Soul Seizure

Just as the words fell, Xu Yuan caught, from the corner of his eye, a patch of darkness devoid of all light deep within the karst cave.

He instinctively turned back to look. Before he could react, that patch of darkness had already swept over his feet like a sudden apparition, rapidly surging deeper into the cave!

His vision blurred for a moment. When he came back to himself, the world around him had already changed.

The cramped underground cave was gone, and under the cover of darkness, the surrounding space seemed to have expanded a hundredfold.

Frowning, he raised his eyes. Once he saw his surroundings clearly, all manner of negative emotions began to spread through Xu Yuan's heart.

Panic, fear, and the slight tremors running uncontrollably through his body.

The vast dark expanse before him was shrouded in indescribable mist. Countless corpses hung upside down from drooping willow branches, layer upon layer, stretching like a boundless sea all the way to the edge of his vision.

And there, stood a hazy black silhouette that seemed to tower into the heavens.

Like something that had existed since time immemorial, before it, all things were as tiny as an ant beneath its feet.

"Tap."

Xu Yuan instinctively took half a step back, the sound of his footfall especially piercing in the pitch-black space.

And at that very moment, two crisp voices rang out almost simultaneously.

"Calm your heart."

"Focus your mind."

The fear and panic spreading through his heart abruptly stalled. Two currents of coolness that seeped into his very core swiftly washed away those chaotic, disorderly thoughts.

Xu Yuan gathered his thoughts and cursed inwardly.

Fuck, I fell for it.

This ghost willow was actually powerful enough to directly affect the intelligence and thoughts of someone in the Origin