Genius Doctor: Black Belly Miss Volume 7

by North Night (夜北)

  Mu Qian Fan had told them, at the bottom of the Heaven’s End Cliff, the most terrifying things usually hid behind the blinding mist.

  Soon, the path of icy bones gradually thinned out and before them, the terrain changed. The ground was covered all over in moss. The Spirit Fire Globes lit up an area of several meters around the group. Mu Qian Fan had not used Spirit Fire Globes the last time and although they could see their way forward, the light they used did not show the way as clearly.

  The Spirit Fire Globes’ advantage showed up in that situation, as Jun Wu Xie could clearly see everything in the places the light reached.

  The green moss grew in abundance and they covered the entire ground densely. They made the path slippery and sticky and every step they took called for caution to avoid taking any unnecessary spill onto the ground.

  Jun Wu Xie took out a three segmented nunchuck. It was made out of wood and made very light, its two joints linked with a short metal chain. The nunchuck could be joined together by holding the segments together and twisted clockwise, and when joint up, it formed into a simple wooden staff.

  It was simple staff that people used for everyday training but Jun Wu Xie was using it to inspect the ground as they proceeded forward.

  The green moss covered an extensive area of the ground and the entire land looked exactly the same everywhere. But under the expansive fresh green moss, it was highly possible that they his deadly sinkholes.

  Jun Wu Xie took the lead, the staff in her hand pushing and prodding into the ground to make sure it was safe before she stepped onto it. Behind her, Qiao Chu and the others walked in a single file, stepping only in the same places that Jun Wu Xie had stepped on.

  Within the all encompassing mist, silence fell again.

  When the staff in Jun Wu Xie’s hand prodded the ground three steps ahead of her, she suddenly felt the ground offering no resistance!

  Jun Wu Xie fell forward, and just as she was leaning, she quickly righted herself, but she could feel the staff in her hand being pulled by a strong force, from the other end of it.

  [A sinkhole!]

  Jun Wu Xie’s eyes darkened.

  Immediately abandoning the idea of withdrawing the wooden staff, she released her grip. In the short period of a few seconds, the more than a meter long wooden staff was completely swallowed up. Before the wooden was completely submerged, the moss that had split open bubbled a while, before it closed up and reverted to its unbroken state.

  “The environment here….. is really rather scary.” Qiao Chu was right behind Jun Wu Xie and he witnessed the whole thing.

  When Jun Wu Xie had attempted to retrieve the wooden staff, she had employed the use of her spirit powers, but it had not helped her in the slightest. All her powers were no match for the sinkhole’s deadly grip on the wooden staff.

  Only the Heavens knew, what would happen to a person who got swallowed up by the sinkhole…..

  What was more terrifying was that the sinkhole had just revealed itself just for a short while, and it had immediately reverted back to its original invisible state, making it impossible to find any signs of them.

  “Are we able to use Lord Meh Meh to scout the way forward? Since it is so humongous in size, these regular sinkholes wouldn’t affect it at all.” Qiao Chu suggested with a slight frown.

  Jun Wu Xie shook her head in rejection.

  “We are not able to ascertain the size of the sinkholes in the area. If a large sinkhole appears and if Lord Meh Meh steps into it, we have no way of rescuing him. However, if any one of us were to fall into a sinkhole, we can still use Lord Meh Meh’s power to struggle out. But if Lord Meh Meh gets stuck, our way forward will become much more difficult.” Jun Wu Xie still remembered every single word Mu Qian Fan had told them.

  Volume 7

  Chapter 667: “Deadly Land (2)”

  Hidden within the confusing mist, not only were there the deadly poison and the sinkholes that swallowed up everything, fearsome beasts walked under its all reaching cover!

  Those ferocious and powerful monsters had caused Mu Qian Fan to face utter despair and Jun Wu Xie was not about to let down her guard. Lord Meh Meh was her hidden trump card on this expedition.

  Having rejected the idea of using Lord Meh Meh to scout the path ahead, Jun Wu Xie pulled out another three segment nunchuck from her Cosmos Sack. She was well prepared and she wasn’t afraid that she would not have enough of them to use.

  Continuing to prod and probe the mossy ground going their way forward, the three segmented nunchucks in Jun Wu Xie’s Cosmos Sack decreased quickly in number. As they advanced, they found that the density of the sinkholes in the ground had increased in terrifying numbers!

  After walking a whole day, they did not even manage to cover a single kilometre.

  Along the way, they came across countless sinkholes and at the edges of those sinkholes, they would find many old and broken items lying on the ground. Badly corroded by the green moss, items like swords and sabres, lying beside torn and tattered pieces of clothing. It was obvious, before they came here, countless people had lost their lives, swallowed up by all these hungry sinkholes, and all the old and broken items scattered at the sides, almost all covered in green moss, were the last items those people left behind in the world of the living.

  Compared to the ground made up of skeletal remains, the terrain here filled with sinkholes was more terrifying, with death watching their every step.

  More than the innumerable heaps upon heaps of skeletal remains, the scattering of items at the edges of the sinkholes showed the merciless cruelty of the place.

  Dying and even your body could not be found….. seemed a rather harsh way to die.

  The strength that they managed to recover after so much effort had been quickly depleted. Jun Wu Xie and her companions had no choice but to locate a secure area on the terrain for them to sit down and rest. The black beast and Rolly were both summoned and Jun Wu Xie did not allow Lord Meh Meh to transform this time.

  Surrounding them on all sides, were a countless number of sinkholes. Lord Meh Meh’s original body was too big and if it transformed, it would definitely encounter the sinkholes.

  Irregardless of the fact that they advanced very slowly, the weariness that consumed them was more mental and they had not expended much physical strength. But their completely drained out spirit powers demanded that they need to take a rest.

  “Say, how much longer do we need to spend here before we can completely finish exploring the place?” Qiao Chu asked, chewing on the cold hard piece of dried beef he held, feeling like he had bitten off a piece of rock into his mouth.

  All the others shook their heads. Neither did they know how much longer the road ahead was for them, and how far a journey they could take. The main goal for this expedition was to do everything they could to get a good feel of the place and learn all that they could, travelling as far as they possibly could, to gather whatever information they came across.

  Naturally, that was provided they were all able to remain safe. Once their lives come under threat, they would not continue to remain there.

  “Seems like, in order to find the exact location of the Dark Emperor’s tomb, we would really need to collect all eight pieces of the map before it’s possible.” Qiao Chu sighed in disappointment. He had thought that with the two human skin maps they possessed in their hands, even if they were not able to pinpoint the exact location of the Dark Emperor’s tomb, the maps would at least be of some use at the bottom of the cliff. However, the reality was nothing close to what he had expected.

  “For now, it seems that is what we must do.” Hua Yao said, nodding in agreement.

  Jun Wu Xie suddenly stretched out her hand, and soon she was holding a pure black ring. The spirit stone in the ring was still flashing with a bright gleam, but the ring was well covered with moss.

  “Is that a spirit ring?” Fan Zhuo asked, immediately recognizing it for what it was.

  The spirit ring looked very
old and badly worn, but after wiping away the moss covering it, it turned really shiny and flawless, only that not a single sliver of spirit presence could be detected from the ring.

  “This spirit ring had been reforged before, and the material used was also Black Silver. But the ring’s owner must have died and the ring spirit’s link already severed.” Fan Zhuo said as he took the ring and inspected it. The Spirit Reinforcement runes he saw on the ring was foreign to him, different from the three types that he knew of.

  Volume 7

  Chapter 668: “Deadly Land (3)”

  “I am sure this ring is from the Middle Realm, but I cannot be sure if it is from the Twelve Palaces.” Fan Zhuo said.

  Jun Wu Xie calmly replied: “Besides the Twelve Palaces, nobody else from the Middle Realm would find their way here.”

  Initially, when the Twelve Palaces had secretly plotted to usurp the Dark Emperor’s treasures, they had naturally realized the grave dangers involved. They did not dare shoulder such a crime themselves and wouldn’t dream of revealing the fact that they knew the Dark Emperor’s tomb laid below the Heaven’s End Cliff to anyone else in the Middle Realm.

  For all these people who died all the way down here, had to be people sent by the Twelve Palaces!

  “At that time, every single person sent to come here into the Lower Realm to search for the Dark Emperor’s tomb were all top exponents in the Twelve Palaces. Unfortunately, even those highly skilled exponents succumbed to the nefarious dangers of this place, leaving their lives behind.” Fan Zhuo said, his mouth curling into a slight smile, barely showing just at the corners of his lips as his eyes studied the finely crafted spirit ring intently.

  At that time, his parents had managed to break through the endless obstacles and dangers, finally discovering the Dark Emperor’s tomb. And the last thing they would have expected from the moment they located the Dark Emperor’s tomb, was that their most amazing discovery had instead sealed their fate, doomed to end in tragedy.

  After managing to overcome endless dangers and obstacles this place made them face, they were finally eradicated by the very forces they had sworn loyalty to, which to Fan Zhuo just seemed like a great big joke!

  What Fan Zhuo was thinking, exactly reflected what Qiao Chu and the others were feeling in their hearts. Upping seeing the spirit ring that had already lost its ring spirit, all of them were painfully reminded of their fathers’ fate at the same time.

  If at that time, their fathers had not been powerful enough, would they have lost their lives to this terrifying place?

  Would they have ended up just like this spirit ring’s owner, swallowed up by the innumerable sinkholes?

  And died ignobly without a single trace…..

  “Let’s just move on.” Jun Wu Xie stood up suddenly, and without saying much more, she unilaterally took up the lead once more.

  The fiery hatred and sorrow stoked and burned deep within the eyes of Qiao Chu and the others. Now was not the right time to sink into hatred and vengeance. If they were not careful, the slightest misstep might turn them into a needless sacrifice.

  Ye Mei and Ye Sha continued to take up the rear of the team. Their eyes were peeled as they surveyed everything that surrounded them. At the first instance of trouble, they would be the first to react.

  “Have you noticed anything?” Ye Mei asked in a low whisper, discreetly to Ye Sha, as they advanced together with the rest of the group.

  Ye Sha nodded slightly.

  “This place, could only have been created by the hands of the people in the Dark Regime.”

  Ye Mei clenched his jaw tight.

  “Maybe we should persuade the Young Miss to leave. If this place was really created by the Dark Regime to honour our Lord, this place would most definitely turn out to be beyond our Young Miss’ capabilities to overcome. It would be impossible even for the two of us.”

  They were born into the Dark Regime, and no one knew it clearer than them just exactly how powerful the Dark Regime was.

  If the people from the Dark Regime had really deemed this place to be the Dark Emperor’s final resting place, they would have spared no effort and exhausted everything within their power, to stop anyone from tainting a single piece of the Dark Emperor’s treasures with their dirty hands!

  Ye Sha hesitated a moment before he nodded his head. If Jun Wu Xie was to come to any harm, even if they had a hundred heads, it would not be enough for their Lord to cut off!

  Ye Sha leapt in a flash towards Jun Wu Xie.

  But Jun Wu Xie suddenly halted their advance by stopping in her tracks.

  Before her eyes, several large pieces of black rocks could be seen. Those pieces of black rocks looked exactly the same as what Mu Qian Fan had put up for auction back at the Chan Lin Auction House, and they only differed in size.

  Was this the same black rock that Black Silver could be smelted from?

  Jun Wu Xie’s brows creased up slightly.

  Mu Qian Fan had mentioned, the piece of black rock that he had brought back with him, had been found just along the cliff face at the bottom of Heaven’s End Cliff.

  But they had already searched along the cliff face earlier, but they had not found any Sidney of the black rock. And she had not expected that after a whole day’s walk, she would come across so many pieces of the black rock among a sea of green moss!

  Volume 7

  Chapter 669: Deadly Land (4)

  Jun Wu Xie slowly walked towards one of the pieces of black rocks. In a flash, Ye Sha suddenly appeared beside Jun Wu Xie and pulled her away from the side of the black rock!

  Before Jun Wu Xie could recover, the black rock that she had just been standing beside was suddenly smashed into smithereens by a humongous black shadow!

  The hard unyielding black rock was crushed into dust in an instant!

  “Young Miss! We must not stay here a moment longer!” Ye Sha said in a hurry. He stood in front of Jun Wu Xie, shielding her as he stared at the black shadow slowly approaching, his eyes filled with worry.

  The black shadow was shrouded by the white mist and it was unbelievably gigantic. Even with the illuminating light from their Spirit Fire Globes, they still could not see it in its entirety.

  But an unbelievably strong oppressive aura, that was at a level beyond anything they have ever felt before, suddenly hit them, gripping their hearts!

  “What….. what is that thing…..” Qiao Chu was staring fixedly at the immensely massive dark shadow behind the mist. Although he could not see what the “thing” really looked like, but judging just from its size, it wouldn’t be any smaller than Lord Meh Meh’s real form!

  “Don’t tell me it’s another Guardian Grade Spirit Beast?” Hua Yao was suddenly shocked.

  When Mu Qian Fan had encountered the monster at the bottom of the cliff, he had not even seen what the monster had looked like throughout the whole incident.

  And now, the companions realized this monster must be what Mu Qian Fan had encountered that time!

  The monster was unimaginably huge. While it stood, the Spirit Fire Globes’ illuminating light was not able to reach the monster’s head. All they could see, was one incredibly thick paw filled with razor sharp claws on the ground. Above the sharp claws, the paw was covered with green scales, and the claws gleamed menacingly cold, as their light hit them!

  “Meh!”

  As though it had felt the menacing and opposing presence, Lord Meh Meh gave out a cautionary roar!

  Something that was able to cause a Guardian Grade Spirit Beast to be wary would most definitely not be any weaker than Lord Meh Meh itself!

  The gargantuan monster slowly moved forward. With each and every step it took, the ground beneath their feet trembled and shook!

  Clouds of the blinding white mist hung thickly around the monster. As it moved, the mist surrounding it did not dissipate but instead seemed to grow even thicker.

  Endless clouds of thick mist was seemingly being drawn in by the wind, and with it, a blazing
heat could be felt by the companions.

  Unimaginably massive and it brought great terror with its approach.

  “Run! Quickly!” Ye Sha turned and said hastily. He had not expected this fellow to be brought down to the Lower Realm to stand guard here. The Heavens knew, in this entire world, there existed only one man that could control this monstrous beast!

  [How did the people from the Dark Regime manage to place it here!?]

  An alarming realisation of crisis rang in their minds and none of them questioned Ye Sha’s decision at that moment. Almost at the same time that Ye Sha shouted, Jun Wu Xie and her companions had immediately turned around to sprint speedily back the way they came.

  “That fella’s speed isn’t too fast. Just do your best to escape from here, the further the better!” Ye Mei was guarding the other side and he exchanged a glance with Ye Sha, seeing the bitter smile upon each other’s faces.

  Even if the two of them charged at the monster together, it would still be impossible for them to defeat it!

  Now, the only choice they had, was to escape as fast as they could, and that would be the only chance they had at remaining alive.

  Everyone ran madly, but they had to follow back the path they had taken to come here, or the slightest mistake, might just cause them to fall into any of the innumerable bottomless sinkholes scattered across the ground.

  The ground was covered with traps and there was a monster that caused a Guardian Grade Spirit Beast to feel fearful at their backs. All the companions had their hearts lodged in their throats at that moment!

  Suddenly, the blazing heat they felt earlier could be felt strongly on their backs.

  Jun Wu Xie immediately turned around and saw a ball of green flame streaking straight towards her at that moment!

  “Meh~! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !”