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Qin Yang and the others followed behind Qin Dongsheng, moving swiftly through the dense forest.

Li Baling had not thought much of it at first.

But as he walked, he suddenly recalled what Qin Yang had said earlier.

Curiously, he looked down at Qin Dongsheng's feet.

!!!

A bone-chilling, terrifying cold rose up Li Baling's back.

Moonlight spilled through the dense forest, casting mottled shadows.

Yet there was no shadow beneath Qin Dongsheng's feet.

He hurriedly looked at Qin Yang.

Only to see Qin Yang make a shushing gesture at him.

"Qin Yang had noticed long ago!"

Li Baling understood. He alone had been slow to realize it.

Li Baling was now utterly convinced by Qin Yang. Seeing his gesture, he suppressed the tension and terror in his heart, instinctively edging closer to Qin Yang.

Suddenly.

A corpse appeared before them.

The corpse lay sprawled across the ground, its belly split open and its face frozen in terror.

A trail of blood stretched all the way there, as though some wild beast had dragged it over.

"It's one of those three wandering warriors."

Qian Hai said gravely.

"This person should have been the first to disappear."

Qin Yang nodded.

Including the two corpses by the campfire, all three wandering warriors had died in this eerie forest.

"You all be careful."

"There's some ghostly shit in these woods. No matter what you hear later, don't pay it any mind."

"Just follow behind me."

Qin Dongsheng drew his long blade and walked toward the corpse.

Squelch~~

He swung his blade, chopping the corpse into eight pieces, then tossed them one by one into the grass and bushes.

"If you dare block my path again, I'll burn you to ashes!"

Qin Dongsheng said coldly.

After saying that, he gestured for Qin Yang and the others to keep moving.

After that.

Li Baling felt that the forest was becoming increasingly strange.

He could hear the shrill cries of babies, sounds that made his hair stand on end.

And he had another strange sensation.

It seemed as if someone was following behind him.

He could even hear the footsteps.

Yet Qin Dongsheng, Qin Yang, Qian Hai, and the others seemed not to have heard a thing.

At first, Li Baling thought he had heard wrong.

But those footsteps drew ever closer, making him more and more nervous.

"Qin Yang, don't you think something is following us from behind?"

Li Baling asked quietly.

"Don't mind it. Just walk properly."

Qin Yang said softly.

"But I really heard footsteps."

Terror filled Li Baling's eyes.

"Just pretend you didn't hear them."

"With me here, what are you afraid of?"

Qin Yang smiled faintly.

Only then did Li Baling relax a little.

The next moment.

Li Baling suddenly cried out, "Who goes there?!"

He could not help turning around.

Yet all he saw was a pitch-black, dead-silent forest.

"What is it?" Qin Yang asked with a frown.

"I think someone just touched my shoulder."

Li Baling said in a trembling voice.

Qin Yang looked over and indeed saw a faint black handprint on Li Baling's shoulder.

Li Baling tilted his head as well. When he saw that black handprint, his whole body began to tremble.

Hearing this, Qin Dongsheng frowned. "Looks like those things still followed us."

He had not expected that, even with him here, the things in the forest still refused to let Qin Yang's group go.

"It's fine. I'll stand at the back and see who dares come."

Qin Yang had Li Baling move a little farther ahead, while he himself fell to the rear of the group.

"Be careful."

Qin Dongsheng nodded lightly.

Though they had not seen each other for a long time, Qin Dongsheng knew that the young man before him was no longer the useless, profligate son in his eyes, one who only knew how to haunt pleasure houses and listen to music.

He was already a battle-hardened Qi Gathering Martial Artist. His Essence, Qi, and Spirit gave off a feeling as deep as the sea.

"Don't worry. For every one that comes, I'll kill one."

Qin Yang said with a smile.

Qin Dongsheng naturally trusted his son.

He continued leading the way in front, with Qian Hai and Li Baling in the middle.

Qin Yang walked at the very back.

The group continued onward.

Very soon.

Qin Yang sensed icy, numb stares coming from behind him.

Tap, tap, tap~~

Then came a burst of footsteps.

It seemed someone was following behind him.

Yet Qin Yang's expression remained unchanged, as if he had heard nothing.

After advancing roughly three to four hundred meters.

A rotten hand silently emerged from the darkness and gently reached for Qin Yang's shoulder.

"Courting death!"

"If I don't get angry, do you really think I've got no temper?!"

Qin Yang roared, turned, and threw a punch!

His fist was wrapped in deep-blue Turtle-Snake Qi, cold and profound.

Bang!

A rotting figure was struck hard by Qin Yang's punch and let out a miserable scream.

It was the wandering warrior who had appeared twice before, wearing a bamboo hat and sporting an unkempt beard.

Now, his complexion was bizarre, and a bloody stench radiated from his entire body. After staggering back several steps, he was about to flee.

Boom!

A figure instantly appeared before him and unleashed Arhat Demon Subduing with full force!

Terrifyingly fierce power pierced straight through his entire head.

His whole face caved in and shattered, while his skull was blasted away by the violent force.

Then his head was smashed apart, and his body turned into a plume of black smoke and dissipated.

"This..."

Qin Dongsheng's mouth fell open, his eyes filled with shock.

A Corpse Fiend had just been dealt with by Qin Yang like that?!

"Whoever dares come, this young master will slaughter them all!"

Qin Yang growled at the pitch-black forest.

In an instant.

As though they had sensed Qin Yang's ferocity.

All those gazes vanished without a trace.

After calming himself, Qin Dongsheng said in a low voice, "Keep moving forward."

It seemed Qin Yang's display of strength earlier had intimidated the strange things hiding in the forest.

This time, no further abnormal movements occurred.

Qin Dongsheng led them out of the dense forest.

Beyond the dense forest was not an official road.

It was a Chaos Burial Ground.

A waning moon hung high overhead.

Graves packed tightly together and corpses scattered everywhere; beneath the moonlight, the place exuded deathly silence and eerie strangeness.

Li Baling's face turned deathly pale.

Within this Chaos Burial Ground, he saw a long sharpened stake standing upright from the ground.

At the tip of the stake was a pierced head.

The features on that head were exactly identical to his own.

"What is going on? Am I going to die here too?"

It was not only him.

Even Qin Yang and Qian Hai saw their own corpses.

Their deaths were all bloody and gruesome.

Qin Dongsheng frowned deeply. "Qin Yang, I'll clear the way for you up ahead."

"You must charge out of this Chaos Burial Ground!"

Qin Yang looked at the deathly, pallid Chaos Burial Ground, deep in thought.

"Father, this is the source of the dense forest's strangeness, isn't it?"

The Chaos Burial Ground itself was thick with deathly qi. It was perfectly normal for evil entities to breed here.

"You guessed right."

"As long as you charge out of this Chaos Burial Ground, you'll be safe."

Qin Dongsheng nodded.

"What about you?" Qin Yang suddenly asked.

"I... I can't go back anymore." Qin Dongsheng shook his head faintly.

"You can go back."

"I'm here."

"I won't let you stay here alone, all by yourself."

"Father."

"I'll take you away."

Qin Yang said in a deep voice.

"Leave..." Qin Dongsheng's entire body shook.

"That's right. Leave this place."

"Since this is the source of the forest's strangeness."

"Once we destroy this place, everything will come to an end."

Qin Yang looked toward the Chaos Burial Ground, his gaze resolute.