Xu Muhai also agreed with Mu Qingge’s words.
“Disciple, stay close to me,” Mu Qingge said to Yin Changli beside her.
“Okay.” Yin Changli nervously moved a step closer to Mu Qingge.
“Since we can’t get out from here, we have to find another way.”
The three of them cautiously moved forward.
The entire Cold Chisel Ancient Temple was eerily silent.
So silent that only the wind could be heard.
Despite the ghostly aura outside the temple, it merely lingered outside and did not penetrate into the temple.
It seemed that there was something in the temple that these ghosts feared.
“Master, this place is really scary,” Yin Changli said, following closely behind Mu Qingge, his voice filled with fear.
“What’s there to be afraid of? There’s nothing here,” Mu Qingge laughed, “With your courage, you still want to become a sword immortal?”
“I… who said I was scared?” Hearing this, Yin Changli puffed out his chest, indicating that he was not afraid at all.
“Dragon Buddha Hall.”
The three of them arrived in front of a large hall. The plaque of the hall had fallen to the ground, but the three characters on it were still clearly visible.
Stepping into the hall, it was clear that it had been abandoned for a long time. The altar in the distance had been knocked over, and even one of the pillars of the hall was broken.
It was evident that a fierce battle had taken place here.
“Is that the Buddha?”
At this moment, Yin Changli saw a huge statue sitting in front of him.
The statue was enormous, resembling a Buddha, but the Buddha was headless, as if it had been chopped off by something.
The headless Buddha looked somewhat eerie and terrifying.
“Master, is this the Painting Treasure?” Yin Changli stepped forward, looking at the several scrolls scattered on the ground. However, the scrolls were tattered and the content was no longer clear.
The scrolls had lost their spirituality and had become waste paper.
It was hard for them to imagine what kind of fierce battle had taken place in this Cold Chisel Ancient Temple.
“There are words here.” Xu Muhai walked to the front of the Buddha statue and found black characters on the statue. If one didn’t look carefully, they would easily miss it.
The black characters were written in blood.
However, as time passed, the color of the blood had turned black.
But the writing was still clearly visible.
‘Do not enter the Hall of Ten Thousand Buddhas!’
Seeing these six characters, the three of them felt a chill in their hearts.
The Hall of Ten Thousand Buddhas should also be a large hall in the Cold Chisel Ancient Temple. They originally planned to find an exit, and nothing strange had happened along the way, which had somewhat reassured them.
But this line of text gave them a creepy feeling.
What was in the Hall of Ten Thousand Buddhas?
Why were they being warned not to enter?
“Brother Changqing is not here now, and we don’t know how he is. We should find a way to leave the Cold Chisel Ancient Temple as soon as possible,” Xu Muhai took a deep breath, “This place… gives me a really bad feeling.”
“Let’s go!” Mu Qingge turned around and left with Yin Changli.
Xu Muhai also followed.
The Cold Chisel Ancient Temple was vast. The three of them bypassed the Dragon Buddha Hall and headed deeper into the temple.
The further they went, the more terrifying it felt.
After they climbed a flight of stairs, the scene that appeared before them was shocking.
It was even more brutal here.
Bones were scattered all over the ground.
All were skeletal remains, and it was unknown how many years they had been dead.
Looking around, there were at least a hundred.
“Hee hee.”
Just as they were shocked by the scene, a voice echoed in their minds.
“Who’s there!”
Xu Muhai shouted angrily.
They looked around, but there was no one.
The voice was clear, like the laughter of a little girl.
“Master, who was laughing just now?” At this point, Yin Changli was almost scared out of his wits.
Mu Qingge’s face was also pale. She had heard the voice too.
But she couldn’t determine where it was coming from.
“We must be very careful,” Xu Muhai quickly said.
They hurriedly tried to cross the area full of bones.
But just as they had taken a dozen steps, Yin Changli screamed like a frightened cat, “Ah!”
“What’s wrong?” Mu Qingge was also startled by Yin Changli’s scream, “What are you screaming for?”
“Mas… Master.” Yin Changli’s face was as white as a sheet, his legs trembling, his eyes drifting downwards.
Xu Muhai and Mu Qingge looked down and were also taken aback!
There was a hand on Yin Changli’s ankle!
A skeletal hand was grabbing Yin Changli’s foot. It was one of the corpses on the ground.
“Get off!” Xu Muhai shouted, stepping forward and kicking the skeleton away.
But before they could wonder why the skeleton could grab Yin Changli’s foot, they heard a rustling sound around them.
Then, the skeletons on the ground, which had been decaying for who knows how many years, slowly got up.
Some of the skeletons even held broken swords in their hands. Hundreds of skeletons stood up, surrounding the three of them.
“Hiss!”
The three of them took a sharp breath.
They had lost all their cultivation now. If they were surrounded, they would have no power to resist.
“Run!”
The three of them ran towards a place with fewer skeletons.
But the skeletons also picked up their swords and chased after them.
Although they were skeletons, they were not slow at all when they ran.
“There are ghosts!” Yin Changli shouted.
“These skeletons are influenced by the ghostly aura outside,” Mu Qingge said anxiously, “If they catch up with us, we will be chopped into mincemeat.”
But just as the three of them had bypassed the courtyard, they found that there were still many skeletons crawling up in front of them. They were stared at by numerous skeletons, their hollow eyes seemed to want to swallow them alive.
They could only change direction and run to the other side.
After several twists and turns, they passed through a corridor, climbed several flights of stairs, and the number of skeletons behind them increased, reaching more than five hundred.”Master, I can’t run anymore.” Yin Changli gasped for breath as he spoke.
“If you want to live, keep running.”
Unable to mobilize their true essence, they were merely relying on their physical bodies to escape, which was indeed difficult.
At this moment, it seemed as if the surrounding wind had come to a standstill.
They even felt as if the world had become silent.
The atmosphere was eerily strange.
The numerous corpses chasing them from behind, crowding and swarming like a tide of corpses, sent chills down their spines.
“Master, they’re almost catching up!” Yin Changli said in terror, “There’s a large hall ahead, the doors and windows are intact, let’s hide in there for now!”
“There really is…” Xu Muhai looked up and indeed, in front of them, there was a large hall that was relatively intact, unlike the dilapidated ones they had encountered before.
The doors of the hall were tightly closed, and there were even some unreadable characters written on them.
However, the words on the plaque above the hall plunged them from hope back into despair.
Hall of Ten Thousand Buddhas!
They clearly remembered the words written in fresh blood when they first entered the Cold Chisel Ancient Temple.
Do not enter the Hall of Ten Thousand Buddhas!