Dawn's radiance slowly seeped through the clouds in the east, gradually illuminating the night that shrouded the entire sky.
At the same time, it slowly lit up this expanse of blood within the darkness.
"Drip..."
Bathed in the morning light, a drop of bright, translucent blood arced through the air for three meters before heavily falling into the pool of blood below, splashing up a glimmering crimson spray and scarlet ripples.
Then it merged into the blood within the pool and flowed onward with the stream, passing the base of a rock spike as thick as a man's embrace that jutted diagonally from the ground. It spread through the cracked, uneven depressions in the earth, flowing past countless such pools of blood, countless Rock Spikes, and ground strewn with corpses. It flowed through this stone forest of hanging Rock Spikes dripping with blood, all the way into the enormous pit at its center, gathering at the roots of the Hell Flower—its rocky petals stained by innumerable streaks of blood, nearly turned entirely crimson—into a shallow lake of blood.
"Whoosh..."
The morning breeze swept gently through, stirring the stone forest of Rock Spikes below, as well as the corpses hanging from the hellish petals formed by countless spiked Rock Walls. The drip-drip of falling blood, the creak-creak of grinding bones, and the thud-thud of corpses colliding carried far away on the breeze, making this forest of corpses and lake of blood even more chilling, like hell itself!
"Rip!"
Just then, as the breeze swept past, a hand drenched in blood suddenly reached out from deep within the Hell Flower—from the very center of this forest of corpses and lake of blood, from a pile of three or five bodies beneath the brightest dawn light!
"Thud... crash..."
Then came the sounds of