When we reached the shore, one of Fan Zhichao's veterans suddenly screamed. His body sank into the water and disappeared.
Xiao He, the one who had tried to swim, also sank and disappeared. At that time, I suspected that there was a giant fish underwater. However, since we were far away, I couldn't see clearly, so I couldn't come to a conclusion.
At this moment, that veteran was less than ten meters away from me. He had disappeared without a trace. It couldn't be a water monster.
Fan Zhichao wanted to dive into the water to check, but Tang Mingyang pulled him back. "Let's cross the river first. It's clear that we have to give up on that veteran."
Fan Zhichao didn't have the heart to do that, but Chief Liu urged him to hurry. Eventually, Fan Zhichao had to give up and climb to the shore.
The corpses in the river were bobbing up and down. The veterans were agile. When they reached the riverbank, they just needed to grab the water plants by the table to get up. The fatty and I didn't have this ability. We had to rely on Fan Zhichao and Tang Mingyang to pull us up one by one.
When I got to the shore, the corpses in the river were like boiled dumplings. They were bobbing up and down. Some of the corpses were tossed into the air. They were connected to something that looked like a long rope. I didn't know how far they were going to go, but I couldn't see the end.
At the bottom of the river, I heard a loud rumbling noise. It sounded like a house collapsing during an earthquake or a giant beast roaring.
Although we didn't know what was down there, we all felt the danger. After we got to the shore, we hurried to retreat.
When I was about to leave, I saw the fatty, who had just gotten to the shore, crawl toward the river again. He was shouting something, but the commotion at the bottom of the river covered his voice. I couldn't hear him clearly.
I looked into the river and saw that Bai Ling was still in the water. The corpse under my feet couldn't stand anymore. Half of his body was in the water, and he was grabbing the water plants by the shore. His other hand was trying to reach up, but he couldn't reach the hand of the person on the shore. He was so anxious that his face was covered in tears.
The fatty was also restless. He almost wanted to jump into the water to save Bai Ling. I pulled him back and prepared to read the Five Ghosts Carrying Spell to lift Bai Ling out of the water. However, before I could finish my chant, I felt the Yin energy around us rise. I stopped.
The Five Ghosts Transfer Spell was used to summon five ghosts nearby to help. Normally, it would only attract some wandering ghosts, so it wasn't a big deal. However, there were so many Soulless Corpses here, so who knew how many ghosts were hiding in the surroundings? If a ghost with a high cultivation was attracted, then it wouldn't be saving people, but harming people.
With such a delay, Bai Ling's body slid further into the river. Only her shoulders were still above the water surface. She was in a precarious situation.
The floating corpses in the river were all thrown into the air. Only the seaweed-like things under their bodies were still hanging in the river.
In the middle of the river, bubbles kept popping up, as if something huge was slowly drilling its way up from below.
The fatty was sweating all over his body, and he was shivering. I wondered if he had sensed something.
Diviners could see the mysteries of the heavens, and they were very sensitive to things in the dark. Even an ordinary person could feel the endless danger, let alone the fatty.
However, his face was frightened, but he didn't want to give up on Bai Ling. He tried his best to reach out his hand to save her.
Feeling helpless, I took out the compass one more time. I didn't care if I was exposed or not. I wanted to summon the snake spirit to save Bai Ling.
But at this moment, it was Zhao Yongkun again. He muttered something and formed a mysterious hand seal with his hand. Then, he stretched out his hand and waved towards Bai Ling. Bai Ling seemed to be pulled by an invisible hand as she jumped out of the water for a long distance. Then, Fatty and Tang Mingyang reached out to grab her at the same time and pulled her to the shore.
When we reached the riverbank, Bai Ling's face was pale. She was still scared. She directly jumped into the fatty's arms and sobbed.
The fatty didn't care about having tender feelings for the fairer sex. He pulled Bai Ling and ran away from the river.
I followed behind him. While running, I turned to look at Zhao Yongkun.
The hand seal seemed to have consumed a lot of his energy. After pulling Bai Ling up, he vomited blood, his face pale.
My impression of him had changed a lot. Although he was arrogant and harsh, and his attitude toward me was strange, he wasn't a bad person. First, he saved Old Zheng, and now, he saved Bai Ling.
When we saved Old Zheng, we could say that he wanted to take us across the river. However, saving Bai Ling was purely for the greater good.
When we were around one hundred meters away from the riverbank, another earth-shaking explosion arose from the other side of the river. We couldn't help but turn to look. The river suddenly emitted a golden light. A golden object slowly emerged from the middle of the river.
When I saw the golden object, I felt as if something had hammered my chest. My vision darkened. Although I didn't faint, I didn't have the strength to run anymore. My legs softened, and I slumped to the ground.
The others weren't in a better state than me. They all fell to the ground. Tang Mingyang, Fan Zhichao, and the other ordinary people had fainted. Only the fatty, Zhao Yongkun, and I opened our eyes. We absentmindedly looked at the golden light in the river.
Unexpectedly, Chief Liu didn't faint. He looked intoxicated as he looked at the golden light. His expression was different from ours. However, we didn't notice it.
The golden light became thicker and thicker. After my eyes got used to it, I could see a massive golden head rising from the river. The tens of thousands of golden light beams were coming from this head.
Apart from that, the head was also covered in thick and lush hair that extended outwards endlessly. At the end of each strand of hair was a corpse that was dancing in the air!
The thing we saw below the corpse wasn't the seaweed. It was the head's hair!
Each of the corpses was connected to the head's hair. It looked really strange.
This golden head was really big. As it was shrouded in the golden light, it looked really majestic. It looked like an emperor of the human world.
After the head emerged, it stopped moving in the middle of the river. The water under it didn't surge anymore. I couldn't tell if the head had a body or not.
Just the head alone was so big that it occupied half of the river. If it had a body, how big would that body be?
Before I could figure it out, the giant head moved again. Its eyes slowly opened, looking at us.
The moment he opened his eyes, the few of us who were still conscious couldn't help but look at him. We blankly stared at his huge eyes. In that moment, I seemed to see the rising and falling of the sun and the moon, as well as the movement of the stars, in the eyes of the giant head.
In the next second, the two giant eyes slowly closed, and the river began to surge. Shortly after, the golden head slowly sank to the bottom of the river. The corpses floating in the air also slowly sank. This time, they didn't cover the entire river. Instead, they formed a vertical line, slowly drifting downstream.
After the head had disappeared for a long time, we slowly woke up and looked at each other. Our eyes were filled with endless shock.
I asked the fatty, "Can you perform a divination to see the origin of this giant head?"
The fatty hugged Bai Ling, who had fainted in his arms. He didn't think much and shook his head resolutely. "If you try to guess the Heavens' secret, you will be devoured."
I had to give up. I took two deep breaths to calm my wounds. When I was about to get up to check the others, I saw Chief Liu kneeling not far from me. He was on his knees, his entire body on the ground. He was muttering something in the direction of the river.
I didn't know what he meant. When I was about to ask him, he stood up.