Corpse Recovery Diver

Its head lay in another corner, very large, already skeletal.

However, a black tumor grew on its smooth neck, writhing like both a nose and an eye.

The screams came from ahead; it should be the last obstacle to entering the "birth room."

Run Sheng understood, it was his turn now.

"Xiao Yuan."

"Hmm."

Run Sheng accelerated, leaping out of the cave, avoiding another tail swipe from that thing.

In mid-air, Run Sheng lifted his hand, and Li Zhiyuan reached out to grasp it. As he detached from Run Sheng's back, Run Sheng spun swiftly, throwing the young man outward.

Although Li Zhiyuan hadn't trained in martial arts, his persistent basic exercises had long developed a physique far from how simple it appeared superficially.

The one who felt this most keenly was Run Sheng. Each time the young man mounted his back after a while, he could sense the changes in the young man's strength and balance.

If Xiao Yuan were still as he was when they first met, Run Sheng wouldn't dare throw him like this; it might have killed him.

While in mid-air, Li Zhiyuan had already chosen his landing posture. At the moment he landed, he applied a sideways force, causing himself to roll continuously.

Once he stood up, the headless "Snake Aunt" tried to rush over to block him, but was forcibly halted by a shovel blow from Run Sheng to one of its legs.

The two exchanged a simple glance. Li Zhiyuan nodded to Run Sheng, who nodded back in response.

If he opened his qi gate fully, Run Sheng might be able to kill this headless creature directly, but it wasn't necessary for now.

Being this close, whether to open it or not was just a matter of the young man's call.

Like Tan Wenbin's Ghost Control Skill, when Li Zhiyuan was present, the permissions to use secret techniques between Run Sheng and Tan Wenbin naturally fell into the young man's hands.

Ahead, there were three curtains of water, and passing through them, Li Zhiyuan saw the true Zhaojun Temple.

Compared to the one outside on the mountain, the current one could only be described as rougher.

It was evident that it was made from local materials, carved temporarily.

In some places, obvious cutting marks remained.

Above, a stone plaque read: Zhao's Sealing Town.

Below stood two stone tablets, one large and one small. The small tablet was embedded with a child, already reduced to bones, forcibly put into the stone tablet.

There was a recess in the large stone tablet, vaguely human-shaped, but empty in the middle.

Zhao Wuyang likely intended to refine the Old Transgender and her Gu child into stone specimens together.

Unfortunately, he killed and sealed the Gu child but failed to kill the Old Transgender.

In the end, he could only choose to build a temple and array here, hoping to slowly kill the Old Transgender using the forces of time and the array.

However, the array "extinguished" first, allowing the Old Transgender to survive and even escape.

From the remaining traces, Li Zhiyuan could deduce some details about the array.

He had seen too many strange arrays, broadening his vision.

Yu Xuzi's insights into arrays deepened his understanding of them; Wei Zhengdao's teachings in dreams enhanced his aesthetic sense of arrays.

The Dragon King's sealing array of the Zhao family was somewhat crude.

It was likely that Dragon King Zhao wasn't skilled in the art of arrays.

This wasn't unusual; a human's lifespan is limited, and in short efforts, mastering all paths is challenging.

Dragon King Zhao's path seemed to rely on breaking everything with force. Since entering here, the traces left confirmed this.

Yet even someone as outstanding as the Dragon King needed support from the family in the end.

However, it's unlikely that Jiujiang Zhao could provide such assistance, highlighting the difficulty and hardship in his rise.

If the Jianghu were truly dominated by the Dragon King family, it would be quite dull.

Continuing inside, all above were crystalline inverted cones, with some fallen fragments on the ground.

Stepping on them easily crushed them.

This powdery texture was identical to when those mannequins shattered.

Presumably, this was the raw material for the mystical mirror technique.

And to maintain its continued production, the environment here couldn't change; thus, the Old Transgender was even more determined to stop the construction of the hydroelectric station.

"Ah!!!"

This was so far the shrillest and sharpest scream.

After this, only short gasps remained.

Li Zhiyuan hurriedly stepped forward, seeing an altar ahead, with many broken chains and a disheveled woman lying there.

"Hehehe… hehehehe…"

The woman laughed. She raised her head and sat up, looking down at Li Zhiyuan from the altar.

Her left eye gleamed fiercely, while her right eye was gentle as a lake.

As their eyes met, Li Zhiyuan first closed then reopened his eyes, breaking off the mental seduction she cast on him.

The woman's face showed a satisfied expression again.

She reached out, gently stroking her belly, which was flat.

Li Zhiyuan wondered: Was it already born?

However, the woman's next actions made the young man realize he was mistaken.

"Clap! Clap! Clap!"

The woman began slapping her belly hard, and her flat, normal abdomen rapidly swelled, becoming transparent with a child inside who shouldn't still be in the womb.

From Li Zhiyuan's angle, he could only see the child's back.

Judging by its back, it seemed about five years old.

"Child, you're right, just as you said, as long as I keep letting out screams like giving birth, he will rush over impatiently, see, everything is as you predicted."