The latter half of the Path to Heaven was, how should one put it, rather strange.
Though it had been night when he stepped inside, there had still been a faint glimmer of starlight overhead.
Yet from the moment Li Su entered, he had not felt even the slightest ray of light fall upon him. The darkness all around was heavy and dense, as though it were some material substance with weight.
Even with his eyesight, anything beyond two meters ahead was severely obstructed. The effective range of his divine sense could not penetrate farther than ten meters either.
The evil here was exceptionally dense, beyond Li Su's expectations. Both his body and soul reacted; the supreme scripture was no longer dormant, beginning to shine and resist the invasion of that evil.
He restrained his cultivation technique. Here, blustering intimidation would instead easily produce negative consequences and draw powerful enemies.
He had not forgotten his purpose. He had come here to save someone, not to attract monsters and fight enemies.
Perhaps due to the shift in environment, the unconscious Dao Xuan reacted as well and woke up.
"Mm?" Dao Xuan opened his eyes, a trace of confusion on his face. When he saw Li Su, he was visibly stunned. "Junior Brother? I...?"
"I found you in the middle section, Senior Brother. It seemed you'd gone through a bloody battle, been injured, and fallen unconscious."
"You saved me? Thank you." Dao Xuan froze for a moment as memories from before he lost consciousness instantly surfaced in his mind. In those final moments, he had fought desperately out of the world of leaves, only to see—
Hiss...
What kind of monster had that been?
The instant he saw it, his flesh and soul had seemed to develop wills of their own, wanting