The entire area within two hundred li of Guobei County was shrouded in black clouds, pitch-black as hell.
Zhang Yang transformed into a shadow and cautiously circled a wide arc before finally stopping beside a huge boulder.
The boulder had originally been more than a dozen meters wide, but now an invisible line had split it in two.
The side of the boulder closer to Zhang Yang was still fairly normal, merely shrouded in gray, while the side across the line had turned as black as ink.
Zhang Yang observed it for a long while before slowly extending a hand. The moment it crossed the line, a puff of black smoke rose from his finger.
"Chi!"
A wisp of sword qi flew past, directly slicing off a small section of the middle finger that had begun emitting black smoke.
"Interesting!"
Zhang Yang's expression did not change. He slowly circulated his sword qi, and after a moment, the missing section of his middle finger had recovered completely.
"Discovered Cursed Land. Curse level: 480 layers."
"Discovered traces of an unknown Primeval Village Building Order in operation. Analysis in progress. Analysis progress: 7%. Part of the intelligence has been unlocked (click to view)."
"Bone Tower, one of the unique structures of the Primeval Village Building Order. Effect: blood-sacrifice one hundred thousand living beings to obtain a Bone Tower, which can nurture the primeval troop type, Cursed Snake Monks."
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"Just as I expected!"
Zhang Yang's expression darkened. This was precisely what he had feared most, because if it were only the Plague Serpent, he could still deal with it somehow using the Anchor of Death he had brought out of the Ashen Graveyard.
After all, the Anchor of Death contained the Ancient Law of Death.
But the Fate Village Building Order had already