Ghostly light drifted through the mountain woods, hazy and dreamlike.
The mournful cries of roosting birds rose from either side of the road, occasionally punctuated by the long howls of mountain ogres, like ghosts wailing and wolves howling.
Li Ling walked slowly through the woods, sensing the vital energies filling his surroundings. The entire forest teemed with noise.
He could not help feeling as though he were in a bustling city rather than an ancient forest deep in the mountains. Yet the towering trees, jagged rocks, rolling ridges, and countless other scenes of remote wilderness before his eyes all reminded him that this was indeed wild mountain country.
Following the energies he sensed southward, he occasionally saw avian Great Demons streak overhead. Demons and spirit monsters carried lanterns and torches across the mountains, patrolling in all directions.
The Demon King who had attacked earlier had sent his subordinates to search for the enemy, but their efforts were doomed to yield nothing.
There must be something hidden on the Main Peak of Soul-Rending Mountain!
Those interconnected lights I saw earlier seemed to fuse the vital energies here with the earth veins, manifesting the Earth and Human aspects of Dao-Heaven-Earth-Human. No ordinary formation could compare.
The total spirit resonance it possessed also far exceeded mine. Even excluding environmental factors, it was still more than ten times what I have.
And as luck would have it, it even took the shape of a flood dragon...
However confident Li Ling might be, he would never confront something like that head-on.
Yet a mysterious intuition also told him that the affairs here shared some karmic connection with him. There ought to be a link.
With mingled wariness and curiosity, he looked up at the mountains beneath the night sky and decided that if an open