When they entered the dense stone pillar region.
There was no longer any grass to step on. They had no choice but to wade through knee-deep, filthy, stinking water. The air was thick with the eerie reek of decay and marsh gas, while miasma stung their eyes. How could such a ghostly place exist on a fine immortal mountain?
They could not fly, nor could they jump about recklessly. They could only wade forward step by step.
The monkey's legs were completely submerged in mud and water.
It was short.
And it had naturally bowed legs...
Feeling something strange beneath its foot, it bent down and picked it up. It was a bone from some Fierce Beast. There had been corpses in the grassy marsh outside, but in here, only bones remained. They were very hard, and the foul stench was especially unbearable—worse than the innards of prey left uneaten for three days.
"Squeak, this doesn't look like a mausoleum. It looks more like a prison."
The monkey rarely complained.
Bai Yujun looked around. Another folded space—seemingly tiny, yet in truth immensely vast. The monkey was right; this place looked nothing like a tomb.
"There is no Life Aura at all, and I haven't found any heat source. It is purely a land of death..."
Splash.
The iron ball emerged from the water, wiped its face, and spat out filthy water.
"Peh! It stinks! Boss, the mud beneath the water can't be bored through. Like this water, it is all rotten deathly aura. There seem to be a great many tree roots."
"Tree roots..."
Bai Yujun frowned and clenched her small hand.
She quickened her pace again, wading deeper through the murky water. The gray miasma seemed to conceal something. Gradually, they saw many enormous skeletons scattered about. Much of