Lin Heng stepped into the Mist Forest.
They walked forward for about a hundred paces.
A stone tablet appeared before his eyes.
There are a few short sentences on the stone tablet.
"It is infested with Chi, Mei, Wang, and Liang."
"There are also cultivators from Four Seas and Eight Wastelands present."
"If someone kills someone by mistake, they will be punished by being forbidden from ever leaving the Mist Forest."
These three simple sentences significantly increased the difficulty of the Mist Forest.
Now Lin Heng finally understood Dasiwoba's twisted mentality.
Normally, cultivators who have reached the highest realm of this universe are definitely decisive and ruthless.
Given this, they naturally wouldn't care whether what appeared before them was a human or a ghost.
If we really meet, we'll just kill them outright.
However, there are limitations imposed by the stone tablet, and soul power cannot be used.
This requires cultivators to rely on their own eyes to make judgments.
If a mistake is made in identification and the other party is killed, it will be considered a violation, preventing the person from leaving.
Of course, when you kill someone, you might also be killed in return.
And if you are no match for them and are killed by them.
The other party will also be trapped here forever.
Having understood the rules, Lin Heng narrowed his eyes.
"It only restricts the use of the soul, but not cultivation level."
"Is it just for the pleasure of killing?"
Lin Heng shook his head, his impression of Dasiwoba's madness deepening once again.
Lin Heng did not linger at the stone tablet and continued walking into the forest.
The surroundings were dark, with extremely low visibility, and the trees, crisscrossing and intertwined, all looked the same.
Lin Heng could only focus on one direction and keep moving forward.
Peaceful times are always fleeting.
Lin Heng walked forward for about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea after stepping over the stone tablet.
Sudden!
The ground beneath his feet trembled violently.
Immediately afterwards, a gaping maw emerged from the withered leaves beneath the ground.
The gigantic maw let out a deafening roar.
'roar!'
As Lin Heng's eardrums vibrated, the giant beast made a move as if to swallow him whole.
In that critical moment, Lin Heng slammed his right foot onto the beast's thick lips, using the momentum to leap into the air.
As Lin Heng leaped into the air, the giant beast below revealed its true form.
This is a monster whose entire body is formed from solidified stone, and it looks like a giant toad.
Its blood-red, eerie eyes looked like two large red lanterns.
Once it fully emerges from the ground, a rough estimate would be that it would be at least twenty meters tall, crouching there.
Seeing the stone toad, Lin Heng couldn't help but feel puzzled.
According to Dijiang, this place should be haunted by vengeful spirits.
But this toad looks more like a mountain spirit or monster.
Could it be?
An idea popped into Lin Heng's mind.
The so-called ghosts and monsters in this Mist Forest.
Could it be that it's the same as his own Lin Heng Universe?
Is the Nether Ghost Domain comprised of those Twenty-Four Ghosts and Monsters?
The so-called Twenty-Four Ghosts and Monsters are the well-known Chi, Mei, Wang, and Liang.
However, most people only know about "Chi, Mei, Wang, and Liang), but they don't know that this is just a general term for Twenty-Four Ghosts and Monsters.
The Twenty-Four Ghosts and Monsters are the progenitors of all ghosts, representing the earliest ghosts to appear in the underworld when the universe was first formed.
Lin Heng only learned of this after his own Nether World, Lin Heng Universe, had taken shape.
The stone toad in front of you is a chi, a type of mountain spirit.
Knowing this, Lin Heng felt somewhat at ease.
Now that we know this place is made up of Twenty-Four Ghosts and Monsters.
That would reveal their characteristics.
In this way, a solution was found.
"Bind the Origin of Fire!"
Lin Heng floated in mid-air, and with a wave of his right hand, a burst of raging flames suddenly erupted from beneath the toad.
Flames shot into the sky instantly, engulfing the toad completely.
The toad struggled violently, trying to break through the wall of flames.
Lin Heng raised his hand again, and a fire dragon a hundred meters long formed in front of him.
Following Lin Heng's finger, point at the toad from a distance.
The fire dragon in mid-air leaped, its body rapidly flipping downwards, and opened its massive, billowing maw to swallow the toad whole.
With the Origin of Fire and the Origin of Heaven Yang, the fire dragon instantly disintegrated the essence of the sun and moon within the toad's body after swallowing it.
The fire dragon's tail slammed against the ground before it soared into the air.
Upon reaching mid-air, the fire dragon suddenly burst into a dazzling burst of fire before disappearing completely.
As the fire dragon dissipated in mid-air, the toad it had swallowed turned into countless pebbles that fell from the sky.
Lin Heng had a rough idea of the mountain spirit's strength; it was probably only at the Sovereign Realm.
If Chi, Mei, Wang, and Liang in this Mist Forest are of this level.
That's naturally not difficult to pass, and it's even quite easy to identify.
After all, which cultivator who can ascend to this realm isn't stronger than Sovereign Realm?
Once you exchange blows, you'll naturally know whether it's a human or a ghost.
Driven by curiosity, Lin Heng continued deeper into the Mist Forest.
Lin Heng estimated that he had only walked less than a thousand steps.
A figure lying on the ground appeared before him.
Upon closer inspection, the person appeared to be an elderly person in their seventies or eighties from ordinary life.
He was dressed in tattered clothes and had multiple injuries all over his body, looking very weak.
Lin Heng glanced at the old man and then walked past him, continuing on his way.
After all, in this Mist Forest, it's impossible to tell whether someone is human or a ghost, so it's better to avoid trouble.
Just as Lin Heng was about to leave, the old man called him back.
"You don't want to leave here?"
The old man's words made Lin Heng stop in his tracks.
Looking at the old man again, Lin Heng hesitated for a moment before casually taking out a pill and presenting it to the old man.
The other person took the pill, swallowed it without hesitation, and then began to regulate their breathing.
In just a few dozen breaths, the old man's pale face regained some color, and then he slowly opened his eyes.
The recovered elderly man didn't waste any words and went straight to talking to Lin Heng about the previous topic.
"I have found the exit of the Mist Forest."
"But there, a powerful demon guards the place."
"I was no match for it, and only managed to escape after suffering severe injuries."
"If you are willing to join forces with me, we should have a chance to defeat it."
"That way, we can both escape this awful place, okay?"
After speaking, the old man seemed to guess that Lin Heng suspected his identity, and even went so far as to say several things that only those Ascenders would know.
Finally, he demonstrated his cosmic energy, which convinced Lin Heng that he was human.
Looking at the old man's enthusiastic demonstration, Lin Heng secretly sneered.
On the surface, Lin Heng didn't point it out, and even put on an expression of great interest.
Are you serious?
"Is the place you found truly the exit from this Mist Forest?"
The old man nodded quickly.
"I wouldn't say it's absolutely true, but I'm 90% confident it won't be wrong."
"I have been in this Mist Forest for no less than a billion years, and there is only one place that is most likely the answer."
The 90% certainty expressed by an elderly person can sometimes be more convincing than a tone of certainty.