Supreme Alchemist-Chapter 2450 - 2440 The Gigantic Shadow

Long Yan felt a foreign object clogging his throat. He wanted to open his mouth to shout, but he didn’t know what to say. His hands were inexplicably trembling, and his whole being was in a panic. What on earth was happening?

At that moment, Long Yan saw a gigantic spider web behind Li Mu, seemingly something from the west wing room. Long Yan had vaguely felt that something might be hiding in the west wing room earlier, but he hadn’t dared to confirm it. Who would have thought that it would lead to Li Mu’s death here?

"Sigh!"

With endless helplessness, all that remained was a sigh. Long Yan felt a bit uncomfortable in his heart. Li Mu had trusted him so much, believing that he could lead him out, only for his carelessness to cost Li Mu his life.

However, Long Yan also felt as if there was a flame burning in his heart. Although his palm trembled, it was getting better. Swinging the Magic Spear, which was a clan artifact, the spider web couldn’t stick to it at all. After laying Li Mu down flat on the ground, Long Yan said,

"I’m sorry, but I promise, I will definitely get you out. I will also avenge you for the thing that killed you."

Long Yan spoke almost word by word. After some thought, he took off his clothes and covered Li Mu’s body. It had already been six days since they’d been outside, and the Old Madman had sobered up. However, upon searching his pockets, he realized he hadn’t brought any money, so he had no choice but to venture into the Demon Beast Forest, hoping to encounter some oblivious Demon Beasts and to find his apprentice.

With a leap, Long Yan entered the west wing room. Although he felt his body was still heavy, he didn’t mind. His anger had no outlet, so he pursued after seeing a massive shadow dart into the West Monk’s Room.

Unexpectedly, although the shadow seemed enormous, it was quite agile, disappearing with just a turn. Long Yan felt urgent, but the spider silk blocked his path, making him even more anxious. Waving the Magic Spear in his hand, the reason why it’s a good weapon became evident. Wherever the Magic Spear touched, all spider silk was instantly severed and couldn’t adhere to the weapon at all.

In this way, Long Yan made his way to the west monk’s room door, and without another word, he kicked it open. However, he remained cautious, testing the outside spider web with a torch. To his surprise, the adhesive spider web ignited upon contact with fire, burning faster than wood.

But when the flame touched the monk’s room, it went out quietly. The fire had incinerated the spider web outside the room, but the monk’s room on the western side remained untouched. Long Yan had hoped the fire might drive out the shadow, but it seemed he was too idealistic. The house couldn’t be burned by ordinary flames.

Long Yan slowly walked into the monk’s room on the west side. Inside, there were spider webs everywhere. Finding using the Magic Spear to clear a path too cumbersome, he resorted to burning them bit by bit, as the webs here weren’t as interwoven as those outside, and could only be cleaned gradually.

"Squeak!"

A sharp sound echoed through the dark corridor, seemingly warning Long Yan, but he pretended not to hear it and continued to clear the spider webs in front of him. After burning away a section of the web, a pitch-black skeleton fell down. Long Yan quickly turned to avoid it, missing being struck by the skeleton.

Long Yan squatted down, only to find that despite the skeleton being reduced to white bones, it suddenly rose and lunged at him. Though surprised, he instinctively kicked the skeleton in the abdomen.

It might have been because the skeleton was ancient that the lower half remained on the ground. Long Yan’s kick sent the upper half flying across the floor, sticking to a distant spider web.

Even though the skeleton tried its best, it couldn’t escape the web, and from afar, it bared its teeth and claws at Long Yan. Long Yan found it odd that, as white bones, it could still stand up and harm people. This was something Long Yan couldn’t quite understand, but he chose to move forward and take a closer look.

After some observation, Long Yan felt something was amiss. If it’s a zombie, firstly, the corpse shouldn’t be so fragile. Secondly, as skeletons, it’s unlikely they could turn into zombies.

Unable to figure it out, Long Yan decided to continue forward until he encountered the first door he could open. Without much thought, he opened it, knowing that the shadow was too large to hide in the monk’s room.

The west monk’s room was almost identical to the east side, but inside, there were several corpses. As Long Yan walked to about the middle of the room, all three corpses rose and flew rapidly toward him. This gave Long Yan a fright, but having previous experience, he twirled the Magic Gun in a flourish like Li Hua, shooting three times as swift as lightning. The three corpses hit the ground.

Everything happened in an instant, but Long Yan wasn’t surprised. Though his skills hadn’t yet reached this level, in crisis, people grow under pressure. Moreover, Long Yan had been hovering between life and death these past two days, further increasing the difficulty of his training, since a single careless mistake could cost his life.

Of course, Long Yan’s skills had enormously improved, feeling his speed at more than double what it was before, even without using True Qi, and knowing it could be faster with it.

Seeing the three corpses laid low, Long Yan felt at ease searching the room for clues, though he found nothing. As Long Yan was about to leave the room, he suddenly noticed some engraved markings beside a cabinet.

"What’s this?"

There, on the side of the cabinet, were dense lines of tiny characters. The room was originally dark, making them even harder to see. Without Long Yan’s improved night vision, he wouldn’t have seen anything there.

Utilizing the light from the flame, Long Yan stepped forward to decipher the small characters engraved there. They appeared hastily carved, incomplete, and missing strokes.

Yet Long Yan managed to interpret a bit:

Help!

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