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Woooooo~

The Funeral Procession Team was still inching forward speck by speck, but the eerie, horrifying cries began to weaken without cease, slowly fading toward nothing. In the end, even the sounds of footsteps, the howling yin wind, and the movements of the coffin bearers completely vanished, leaving behind only utter silence—a silent world.

It grew quieter and quieter, more and more deathly still. Even the birth of thoughts and the ripples of the soul seemed to sink away speck by speck within that strange silence, as though returning to the eternal stillness of death.

Yet the scenery around them did not seem to have changed in the slightest.

Mountain forest—dark mountain forest everywhere. Beneath the monstrous Blood Moon overhead, countless shadowy silhouettes stretched across the ground. They stood rooted in their original place, utterly motionless, and the entire world resembled a dark, soundless painting.

'F-Faceless Fellow Daoist, wh-what exactly is happening now?'

Within the divine sense communication at the Nascent Soul level, the Five-tailed Fox Demon's mental transmission was nearly reduced to a whisper.

For some reason, despite being considered a powerful figure in This World and a Nascent Soul Demon King herself, an indescribable oppression surged into her heart at this moment, bleak and chilling to the extreme.

Whenever she tried to speak, an intensely stifling sensation welled up within her, as though a massive boulder had lodged itself firmly in her throat, leaving her unable to make a sound.

Even through their mental sensing, the Five-tailed Fox Demon felt a terror rising from the depths of her heart, as if the moment she opened her mouth, she would violate some incomprehensible taboo and bring down a dreadful calamity.

This silence was very wrong. It was as if some unknown force was affecting everything...

Lin Chen's Gaze shifted,