Chapter 393: Wu Mountain

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation  Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

“I’ve left a few traps behind. It’s night time now, so they’ll definitely activate them.”

Lin Bai turned his head and glanced at Luo Ningyu.

Lin Bai didn’t think that just a few traps would be enough to heavily injure the enemies behind them. With their strength, they could easily avoid the traps that Lin Bai had temporarily set up.

The purpose of Lin Bai setting up these traps was to trigger the traps.

From this, he could determine the position of the enemies and make a backup plan.

The two of them traveled quickly through the forest and soon arrived at the foot of a mountain.

This mountain was indescribably silent. There was not even the chirping of insects or birds. The wind blew past, making people feel a deep chill.

“The demonic qi here seems to be very dense… even more dense than the demonic qi in the Black Cloud Stronghold?”

Luo Ningyu frowned slightly. She stood on a small open space and looked at the pitch-black mountain in front of her.

The demonic qi at the foot of this mountain was as dense as the Black Cloud Stronghold and the closer it was to the top of the mountain, the denser the demonic qi was.

Then what about the demonic qi on the top of the mountain?

Luo Ningyu couldn’t help but shudder.

Even though she had fought many times, this was the first time she had seen such dense demonic qi.

Although she was curious about what was on the top of the mountain, her intuition told her not to act rashly.

“Hmm? Something seems to be wrong.” Lin Bai turned his head and looked at the road he came from.

“What’s wrong?”

“None of the traps I set seemed to have been triggered, and… They showed no signs of chasing after us.”

The two of them fell into a short silence.

“We’ll wait here. Once there are any clues, we’ll leave immediately,” Lin Bai suggested.

Luo Ningyu nodded slightly and did not have any objections.

Time passed by minute by minute. The mountain wind blew and blew, and Lin Bai could not help but wrap his clothes.

This was the strangest wind he had ever seen.

He turned his head to look at Luo Ningyu, who was leaning against a tree trunk. She was also wrapping her clothes tightly.

Could there be something strange about this wind?

Lin Bai could not help but frown. He carefully felt the mountain wind, but other than this gloomy and cold wind, he did not feel anything special.

After a short while.

“As expected!”

Luo Ningyu walked out from the shadow of the tree trunk and looked at the road they came from.

She suddenly felt something. She took out a small sword from somewhere, waved her arm, and threw it out.

The small sword cut through the night, making a series of air-piercing sounds. The naked eye could barely track it.

After the small sword flew 70 to 80 meters away, it fell to the ground with a bang, as if it hit something in the air.

Lin Bai had a bad premonition. He hurried to the place where the small sword fell and raised his right hand.

Buzz…

A soft sound came from the air.

Lin Bai’s right hand was isolated by an invisible barrier.

He was able to enter without any obstruction, but he could not leave…

No way?

Again?!

Lin Bai thought of the scenes that had happened when he revealed the City Lord’s true colors and could not help but feel a headache.

“In fifteen minutes, we’ll meet here. You go over there, I’ll come over here. Whether there are any clues or not, we have to return in fifteen minutes.”

After a short discussion, Lin Bai and Luo Ningyu decided to take a look at the range of the “Invisible barrier” and see what secrets the mountain had.

“Be careful!” Lin Bai instructed Luo Ningyu.

Luo Ningyu nodded and disappeared into the darkness.

Lin Bai also turned around and walked along the foot of the mountain, following the “Invisible barrier”, straight ahead.

His speed was not very fast, and he would touch the “Invisible barrier” from time to time.

If it was possible, he really wanted to find the exit like this.

Suddenly, Lin Bai felt that he had stepped on something and let out a crisp cracking sound.

He raised his foot, pushed aside the bushes, and reached out to touch it.

“Bone?”

He was holding a piece of white bone, or a spine bone. He narrowed his eyes and saw that there were two thigh bones beside the spine bone, and one of the thigh bones was broken.

“This place…”

When Lin Bai thought that it was not rare to see corpses in the mountains and forests, he could not help but have a bad premonition.

He quickly jumped onto a tree trunk with a good view, took out two fire canisters, and threw them in two different directions.

The fire canisters fell on the ground and quickly lit up the weeds, illuminating the dark forest.

Lin Bai could finally see the truth.

“Let me see, hiss…!”

Lin Bai could not help but take a deep breath.

In this dense forest, in the bushes, there were white bones everywhere, covering the entire ground.

After extinguishing the fire that had just been lit, Lin Bai followed the tree trunk as far as possible to explore, and he still used the same lighting method.

But after walking for a long while. there were still dense white bones under the tree trunk where he was standing. However, some of the white bones were stained with rotten meat and clothes.

After walking for another long while, Lin Bai could only smell the strong smell of blood. Below him were dead bodies. The fresh blood soaked the soil and turned it into bloody mud.

“The seal here is still there… If I’m not mistaken, this seal is the seal that seals the entire mountain.”

Lin Bai’s hand that was holding onto the tree trunk had unknowingly left a handprint on it, causing the tree bark to be deeply dented.

“Although I still want to explore further, fifteen minutes have already passed.”

He took another deep breath and turned around to return to the agreed location.

Not long after Lin Bai returned to the agreed location, Luo Ningyu also returned with a solemn expression. Her two thin eyebrows were tightly knitted together, and her calm eyes were filled with raging anger.

“It seems that you and I saw the same thing.” Lin Bai clenched his fist.

Luo Ningyu nodded. She opened her mouth and was silent for a while before saying, “Now, we still have to find a way out. No matter what they have in mind or what they want to do, we must do our best to stop them.”

Lin Bai had no objections to this.

“However, the formation that seals an entire mountain is still a formation that allows anyone to enter. I think it will be very difficult for the two of us to break it.” Lin Bai said frankly.

His knowledge of formations was rather shallow.

After Luo Ningyu entered the seal, she did not notice that something was wrong at the first moment. This meant that she was on par with Lin Bai in this aspect.

“I’m already prepared for this.”

After saying this, Luo Ningyu took out a jade pendant and held it in her hand, injecting a trace of spiritual energy into it.

The jade pendant emitted waves of green light, like fireflies dotted in the dark night.

“I need help. I need someone who is proficient in array formations. It’s very troublesome.”

After Luo Ningyu said that to the jade pendant, she looked at Lin Bai:

“It should be a while before someone responds.”

“Is this the communication tool of your organization?” Lin Bai looked at the jade pendant curiously.

This was the first time that he had the thought of entering their organization.

But now was not the time to think about it.

“Then, let’s go to the top of the mountain and take a look. The demonic energy there is the densest. Maybe we can find something there.”

“I have the same idea.”