The Flame on Lin Feng spread onto the corpse, burrowing through its seven apertures and beginning to condense into a special character between its brows.
That character was "纂."
This was the power to bring the dead back to life, one of Heavenly Fire's many abilities.
Heavenly Fire might possess other inconceivable abilities, but Lin Feng was not proficient in them.
Under these searing Flames, Lin Feng suddenly felt a strange agitation in the Altar, which had lain dormant for so long. Strange laughter came from within.
"Hahaha."
"Hahaha."
"Hahaha."
It sounded as though someone were laughing nonstop nearby.
Lin Feng's heart sank. He remembered clearly that he had heard this sound after entering the Nightmare, in the midst of that grueling battle.
This was the sound of a Qitu.
The description of the Qitu read, "On Mount Yiwang lives a bird shaped like a crow, with three heads and six tails, and a fondness for laughter. Its name is Qitu. Eating it frees one from nightmares and wards off misfortune."
At first hearing, its laughter sounded perfectly ordinary.
But it did not produce that sound in its throat.
Quite the contrary: when applied to humans, the Qitu's voice was actually a special Supernatural Ability.
One-Eye Country had found flesh and blood from a "dead" Qitu.
Eating it did indeed ward off nightmares.
But a Qitu's flesh and blood could not be digested.
Neither the pill refinement of Esoteric Arts, the lead-and-mercury external alchemy of Daoists, nor certain methods of magical refinement could completely eliminate these anomalous beasts' "side effects."
Moreover, anyone who ate a Qitu would turn into another Qitu.
It did not matter how they consumed it.
This laughter could indeed pull people out of nightmares, but in exchange, humans could not tolerate the sound.
It was neither