Below Luoshi

Luoshi.

A place known as the ancient capital of thirteen dynasties, it had naturally borne the brunt of the impact when the Maze City descended.

A stale odor hung over the streets. The squat gray buildings lining them looked no different from before the Maze City's arrival.

Even when they scanned all of Luoshi, they couldn't see anything unusual.

"Strange. Did the Maze City not land here?"

Atop Dragon Gate Mountain, Xiao Ran and the others looked out over Luoshi, searching high and low but finding nothing unusual.

Wu Man couldn't help wondering if Luoshi had escaped contamination by the Maze City.

But the answer was obviously no.

Fluorescence flickered in Xiao Ran's eyes as his immense psychic power spread like a vast net over Luoshi below.

Yet before it had even been near the city for long, Xiao Ran felt a powerful force repelling it.

He quickly drew his psychic power back, gathering it into a single point before thrusting it straight toward the source of the repulsion.

It was an old, dilapidated temple. Inside stood a statue of a vajra bodhisattva.

As Xiao Ran's psychic power pierced through, the vajra bodhisattva abruptly raised its head. Its face was blue, its fangs bared, and cold light blazed in its eyes. It lifted the pestle in its hand and swung it toward Xiao Ran.

Warning: You have been targeted by the Black-Eyed Kshatrapas Vajra's curse, [Evil Form]. All attributes temporarily decreased by 20%.

Warning: You have been targeted by the Black-Eyed Kshatrapas Vajra's curse, [Within the Three Realms]!

At the same moment the two notifications appeared, Xiao Ran sensed the space around him twisting at a speed too fast for the naked eye to follow.

The Demon Subduing Pestle thrown by the black vajra appeared before Xiao Ran