"You're lucky you ran into me. If I weren't here today, I guarantee every last one of you would die here."
Wang Jian and the others were startled by Chen Hao's words. "What the hell are you talking about?"
Chen Hao pointed ahead. "Let's set aside whether this paradise in front of us is real. Just answer one question: where are the people who came up before us?"
"They..." Wang Jian looked at the deserted paradise before them, horror rising in his heart. "They're gone!"
Chen Hao nodded. "Exactly. They disappeared."
Wang Jian suddenly asked, "So you mean we'll disappear as soon as we take a step forward?"
Chen Hao was about to answer when one of the men suddenly pointed behind them. "Boss, look behind us!"
Everyone turned. Behind them was a woodland trail with no end in sight. The steps they had climbed had long since vanished.
"Holy shit, is this place haunted?" the man cried out. Clearly, he had never encountered anything like this before.
Then Wang Jian spoke. "A spirit array."
Seeing that Wang Jian's brain had finally kicked into gear, Chen Hao praised him. "Not bad. You even know about spirit arrays."
Wang Jian frowned. "I encountered one before. It was creepy as hell. Rakshasa specializes in spirit arrays. They probably put one at the entrance to weed out the weaker Qi Refiners."
"You're right. This spirit array is the first test in the initiation ceremony." As Chen Hao spoke, he prepared to enter it.
"Wait!" This time, Wang Jian stopped him.
"What is it?" Chen Hao asked.
Wang Jian asked in confusion, "Judging by the illusion it creates and the area it covers, this should be a high-level spirit array. From what I understand, the higher its grade, the more dangerous it is. If