Shen Luo saw this and instinctively released his Divine Sense into the white mist to investigate, his brow gradually furrowing.
Within the hazy white mist all around them, a great many soul-force fluctuations had appeared at some point. Several hundred figures were silently closing in.
"Ghost creatures are coming..." Qing Lu suddenly shouted.
The moment his words fell, several hundred Yin Soldiers clad in ancient bronze armor charged out murderously from the thick fog ahead.
Shen Luo was about to act when he discovered that those ghost creatures seemed to have no intention of attacking them. Instead, upon noticing the two of them, they immediately gave way and circled around them.
"What's going on?" Qing Lu asked in surprise.
"Someone is hunting them down," Shen Luo said slowly.
With that, he concealed his aura and flashed forward. After traveling a hundred paces, he heard repeated rumbles from ahead, as though people were fighting.
After chasing another hundred-odd zhang, he reached the edge of the Black Bamboo Forest. The earth before him looked as though it had been cleaved apart by a single strike from a ghost god, revealing a colossal ravine ten thousand zhang deep, thick with corpse qi that surged upward into the sky.
Before them lay Yin Ghost Ravine. Two great mountains stood far away on the opposite side, and between their peaks was a valley entrance—the exit of Baleful Yin Valley, and the other end of the Hell Maze.
As Shen Luo stared across at it, firelight suddenly flared from the depths of the ravine. A dragon-shaped blaze a hundred zhang long shot into the heavens, bursting like a splendid firework in midair.
Amid the sparks raining through the sky appeared a Dragon Bone Armor covered in simple, ancient patterns. Black smoke condensed within it into a