As the distance slowly closed.
Wei He's eyes widened, his pupils contracting slightly.
He pushed his senses higher and higher, almost entering the Bone Corroding Wind.
But he soon discovered that this twisted, transparent entity seemed to exist only on the Pain Wind level.
Once it neared the Bone Corroding Wind layer, it became even fainter.
Clearly, this was something that existed only within the Pain Wind layer.
Within the different layers of the True World, the overall impression of the same thing could differ as well.
At a certain depth in the True World, even an identical house might become some bizarre living creature before one's senses.
That was caused by differences in dimensional perspective.
Wei He lowered the intensity of his senses again and walked up to the transparent thing.
He did not stop until he was only half a meter away from it.
Only then did he barely make out what this transparent, standing thing truly was.
It was—
A humanoid monster formed from the piled-up, stitched-together bodies of many people.
It stood over two meters tall. Faces grew from its nearly transparent body like flesh tumors.
They were all familiar faces Wei He had seen before.
Bai Shanxin, Biling, and Song Qing of the Nine Great Army Departments.
Shangguan Diyun, the Grandmaster and commander defending the Royal Capital.
Cao Yanxu, the chief palace steward; Xiao Fuyue of Moon Haze; Sima Chi, the First Prince; and a host of other unfamiliar faces, who were presumably also experts who had hidden here before.
But at this very moment, all of them seemed to have been fused into this transparent human body, becoming part of it.
With a thread of dread and tension in his heart, Wei He swiftly searched this transparent body for Li Rong's face.
Though his