Within a single day.
Jiang Qiao had obtained two strands of rule divinity.
Just saying it aloud was enough to scare someone to death!
As he watched the number of things in his hands grow, some especially peculiar thoughts suddenly surfaced in his mind.
Red Moon Restaurant still had several Half-God items in its collection.
Perhaps...
While Jiang Qiao was tallying up his gains, Soul Soothing Villa also began to change because of the old man's death.
The surroundings grew even more eerie.
It had clearly already been reduced to ruins.
Yet it instead gave people the illusion that they were inside a sealed tomb chamber.
Dim.
Sealed.
Stifling.
Death.
It felt as though his chest were being blocked.
This was because the old man had never completely mastered the Withering Rule. After his death, the rule returned to the villa once more.
Jiang Qiao found this very interesting.
This villa... seemed far from as simple as he had imagined.
After the previous owner had died back then, the rule had merged into the villa. It did not look like an accident.
Perhaps...
There had been human intervention.
It might even have been some sort of resurrection contingency left behind by the villa's owner.
It was just that so many years had passed.
Who knew whether that contingency would ever have its moment to appear?
Besides the changes within the villa,
the scenery outside it gradually became clear as well.
It was a place resembling purgatory. Lava flowed recklessly across the earth like rivers. Beside the red-hot boulders, charred corpses struggled and crawled.
The pungent smell of sulfur
could be smelled even from inside the villa.
When they had first entered, Wang Kui had mentioned that the villa had been built on a Supernatural place resembling a volcanic crater.
It