Chapter 244 - 230: Adroit Dice; Snake Eyes Rolled Alarming the Heart 2
If that giant stone divine statue was here, then they could've swiftly crossed with a few giant steps. But it was left behind by Xie Lian at the royal capital to guard and suppress vicious spirits, and those three mountain spirits had already transformed into a sword, so it was best that they didn't come.
"San Lang, can the silver butterflies bring us across?" Xie Lian asked.
"With the steam of the lava, the silver butterflies might melt halfway across the river." Hua Cheng replied.
It wouldn't look too good to fall from mid air halfway through crossing and crash head first into the heart of the lava stream. However, Hua Cheng added,' But, there's a ready-made path."
The group turned their gaze to where he was looking, and a moment later, Xie Lian exclaimed, "Why are there people in the lava?"
It was the absolute truth, Xie Lian wasn't hallucinating. Just now in that instant. He saw a tragically pale hand roll out of the lava, reaching towards the sky. Upon a closer inspection, Mu Qing said, "There really are! And not just one?"
There were at least over thousands of people, a number of bodies and heads floating upon the surface of the river, some rolling and turning by the current of the lava stream, and there were even some flowing against current. Their bodies were all a peculiar white, their faces blurred.
They were not actual living people. Xie Lian figured it out, "They're those empty-shelled people from the royal capital of Wu Yong...they've been flushed out here by the lava."
By their martial skills, it shouldn't be too difficult to use those empty-shelled mutants as stepping stones and leap over. Only, those deceased spirits have been tormentedly struggling in the burning stream, it'd be rather tragic that they had to be stepped on too. But they didn't have the time to worry about that now. Mu Qing went forward first, aimed for the right positions, and with a few ups and downs, he soon crossed the moat, standing at the shore on the other side of the river, looking back this way. Xie Lian turned to Guoshi, "Let me take you across first."
Guoshi wasn't a martial god after all, and wasn't one who practiced martial arts, so he needed someone to take him. He nodded and went forward. However, Hua Cheng spoke up, "Gege, let me."
Going with the flow, Xie Lian acknowledged, "Alright."