It wasn't over.
Almost the instant Huli finished speaking, Yu Sheng realized what she meant by "it wasn't over."
He heard disorderly roars echoing one after another through the dense forest, and the valley suddenly resounded with a terrifying, hollow wind. The eerie, sinister aura filling the entire Otherworld hadn't diminished with the death of the flesh-and-blood behemoth. Instead, it had abruptly grown several times stronger. A heavy, nearly stagnant malice and sense of being watched surged madly from all directions, as if something had been awakened and was now falling into a frenzy.
"What the hell is this?!" Yu Sheng quickly asked the fox girl, who seemed to know something.
"I don't know, but it's appeared before." Huli's face was filled with fear and unease. Hiding behind Yu Sheng, she continued, "Immortal... the day he died, it was like this. Something woke up. The Immortal took the people who were left... outside... and never came back. Later, they only found the corpses..."
The fox girl's body trembled faintly as she lowered her head. "Daddy and Mommy... hid me in a cave and wouldn't let me look outside. I didn't know what it was. When I crawled out, everyone was already dead..."
Yu Sheng quickly understood the situation from Huli's disjointed and incomplete account.
The truly terrifying thing in this valley wasn't that flesh-and-blood behemoth!
Or rather, it wasn't the only thing. Something even more powerful had been sleeping in the depths of this darkness, and from the moment he and Eileen entered the valley, that thing had probably already been gradually awakening.
Yu Sheng gritted his teeth. After a swift assessment, he immediately ran toward Eileen nearby.
"We can't keep fighting," Yu Sheng said rapidly. "There's something even more sinister in this valley. Plan Two—we retreat first. I'll open