Chapter 824: Night Fiend
“The intervals between day and night here are much longer,” Huang Dinggou explained as he wiped his face clean of dog pee. “How long have you all been here?”
Li Xiaofei did a quick calculation and said, “About twenty-four hours or so.”
Huang Dinggou’s expression turned grave and said, “Then it’s just as I thought. In ten more hours, Heaven will enter nighttime. That’s when the Night Fiends awaken. They’ll start sweeping the land and exterminate all foreign lifeforms. Let me remind you, they’re powerful, their methods bizarre and impossible to guard against, and worst of all, they come in overwhelming numbers. They’re very difficult to deal with.”
Li Xiaofei could sense the genuine danger in Huang Dinggou’s tone. In Heaven, vigilance was essential at all times. There was no room for carelessness.
This place is just too eerie.
“If we’ve got ten hours, we’d better use that time to get out of here,” Li Xiaofei said. “Now that we’ve found you, Black Emperor will lead the way. You can all get out of here quickly.”
“We can’t,” Huang Dinggou shook his head. “Anyone who enters this place has to endure at least ten days and nights before the tide of the Heavenly River recedes and the Magpie Bridge appears. Only through that bridge can one cross the river again.”
Li Xiaofei frowned and asked, “We can’t cross by boat?”
Huang Dinggou’s expression turned dark and replied, “You mean the Youming Ferryman? I have a bad feeling about him. I don’t think he’s going to take us across.”
Li Xiaofei turned to the mute girl. She shook her head. She didn’t share that premonition. Li Xiaofei ran the numbers in his head. In the end, he decided the best course of action was to escort the group back and take a chance, see if fortune might smile upon them after all.
"You're really going back? Well, alright then." Huang Dinggou hesitated for a moment, as if making a difficult decision.
After a bit of thought, he pulled out a man-sized jar, returned to the ten-thousand-year-old cesspit, and began scooping out large amounts of half-liquid, viscous black horse dung until the jar was completely full. He then strapped it to his back.