Chapter 1265 The Price to Pay 

The battered boat was made from rotten black wood, with holes covering its sides and bumpy deck. It looked like it would sink at any time as it drifted wobbly on the calm, glossy surface of the Netherworld Yellow Spring waters.

At the bow sat a person dressed in white robes and whose black hair was fluttering. He naturally possessed an elegant, handsome, and heroic spirit, and his temperament was rather similar to Ye Qingyu’s. However, a black eyeband covered his eyes and was tied behind his back as he sat cross-legged in silence.

At the stern stood a scarecrow that was the height of a regular person.

This was a figure that was put together using dry thatch in an extremely crude fashion, with a topless straw hat worn on its head. It was no different from any scarecrow placed in a wheat field by an old farmer to scare the crows and sparrows off, except that it possessed life and looked extremely bizarre. Its hand, formed from tied-up bamboo branches, were holding a virid-colored bamboo pole of five to six meters in length as it clumsily and slowly steered the battered black boat toward the duo...