The blood-colored moon had descended upon the earth at this moment, completely engulfing half the heavenly domain. Like the setting sun over an endless desert, it was an unprecedentedly colossal mass.
The ground was covered in flowers—flowers without leaves, all crimson red—densely scattered across every corner of the earth, as though they stretched beyond the limits of sight.
Most horrifying of all, there was clearly no wind here, yet the flowers swayed strangely across the ground. Their funnel-shaped blossoms resembled palm after palm of blood-red hands, waving without wind.
At the roots of the flower stalks lay not only soil, but heaps upon heaps of white bones: human skeletons, the serrated teeth of demon beasts, and the gray remnants left behind by dead monsters... It was as though countless lives had been buried here.
As far as the eye could see, there was only a sea of blood-like red. At its very center stood an exceptionally enormous Ancient Mansion.
The Ancient Mansion was exceedingly old and worn, its surface covered in mottled rust. Yet there was unusually no moss or grass anywhere, only gray-black dust. Two red lanterns even hung unexpectedly at its gates, each bearing the character for double happiness, carrying an indescribably bewitching splendor.
Before Lin Chen's eyes, the funeral procession that had originally walked ahead of them, carrying the black coffin, had silently vanished the instant the great fog dispersed. Not a single trace remained.
At this moment, only four figures stood upon the ground inside the room: Lin Chen, Zhang Xi's unknown Spirit Transformation avatar, the Five-tailed Fox Demon, and the Coffin Bearer Demon Venerable.
"Looks like we've arrived." Lin Chen gazed at the incomparably enormous Blood Moon in the heavenly vault, which occupied nearly half its expanse. His expression was unreadable. He then looked over