"Dog barking?"
Ji Jue turned back in confusion.
Through the iron door, it was muffled and indistinct, impossible to make out clearly.
He was starting to doubt his own ears...
By rights, the person who had assigned him this task counted as an examiner to some extent. But why was the examiner outside the examination room howling like he had seen a ghost?
Could it be that the Jian Yuan Divine Skill had reached completion, and he had come charging over with Deepdark?
Did Ji Jue still have time to change sides, raise the Night Embroidered Black Flag, and welcome the royal army?
BOOM!!!
The ground suddenly shook, curling like a felt blanket.
The basement ceiling split apart, and dust came sifting down.
Beyond the narrow window, something like lightning flashed past. For an instant, it illuminated a colossal outline within the heavy rain curtain—like a bizarre giant worm crawling above the clouds, its limbs wriggling as they spread and descended toward the earth, scattering black rain.
Within the pitch-black rain, shrill noises rang out without end.
Inside the room, a piercing, high-frequency alarm began beeping from the wall. On the dust-covered detector hanging there, the readings shot up like a rocket in an instant. Fiendification numerical value rising warning...
He did not even need the instrument. Ji Jue's body was already experiencing intense discomfort.
Even if he was certain that everything before his eyes was an illusion, everything he saw, touched, and even everything his soul and sense of self could feel was so real.
Symptoms of mild Fiendification erosion: dizziness, shortness of breath, accelerated heartbeat.
Soon, his skin began to feel faint stings. Drowsiness set in, his reactions gradually slowed, and inexplicable sounds reached his ears. If this continued unchecked, the next stage would be severe conditions such