Just as everyone took a moment to recover and prepared to welcome a new calm, a mysterious and eerie thick fog suddenly surged in from all directions like a tide. It came so abruptly and fiercely that, in the blink of an eye, it engulfed the entire space.
The layers upon layers of mist resembled a colossal beast that had lain dormant for ages, quietly lurking in the darkness and waiting for its chance to strike. Every wisp of fog seemed to contain endless mysteries and malice. Like agile snakes, they tightly coiled around everyone's ankles and crawled up their bodies, trying to burrow deep into their bones.
At the same time, a figure radiating an icy, sinister aura slowly appeared before them. This figure was none other than the legendary Soul Erosion Demon! It looked like a faintly visible ghost, its entire body half-transparent and ethereal, yet it emitted waves of chilling energy that made their blood run cold.
This evil creature possessed an extremely terrifying ability: it could directly penetrate the barriers of the human body and invade the depths of the soul. Once controlled by it, its victims would fall into boundless terror and illusions, unable to break free for eternity.
At this moment, the Divine Bell, which should have played a tremendous role, had unexpectedly lost its former divine might. Although it could still produce clear and pleasant chimes, those sounds became exceptionally blurred within this eerie fog, as if deliberately distorted by some powerful force, making them impossible to transmit clearly.
Nor had the divine sword, famed throughout the world, escaped unscathed. Affected by the Soul Erosion Demon's power, the dazzling radiance on its blade gradually dimmed, as though it was no longer able to hold on.
Faced with such a desperate situation, the inheritors