"Guests from afar, we have never crossed paths. Was it not going too far to slaughter those under our command like this?"
Just then, an aged, icy voice rang out from the depths of the dense Lin. Its source was impossible to discern; it seemed to come from the air above, yet also from beneath the earth.
"Too far?!"
"Compared to you, I was merely carrying out Heaven's justice."
Qin He halted and lightly stamped his foot. At once, a massive fissure spread out from beneath him, racing toward a distant mountain peak.
The entire region shook, sending countless branches and leaves rustling down like falling snow.
Beneath the fluttering leaves, gray-white heaps were exposed within the fissure. They collapsed downward in a rattling cascade, like sand dunes crumbling apart under a tremor.
As the setting sun shone upon them, a bone-piercing chill instantly blanketed heaven and earth.
Corpses!
Endless corpses, piled layer upon layer, stretched from the fissure beneath Qin He's feet into the distance, all the way to the foot of the mountain, spanning dozens of miles.
What continued to collapse with that rattling sound were countless skulls. From high above, they looked like tumbling grains of sand.
"Hmph!"
Qin He snorted coldly, and his aura surged. Four more fissures immediately opened beneath his feet and extended into the distance, as though they had torn through a thin burial shroud.
Corpses!
Corpses!
Still corpses!~
The black Lin was deathly silent. Not even a flying insect remained. Beneath a mere three zhang of earth lay endless corpses piled up over untold ages.
As far as the eye could see, there was only endless, ghastly cold.
"Rumble..."
Above the nine heavens, lightning flashed and thunder roared, streaks of fiery serpents slithering across the sky.
The Resentful Energy was glaringly apparent;