After some searching, with guidance from the danmu, Zhou Yue spotted a pitch-black Cave whose depths were impossible to see.
"What kind of lousy place is this? Why's it so narrow..."
Zhou Yue crawled through the cramped rocky passage, grumbling, before finally reaching a somewhat roomier cave entrance.
Amid the black fog so thick he could not see his hand before his face, a Tachi shimmering with purple light stood out conspicuously.
"Holy shit! A new weapon!"
Zhou Yue's eyes instantly lit up.
Compared with the dull, utterly unremarkable Kusabimaru in his hand, this Tachi with its purple-glowing blade looked like high-grade merchandise at a glance.
"I've struck gold! That stupid notice was a lie! There's a high-tier Artifact hidden in this Cave... My luck's finally turning! Hahaha!"
Without another thought, Zhou Yue laughed and jumped into the deep pit.
He was just reaching for the purple Tachi when a sudden chill swept over him, making him shudder involuntarily.
"Hiss...!"
Zhou Yue's scalp instantly prickled. His fingers snapped back as though shocked, and he retreated two steps, his face pale.
Only by the eerie purple glow of the blade did Zhou Yue finally see clearly.
The purple Tachi was not an unattended treasure. It was clutched in the hand of a headless corpse fiend.
Noticing Zhou Yue's arrival, the headless corpse fiend shifted, and an indescribable sense of eeriness instantly swept over him.
A faint, flickering word instantly appeared before Zhou Yue's eyes: [Terror].
As the purple bar beneath Terror slowly rose, Zhou Yue felt a sudden sense of familiarity.
"Is this... Ghost Town Terror? Sanity Points!?"
Zhou Yue instantly realized where that familiar feeling came from. This was precisely the method Lu Ze had used in Ghost Town Terror, the haunted Illusion Realm that had once scared a famous