He let out a long breath.
After spending too long in this danger-ridden forbidden zone, anyone could go mad. After venting for a while, he immediately felt much less irritated.
He shrank down and looked at his hands.
He found that the skin on both hands and arms had dried up, and the muscles beneath had shrunk slightly as well.
"What a terrifying creature!" Chen Shouyi clenched his fists. His hands felt stiff and sluggish, no longer as nimble as before, and he wasn't used to it.
"My will still isn't strong enough. I can't stop its power from invading me at all. Luckily, giants have high defense and plenty of health; otherwise, I might've been caught off guard and sunk in a gutter." Chen Shouyi thought to himself.
Of course, he hadn't burned any Faith Value, put on his Divine Artifact armor, or even used his Control Atmosphere ability. If he'd used all those methods, he figured the fight would've been over in two or three moves.
The two Little Dots quickly flew over and landed on Chen Shouyi's shoulders, one on each side, chattering excitedly without pause.
Chen Shouyi ignored them and looked at the corpse in the distance.
He sniffed the air, then followed the monster's scent and strode forward.
Half a minute later, he reached the monster's lair.
It was a cavern with passages branching off in every direction. To Chen Shouyi's dismay, however, he searched every corner and still came up empty-handed.
"Damn it, is my luck really this terrible in this world?"
He had been exploring the forbidden zone for five days now. In that time, he'd walked at least two thousand kilometers.
Yet so far, he hadn't found any treasures—or even a single hair.
"Good giant, there's something good underneath!" Just then, Little