Chapter 232
Chapter 232 – The Old Man in the Poisonous Miasma Space
“Natural defense mechanism?”
Jiang Chen’s eyes lit up, as if he had just seen a light carrying hope. There were many invisible natural defense mechanisms and formations existing within the depths of Inferno Hell, and they came to this devil cave because of a natural formation. If they could find another natural formation, they would have a chance at escaping the Combat Soul Evil Devil.
“Let’s go!”
Jiang Chen didn’t dare show any neglect. The gigantic creature chasing them was extremely brutal, and it would be devastating if it caught up.
Swoosh!
Both Jiang Chen and Big Yellow immediately increased their speed to their maximum, running crazily toward the valley. Big Yellow’s wings of light made him incredibly fast, and Jiang Chen had a pair of wings inherited from the Blood Winged Hawk. That combined with the Dimensional Shift and Nine Phantom Wolves, he was too good at escaping.
Bang!
Big Yellow said. A Divine Core warrior could still survive for quite some time in this poisonous miasma space, and the only explanation for his death would be that he depleted all his yuan energy in order to resist the poisonous miasma. He was killed by the poisonous miasma once he couldn’t repel the deadly poison any longer.
“There is an exit to this place, but the terrifying devil cave is on the other side. In order to survive, there is no way he would have just stayed here, waiting for death to arrive. The reason why he died was because he couldn’t open the defense mechanism and leave this place.”
Jiang Chen’s expression suddenly changed badly.
“What you mean is, the defense mechanism only allows us to enter, but not leave this place?”
Big Yellow’s expression became a serious one as well.
“I do hope it isn’t like that, but I can’t really find another reason as to why this Divine Core warrior died in this place.”
Jiang Chen smiled. With a determined look in his eyes, he said, “Let’s go; just keep moving forward.”
The following journey had completely disappointed Jiang Chen and Big Yellow. They kept bumping into new skeleton along their way, and all these skeletons were once Divine Core warriors.
That meant that none of the warriors who accidentally came to this space had survived, all of them had eventually died. This was a land of death.
“Fuck! A land of death, no wonder that Evil Devil didn’t chase after us! It seems like it really knew about the dangers of this place.”
Big Yellow cursed, “Everyone who came to this place died in the end. Luckily, we’re not afraid of the poisonous miasma here. If not, we’d end up like these people.”
“Still, we have to find a way to leave this place. Being trapped in this place forever is no different than waiting for the inevitable death.”
Jiang Chen furrowed his brows. He kept walking forward with big steps. Now, it was almost certain that there would be any powerful monsters in here. Therefore, they didn’t have to worry about being attacked.
The duo had walked for nearly an hour, and they kept bumping into skeletons. The place seemed really desolate.
“Look, there is light blinking in front!”
Big Yellow suddenly said.
“That’s a defense mechanism, it’s the exit! Let’s go check it out!”
Jiang Chen saw the light as well. Although the rainbow color light seemed faded, it couldn’t escape their eyes. The duo immediately dashed forward, and soon, they arrived at the source of the light.
“There is a man.”
Big Yellow’s eyes lit up. A man with disheveled hair was sitting with both legs crossed, not moving at all, which made him look like a stone statue. But, the weak aura emitting from his body showed that this old man was still alive.
Jiang Chen and Big Yellow slowly approached the old man. As if he had heard something, the old man finally raised his head up, slowly. With cloudy eyes, he looked at Jiang Chen and Big Yellow.
An old man, a really old man who was long past his prime. The robe covering his body was really loose, he had wrinkled skin on his face, and an extremely thing body. He looked just like a skeleton who had nothing but skin. Pretty horrifying.
The old man’s aura was really weak, as if he was going to die at any time. And yet, he was still alive.
“Sigh… someone is here again… someone is going to die soon… sigh.”
The old man let out two sighs. His voice was shrill, making it unpleasant to listen to. It looked like he had gotten used to the deaths happening here.
“A Combat Soul warrior.”
Jiang Chen threw an examining look at the old man. He immediately found out the cultivation level of the old man. But, because the vital signs of the old man were really weak, and there was no yuan energy that could be sensed in his body, as it had been completely depleted, Jiang Chen couldn’t determine which Combat Soul stage this old man was.
But since all Combat Soul warriors had transformed the Divine Core in their bodies into a Combat Soul, Jiang Chen could easily tell that this old man was a Combat Soul warrior.
“Oh?”
The old man was surprised. Obviously, he didn’t expect a young man to actually figure out his cultivation with just a single look.
“Not bad, young man. Too bad you’ve come to this land of death.”
The old man let out another sigh, then he turned around and stared at the glowing defense mechanism in front of him, “It’s been ten years, all who have come have left ahead of me. Now, I’m soon going to leave as well. But, having someone to talk with at this point of time, the heavens are treating me better now.”
The old man carried a smile on his face. The despair and anger he had when he first arrived at this place was long gone; he had seen through life and death.