These were the forms of Wu Feng's family and friends. After appearing, they began changing from picture-like images into something real, following the indescribable fluctuations of Wu Feng's emotions.
"Wu Feng, stay here. Isn't this place wonderful?"
"Wu Feng, this is where happiness lies. As long as you acknowledge this world, you'll become its ruler."
"Once you become the ruler of the world, your cultivation will advance by leaps and bounds. Whatever you want to accomplish, you'll be able to do."
All kinds of voices came from the mouths of those family members and friends. They were filled with temptation, subjecting Wu Feng's heart to an immense emotional assault.
Just then, the Buddhist pagoda he had kept against his chest suddenly erupted.
The eruption of the pagoda cleared Wu Feng's mind.
Yet within that clarity, immense pain appeared and erupted in his mind.
Humans liked happiness and disliked pain.
But Wu Feng now needed pain. He needed that pain to make him understand that his current situation was far from good. He needed to keep himself in pain.
The pain erupted, causing Wu Feng to let out an involuntary, agonized howl.
Amid his howls, Wu Feng seemed to see the truth.
The truth was this: In a world resembling a sea of fire, he was tightly bound by countless chains that had appeared from nowhere.
Countless cracks had appeared in the chains. From those cracks, indescribable auras seeped out, transforming into even more chains that continued wrapping around Wu Feng.
There were countless entities surrounding Wu Feng.
There was no way to describe their forms.
There were humans with three twisted heads, monsters with animal heads and human bodies, their forms wrapped in pitch-black, headless snakes, and...
These entities should have been the first batch of monsters born from this