Walking the Brink

Chapter 28: Walking the Brink

Su Yun's Yellow Bell continued to spin in his mind as usual, and the map in his head constantly shifted its orientation. Suddenly, his spirit lifted, and he said in a deep voice, "Found it! Let's keep going!"

Just then, his ears buzzed, and a stinging sensation pierced his mind like needles!

The buzzing lasted for a moment before disappearing. The brief sting had already covered Su Yun in cold sweat, soaking his clothes.

He opened his mouth, but couldn't hear his own voice!

There was only pure silence around him, no sound at all!

"The powerful aura emanating from the Dragon Burial Mound is suppressing our Blood Essence, first stripping us of our sight, and now our hearing!"

Su Yun steadied himself, "Next, it will likely strip us of our touch, taste, smell, and consciousness. If all six senses are lost..."

He suddenly bit his lip. The blood in his mouth carried a fishy and sweet taste. The pain told him that his senses of taste, touch, smell, and his consciousness were still intact.

"Hua Erge and the others felt something stroking the back of their heads. This is an illusion caused by the Blood Essence pressure affecting their sense of touch, not some monster groping us in the dark!"

Su Yun took out the Immortal Rope and quickly tied up Flower Fox, thinking, My Yellow Bell is absolutely correct, and the sun hasn't set yet! We still have time to get out!

Flower Fox struggled a bit. Su Yun gestured anxiously, and Flower Fox finally gave up struggling.

Su Yun then tied up Qingqiu Yue. Qingqiu Yue didn't struggle; her sense of touch had already been lost, and she couldn't feel herself being tied up.

Without touch, hearing, or sight, she was at his mercy.

"The illusion of being touched is caused by the aura surging from the Dragon Burial Mound, pressing on our nerves and beginning to block our sense of touch."

Su Yun also felt something stroking him. His sense of touch seemed to be becoming more sensitive, but this was just an illusion; his sense of touch was also slowly fading.

More cold sweat beaded on his forehead. He felt around, his hands brushing against something. He could barely make out that it was Li Xiaofan.

He tied Li Xiaofan up. At this moment, his sense of touch was also lost.

"Hu Buping!"

Su Yun opened his mouth to shout, but heard no sound. He felt around, but couldn't sense anything!

"Blood Essence! Yes, I can still sense Hu Buping's Blood Essence!"

Su Yun desperately activated the Great Furnace Transformation, vigorously circulating his Blood Essence, and using his mind to sense his surroundings. Finally, figures appeared in his "field of vision" in the darkness.

Su Yun found Hu Buping and reached out to grab him, but couldn't feel if he had actually grasped him.

He could only rely on his experience with tying people up and his sense of Blood Essence to tie Hu Buping.

After doing all this, he tied the four Fox Demons behind his back before continuing forward.

"I can no longer feel my legs, nor my hands. The bloody taste in my mouth is also fading."

Su Yun licked the wound on his lips; he could no longer find where he had bitten himself.

His sense of taste and smell had been completely lost due to the Blood Essence pressure.

With five senses lost, he felt like a corpse, walking in pure uncertainty.

He didn't even know if he was walking uphill or downhill, if he was on the edge of a cliff, or if he was walking into the mouth of a monster!

"I must get out of the Dragon Burial Mound before my consciousness is lost. Otherwise, if my consciousness is gone, it's all over."

Su Yun could no longer feel his body. His consciousness was slowly fading. He could only mechanically move his legs according to the spinning of the Yellow Bell and the map in his mind, constantly moving forward, back to the cliff.

This was boundless darkness. Only the Yellow Bell and the map in his mind were still lit. Only his sense of the Blood Essence of Hua Erge and the others told him that they were still alive.

Su Yun continued to move forward. After an unknown amount of time, the Blood Essence of Hua Erge and the others in his mind disappeared.

His consciousness grew smaller and smaller.

Su Yun continued forward, "There's still time. It's not dark yet. No matter what that Strange Object is, as long as it's still light, it can't come out!"

Relying on his last shred of will and consciousness, he told his body to move forward. Although he couldn't feel his legs, he trusted that his body would continue to move forward under the control of this consciousness and will.

After a long while, Su Yun stopped. The Yellow Bell and the map in his mind told him that there was a cliff ahead!

He had walked out of the Dragon Burial Mound!

"Why?"

Su Yun fell into panic, his heart completely shattered by immense fear. He felt like the child who discovered he was locked in a small "house" again. "I walked out of the Dragon Burial Mound, so why are all five senses still lost? Have I actually not moved at all? Am I still in the Dragon Burial Mound?"

He was on the verge of collapse, his last supporting will and consciousness disintegrating.

Just then, the Blood Essence of Hua Erge and the others appeared in his "field of vision."

Su Yun froze for a moment, then he tasted the blood in his mouth, felt the pain in his lips, and his body slowly began to recover its senses. The pure silence in his ears gradually receded, and he faintly heard the sound of the Niu Family Village funeral horns, playing "Hundred Birds Facing the Phoenix."

He felt the weight on his back, felt his legs.

The fear in his heart turned into hot tears, gushing from his eyes. The warm tears wet his cheeks.

He tremblingly extended his left foot, probing forward. The space ahead was empty.

It was the cliff, exactly as depicted on the map in his mind!

Su Yun stood at the edge of the cliff, his face covered in tears, yet he burst into laughter.

Hua Erge and the others on his back were awakened by his laughter. Their six senses had returned, and they saw Su Yun, who had tied them up securely, carrying them on his back at the edge of the cliff, with a deep abyss below.

One more step forward and they would be smashed to pieces!

The four fox demons dared not move.

Suddenly, Su Yun took a step forward, walking along the edge of the cliff's abyss. Hua Hu and the others were terrified, and Hu Buping let out a piercing scream. This time, no one covered his mouth.

However, Su Yun's steps remained as steady as a mountain, always just one step away from the abyss.

Walking the brink, as if on level ground.

Unknowingly, his state of mind had become a bit more stable.

He walked back and forth twice before stopping, putting down the four foxes on his back, and untying the Immortal Rope.

The four fox demons' bodies were weak and limp, lying by the cliff edge, panting heavily.

The last ray of the setting sun cast down, falling on the young man's face, warm and dispelling the chill of the Dragon Burial Mound.

The sky darkened, the sun set.

Night arrived.

A melodious dragon's roar echoed from the Dragon Burial Mound, clear and long. The sound seemed to contain the loneliness of long years, making one feel inexplicably sad.

The dragon's roar made one feel as if they saw a true dragon roaming alone in the starry sky, crossing an endless journey from one planet to another, searching for its mate.

Just as Su Yun was about to throw the Immortal Rope to leave, he heard the dragon's roar and couldn't help but pause slightly. "This sound... Second Brother, is that a dragon spirit in the valley?"

Hua Hu stood up and looked towards the valley. The twilight was not yet deep, and a green divine dragon emitting a dim glow could be seen flying in the air, slowly circling its tomb, weaving through the trees.

The dragon spirit sang as it flew, as if lamenting the loneliness of traversing the vast starry sky.

"It's that Dragon Ghost."

Hua Hu gritted his teeth. "It must have been this thing just now that suppressed us, causing us to lose our six senses and almost die in the Dragon Burial Mound."

"That's strange."

Su Yun frowned, his expression odd, and murmured, "If the dragon spirit is still in the valley, then who did Jiao Shuao of The Whole Village Eats take away?"

Hua Hu suddenly realized, his eyes widened, his mouth agape.

The other three little foxes climbed up, each seeing the look of horror in the other's eyes.

Yes, who did Jiao Shuao take away?

The dragon spirit of the divine dragon was still in the valley, lingering by its remains, so the rustling sound beside Jiao Shuao definitely wasn't the dragon's spirit.

In this valley, besides the divine dragon's spirit, there was only one other thing!

"That Strange Object that fell with the divine dragon!"

Hu Buping blurted out, "The Whole Village Eats thought he took the dragon spirit, but he actually took that Strange Object!"