Haze.
A cold village.
The gently blowing wind was not particularly strong, but it carried a bone-piercing chill, like countless needles pricking the skin.
A one-foot-tall baby with purple skin all over stood in the mist-shrouded woods, its strange gaze surveying its surroundings.
Black, branch-like lightning patterns crisscrossed its body, repelling the waves of encroaching Supernatural Aura and keeping them at bay.
This was Jiang Qiao's Thunder Spirit.
The disputes in Tower City—the Prayer Association, the Black Sheep Cult, and the various Supernatural Events that had appeared recently—had nothing to do with Jiang Qiao for the time being.
At that moment, he was hiding in his room and controlling the Thunder Spirit as an External Incarnation. Through the strange bronze basin obtained in Black Mountain County, he had entered Golden Rooster Mountain to explore this terrifying place, one that was rarely visited even in the Supernatural World.
He glanced at the sky.
It was different from when he had watched from the sidelines near Black Mountain County.
Now, he had a first-person view, allowing him to clearly distinguish that the sky overhead seemed higher, farther away, and more profound than in other parts of the Supernatural World.
It gave him the feeling that an incomparably enormous Abyss hung high above the heavens.
At any moment, it might swallow every living thing on the earth whole!
"This forest is the birthplace of that Hu Deping fellow. I wonder whether I'll appear here every time I enter, or if only first-time visitors appear in the forest. If I go to the village, will I appear in the village the next time I enter..."
If entering for the first time meant appearing in the forest, and he appeared in the same spot every time afterward,
then this bronze basin was essentially a fixed