The spatial barrier set within the Ghoul Realm Treasure Vault divided the entire vault into a total of seventeen thousand eight hundred independent spatial layers. Only one of them contained real treasures and Ghoul Path books.
As for the other spatial layers, although they had identical layouts, all the treasures were counterfeits, and every book was completely blank inside.
Whenever anyone entered the Ghoul Realm Treasure Vault, they were randomly assigned to one of the spatial layers. Only Ghoul Swallow and the Space Old Demon were exceptions. The vault layer Zhang Chen was in was far from the real Ghoul Realm Treasure Vault. Apart from the book left behind by the clown, which contained writing, all the other books were merely blank pages.
At this moment, within an identically arranged library, scraps of books and torn pages drifted through the air.
Yet at the center of the floor beneath the falling pages, a man entirely wrapped in tongues knelt on one knee. His body appeared uninjured, but large amounts of blood continuously seeped out through his skin.
This man was Kou Ran. After fighting Ghoul Swallow for more than ten minutes, nearly everything within his body had been devoured by his opponent.
At this moment, all the blood vessels and muscle tissue in Kou Ran's right arm, the one holding the Tongue Halberd, had been completely devoured by Ghoul Swallow. Even swinging the Tongue Halberd had become extremely difficult.
"My three sons—apart from the most useless eldest, both you and Kou Jia are very much like I was in the past. You believe your father has sat on the King's throne for too long. You can no longer wait and wish to pull your father down as soon as possible. As your father, I find this trait quite gratifying."
"Pah..."