sent out would be thrown back into the small mountain range every night. In the end, only the Yellow Springs Grandmaster and this young man survived.

This was also the reason why Lin Bai had hidden himself earlier.