Footsteps echoed through the thick darkness: "Thud, thud, thud."
Rustling sounds came from all directions, as though countless snakes and insects were fleeing in panic, or as if an unknowable number of rats and ants were whispering among themselves as they closed in from every side.
Ji Changfu strode at the front, his white robes fluttering.
Chu Mo and Gui Hengqiu followed behind him in silence, their expressions dark.
Pei Ling and Jade Snow Bat had somehow fallen to the rear without noticing.
The entire group was silent.
Suddenly, Ji Changfu stopped.
The Destiny Lantern's flame glowed with a cold light, illuminating a blurry silhouette in the darkness ahead.
The thing's humanoid shape had become extremely indistinct, closer to a beast rearing up on its forelegs. Its hair hung loose, and it was barefoot. It had more than ten fingers, each sharp as a blade. A violent aura swirled around it, and its scarlet eyes gleamed with terrifying resentment in the dark. Tiny vipers crawled all over its face, making for a horrifying sight.
His—or rather, its—cultivation was astonishingly at the peak of Nascent Soul!
It was infinitely close to Spirit Transformation!
The instant they saw this humanoid figure, the Eternal Night Whispers, which the Destiny Lantern had been keeping partially at bay, turned ferocious.
Murderous intent, rage, hatred, and madness surged into their hearts!
Ji Changfu thought of the cultivation and foundation he had lost by accident. It was all the fault of Zhong Kui Jingyi of the Liulan Dynasty, and that ungrateful Pill Master, Wang Gao! Chu Mo thought of his junior brother Kang Shaoyin, who had slighted him just to get a mere Demon Race furnace cauldron, and a trace of malice flashed in his eyes. Gui Hengqiu thought of Ji Changfu's coercion, and the danger of