Chapter 9 — The Ruined City of Ground Bones Welcomes the Black Tide

ly grew longer, and one of them reached Junior Brother Five. It was like an impossibly small spirit serpent, raising its head to size him up. "Senior Brother Qu..." Junior Brother Five's voice trembled, and he dared not turn his head. Senior Brother Qu said in a deep voice, "These treasures are dead, ownerless things. Set your mind at ease—" Before he finished speaking, that strand shot out like lightning and bored into Junior Brother Five's eye. The other whisk strands screamed through the air and drove into his eyes. Junior Brother Five opened his mouth to scream, but no sound came out. Shen Mu, not far away, watched the youth shrivel at a speed visible to the eye and, in a few breaths, turn into a dried corpse! The whisk was still wrapped around him. Soon the corpse's skin dissolved, its bones dissolved, and only a few clothes and a pair of shoes fell to the ground.