The bees flew with Chen Shi and Empress Shi Ji for a long time, finally arriving at a stretch of land that must have been an island in the South Sea, though its area was vast.
Mountain ranges piled upon mountain ranges rose across the island, with jagged rocks showing a majestic and wondrous spectacle. The mountains teemed with ghosts of indigo skin, ferocious and menacing visages, and tusks protruding from their mouths, holding steel forks in their hands and wearing tattered cloth strips peeled from dead bodies to cover their lower regions.
The little ghosts Chen Shi had seen at Lord Wuwang's place should have looked just like this when they reached adulthood.
They were much taller than ordinary people, and seeing Chen Shi and Empress Shi Ji hanging upside down in the air by the bees, they used their steel forks to jab at Chen Shi and Shi Ji.
Chen Shi hurriedly dodged, nearly getting poked in the stomach.
A few human-headed bees flew over, batting away the steel forks, and cried, "The prisoner says he is the master's nephew! If you kill him, you'll get what's coming to you!"
Those ghosts then stopped poking Chen Shi and went to jab Empress Shi Ji.
Even though Shi Ji had passed out, her entire body was incomparably hard, and since they could not pierce her, they simply gave up.
However, there were too many ghosts along the way, and whenever one saw them, it always wanted to give them a couple of jabs, irritating those human-headed bees into rushing about frantically.
At last, the bees brought Chen Shi and Empress Shi Ji before an ancient palace at the center of the island and set them down.
Chen Shi remained paralyzed in body, unable to move a muscle, and could