The Prodigies War

The Dual System Divine Lotus was more than just a divine herb as it contained the two grand daos of Yin and Yang.

On top of that, the Yin and Yang could be fused into the Tai Chi Grand Dao, one of the ninety-nine heavenly daos!

From this, it wasn’t hard to imagine how valuable the Dual System Divine Lotus was.

Which meant the Five Element Divine Lotus in front of them would only be more astonishing with five lotus seeds, each containing a grand elemental dao, which no other divine herbs could compare to.

“There are five lotus seeds. Two to me, and you guys can split the remaining three, how about it?” Lin Xun was straightforward with his request. As the leader, this was what he deserved.

Ji Xingyao said, “We didn’t contribute much. Without you, we wouldn’t even have a chance…”

Lin Xun interrupted her with a smile, stopping her from refusing. He then grabbed the gold-element seed and the wood-element seed.

He had already mastered the two grand daos of water and fire, so the water seed and the fire seed would be a waste in his hands.

Toady chose the earth-element lotus seed.

Ji Xingyao and Mo Tianhe took the water and fire seeds respectively.

Everyone was satisfied with this distribution.

“Heheh, I wonder how Zhen Yunfeng and his group are doing now?” Toady suddenly laughed.

He was still a little dissatisfied with Zhen Yunfeng’s group for acting separately when they had agreed to stick together through both blessings and misfortunes. While their decision was in fact not that big of a deal, in Toady’s opinion, Zhen Yunfeng just didn’t want to make an enemy of Wang Xuanyu of the Great One Sect.

Otherwise, if they acted together, it would definitely be safer, and they would have a greater chance of seizing opportunistic fortunes. There had been no good reason to act separately.

Was it just because they were worried that they wouldn’t be able to get a fair share of the fortunes?

Toady didn’t believe this nonsense.

As a friend of Zhen Yunfeng, Mo Tianhe tried to explain upon hearing the dissatisfaction in Toady’s tone, “Fellow Daoist Zhen must have other plans.”

Toady snorted, “Don’t forget that if it wasn’t for Lin Xun, how could his escorts Yin Xue and Zhan Luxiu have obtained Origin Dao Fire for themselves?”

Mo Tianhe was stunned and couldn’t help but sigh softly. It was indeed unseemly, but what could he say?

“Alright. We were companions, and everyone just has their own thing to do now. There’s no need to fret over something so trivial,” said Lin Xun.

Rumble~

At this moment, the blood lake suddenly tumbled, and a lonely, pitch-black ferry appeared on it.

On it, there was a sitting ferryman.

When everyone saw this ferryman clearly, they shuddered.

It was a skeleton dressed in black, wearing a conical hat, with turquoise flames burning in its eyes!

A ferry and a skeleton had appeared on top of a blood-colored lake, and this couldn’t paint a more eerie picture.

“Since there is a ferry, naturally it’s for ferrying people,” Ji Xingyao pondered.

“Ferryman, how do we board your ferry?” shouted Toady.

“A divine herb.”

To everyone’s surprise, the skeletal ferryman actually replied in a hollow and indistinct voice.

“How greedy! You might as well be a robber!” said Toady angrily.

“This lake has buried countless corpses. Without my ferry, you won’t be able to reach the other side even if you fly,” said the ferryman quietly.

Lin Xun thought for a moment. Then, he flicked his fingers, and with a whoosh, the wood-element lotus seed flew toward the black ferry.

He was handing over the divine herb, but this was likewise an extremely sharp attack.

But the ferryman remained on the spot, only opening its mouth and sucking in the lotus seed. Crunching sounds echoed as snow-white teeth chewed on the seed.

Lin Xun’s pupils shrunk. Not even a Supreme King could have blocked his strike, but the skeleton ferryman had done it with extreme ease and didn’t look like it had taken any impact!

The ferryman got up and hung a dim oil lamp on the bow, then picked up a white bone oar and looked at Lin Xun’s group, clearly telling them to get on the ferry.

Taking a deep breath, Lin Xun glanced at the others before leading them toward the distant black ferry in the distance.

Boom!

Suddenly, a large, ghastly white hand violently poked out from the blood lake, blotting out the sky with its suffocating aura of death.

At this instant, Lin Xun and the others all turned pale, and their hair all stood up as they felt an overwhelmingly pressure

It was impossible to block, even when they were all Supreme Kings!

The difference in strength was so great that under this hand, they were as feeble and powerless as ants.

The moment the danger approached, a white bone oar swept across the sky and slapped the huge hand back into the lake with a loud bang.

Taking advantage of this, Lin Xun’s group arrived on the pitch-black ferry, their clothes soaked with cold sweat and their hearts palpitating.

There was only the sound of water splashing as the skeleton ferryman remained quiet as it rowed the ferry, seemingly oblivious to everything else. As it gently waved the bone oar, the ferry drifted away into the distance.

The group glanced at each other and saw astonishment in each other’s eyes.

Because they had judged that the power of that huge white hand had been at least at the Saint stage!

And thinking back on the words of the skeleton ferryman about the blood lake having buried countless corpses, did this mean that many Saints had fallen here?

The more one thought about it, the more bone-chilling it became!

The ferry was not big, barely enough for five or six people to stand on it. At the bow, an oil lamp swayed, its light dim and flickering.

Ji Xingyao was sizing up the skeleton ferryman.

Toady was gazing at the dim oil lamp.

Mo Tianhe was looking all around.

Lin Xun was scrutinizing the very ferry he was standing on.

The atmosphere was eerily silent, with only the sound of the bone oar paddling the blood-colored water.

“This skeleton is terrifying; it has this inexplicable aura lingering on them that makes you unable to see through its details,” Ji Xingyao transmitted her voice with gravity on her beautiful face.

Everything she saw today had been too bizarre and beyond her comprehension. It felt like she had been walking around a legendary hellish underworld.

The others nodded in agreement.

“This oil lamp is also very strange. It’s dim and flickering, but it’s shrouded in a layer of mysterious power that makes me unable to even see it clearly,” commented Toady.

As a descendant of the Three-Legged Golden Toad Lineage, he had a natural talent that allowed him to identify all things and understand all kinds of exotic treasures, but at this moment, he was unable to discern a single clue!

Toady then boldly asked, “Ferryman, is this oil lamp for sale?”

The skeleton ferryman ignored his question as if it hadn’t heard anything. In its empty eye sockets, a pair of turquoise flames surged.

Seeing this, Toady gave up on probing.

After all, he had just witnessed with his own eyes how the ferryman had suppressed a Saint-strong hand with a wave of its white bone oar!

Such fighting prowess was simply extraordinary and frightening.

Everyone knew that there were no Saints in the Supreme Realm.

But this didn’t seem to apply in the Cave of Divine Underworld.

“Look!” Mo Tianhe suddenly yelped.

Following his gaze, everyone saw many unsettling things leaping out from the blood lake in the distance.

There were large and ghastly white hands, blood-soaked feathers, broken war swords, knives, and spears… All of them exuded a shocking aura of death, setting off endless waves of blood in the direction of the ferry.

At that instant, everyone’s mind boomed with a picture of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood where gods and devils fiercely battled, saints roared in grief and indignation, and Buddhas mournfully wept …

And in only the picture in Lin Xun’s mind, there was a slender figure whose skirt was stained with blood. She was walking through the bloody scene as if she was treading on even ground, and behind her, powerful opponents fell one after another.

But at some point, her head went missing!

Boom!

The images in everyone’s mind suddenly burst into nothingness.

When they looked around, they saw an appalling scene of blood rolling and tumbling around, and all kinds of attacks coming from all directions.

The strange thing was, neither the waves nor those attacks could shake the black ferry one bit.

And the skeleton ferryman also seemed to be oblivious to it all, or perhaps just couldn't care less!

“It’s the power of the lamp,” whispered Toady as he suppressed the shock in his heart.

Everyone also noticed that at the bow, the yellow oil lamp was spilling out dim yellow light that formed an invisible, protective force around the ferry.

It was like an unshakable shield!

Lin Xun and the others heaved a long sigh of relief.

They had come to realize that without the ferry, it would be absolutely impossible for them to cross this lake. Its bizarreness and menace gave them a sinking feeling of despair!

Soon, they all completely relaxed.

Although the surroundings were dangerous enough to strike fear into Saints, being on the black ferry was like being under the protection of an invincible wall.

The dappled light of the dimly lit lamp was reassuring.

“What will the destination be?”

Lin Xun unconsciously rubbed the copper ring as he recalled the first time he had seen that headless figure, as well as the bloody image that had just surfaced in his mind.

Who is she?

The others were also lost in their own thoughts.

Before coming here, none of them had expected that the Cave of Divine Underworld would be so terrifying.

Just what kind of heaven-defying fortune is sealed here?

Hua~~

Gradually, the lake calmed down, and the only sound that could be heard was that of paddled water.

It was at this moment that the group saw the other side of the lake, which made them dumbfounded.

It was a verdant aeth mountain with birds, flowers, and towering ancient trees.

The sky above was as blue as crystal with auspicious clouds floating about.

Even before getting ashore, they were washed over by a peaceful and refreshing breath.

The lake was hellish and bloody, filled with bizarreness and horror while the shore was a picturesque landscape, like a sanctuary isolated from the world!

This was nothing that anyone had expected. They all opened their eyes wide, wondering if they were hallucinating as it just seemed so unreal.

Unknowingly, the ferry had stopped. The ferryman walked to the bow and took off the oil lamp.

The group knew that it was time to go ashore.