Chapter 87: The passage in the river of negative energy

I didn’t dare to speculate, and I didn’t want to think about what kind of horror we would face next. That would only increase my own psychological pressure!

I casually threw the fish in my hand away. I only held it in my hand for a moment, but I felt goosebumps all over my arm. The fish was too heavy with negative energy, and it affected my performance a little.

As the fish corpse rose in a parabolic arc in the air, a light wind with a strange fishy smell also rose in the air. The fish was so fishy, and it also had a rotten smell.

With a ‘plop’, as the fish corpse fell into the water, the group of fish that had already dispersed began to scramble for the fish corpse in the water, ferocious!

I was too lazy to watch any more, so I washed my hands in the lake and said to Jifeng, “Let’s go and see where the accident happened.”

Jifeng was silent, and began to row the boat. Huigen followed closely behind, and the two boats began to rush toward the place where the accident had occurred.

The distance was not willing, and in less than ten minutes, the two boats had stopped side by side in front of three huge stone pillars!

“This is the place. These three stone pillars should be the central locations of the formation. I really didn’t expect that to happen.” Ji Feng held the oars tightly in both hands. His knuckles were white from the tension. He explained to me, “These three stone pillars are very large. It is estimated that a strong man would need to embrace them to come over. The entire stone pillar has a luster unique to jade, but it is not the kind of building material I am familiar with, white jade. It is a material with a faint tinge of blood.

These three stone pillars are very large, probably the size of a strong man’s arms. The entire pillar has a luster unique to jade, but it is not the white marble I am familiar with, but a material with a faint reddish tint.

I couldn’t tell what it was, but how could I possibly guess what the ancient Taoist masters had used to refine the material?

The stone pillars are carved with some totems, which look like a familiar kind of water beast, but every lake and river has its own water beast, so it also has its own characteristics! In short, the carvings are vivid, but when you look closely, they lack the aura of a truly spiritual object, that is, they are not agile enough.

So it is correct to say that there is a problem here, at least from these carvings you can see the problem.

But I didn’t come here to study the magic array, I just feel moved by the scale of the project. I can’t imagine how these three pillars were transported here and built in the lake under the conditions of ancient times.

Looking at the three stone pillars rising out of the water side by side, they are about 7 or 8 meters high. The magic instruments on top of the pillars are shrouded in mist, making them indistinct. It actually gives me a feeling of being in a trance. I’m not in this world, but in another space.

The water under the boat flows quietly, appearing to be a little more hurried than elsewhere. Could it be that behind the pillars is a terrain similar to a canyon?

I squinted and observed that behind the three pillars were two small mountains standing close together in the lake. The place between the two mountains was a terrain similar to a canyon, but when I looked, I found that in the mist and smoke, I couldn’t see through the canyon to see what was behind it!

Seeing that I was observing there, the monsoon explained to me, “Behind those two mountains, you have entered the range of that natural formation, but the boat cannot pass through here, or it will get lost. The only way to enter the formation is with the map I gave Hui Gen. This is the experience of our ancestors, gained at the cost of their lives.”

Get lost? I believe this. After all, space is full of wonders. How can an ordinary mortal like me possibly fathom it?

“Was the water flow here always so fast?” I suddenly asked Ji Feng.

“I’ve been guarding the village for eight years. I remember when I first came here, I was taken here by a senior guard. I don’t think the water was that fast. But I’m not sure. I don’t usually pay attention to these things!” Ji Feng frowned and tried to remember, but he couldn’t be sure.

I nodded, and I had a guess in my heart. I stood at the front of the boat, and Jifeng tied a rope tightly around my waist, afraid that I would fall into the water.

Xiao Chengqian, on the other hand, was curious and looked on from behind me with a carefree expression!

Looking at the water flow beneath the boat, I took a deep breath and then opened my third eye. The moment my third eye opened, I almost lost my eyesight from the surging negative energy. The originally beautiful lake view was gone, as was the rushing water flow. Looking into the lake, I saw only endless black air currents representing negative energy slowly flowing!

This aura was so strong that it was about to break free from the three pillars that barely held it back, bursting through the water! Even so, a small amount of the aura escaped, forming a light mist on the surface of the lake!

What a beautiful sight! Under the eyes of the Celestial Eye, it is clearly a mass of flowing negative energy.

Seeing this, I had a rough idea of how the two victims died…

These three pillars have been damaged beyond recognition. The effect is still there, but it is very weak. It can’t even block the flow of the negative energy from the natural formation, and it can only barely restrain the negative energy under the water surface, preventing it from escaping. In the end, a river of negative energy 7 to 8 meters wide has formed under the lake!

Ordinary people who jump in will be disturbed by the negative energy, become cold, convulsed, or even unable to move their bodies, or even hallucinate due to their weak yang bodies!

If a Taoist enters, his vigorous blood should be able to support him for a while. If he stays for too long, the consequences will be exactly the same as for ordinary people! The sacrifice of the two people is the cause of this river of negative energy, but… it should not be the only cause.

My spiritual sight is not powerful enough! I tried to summon my spiritual power to see more clearly. Under my efforts, I saw that in the river of negative energy, there were many wandering spirits, and the main body was the miserable white fish…

Under those fish, there seemed to be something else. Not enough, not enough. I clenched my fists and simply closed my five senses, relying on my spiritual eye to “see.” This time, I finally saw something. I seemed to see a passage hidden in the river of negative energy…

But the passage was wrapped in negative energy… I was anxious, and for the first time in my life, I used my spiritual eye to its full potential, trying to see through the layers of obstacles. Finally, my spiritual awareness (the spiritual eye is a concrete form of spiritual awareness) penetrated the layers of obstacles and I saw the black and yellow passage. In that passage, I saw many people, many people, heads bowed, one leaning on the shoulder of the other, slowly, no, very slowly and laboriously wriggling…

Well, it was just wriggling, because their movements were more like standing still! But this… my heart was suddenly gripped!

But at that moment, as if something had sensed my prying, the crowd below suddenly began to stir. They stopped their movement, and one of them looked up and down at me. Then almost everyone in my line of sight looked up and down at me…

Under the gaze of so many cold, numb, and hateful eyes, my heart suddenly began to beat faster. The tension of being watched by the crowd almost made me fall off the bow of the boat. Fortunately, Ji Feng was too careful to tie a rope around my waist, which prevented me from falling off the bow of the boat. However, I accidentally knocked over a pot of water that Ji Feng was drinking from.

“Plop,” the pot fell into the water. I was filled with great fear, but I still didn’t want to break the state of the heavenly eye. I looked down hard, and I saw the pot under the heavenly eye break through the layers of negative energy and fall toward the passage. The “people” in the passage began to move. They roared toward the pot, and many hands reached out to grab the pot…

My temples were throbbing. It seemed that the two people who had sacrificed themselves had also “disturbed” the “people” in the tunnel, and then they reached out and grabbed it. They! They were actually a large number of ghosts!

Yes, a ghost cannot physically grab a person’s body, but the spiritual power of ghosts is always strong because they are not bound by the body. What about countless ghosts? The spiritual power they use to grab you can bind you…

First, there were dozens of them, and the two of us barely escaped, but then hundreds of them? They were suddenly pulled down! With so many ghosts surrounding you, instant death is no longer a strange thing…

My cold sweat was running down my cheeks in big drops. I suddenly thought of something. I suddenly felt the immense fear of the two people who had sacrificed themselves!

In that instant, the ghosts disturbed by the pot suddenly rushed to the bottom of the water. In just a moment, I saw countless human faces below the water, roaring at me, and countless people desperately trying to squeeze up!

“No…” I finally knew, I finally understood, I screamed in horror, and suddenly I was released from the state of the heavenly eye, and a mouthful of blood spurted out!