"We still need to take your pulse."
"Then I'll trouble you, sir."
Wu Ling placed his hand on the table.
Chen Luo raised his hand and, like a traditional physician of the mortal world, placed his fingers on 'Wu Ling's' wrist. An icy sensation traveled back through his fingertips. It felt like touching a corpse, without the slightest trace of a living person's breath.
Chen Luo closed his eyes, and Zhang Junwei's brain swiftly became active.
He had dared to send the Illusion Spirit Gu Clone over because he intended to use Zhang Junwei's brain to probe the state of the 'River of Rebirth.' Only after figuring out the condition of this Peerless Immortal Artifact could he plan what came next.
Cold.
A strange thought surfaced in Chen Luo's mind.
Hmm?
Chen Luo frowned. The feedback from Zhang Junwei's brain was exceedingly strange, like a dead object. It was completely different from when he had called upon it outside before.
There was only one reason for this change: the 'Wu Ling' before him.
The sound of water.
The thought surfaced again. Chen Luo opened his eyes and looked at the 'Wu Ling' across from him. Detecting his gaze, Wu Ling looked back as well.
"Have you discovered anything?"
Wu Ling asked as he had before, but something eerie had happened—his voice had become incredibly strange in Chen Luo's ears. It was as though something had stretched out his vocal cords, speaking to him through ventriloquism.
Within his field of vision, Wu Ling's appearance also underwent a drastic change. His body dripped toward the ground like black mud, while a cold, rotten stench spread through the surroundings.
The sound of water that had not existed before truly appeared by his ears.
Spirit Power erosion, wake up!
Within the External Brain, Immortal