Far away in the waking world, Zhou Yao watched everything unfolding through Yellow Wind Little Sage's vision, his face full of irrepressible shock.
Ever since learning the true nature of Mythic Invasion, Zhou Yao had been trying to trace it back to its source and uncover the Lost Mythology corresponding to Yin Mountain Metro, but he had found nothing.
Thinking carefully, that was likely due in large part to Yin Mountain Metro's ability to alter cognition.
Zhou Yao possessed memories from two lives and understood the truth behind many Lost Mythologies. Though Yin Mountain Metro could not directly alter Zhou Yao's cognition, it could still shield and interfere with portions of his memories to a certain extent.
That was why, even after seeing so many Yin Mountain Metro stations like Stonepress Station and Pestle and Mortar Station, Zhou Yao had still failed to recall the corresponding Eighteen Levels of Hell.
What truly made Zhou Yao sense something amiss had actually been the Northern Yin Mountain Temple.
At the time, Pestle and Mortar Station had just expanded, and a corresponding new region had appeared within the Yin Mountain Realm.
The Investigation Bureau personnel had stated that every new region would contain a Northern Yin Mountain Temple, each bearing different rules.
The newest Northern Yin Mountain Temple had ghosts and gods standing guard. Anyone who wasted food could not enter the mountain temple, while violators would even suffer punishment from the rules.
During the Yinshan Investigation Branch's tests, quite a few ordinary people had been sent flying in sprays of flesh and blood, dying on the spot.
At the time, Zhou Yao had vaguely sensed a feeling of déjà vu, yet he could not recall what exactly it was.
But now that he looked at it, was this not the punishment of