Asked About The World Of Mortals

Chapter 60: Evergreen Bones

With a loud thud, the "enormous" Winged Serpent suddenly crashed at the bottom of the cliff, immediately shrinking in size. Qin Yi, who was on its back, was thrown off and rolled far away.

However, due to the sudden displacement, Ye Ling, who was originally quite small, could easily lose balance. It wasn't as if she was severely injured from the fall. Qin Yi rolled over and quickly got up, turning his head to see a snake over half a meter long, lazily lying on the ground and flapping its wings.

Half a meter may not be considered small, but compared to the gigantic Winged Serpent from earlier... it was as exaggerated as a Hellhound turning into a Husky.

"What happened?" Qin Yi walked over with some concern and touched Ye Ling. "Are you hurt from the fall?"

"I... I shrank," the snake spoke with a young and tender female voice.

"You foolish snake," Qin Yi scolded irritably. "It only appeared big before, it wasn't actually big. Did you deceive yourself?"

"I needed to appear big to feel powerful," Ye Ling lay on the ground, unable to get up, appearing quite melancholic.

Qin Yi couldn't reason with her and turned his head to survey the surroundings.

It was still filled with dense fog, with very low visibility. Although it wasn't to the extent of not being able to see one's own fingers, anything beyond a few meters was unclear. Qin Yi used his wind manipulation to disperse the thick fog, and his eyes slightly narrowed.

There were bones everywhere...

Human bones and animal bones.

Qin Yi also saw corroded swords and knives next to the human bones, resembling the curved blades commonly used in the Western Wasteland. This was the border of the Western Wasteland, and it was very likely that these were the people the Western Wasteland had sent to explore the Rift Valley, none of whom had returned alive.

At first glance, there were no enemies, not even scavenging vultures. But these bones clearly indicated that there must be a great danger nearby, otherwise how did they die?

Qin Yi cautiously took a few steps forward and squatted down to examine the nearest skeleton.

The skeleton didn't even have any clothes, let alone anything else. It was completely clean. Only in the hollow eye sockets, there seemed to be a faint phosphorescence flickering, as if those eyes could still see people, giving off a creepy feeling.

Qin Yi stared at those eyes.

Beside him, Ye Ling had already returned to her human form and looked at Qin Yi with a horrified expression.

It was one thing to look at a stick, but why was he staring at a skeleton? Wasn't he afraid?

In reality, Qin Yi was making a judgment based on the stick.

Qin Yi raised his Wolf Fang Club.

Almost at the same time, the skeleton's arm suddenly thrust towards Qin Yi's throat.

"Crack!" The Wolf Fang Club whistled past, smashing the entire skeleton into pieces.

Two points of phosphorescence scattered on the ground, as if they would never extinguish. The shattered skeleton slowly began to heal and gradually took on a complete form again.

The sound of "creak creak" came from all around as all the skeletons stood up.

Ye Ling's teeth were chattering. "What... what is this?"

"It's a necromantic technique. Someone is lurking here, and these skeletons are actually his sentinels." Qin Yi smiled. "If we die, we will become like them."

Ye Ling looked at a snake bone crawling towards her, her teeth chattering, and she just wanted to find a place to hide and not look.

"They're not that strong. Look at how scared you are." Qin Yi swung his club, smashing two nearby skeletons left and right. "They're just ordinary soldiers from when they were alive, even slower in movement. There's no need to be afraid."

"But they can heal," Ye Ling said.

"The speed is slow, nothing to fear. Even Donghua Zi can run away. How could we not be able to handle it?" Qin Yi swung his bat and swept through, leaving a trail of flying bones, creating a bone path.

Seeing Qin Yi's brave appearance, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, Ye Ling gained some confidence and followed him.

"Let's go, let's take a look ahead. That's where the real deal is." Qin Yi charged forward, suddenly feeling that he should find a way to train the courage of this stupid snake. Clearly, the Great Monster was so powerful that he couldn't defeat her at the moment... but he always thought of running away at the first sight of anything, which was ridiculous.

This kind of mentality of a stupid snake would probably end up being beaten to death by him.

Speaking of which, he was quite awesome. In his previous life, he would be creeped out by seeing a skeleton model in a hospital, but now he could face a real skeleton without any feeling and smash his way through a sea of skeletons.

Was it the courage brought by strength?

If he could kill people, then skeletons were nothing special.

The terrain at the bottom of the rift was not flat.

Perhaps when Liu Su created it, it was flat, but after thousands of years, some places had risen into hills, some had collapsed, some had grown trees, some had become lakes, and some had been influenced by immortal or dead energy, resulting in more peculiar mutations.

This vast range at the bottom of the rift was a world where everything existed.

If someone occupied it, there would likely be buildings or Cave Mansions in some places.

Qin Yi could already see a desolate hill in front of him, bare without any trees, and he couldn't tell how high it was in the mist.

In fact, everywhere he passed was desolate, with yellow sand, rocks, and some weeds. It didn't look like there was any immortal energy or precious materials. Qin Yi understood that this area must be the most barren and resource-poor area in the entire rift. As long as it was slightly more fertile, it would definitely attract the attention of more powerful beings, and it wouldn't be the "relatively safe white zone" anymore.

But as he approached the hill, the pressure on him began to increase. The strength of this sea of skeletons was gradually increasing. Just now, there were ordinary soldiers and ordinary beasts' skeletons, but the further he went, the more strange and unrecognizable skeletons there were.

He didn't know all the species in this world to begin with, and even if he did, there were probably many extinct creatures here.

Like the one in front of him...

A giant reptile, as huge as a dinosaur, with three heads, and the three heads didn't look the same. The one in the middle looked like a human head, while the other two looked like a dog head and a wolf head. What on earth was this?

No matter what it was, if it was brushed by that huge foot, it would either die or be crippled.

Qin Yi didn't have much curiosity. He lowered his body, passed through under the giant beast's claws, and swept heavily on the small leg joint of the giant beast's leg bone.

"The entire giant beast skeleton collapsed."

Qin Yi turned around and pulled Ye Ling, swiftly rushing towards the hill.

Just as they reached the edge of the hill, the sea of skeletons behind them stopped moving. Countless green phosphorescent lights flickered for a while, and then they all lay back down as if tired and wanted to sleep, ignoring them.

Ye Ling scratched her head. "Why does this feel a bit like me..."

Qin Yi smiled bitterly. At this moment, he didn't have the mood to tease the little girl. All his attention was drawn to what was at the foot of the hill.

At the foot of the hill, there was a stone stele, emitting a mysterious light and flickering with inscriptions.

It read "The Evergreen Method of the Withered Bones" and included illustrations. Obviously, it was the spell that created this sea of skeletons.

So, in your eyes, these skeletons are considered evergreen? Qin Yi couldn't help but mock. He walked up and circled around the stone stele, wanting to see if there were any other clues.

On the back, there was a sentence: "Behind you are withered bones, ahead is evergreen."

The meaning of this sentence was a bit peculiar... it seemed to be the explanation of this evil spell, but if understood as going forward to obtain the method of immortality, it also made sense. Qin Yi finally understood why Donghua Zi dared to move forward with his limited skills. Ahead was evergreen, who wouldn't want that?

Qin Yi looked up at the desolate hill in the mist. What's the difference between this and a bald man endorsing hair growth tonic?

(End of this chapter)