"Blood! There's blood coming out!"
After a cry of alarm, a few people with higher martial cultivation and faster reactions quickly retreated.
However, not everyone was able to react in time.
It took almost no time for the blood to gush out from the ground!
The blood rapidly formed seven to eight-meter-tall fountains, reaching the entrance of the pit.
A soldier had just only reached the edge of the pit when the blood swallowed his lower body.
"Ah!"
His face was wracked with pain as he let out a shrill scream.
He looked down and saw nothing but bones remaining from his waist down!
Even then, those bones had gone soft and were quickly disintegrating.
"Save..."
The soldier opened his mouth with a pale face.
But just as he said a word, he fell into the pit powerlessly.
...
The people around the pit were so frightened by this scene that they kept stepping back.
Only Su Mu stood still, carefully observing the blood fountains.
Fortunately, the fountain of blood stopped erupting after a short while. It did not expand, nor did it spread outwards.
While everyone was still in shock, Su Mu was the first one to step forward and look into the pit.
About four or five soldiers did not manage to escape and died in the pit.
But at that moment, not even a single skeleton could be seen. They had all been dissolved by the blood.
In the pit, the blood gradually receded, and the sound of liquid flowing could be faintly heard.
Su Mu pursed his lips, his expression becoming more and more severe.
This blood fountain wasn't the root cause of the abnormality in this wasteland.
It had been nothing but an underground river.
Just like the strange flowers on the wasteland, something strange and terrifying had taken hold of them.
It turned water into terrifying blood that was filled with Yin Qi and could corrode everything!
The internal buildup was also immense, resulting in a violent eruption the moment pressure was relieved.
...
"Little Mu, come back!"
Su Mu's bold actions startled everyone.
Liu Gaotian was stunned for a moment before he yelled at him.
Even Liu Leqing, who had been closely following Su Mu, stopped. She hugged her father's thigh and shouted anxiously, "Brother Su Mu, come back! That's so scary!"
A child as young as her would be ignorant to many things, but she was instinctively fearful of such evil Yin Qi.
She had also soon how it had easily taken the lives of several soldiers.
Su Mu didn't leave. After staring for a while, he turned around and said to the others, "It's fine now. Don't be afraid. "
Seeing that Su Mu was still fine after looking at it for a long time, some of the more daring soldiers carefully approached and found that the blood fountain had indeed stopped.
On the surface, there was no danger here for the time being.
...
"Motherf * cker! What the hell is hidden underground?"
Liu Gaotian cursed with an unsightly expression when he saw that not even the bones of the soldiers had been left behind.
"Lieutenant, what if some primordial evil force is buried down there?
"Why don't we ... Just cover it with dirt and pretend nothing happened?"
One of the soldiers said fearfully.
If those soldiers hadn't died, Liu Gaotian might have agreed to this proposal.
But now that he had lost some of his men, how could he let his soldiers die without knowing why?
"No! I must get to the bottom of this today. It had the gall of taking my men under my watch!
"Something evil? Something primordial? I'm going to chop it up!
"Go! Get more men, we must tear down this place!"
Liu Gaotian gave the order, and another hundred or so soldiers quickly arrived.
He originally wanted to let Su Mu and Liu Leqing leave this dangerous place.
However, Su Mu insisted on staying and told him about the underground river.
Only then did Liu Gaotian agree to let Su Mu and Liu Leqing watch the show from the outside, but they were not allowed to get close.
...
The full excavation work had officially begun!
There was an underground river below the hole.
This underground river had already been corrupted into a river of blood, and the internal pressure was very strong. If one was not careful, there was a possibility that it would erupt again.
Thus, Liu Gaotian found another spot, went around the underground river, and dug a new pit.
There was strength in numbers.
More than a hundred strong soldiers worked together under Liu Gaotian's command to dig.
They dug all the way until dusk, and dug out a huge pit that was more than 30 meters deep!
"Lieutenant, it's getting dark. Why don't we come back tomorrow?" One of the officers suggested to Liu Gaotian as he looked at the sky.
After a few hours, Liu Gaotian's anger had subsided a little.
In addition, it was not convenient to dig at night.
Moreover, they did not know what was buried there.
Evil grew several times deadlier at night!
After some thought, Liu Gaotian decided to nod in agreement and call it a day.
However, at that moment, there was great progress in the excavation work!
"I found something, I found something! There is a coffin below! It's made of bronze, and the workmanship is masterclass!"
A soldier shouted. His voice was filled with excitement and fear.
There might be some mysterious treasure or some kind of ghost in this unknown ancient coffin.
It was unclear if it was a blessing or a curse.
"A coffin? Dig! Dig it out, let me see!
"What foul being lies in this coffin? He's dead, but even in death, he's killed my brothers!"
Liu Gaotian dispelled the idea of stopping work as soon as he heard that there was a discovery. He stood by the pit and commanded loudly.
When Su Mu, who was not far away, heard the words "coffin" and "bronze", alarm bells went off in his head.
A bronze coffin was not something that ordinary people could afford to use, and it would not be buried so deep.
Ordinary coffins could not be buried so deep, nor would they give birth to so much Yin and evil Qi.
However, if the person buried in this coffin was an important figure, they should have made a proper burial chamber.
How could a bronze coffin be left on its own here?
The more Su Mu thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. While everyone's attention was on the coffin, he slipped to the edge of the hole.
It was already dark, but fortunately, there were many torches in the pit, illuminating the surroundings.
With the help of the light, Su Mu could see that the soldiers were digging up the bronze coffin.
The coffin was three meters long and much larger than ordinary coffins.
The coffins had been embellished with various kinds of savage beasts, and they were so vivid that they seemed to be alive.
Su Mu carefully identified a few of them.
It could be inferred that the carvings on the bronze coffin were most likely the nine sons of the dragon.
However, Su Mu could not be completely sure.
After all, there were still many parts of the bronze coffin of beasts that were buried in the soil and hadn't been completely excavated.
Speaking of soil, Su Mu suddenly noticed something.
The closer the soil was to the bronze coffin, the more it had been affected, and the darker its color became.
From the initial yellow to blood-red, and finally to dark red.
However, the soil one meter away from the bronze coffin was green.
It was clearly different from the dark red outside.
"Green soil... Green soil..."
"Could it be the Yin Wood soil of breath?"
Su Mu's heart tensed up as he thought of a possibility.