Natural Enemy

Chen Fei had clearly sent his clone ahead to probe, yet without realizing it, his true body had arrived before the city gate. The very concepts of clone and true body had been forcibly muddled.

Chen Fei's figure flickered as he rushed into the distance. How had a perfectly fine city suddenly become a Ghost City?

Chen Fei remembered passing through Shangwu City some time ago, when it had still been entirely normal. Yet in this short span of time, every person in the city had vanished without a trace.

Even Chen Fei's Spiritual Power at the Mid-stage Aperture Refining Realm had silently been led to the city gate. Had Dragon Elephant Roar not activated at the critical moment, Chen Fei would already have stepped into Shangwu City.

If even Chen Fei had been affected, then anyone below the late Aperture Refining Realm would likely die upon arrival—one came, one died; two came, a pair perished.

Chen Fei had experienced quite a few Ghost Cities and gained some benefits from them, but that did not mean he could disregard every Ghost City. Some Ghost Cities were not rule-based, but the type that forcibly erased all life.

If he encountered that kind of forced annihilation, even with the protection of the panel, Chen Fei would likely be at a complete loss.

Chen Fei turned into an afterimage, but after only a few steps, his expression changed slightly. At his current movement speed, those few steps should have carried him several miles away.

Yet Chen Fei discovered that not only had he failed to get farther from Shangwu City, he was actually drawing closer and closer. The blazing sun in the sky had long vanished from sight, and the enormous shadow cast by Shangwu City completely engulfed him.

An extreme palpitation exploded