What made Lin Yi's scalp prickle even more were the things flickering in and out of sight within its shadowy outline... Irregular lumps of flesh seemed to bulge grotesquely along its sides. They writhed and contracted from time to time as though they had lives of their own, like peculiar scales, or bizarre feathers, or perhaps... countless little eyes hidden there, peering into every layer!
The dark tide distorted the entire world outside the Clock Tower. Its body wound on endlessly, and its head seemed entangled within it. The end of every shadowy outline looked like its head, or perhaps none of them were its head. It seemed to be some far more terrifying conglomeration...
After looking at it a few times, Lin Yi immediately felt a piercing chill. It seeped deep into his marrow, not merely a drop in temperature, but something more like the freezing of his soul.
Wait!
Could that be the "Angel" Lao Mo mentioned?!
After all, "Angel" was only a designation. Who could say it could not look like that snake?
He immediately thought of the Night Watchman standing at the edge of the Cliff with the Ancient Bronze Lamp in hand, and the nearly frozen "tsunami" before him. Could the three Night Watchmen be fighting the invasion of the Gray Fog at different locations?
And did those three Night Watchmen wield the Ancient Bronze Lamp, the Quantum Giant Bell, and some unknown supernatural artifact, respectively?
Thinking along those lines, could the guardians of the Three Realms and Six Paths in myths and legends actually be these Night Watchmen...?
After all, there seemed to have once been six Night Watchmen...?
Those vacant Night Watchman positions...
Hiss-
Mu Daxian wanted to take a position and become an immortal?!
Lin Yi's thoughts grew increasingly outlandish, gradually spiraling