Today's third update: Chapter 3563! 3/4!
Facing the Ghost Race elites' suddenly formed blockade, even tighter and heavier than before, Xu Caiyi's little face, slightly pale from the drain on her strength, furrowed tightly.
She could clearly sense that the barrier ahead, led by Lu Junyi and jointly formed by multiple Heavenly Spirits and Earthly Fiends, was linked in aura and Rock Solid. It was far beyond the scattered Netherworld creatures and ordinary Ghost Generals from before.
Forcing a breakthrough would inevitably exact an unimaginable price and might even lead to total failure.
A rare flicker of hesitation passed through her clear eyes as the remaining strength within her rapidly weighed the risks and chances of charging through.
In that lightning-fast moment of deliberation, her gaze crossed layers of ghostly figures and biting killing intent, inadvertently meeting the eyes of the figure standing silently at the rear of the crowd, his dark robes fluttering in the wind—Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Chao Gai.
There was none of the panic, hostility, or furious rebuke she had expected.
Chao Gai's gaze was extraordinarily calm, even carrying an... indescribable depth and complexity, as though it had crossed endless years and settled with too many secrets unknown to others.
The instant their eyes met, Xu Caiyi's heart suddenly thumped violently, as if struck hard by an invisible drumstick!
An extremely strange sensation, like a faint electric current and like a dormant memory jolted awake by spring thunder, flashed through the depths of her soul!
"This feeling... what is it?!" Xu Caiyi's pupils contracted slightly. The divine artifact she had been born with, long fused with her very life, actually produced a faint yet genuine resonance and yearning!
The sensation came so suddenly and mysteriously that even her charging momentum faltered.
The Mount Tai Ghost Race