Shade stopped in the thick fog. After looking around, he asked in his heart:
"Is there a problem?"
This was naturally formed fog, very different from the fog beyond the White Mist Gate. Not only was it far less dense, it also felt far more "real."
No.
Shade took a deep breath. The fog was extremely humid and carried an indescribable stench of corruption, making him cough repeatedly.
"Is there a problem now?"
Extremely weak Elements. All Four Elements are present.
"In other words, this fog may also be connected to Life and Death Limbo."
With that thought, he continued onward. Without Sun's guidance, Shade was worried that he might lose his way in the mountain forest.
He had barely taken a few steps before stopping again. A strange humanoid figure had appeared vaguely in the white fog ahead, seeming to float in the air.
"What is that?"
He raised an eyebrow.
Accompanied by a bone-chilling wind weaving through the dense fog, the figure suddenly moved toward Shade. It was not corporeal, but a purely spiritual entity. He could barely make out that it was a male soul. Its feet dangled in the air, as though it had been hanged by a rope around its neck. After flickering several times through the white fog, it had already arrived before Shade.
"An evil spirit? So the negative effects of that strand of hair haven't disappeared yet?"
With a swipe of his finger through the air, dazzling Silver Moon light swept forward in a horizontal line parallel to the ground. The pure moonlight struck the evil spirit directly, cleaving it into upper and lower halves. The beam continued flying backward, severing a large tree behind it before flying deeper into the thick fog.
Even Ring Arcanists of the same level would find