"Whew!"
The dazzling white light vanished, and the cave returned to its dark, deathly silent, and deep appearance, occasionally flashing with wisps of ghostly blue electricity.
"What did you just say? Is there really a Cold Soul Six Spirit Ganoderma inside?"
The Barbarian King, who was scrutinizing the Dragon Nest, was startled by Mu Jinyu's exclamation. He reacted, intending to search for the Cold Soul Six Spirit Ganoderma, but the white light had already dissipated, plunging the cave into darkness again. He turned to Mu Jinyu and asked anxiously.
"Yes, I did see the Cold Soul Six Spirit Ganoderma just now."
Mu Jinyu nodded and said, "Let's go in and take a look."
With that, Mu Jinyu fully activated the Bi Fang Cauldron in his hand, increasing its temperature and at the same time emitting a more brilliant red glow to illuminate the surrounding environment clearly.
Then, the two of them stepped toward the Dragon Nest.
The moment they stepped into this dark and deep cave, like the gaping maw of an abyss ready to devour them, Mu Jinyu suddenly felt a sense of trepidation, sensing that this place was exceptionally dangerous.
The Barbarian King, equally sharp, whispered, "Don't use the Flash Technique again. I'm afraid there's something strange here that might get woken up."
"Alright," Mu Jinyu replied softly, his expression serious, saying no more.
The two of them cautiously stepped deeper, occasionally turning their heads warily, watching as the Dragon Humans, frozen in solid ice, looked down on them. Their eyes, each with different colored pupils, glinted with a chilling gleam, making them feel eerie.
They couldn't shake the feeling that these Dragon Humans seemed alive, as if they could break through the ice at any moment, tear them apart with sharp claws, and then chew them into mincemeat with cold, gleaming fangs, eventually swallowing them whole.
Finally, after ten minutes or so.
They arrived beside the piece of crimson ice, looking down at the pale blue Lingzhi.
"Is this the Cold Soul Six Spirit Ganoderma?"
The Barbarian King glanced at the Cold Soul Six Spirit Ganoderma, sensing an intense coldness and an evil aura that seemed to want to devour one's soul.
"This doesn't seem to be a good thing, does it?" the Barbarian King said uncertainly.
"Why do you want it?" he couldn't help but ask out of curiosity.
Mu Jinyu explained, "This Spiritual Medicine does have strong toxicity, and normal people can't consume it, or their souls would forever fall into the Underworld. I'm planning to use it to fight poison with poison to save someone."
"I see." The Barbarian King nodded, not fully understanding the pharmacology but feeling that Mu Jinyu made some sense.
Then, he paid no more mind to it, slightly raising his head to look forward at the crimson, blood-like ice. Inside was the most terrifying frozen figure, a red-scaled Dragon Human with three heads, six arms, and twelve dragon wings.
"This should be the leader of these Dragon Humans, right? It's hard to imagine that such a group of Dragon Humans lived here in ancient times, and I don't know what eventually led to them all being frozen." The Barbarian King marveled.
While he was in thought, Mu Jinyu was carefully extracting the Cold Soul Six Spirit Ganoderma, roots and all, from the ice.
However, at this moment, a terrifying change occurred.
"Buzz buzz buzz!"
As Mu Jinyu unearthed the roots of the Cold Soul Six Spirit Ganoderma from the ice and stored it in the Bi Fang Cauldron, beams of ghostly light the size of bronze bells lit up all around them.
"Hmm?!"
"Have the Dragon Humans... come to life?"
Seeing this scene, the Barbarian King's heart skipped, sensing that things were serious. Then he shouted at Mu Jinyu, "Run, hurry!"
Mu Jinyu stood up, seeing the densely packed, maliciously glowing eyes staring at him from all around. He felt a chill run down his spine and, without hesitation, ran with the Barbarian King towards the cave entrance!
"Whew..."
A chilling, eerie wind blew, and in that instant, the countless gazes drifted to the cave entrance, blocking their way, and stared at Mu Jinyu and the Barbarian King with venomous, cold eyes.
"We're doomed!"
"How do we fight this?"
Seeing this, the Barbarian King said, on the verge of tears, while retreating backward with Mu Jinyu.
Although he was a Barbarian, brave in battle, always fighting to the end with enemies, and had reached the fourth layer of the Unity Realm Stage, facing these unfamiliar and seemingly formidable Dragon Humans made him fearful.
If it were just a couple of Dragon Humans, he still had the confidence to cooperate with Mu Jinyu and fight to the end. But now, thousands of awakened Dragon Humans, each with Fanxu Realm power, were enough to tear them apart.
"No, that's not right!"
Mu Jinyu's sharp eyes glinted with alertness, and he said, "I didn't hear the sound of ice breaking, so the Dragon Humans shouldn't have awakened. These venomous gazes shouldn't belong to the Dragon Humans."
Saying this, Mu Jinyu gritted his teeth and used the Flash Technique again.
"Sizzle!"
The magnificent white light once again illuminated the entire dark cave.
Before them, the creatures with limitless venomous gazes turned out not to be the Dragon Humans encased in ice.
The Dragon Humans still lay as though in sleep, motionless, or appeared lifelike but frozen mid-action in anger, displaying a fraction of their former majesty before being encased in ice.
But the eerie creatures before their eyes made Mu Jinyu and the Barbarian King, who could now see them clearly, feel incredibly cautious.
Because their forms were similar to Dragon Humans—human bodies with dragon heads, having several Dragon Clan body parts—but their bodies were entirely ice blue, nearly transparent, exuding a chilling aura.
"Are these... Lost Souls?!"
The Barbarian King, seeing these beings similar to Dragon Humans but completely different, speculated with a look of suspicion.
"Yes!" Mu Jinyu nodded and speculated, "They indeed are Dragon Human Lost Souls. Perhaps many Dragon Humans died here in the past, with only a few frozen alive, their survival unknown. These Lost Souls originally slumbered here, nurturing the Cold Soul Six Spirit Ganoderma, and when I uprooted it, they were startled awake."
"What do we do now? Can we even fight against Lost Souls?" the Barbarian King hurriedly asked, seeing Mu Jinyu looking confident.
"Possibly?"
Mu Jinyu wasn't entirely sure if he could challenge these Dragon Human Lost Souls.
After all, he had encountered the dark chaos and the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons in Huaxia before, where each near-demon Resentful Soul wreaked havoc like a Tide of Chaos. It had left him helpless and forced him to transform into a demon to fight back, leaving a deep impression on him since.
Now facing such ghostly entities again, he wasn't confident that even the Power of Laws of the Unity Realm Stage could suppress them.
However, he had a Magic Treasure that gave him some confidence to try his luck.
Subsequently, Mu Jinyu took out the damaged Heaven-reaching Spiritual Treasure, the Soul-Suppressing Bell, inherited from Shi Haoran.
At that time, after killing Shi Haoran and Wu Linyuan, he took the Soul-Suppressing Bell and the Dragon Emperor Sword. When the Secret Realm began collapsing, he left through the Teleportation Array, quickly left the Chu Kingdom fearing being discovered by the Sects and Noble Families, and then traveled to the Northern Regions and Plains.
Originally, Mu Jinyu intended to feed these two damaged Heaven-reaching Spiritual Treasures to the Bi Fang Cauldron, to help it quickly grow into a Heaven-reaching Spiritual Treasure.
But he later thought the Soul-Suppressing Bell's unique capability of attacking the Soul might have unexpected effectiveness, so he kept it.
He also gave the Dragon Emperor Sword to Wen Rou, allowing her and Jian Ruyan to use it for self-defense.
Now, encountering these Dragon Human Lost Souls, perhaps the Soul-Suppressing Bell could suppress them.