Breaking the Deadlock, Ye Yitian and the President Stunned

Five men in black kept moving toward the source of the sound.

At last, they weren't walking in circles anymore.

Before long, they were close to where the sound was coming from.

But they also caught the strong scent of blood.

"The students have probably been killed already."

"They're just students. The creatures in the Creation World must all be Common trash. They've definitely been killed."

As they spoke, the men in black assumed the bloody stench came from other creatures that had died.

After all, in their minds, they were invincible in this domain where worlds could fuse.

These were just a bunch of students who hadn't even grown their first hairs.

But after they had walked a short distance farther,

they saw a vast shadow motionless in the thick fog ahead.

It stood dozens of meters tall and stretched out in every direction, its end hidden by the fog.

An even stronger, choking stench of blood wafted from it, so thick it seemed almost to have turned into vapor.

And at some point, the loud sound that had been guiding them disappeared.

In an instant, the place fell terrifyingly silent.

An indescribable feeling welled up inside them.

It was as if only they and the unknown shadow ahead remained in this space.

The five men in black looked at one another, their faces distinctly uneasy.

The connection to the giant creatures from the Creation World had vanished completely, and, judging by the shape of the shadow ahead,

they had an inkling that something was wrong.

"Up ahead... what is that...?"

"You go... take a look."

"Let's... go together."

The five men in black started walking again.

But just then, a shadow flashed through the fog in front of them.

In this oppressive, unknown fog, which dragged their negative emotions to the surface,

the slightest movement was enough to make them panic.

"Who's there!"

One of them shouted.

He didn't even realize that shouting was an instinctive way to ease the fear in his heart.

But nothing answered them.

"Did we see it wrong...? This fog seems to interfere with our senses."

Drawing on a similar situation they had encountered before, one of them made a bold guess.

"Th-that must be it."

The five continued toward the shadow ahead. At the same time, they shivered involuntarily, feeling inexplicably cold, as if the temperature had dropped again.

But they didn't notice the woman in white less than three meters behind them.

Her face was hidden by her hair, with only one pitch-black eye fixed on them.

At the same time, she wore a sorrowful smile.

The men in black moved toward the shadow. Once they drew close enough to see it clearly,

their hearts sank, and their expressions turned grim and frozen.

Their earlier suspicion had come true.

The huge shadow wasn't a single object.

It was made of various giant creatures piled atop one another.

They were all creatures the men had released from the Creation World.

Now they had been disemboweled, and many bore horrifying signs of being gnawed on and eaten raw.

In their open eyes, they could still see the trace of terror frozen there at the moment of death.

It was hard to imagine what they had gone through before they died.

"Wh-why are they all dead?!"

The men in black looked as grim as could be, unable to believe it.

"Did the World Association send reinforcements?"

"No, impossible! How could they have gotten here so fast?"

"Then did that student who released his world do this?!"

The level of a Creation World wasn't the only measure of its strength.

But naturally, a higher-level Creation World should be stronger.

Even though the Creation Worlds they had were not their own, and they couldn't bring out their full strength,

they still couldn't believe a student had defeated them all.

But once they ruled out all the impossibilities, this seemed to be the closest thing to the truth.

The atmosphere froze again.

A subtle feeling passed among the five of them.

It gradually ate away at their reason, though they didn't realize it.

Before they could decide what to do next, a white figure flashed through the vision of one of the men in black.

"Something just passed by over there!"

The man who saw it shouted instinctively. Then he felt the temperature around him drop even further.

His back went cold, as if he'd fallen into an icy pit.

And he could feel a strange gaze fixed on him.

The other four men in black hadn't noticed any shadow.

They immediately looked at him, about to ask what was wrong.

But when they turned to look, they were stunned.

The man in black saw the other four turn around and immediately look at him in terror.

They were backing away, putting distance between themselves and him.

The man in black didn't understand. What was wrong with them?

Or was something wrong with him?

Why were they afraid of him?

But he soon realized the others were pointing at him.

They weren't pointing at him, though. They were pointing behind him!

He immediately realized that the cold he had felt was only on his back, not his front.

So behind him...

The man in black felt a chill of dread, and a horrifying sensation welled up inside him.

Goosebumps covered his body.

He slowly turned to look behind him.

His head turned a little at a time.

When he had turned thirty-five degrees, the corner of his eye could already see his shoulder.

But with that one glimpse, he saw a pitch-black eye.

It glinted eerily as it stared fixedly at him.

That strange feeling of being watched had come from here!

Then a scream, utterly irrational and frenzied, tore from his throat and rang through the surroundings.

The other men in black had already been pushed to their limit by the constant buildup of fear and other negative emotions.

When Sadako appeared without warning and sent them reeling,

they all ran in different directions without a second thought, not even noticing the different shadows following behind or alongside them.

And their fate...

Ye Yitian and Chi Yan reached the Nine Phoenix Pavilion as fast as they could.

As expected, the men in black had attacked it.

A large part of the exterior of the Nine Phoenix Pavilion had been destroyed.

The spatial fluctuations of a Creation World came from within.

But this place was different from the one they had encountered.

Grayish-black fog covered the area, making it impossible to see what was happening inside.

The fog also carried an ominous aura that made life instinctively want to avoid it.

Ye Yitian and Chi Yan both wore grim expressions.

The situation here might be even more serious than they had imagined.

If they were lucky, a few people might have survived. If they weren't... it was possible that everyone had died.

But just as the two of them were about to rush in and check what had happened,

the dense fog suddenly began to fade.

Several figures burst out of the fading fog.

Ye Yitian and Chi Yan both froze for a moment, then their faces broke into delighted smiles.

The ones who had burst out were Shen Hui, Ye Long, Qingxue, and the others!

Before they could ask what had happened,

Shen Hui, who had rushed out, saw that Ye Yitian and Chi Yan had come too.

He immediately shouted, "President! You're just in time. Call an ambulance, quick! I think some of the students are about to die!"

At that moment, the dense fog behind them disappeared completely.

The situation inside came into view.

When Ye Yitian and Chi Yan saw what was behind them, they froze on the spot.

The ground was covered with the corpses of enormous creatures.

Many students sat helplessly on the ground, their eyes vacant.

Some were screaming like mad, while others laughed or cried hysterically.

This situation was completely different from what they had expected.

What... had happened!?