Chapter 197 Bone Coffin

Seeing Bai Xiaoya reach out for another blood stone, Fang Yue hesitated before giving her one, instructing, “Eat slowly! This is the last one; the others are still useful.”

“Okay…”

Bai Xiaoya, who had originally planned to bite and chew it like candy, hesitated slightly before nibbling at it in small bites. But at least she was eating, and she was much more well-behaved.

Jing Yan and Qing Chen looked at Fang Yue, then at Bai Xiaoya.

“Night Bro, she’s…”

“Not sure. Let’s rescue Lord Han first. We can study her matter when we get back.”

Bai Xiaoya, for the time being, wasn’t in any life-threatening danger, aside from complaining about being hungry and losing her memory, so Fang Yue naturally prioritized resolving Lord Han’s problem first.

“What do we do next?” Fang Yue looked at Qing Chen.

“Without the energy supply, just smash the fish tank and rescue Lord Han’s head.”

That was simple. A single punch shattered the glass of the fish tank, and the light green [Preservation Water] gurgled out.

Fang Yue went to get Lord Han’s head, carefully brought it out, and called out a few times, but there was no reaction.

“Pull it out?” Fang Yue pointed to the black wooden pipe in the back of Lord Han’s head.

“Wait.” Qing Chen parted the hair on the back of Lord Han’s head, observing carefully. Fang Yue glanced over and saw that Lord Han’s head was densely covered with various patterns, like some kind of formation seal, imprinted on the back of Lord Han’s head.

Seeing Qing Chen retract his hand, Fang Yue quickly asked, “What do you think?”

“Can’t understand it.”

“Huh?”

“…I only study [Bizarre Studies]. These things, at a glance, are formation seals. I haven’t studied those.” Qing Chen scratched his head awkwardly, then added, not forgetting to praise Ma Zuo, “But Lord Ma Zuo is truly knowledgeable and versatile, even involved in these areas.”

After all, he was a veteran Xiantian realm martial artist who had been famous for many years. Aside from martial skills, he seemed to be involved in other areas as well.

Unlike Fang Yue, who recklessly and crazily improved his strength, he was completely ignorant of things outside of martial arts.

No, wasn't Lord Han also like this? Even with the problem of qi deviation, he had to travel far to Mo Village to ask Doctor An for help.

So… to become a strong person, you don’t necessarily have to be well-rounded. Not understanding formations doesn’t seem to matter.

Lord Han was rescued, but the black wooden pipe in the back of his head made it difficult to know where to start.

“Let’s take Lord Han back to Qing Si County first. Lord Jun, as a veteran Xiantian realm martial artist, may have some knowledge of formations and be able to help.”

Fang Yue discussed it with the other two and made a decision.

Bai Xiaoya, who was munching on blood stones, didn’t seem to understand what Fang Yue and the others meant.

“You’re leaving? Then I’ll go back to my room and stay there.”

Fang Yue: ???

Fang Yue grabbed her. “You’re coming with us.”

“Ah? But… I’m waiting for Lord Ma Zuo to come back.” Bai Xiaoya hesitated.

“Lord Ma Zuo said to let me take care of you from now on. Otherwise, where do you think I got the key?”

“Ah?! Ma Zuo, Lord Ma Zuo doesn’t want me anymore?”

“…He’s going to a very far place, but he’ll come back to see you later.”

“Oh… that’s good! Then I’ll go with you!”

After being tricked by Fang Yue, Bai Xiaoya skipped and hopped along with Fang Yue.

Jing Yan and Qing Chen glanced at him strangely, seeing his trickery.

Bai Xiaoya originally kept looking back, seemingly reluctant to leave the prison cell she had been staying in.

But after she could no longer see the secret room below, her thoughts eased, and she curiously looked at the stairs, even running ahead of Fang Yue and the others.

When they reached Ma Zuo’s room, opened the door, Bai Xiaoya immediately rushed in, picked up a cup, and bit it, causing Fang Yue’s expression to change. “That can’t be eaten!”

“Ah?”

Bai Xiaoya hesitated, stuck out her little tongue, and licked it. “It has a taste.”

“In short, you can’t eat it!”

Fang Yue emphasized his tone and put the cup down.

“Okay…” Bai Xiaoya looked at Fang Yue with a pitiful, apologetic look. “Then, then I’ll eat something else.”

“Wait, wait, wait! Let’s go back to Qing Si County first. When we get to Qing Si County, you can eat whatever you want!”

“Really!? Then, then I want to eat fish!” Bai Xiaoya pointed at Lord Han, and her mouth started watering again.

Fang Yue’s face darkened. “Lord Han is a person, not a fish. You can’t eat him!”

“Okay…” Bai Xiaoya thought for a while and continued pointing at Lord Han, saying, “Then I want to eat people!”

“You can’t eat people! You can’t!”

Fang Yue slapped her outstretched finger away and explained and persuaded her earnestly for a long time before Bai Xiaoya roughly understood that people can’t be eaten.

Jing Yan and Qing Chen didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Was this taking care of a child?

Bai Xiaoya didn’t look young, about seventeen or eighteen years old, so why was her mind so like a child’s?

“Night Bro, tell me honestly, is this your child? Father and daughter playing games together, unstoppable?”

“Don’t let your imagination run wild…”

Fang Yue didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

He led the others out of Lord Ma Zuo’s room.

Fang Yue suddenly froze.

Because outside Lord Ma Zuo’s room, at the end of the line of sight, a bizarre creature, half-composed of human bones and half of human flesh, half-human and half-bone, dragging iron chains, was walking towards them step by step.

It walked very slowly, but very steadily, like an ascetic monk, one step at a time, each step the exact same distance.

And as the half-human, half-bone creature walked towards them, the iron chains locked on its body made clanging sounds, as if dragging something heavy, step by step.

Perhaps it was an illusion, but Fang Yue felt that the half-human, half-bone creature’s human half of its face was very similar in appearance to the deceased Housekeeper Liao.

At that moment… Housekeeper Liao was eaten by the strange creature, and his face was copied?

As Fang Yue wondered, the thing the half-human, half-bone creature was pulling behind it gradually emerged from the darkness, revealing its true form.

It was a coffin, a bone coffin much larger than the humanoid creature!

Looking closely, a crescent moon symbol was carved in the middle of the bone coffin, surrounded by figures kneeling in worship, like some kind of ancient religious ritual.

The iron chains wrapped around the [Coffin-Pulling Ghoul] densely bound the bone coffin, dragging it forward step by step, making a rustling sound of bone scraping against the ground.

Rustle! Rustle!

Along with the rustling sound, there was also a strange sound.

Fang Yue listened carefully…

Step.

Step, step, step.

Step, step, step, step, step.

That was… a relatively soft, but very dense, sound of footsteps!

Looking behind the [Coffin-Pulling Ghoul] in confusion, Fang Yue’s pupils suddenly shrank.

A dense mass of strange creatures, like devout believers, slowly followed behind the [Coffin-Pulling Ghoul].