The farther they went, the heavier the Yin Energy grew around them.
The nauseating stench of blood was so thick it almost seemed to congeal.
"Boss, look at the ground!"
Yan Wangchou suddenly pointed at the ground and cried out.
The cracked yellow earth had begun to seep with a layer of thick, red liquid.
It wasn't blood, but a scalding-hot slurry. It sizzled beneath their feet, and smoke rose from the soles of their shoes.
Fang Mo activated Still Water Mirror and looked down.
In his vision, the Red Veins beneath the earth had swollen to their limit. Some had even burst through the ground, writhing wildly like exposed tree roots.
"There's a huge thing hidden beneath this ground."
Fang Mo's expression darkened. "The entire village is one enormous Alchemy Furnace. These veins are the pipes that feed it heat."
"An Alchemy Furnace?"
Qian Dagui shuddered. "They're refining people into pills? That's utterly inhuman!"
"Inhuman?"
Fang Mo sneered. "In the eyes of those high and mighty bigwigs, they call it making use of waste."
Ahead, a shrine with gray-tiled roofs and blue-brick walls appeared at the end of their view.
Unlike the other dilapidated houses, this shrine was in excellent repair. It could even be called luxurious.
Its vermilion doors were shut tight. Instead of a plaque, an undried Beast Skin Rune was nailed to them.
A strange symbol had been drawn on the skin in blood, shaped like a Crying Eye.
All the underground Red Veins flowed beneath those doors.
And around the shrine, there were no ordinary Bone Puppets on guard.
Instead, four Monsters stood at the shrine's corners, each over a zhang tall and covered head to toe in black iron armor.
They held enormous Horse Chopping Sabers and stood motionless like statues.
When Fang Mo