In the eerie night of Black Cloud Stronghold, strange mutterings echoed from every direction.
Gu Jianlin panted as he carried the girl in the sack. The chair in his hand had been reduced to half a chair leg. Even in his Ghost Humanization state, his energy expenditure was immense, and there was nothing he could find to replenish it.
There was not a single living creature to be found in any direction, not a single life he could draw from.
Other than his three teammates.
Fortunately, those terrifying mutterings—the so-called mental toxin—had no effect on him.
Nor would the black fog drive him out of control.
That was the benefit brought by the power of an Ancient God. The so-called Forbidden Zone was not all that dangerous to him.
Perhaps once he entered the Ancient God Realm, he would be even more like a fish in water.
That was his advantage.
Provided that the monsters in the black fog were not endless!
"Xiaolin, Xiaolin..."
That familiar call rang out beside his ear again, like his mother nagging beside him while he did his homework years ago.
Gu Jianlin drove the chair leg backward, and another monster fell with a thud.
In just fifteen minutes—
He had already killed twenty-three mothers and forty-seven fathers.
If his life were a game, he would have happily earned the title of Filial Son and unlocked an achievement by now.
Along the way, he had also dealt with quite a few family members of his three teammates.
Heaven knew why this Forbidden Zone was so bizarre, making these monsters appear in the forms of one's closest relatives.
And they came one after another, without end.
It was simply a double torment of mind and body.
"Brother Lin, you're way too fierce. If it weren't for