Towards the Path of Heaven

Chapter 223

Looking at the huge black river in front of him, Yan Chutian instinctively felt that something was different even though the black river looked normal.

Seeing Yan Chutian stop, the three women who were following behind him also stopped. Their eyes looked at Yan Chutian in a daze, and then looked at the huge black river.

However, even Qiu Yu did not find anything strange. It seemed that the black river was truly ordinary, and Yan Chutian had only become paranoid.

However, just when Qiu Yu wanted to remind Yan Chutian not to be too nervous, a white shadow slowly floated up from the dark river.

The white shadow was approaching from far away. As it floated past the four of them, they realized that the white shadow was actually a corpse.

The body is swollen. It was unknown how long it had been soaked in the black river. Even though he was dead, the eyes of the corpse were still wide open. A deep fear surfaced in his lifeless disciples. It was hard to imagine what he had encountered. Even after death, he still maintained such a terrified expression.

Seeing the corpses floating above the black river, the three women who thought Yan Chutian was being paranoid suddenly became tense. A pair of eyes quickly swept across the black river before them, carefully watching every movement, afraid of losing something.

However, even though the three women were very careful, they still did not find anything strange. At the same time, as the corpse of the white shadow floated away, the black river returned to its former calmness. It was as if the scene they had just seen was just an illusion.

However, the four of them knew that it was not an illusion at all. In the black river in front of them, there was a genius disciple who had fallen. That's very strange.

But after all, the four of them seemed to be unable to avoid that black river. Although the black river was not wide, but its length seemed endless.

Then, the four of them tried to circle the black river. The results prove this. They continued to move along the black river in a certain direction, trying to encircle it.

However, after walking for a full day, they still could not see any signs of reaching the source or end of the road. Thus, the four of them could only face the black river before them again helplessly.

Yan Chutian continued to scan the area with his Spiritual Eye, but under his Spiritual Eye, the black river was truly ordinary. However, he also discovered that there was not the slightest bit of life in that huge black river. It looks like the river is dead!

But if it was the River of Death, why was there no aura of death emanating from it? Instead, it emitted a faint aura of life.

"Life aura?"

Yan Chutian's eyes suddenly brightened. Due to the mention of life aura, he had unknowingly thought of the strange skeletons and monsters that could absorb life force when he first entered the outskirts of the Star Valley.

Is this black river the same as that strange creature? Could it also absorb life force?

Thinking of this, Yan Chutian immediately took out a spiritual medicine from his Qiankun bag and carefully threw it into the black river.

However, the sight of spiritual medicine being sucked dry and decaying quickly did not appear. The entire spiritual medicine was still intact and floating in the lake, carried away by the waves.

Perhaps this scene could fool most cultivators, but it could never fool Yan Chutian. Because under the scanning of his Spiritual Eye, he could clearly sense that even though the spiritual medicine was still in form, the life aura contained within it had disappeared completely.

In other words, this spiritual medicine only left an empty shell!

This situation immediately made Yan Chutian's mind more dignified. Because even if he could detect the truth, he could not tell when the life force of the spiritual medicine was absorbed and what it was.

In general, there are only two possibilities. Either Yan Chutian inadvertently ignored him, or even Yan Chutian was unable to catch his movements.

Of the two explanations, clearly the latter is more convincing.

When Yan Chutian told the three girls this explanation, only Qiu Yu was calm. As for the other two girls, their eyes opened, and their faces showed an unseen shock.

After a while, Yan Ningzhu, who had calmed down, looked at the black river carefully and asked gently, "Then what should we do next? Should we keep trying to turn it around, or ..." Take the risk and cross it? "

Hearing this, Yan Chutian inevitably weighed the pros and cons in his heart. After thinking for a moment, he finally locked his gaze into the black river and said slowly, "Let's cross …"

Yan Chutian's decision was not without his own consideration. Indeed, getting around it should be the safest and most guaranteed option, but the reality is that they don't have enough time. Secondly, with the various strange apparitions of the black river, Yan Chutian could imagine that it was not easy to encircle it. It might not be possible to turn it around!

"Crossed?"

Yan Ningzhu seemed to be talking to herself. Then, he looked at the black river in front of him and said again, "If you want to cross it, I might have something that could be useful."

As his voice fell, a delicate and small boat was taken out by Yan Ningzhu and appeared in her palm.

“As long as you inject spiritual energy to unseal it, this little boat will turn into a real boat. And the entire body of this boat is made of strange metal, so you don't have to worry about whether its vitality will be sucked in. "

Yan Ningzhu was able to pick up such an important item at such a critical time, which was tantamount to sending out charcoal in snowy weather. Yan Chutian's face was filled with excitement. He looked at the mini boat in hand and said with a smile.

"With this spiritual boat, our chances of successfully crossing it would be much higher!"

Then, the four of them did not delay anymore. When Yan Ningzhu unsealed the boat and put it into the black river, they rushed up to the boat one by one. Then, under the control of the first one, they headed to the opposite shore.

However, Yan Chutian would never have thought that after their boat sailed, they would find that opposite shore, which seemed to be close by, they would find, it is something they cannot achieve no matter how hard they try. It was as if there was a long distance between them.

This made Yan Chutian feel that something was amiss. This black river was indeed just as he had expected. There was actually a strange existence in it.

"What the hell is going on?"

"This "black river had a formation that was similar to a spatial boundary. The opposite beach that seems close is actually a very long distance from us. Of course, it's also possible that the opposite shore is actually in front of us, but with our strength, it's impossible to reach it."

"Then what should we do?"

"Return and go!"

Yan Chutian firmly decided. However, just as he finished speaking, Luo Xue, who had been silent all along, suddenly pointed to the right and said, "I'm afraid it's too late for us to leave."

Looking towards Luo Xue's finger, they saw that from the black river's headwaters, there was a huge mist enveloping them. At the same time, they did not know if it was an illusion, but there seemed to be a shadow of a black boat looming in the mist, coming along with a thick fog.

The sudden appearance of a thick fog did not give them time to prepare, and they were immediately swallowed up.

Enveloped by a thick fog, the four of them immediately became headless flies, unable to distinguish north from south. The thick fog not only blocked the perception of Spiritual Energy, even Yan Chutian's Spiritual Eye was also limited, and the effect was minimal.

It was as if they were completely trapped in the black river and thick fog.

"Your…!"

Before the first wave subsided, another wave rose, and suddenly a sound of collision was heard. Their little boat seemed to be bumping into something, and as they looked up, they realized that it was actually a large boat that was dozens of times larger than them.

However, this boat was already very old and shabby, and the body of the boat was in tatters, as if it had suffered countless collisions like this, and could be completely destroyed at any moment.

"Is this the shadow of the boat we just saw?"

Yan Ningzhu said softly, her beautiful eyes scanned the ancient boat in front of her, and gradually looked up.

As he looked up, a sharp sound suddenly sounded, and the shadow of the bronze green spear shot towards Yan Ningzhu at lightning speed, as if it wanted to pierce through it.

However, Yan Ningzhu was a genius, and even though she was in danger, she managed to dodge, causing the spear shadow to miss.

After dodging the attack, Yan Ningzhu's eyes immediately looked towards the source of the attack. He wanted to see who had launched a sneak attack on him!

However, after taking a look, he could only shout in shock, as the source of the attack was not a person, but rather a corpse so rotten that only bones remained, wrapped in ancient clothes.