Chongming Sect.
Floating Light Pool.
The reflection on the pool's surface showed a vast city, bustling with traffic and alive with activity.
At the edges of the Floating Light Pool, distant mountains could be glimpsed faintly through the city walls.
The mountain ranges rose and fell in winding ridges, veiled by wisps of mist like thin gauze. They looked like a heavenly paradise on earth.
At that moment, one of the mountains appeared from afar to blaze with the brilliant reds of autumn maples, but it was actually covered in Anomaly Spirit Plants. Their branches resembled human bones, deathly white and bleak, while their flowers and leaves looked like congealed blood and gave off a cloying, fishy scent.
Countless translucent faces of Vengeful Souls crowded the flowers and leaves, their mouths opening again and again to let out shrill howls.
The many howls merged into an indescribable wail of ghosts, echoing throughout the forest.
Beneath the trees lay pale white sand, gleaming coldly in the dim light like the skeletal remains left behind after repeated washing.
Deep in the forest, an old man in hemp robes and a bamboo crown sat cross-legged on a meditation cushion.
His features were ordinary—so ordinary that the moment one looked away from his face, one would forget his appearance entirely. He sat with his eyes closed, his expression indifferent, deep in meditation.
Suddenly, he opened his eyes. A flicker of surprise crossed his unruffled face, and he murmured to himself, "Nether Heaven Mist, Eternal Night Desert..."
This was extremely strange!
Si Hong Miaoli had suddenly been attacked, triggering the method he had planted in her bloodline. He had originally intended it to be used for Si Hong Miaoli's current mission, but he had never expected to encounter Pei Ling in Du'e Abyss.
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