The environment was truly bizarre.
The grotto-heaven teleportation had sent them beyond the bounds of Great Luo Mountain.
It was not very far, yet it was equivalent to entering the deepest reaches of the Eastern Domain, stepping into the strange lands within.
The air congealed with an unmelting stench of blood, tinged with rot. What washed over them was nausea and suffocation.
Even though Li Su was already at the Taiyi realm, he still felt a trace of discomfort in such an environment.
The mountains not far away, the rivers flowing through them—they seemed like the flesh and organs of living creatures, or like blood vessels stripped bare and exposed.
The entire earth looked as though it had been heaped together from countless severed limbs, and he stood amid those chunks of corpse.
Mm, quite an appetite killer.
Suddenly, Li Su's eyes shifted. He could not help turning his head to look at a small mound not far from him.
That mountain resembled a leg. Its knee jutted out of the ground, while the rest remained buried beneath it. Most of its skin had rotted away. Thick veins hung in midair, and something like muscle tissue could still be seen writhing—the likely reason being the gray maggots clinging to it and gnawing away.
That leg was not completely dead yet...
The thought involuntarily surfaced in Li Su's mind.
But that was not what concerned him. What drew his attention was something glowing atop the kneecap, giving off an aura utterly different from its surroundings—the aura of the Dao.
Curious, Li Su could not help moving closer.
He had taken barely two steps before someone blocked him.
It was that old artifact refiner. He had been following all along, clearly fixated on Li Su and determined not to rest until he