When system cheat becomes rampant!-Chapter 686 - 504 Stone Slab Road_2

"This place is really sinister."

Xiang Beifei looked at the candle in his hand, which was on the verge of flickering out, yet he continued to walk forward with it, as it was better than nothing.

He proceeded along the stone-paved road and saw a cave ahead. The cave was very dark, and from within, indistinct sounds reached him. The sounds were ethereal; whenever he tried to listen carefully, it seemed as though he heard nothing, but when Xiang Beifei was about to dismiss them, the sounds appropriately resurfaced.

However, just as he was about to enter the cave, Xiang Beifei suddenly felt something and sharply turned to look behind him.

There was nothing behind him, still engulfed in darkness, with only a faint blue glow emitted from the stone path.

"Strange."

Xiang Beifei frowned slightly, then entered the cave and disappeared into its darkness.

The instant he entered the cave, a pair of dark purple eyes appeared in the darkness behind him, standing out starkly as they stared in the direction Xiang Beifei had gone.

Whoosh!

The shadow vanished in a flash.

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Xiang Beifei proceeded along the pitch-dark cave, no longer able to see the Ghost Whiskers of Remnant Visage ahead, but he could see black aquatic plants covering the cave's ceiling. As Xiang Beifei drew near, the plants gently floated and turned in the water towards him, eerily facing him.

Once Xiang Beifei had passed, they also turned to follow his direction, very bizarrely. Xiang Beifei didn't linger and quickly walked towards the cave's exit.

What confronted him was a very peculiar structure, resembling a tall palace, at least a hundred meters high. This palace stood in the water, its contours vaguely visible and constructed from individual stone slabs.

But these stone slabs were not closely fitted together; every corner still had a slight gap through which some fish were seen swimming.

Xiang Beifei did not see the shadow of the Ghost Whiskers, which probably had entered the palace. He immediately hurried into the palace.

But at that moment, a chaotic scream suddenly echoed from ahead. The sound was particularly harrowing, so clear as it reverberated across the lake.

Xiang Beifei's brow furrowed slightly. He immediately ran along the stone path into the palace, but as soon as he stepped in, the screams Abruptly Stop, followed by a series of strange whispers, as if someone sighed in his ear. It was chilling.

When he entered the palace, instead of a grand hall, he saw a labyrinth of twisted paths leading in different directions. There was no telling which direction the Ghostly Visage had gone.

Xiang Beifei randomly chose one of the paths and ran forward. After taking a couple of turns, he suddenly heard voices in the darkness.

"Quick! Where's the Piercing Stone?"

A voice mixed with shock and anger came from the darkness, which Xiang Beifei recognized. It was from 'Brain Hole.'

"I don't know—something attacked us!" came another voice, that of a woman.

"Don't panic, everyone gather over here."

Rustling noises converged ahead as 'Brain Hole' summoned his subordinates, sounding very furious. They seemed to have separated.

At that moment, Xiang Beifei suddenly saw a severed tentacle at the corner up ahead. He dashed to the tentacle and upon closer inspection, he realized it belonged to Ghostly Visage, apparently having been freshly cut, with purple blood still oozing from it.

"Purple blood?"

Xiang Beifei didn't remember the blood of the Ghostly Visage being purple. He shone his candle on it and soon found that what appeared to be purple blood were, in fact, weird purple bugs—gloppy like mucus, sticking together. If not observed closely, they could be mistaken for a liquid.

These purple bugs were gnawing at the black tentacle, but as soon the black was consumed, the purple bugs suddenly turned and uniformly eyed Xiang Beifei.

Xiang Beifei was slightly taken aback; these bizarre bugs could actually see him!

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

More and more purple bugs approached from out of the darkness, as if they were all looking at the candle in Xiang Beifei's hand. Then, suddenly, all of the purple bugs uniformly dissolved into the water, disappearing from sight.

"Can they see the light of 'Witnessed by All'?"

Xiang Beifei realized something was very wrong with the bugs here. Though 'Witnessed by All' was supposed to be visible only to the candlebearer, it wouldn't be surprising if some desolate beasts from the outer realms could sense the system's fluctuations.

He did not continue using the candle but snuffed it out and was about to choose a different path when he suddenly stepped on something. Looking down, he found a blood-drenched human skull with half its face eaten away. The eyes of the skull bulged, staring fixedly at him.

Xiang Beifei was startled by the skull. He hadn't sensed it when he walked past it earlier!

Xiang Beifei was about to kick the head flying, but quickly realized that the head looked familiar. He remembered that one of the Ghost Mustache of Remnant Visage had looked just like this, which meant that it was one of their parasitic bodies!

As Xiang Beifei squatted down, the purple bugs covering the head abruptly vanished. He picked up the head and found that the body of the Ghost Mustache of Remnant Visage was gone. Glancing to the side, he saw a severed arm and a half-body, also covered with purple bugs.

Looking further ahead, he saw some black tendrils twitching on the ground, seemingly at their last gasp.

"What here could harm a Ghost Mustache of Remnant Visage?"

Xiang Beifei was quite surprised, but then he suddenly thought of the cold air of Zi Hou and the stream water of Mao Hou, which were the bane of the Ghost Mustache of Remnant Visage. Since this was Chen Hou, did that mean that this place also contained such a thing?

Was it these purple bugs?

He had intended to use the breath soil to catch one of the purple bugs, but hadn't expected them to disappear too quickly, not giving him a chance.

"Piercing Stone, did I just hear you cry out in pain?"

Xiang Beifei was still pondering when a voice suddenly came from behind him.

This voice made Xiang Beifei startle again.

Because he was still disguised with his spiritual power, how could the Ghost Mustache of Remnant Visage see him?

But when he checked carefully, he realized his spiritual disguise had vanished without him knowing when.

Strange!

Xiang Beifei grew cautious.

Was it a problem with this palace?

However, he quickly calmed down and spoke up, "I ran into some trouble just now and got attacked by something."

Xiang Beifei turned around, placing the head behind his back. Because it was dark here, no one could see anyone, and their vision was severely suppressed. They could only faintly make out a figure.

"That's good, Lord Kui was calling us just now. We need to hurry over," said the person, walking forward two steps.

Xiang Beifei frowned and inquired, "Didn't you hear something strange in my voice?"

"Did I? I'm not very clear. The holy relic of Fubei can harm us and has suppressed all our senses. It's good enough that I can hear you speak. Why do you ask?" the Ghost Mustache of Remnant Visage asked.

"No reason, my throat was torn to shreds earlier, and I found I couldn't heal it. There's something creepy in the darkness," Xiang Beifei said, moving the head behind him again.

"You were attacked by the holy relic of Fubei?" asked the Ghost Mustache of Remnant Visage.

"Yeah, barely got away with my life."

Xiang Beifei saw that the Ghost Mustache of Remnant Visage had come within about a meter of him, but he seemed not to realize that he wasn't one of them.

"I can't even smell you from this close," Xiang Beifei tested.

"Isn't that normal? I can't even see you here; I can just barely make out a blurry shape to distinguish you. It's too oppressive," the Ghost Mustache of Remnant Visage complained bitterly.

After the Ghost Mustache of Remnant Visage got to about a meter away, Xiang Beifei could see clearly that he was a pioneer with a huge wound on his side, as if it had been punctured by the claw of a desolate beast, likely the cause of the pioneer's death.

Xiang Beifei, accustomed to naming them after their injuries, named this one Lei Chadao.

"Can't you see me clearly?"

Xiang Beifei was surprised because, being so close, he could still see the other guy clearly, his face in plain view.

"Isn't that a stupid question? Can you see me clearly?" Lei Chadao retorted.

"Uh, no, it's too weird here."

But Xiang Beifei quickly realized something.

The Ghost Mustache of Remnant Visage was actually suppressed here, unable to recognize him!

This was his chance!