The sight before them left everyone stunned.
As far as the eye could see, corpses lay scattered across the ground. Every one of them had died with their eyes open, their bodies covered in wounds. Many of the female corpses were in even worse condition, barely clothed—it was hard to imagine what kind of torment they had endured while alive.
Beneath some of the women's bodies, they still sheltered blood-soaked children.
"Beasts!!"
Lin Hao felt rage shoot straight to the crown of his head, his eyes splitting with fury. "Bastards! Bastards!!"
There were hundreds, perhaps thousands, of corpses within sight—and that was only what they could see. There seemed to be even more at the distant end, casually slaughtered and discarded by the roadside. Men, women, old people, children... some of the children had even had their internal organs hollowed out, for reasons unknown.
"Too cruel!" Lin Hanshuang's face was also filled with disbelief.
Her willow brows were tightly furrowed, her complexion faintly pale.
The others wore dark expressions as well, silently watching the scene before them.
The ground beneath their feet seemed to mark a boundary. Behind them lay peace and beautiful scenery; ahead was a vision like the hell of Yama.
"There's something over there!"
Suddenly, the Second Elder frowned. Her figure flickered, and in an instant she arrived before an enormous boulder.
A boulder thirty meters tall had been split down the middle. Fresh blood had been used to trace a bloody Eight Trigrams diagram across it... similar to the Eight Trigrams, yet not quite the same, inscribed with countless strange and eerie symbols. It radiated an exceptionally sinister air.
Faintly, scraps of flesh still clung to the bloody diagram...
"Madmen!" the Second Elder cursed furiously.
"This was done by people from Eight Immortals Stronghold."
At that