Chapter 359: Strange Turn of Events Mournful Echoes |
Finally, outside the ruins, there was no trace of corpses.
Instead, there was desolation and silence.
Li Fan didn’t forget his objective. After briefly searching the ruins again without finding any useful information,
he marked the site, chose a direction, and flew off again, skimming the ground.
Two days later, Li Fan found a new ruin in the sea of mist.
The scale of this ruin was several times larger than the first one.
The scene of countless corpses piled up was even more tragic.
The expressions on their faces were so vivid that Li Fan felt as if he was witnessing the massacre firsthand.
Suppressing the surge of emotions in his heart, Li Fan conducted a routine search around.
Most of the cultivators in the first and second ruins had died instantly.
Apart from the expressions of terror and despair on their faces, they left no information.
But among these many people, there were one or two whose cultivation was relatively stronger.
Before their deaths, they stared with resentment and unwillingness in a certain direction.
It seemed that the presence that took their lives was right there.
Even after many years of death, they maintained this posture.
Coincidentally, it pointed the way for Li Fan, the outsider, in the white mist.
Thus, following the direction indicated by the corpses, Li Fan flew rapidly for a day and found the third ruin.
Following the same method, Li Fan traced the path of the killer, moving forward all the way.
The fourth, the fifth, the sixth…
Until his supplies were only enough to last for three more days.
By then, Li Fan had encountered eleven ruins filled with corpses one after another.
On his way to the twelfth ruin at high speed,
something strange happened.
Originally flying forward rapidly, it didn’t take long for him to find himself back at the eleventh ruin.
After finding the mark he had made earlier, Li Fan confirmed it was not an illusion.
So he set off again.
The result was the same.
He circled back to the starting point.
Li Fan pondered for a moment, not panicking.
He attempted it for the third time.
This time, he slowed down and kept sensing the position of the eleventh ruin as he flew.
Finally, he understood what was happening.
At a certain point in his flight, something unknown caused
his forward direction to instantly and seamlessly reverse.
In the first two attempts, Li Fan hadn’t noticed and thought he was still flying forward.
In reality, he had already turned around.
Naturally, it didn’t take long before he returned to the original starting point.
At this moment, Li Fan stood with a serious expression in front of the area that caused the change.
He flew into it, and his body’s position didn’t change.
But the eleventh ruin, which he sensed to be behind him, unknowingly appeared in front of him.
Li Fan frowned slightly, turned around, and flew backward, trying to move away from the eleventh ruin again.
But it didn’t take long for his direction to get confused again.
However, Li Fan now had experience, constantly keeping the eleventh ruin behind him.
Constantly adjusting his direction, he moved forward.
With much effort and after another two days, he finally reached the twelfth ruin.
This ruin was the largest among all the ruins.
But in the outer area, there was no trace of corpses.
When things are abnormal, there must be a reason.
Li Fan remained vigilant and explored toward the center of the ruins.
The surroundings were eerily quiet.
In this isolated maze domain, even the demonic sounds from the Abyss couldn’t reach here.
Besides the noises he made, Li Fan hadn’t heard any other sounds for a long time.
But as he approached the center of the twelfth ruin, a sudden rustling sound made his hair stand on end.
Through the white mist, which had somehow thinned a bit, Li Fan saw the ground not far away.
A cultivator lay on his back, but his limbs were twisted downward in a bizarre manner.
His hands and feet were irregularly broken.
His toes and fingers were twisted together like pretzels.
Yet, with these creepy limbs, the cultivator crawled around in circles slowly and with difficulty.
Tirelessly.
It was unclear how long it had been going on, but it seemed it would never stop.
Seeing this monster that had survived for who knows how long in the white mist, Li Fan felt a chill down his spine, and his heart stopped.
Holding his breath, he slowly retreated.
However, the twisted monster seemed to have extremely keen senses.
It immediately noticed the presence of an unfamiliar guest.
Its drooping head snapped up, folding onto its belly.
Then it turned 180 degrees, staring directly at Li Fan with its face.
Seeing the monster’s face, Li Fan’s heart skipped a beat.
The monster’s features were completely upside down and misplaced.
Its two eyes were where the mouth should be, and they bizarrely roamed around the face.
The nose was embedded inside its head.
And the mouth, constantly moving as the eyes shifted, was full of bloody human faces.
The twisted monster, despite its deformed body, moved extremely fast.
Its hands and feet constantly moved, and in a moment, it was right in front of Li Fan.
The monster’s grotesque bloody faces in its mouth seemed about to cover Li Fan’s face the next second.
Li Fan roared, “Die!”
He unleashed a series of Five Elements Annihilation Swords.
While retreating rapidly, he continuously attacked with the Annihilation Sword.
To Li Fan’s horror, the black sword light, which had always obliterated everything, had no effect on the monster.
It rushed at him even faster.
Even after Li Fan unleashed a hundred sword lights in one go, the monster took them all without any signs of injury.
“Damn it!”
Seeing the twisted monster about to pounce, Li Fan cursed inwardly, ready to activate his true essence.
The next second, something unexpected happened.
The twisted monster reached Li Fan, but instead of attacking, it knelt down.
It kept kowtowing.
While kowtowing, it also let out mournful wails.
Its roaming eyes wept bloody tears.
It seemed desperate to say something.
But with a mouth full of crying, changing bloody faces, it couldn’t express its thoughts.
“What is going on?”
Li Fan looked at the monster still kowtowing and wailing in front of him, still shaken.
Momentarily out of danger, Li Fan stopped activating his true essence.
But not understanding the situation, Li Fan didn’t act rashly.
He patiently tried to decipher the monster’s sobbing sounds.
“Heaven…”
“Doctor…”
“?”
Listening closely, perhaps influenced by the long exposure to the demonic sounds of the Abyss,
Li Fan heard these two words from the monster’s mouth.
Suppressing his shock, Li Fan attempted to ask.
“Heavenly, Doctor?”
The twisted monster let out a heartbreaking wail and violently slammed its head onto the ground.
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