The street was utterly silent. The inner and outer districts of the Dead Silent City were worlds apart. In the outer district, walking openly along the streets like this was simply asking to die.
Conversely, once they reached the inner district, approaching those seemingly deserted buildings was even more dangerous, because there was no way to tell whether they were actually half-alive.
Ten minutes earlier, Su Xiao had nearly been bitten by a private residence. Its fluctuations clearly indicated that it was an inanimate object, yet when he passed nearby, the residence suddenly "blossomed," transforming into millions of coarse, black-gray tentacles that lunged at him.
If Su Xiao had not used Dragon Shadow Flash to enter a state of spatial penetration and evade the attack, the situation would have been troublesome. He would not have been killed instantly, but he would have suffered serious injuries.
After raising Dragon Shadow Flash to Lv.EX, Su Xiao increasingly felt how useful the ability was. It not only allowed him to move at extremely high speed, but also let him maintain spatial penetration for 0.2 to 3 seconds—enough to evade most attacks.
The inner district covered a vast area. Su Xiao had been traveling for more than an hour, yet he still had not reached the area under the Holy Hymn's jurisdiction—the district centered around the "Holy Tenth Church."
The Holy Hymn did not represent any one person. It was more like a faction plus a form of power. If one asked which branch of the Holy Healing Church had the greatest combat strength, it certainly would not be the Grand Archbishop's or the Priest's branches. The branches represented by the Snake Lady and the old monster ranked even lower.
The Healing Church had once recognized two branches as its strongest: first, the Holy