I am a demonic cultivator, not a capitalist with a conscience.

Chapter 603 An Ambiguous World (26)

As Zhou ventured deeper into the dense forest, Chen Yu witnessed many incredible things.

The high concentration of spiritual energy makes the creatures here exceptionally large, and their structures are also incredibly powerful. Many insects have wings as thin as cicada wings, yet they can support bodies weighing over ten kilograms to fly and hunt in the air.

What's even more interesting is the text itself.

Bloated characters fluttered in the air, like butterflies floating in the shadows, ready to leave at the first sign of trouble.

Each time he saw these words, Zhou would throw his spear. His slender arms didn't possess much strength, but with the aid of his supernatural powers, his spear always managed to hit the words in the air and shatter them.

Each time it's selected, the bloated text bursts open like a ripe watermelon, and more and smaller words are broken down, flying away like dandelions and drifting into the distance.

"Zhou, what are you doing?"

"Have you forgotten the task I was given?"

Zhou ran towards his spear like a puppy, then quickly ran back with the spear in his hand.

When Zhou realized that Chen Yu was "Yu", his expression was gentle and his temperament was magnanimous.

He held up his spear, pointing it at the bloated characters not far away, and said, "As the elephant said, characters are something between reality and illusion, a tool used to describe the unreal and the conceptual. But the current characters are too bloated, so I need to open them up. Moreover, if too many characters are gathered together, it will trigger magic."

"And what about magic?"

Zhou looked at Chen Yu with suspicion: "Yu, you're acting really strange today. How come you don't even know about magic? Oh, look over there, that's magic."

Following the direction indicated by Zhou, Chen Yu saw longswords intertwined like long snakes. They floated in the air, constantly colliding with each other, each collision unleashing bursts of sword light that carved clearly visible cracks into the ground.

Squinting, Chen Yu looked over and saw that in the center of the longsword, a large number of bloated characters came together to form a glowing "sword" character.

Seeing this, Chen Yu roughly understood.

The spiritual energy of this era is so abundant that any spell can unleash supernatural effects.

The written language of this era also possesses its own power; when a large number of characters are gathered together, they may trigger magic and produce bizarre effects.

(As expected of an era when nobody knew anything, there were so many outrageous things happening.)
As he walked and observed, Chen Yu discovered that many things did not exist in this era.

It's not something like a brain or a cell phone, but a concept.

There is no gender here; the birth of a living being is more like fusion and recombination, followed by the separation of new individuals.

Living things can merge with living things, living things can merge with inanimate objects, and even inanimate objects can merge with each other.

Chen Yu saw the two stones merge together, and then a new stone was born. The three of them were happily together, and the scene was very impressive.

After looking for a while, Chen Yu dared not look any longer, feeling that looking at it for too long would ruin his hobby. Even the stones by the roadside seemed to look beautiful to him.

Shifting his gaze to Zhou, Chen Yu discovered that the other party was indeed just a mortal, and that he had survived until now entirely due to his supernatural abilities.

The bone spear he held was also a remarkable magical artifact, likely imbued with supernatural powers, otherwise it wouldn't be so mysterious.

Pointing to the bone spear in his hand, Chen Yu asked, "Zhou, your bone spear..."

Before he could finish speaking, Zhou turned and thrust his spear, piercing Chen Yu's chest. Zhou's voice then rang out coldly: "You really aren't Yu. Yu didn't have so many problems."

After glancing at the spear in his chest, Chen Yu could only shrug and then punch his opponent to death.

They started a new game, revealed Zhou's location, and followed the other party to the elephant's location. Then, on the way, Zhou pointed to the bone spear and asked, "There's something wrong with your bone spear." Since it was Chen Yu's first question, Zhou didn't suspect anything. Instead, he examined the bone spear over and over for a while, and then said doubtfully, "My A-Da is fine."

"What's Ah Da again?"

“Have you forgotten the one who gave birth to us? Ah Da died after giving birth to us. His spine and thigh were made into bone spears by me, and his spirit has attached itself to you.”

"Oh……"

Chen Yu stopped asking questions, but felt a chill in his heart.

He touched the back of his head and used the Ksitigarbha Medical Technique to make himself sick, causing his eye tissue to proliferate and grow an eye on the back of his head. Sure enough, he saw a semi-transparent humanoid figure floating behind him, coldly watching him.

The other party had no shadow and remained fixed behind him, its eerie appearance resembling the ghost of someone who had died unexpectedly, now poised to claim the prisoner's life from behind.

Although Chen Yu wasn't afraid of such things, he still felt a little uneasy.

The ancient times were truly bizarre.

Following the genderless Zhou and the sinister A-Da, Chen Yu's resentment towards the Real Estate God grew stronger and stronger.

It's all your fault!
If you hadn't been stirring things up, would I have ended up here?

Would I really be thanked this much by the Earth Deity Star Lord?
Sooner or later, I will skin you alive, stuff you with straw, and throw you into the field to be a crow's toilet!

Filled with resentment towards the real estate tycoon, Chen Yu followed Zhou for a full half hour before finally arriving at the settlement.

Zhou and his companions had no concept of huts. Their so-called settlement was just a flat area near a water source. Four people of indistinguishable genders were doing something, occasionally humming incomprehensible tunes.

The only one among them that did nothing was the elephant.

He does nothing not because of his high position, but simply because he is a dead man.

The man, known as the Elephant, was highly decomposed; half of his face had turned to bone, and the remaining half carried an aura of death. Strangely, he still wore a gentle and serene smile.

His body was covered with flowers of various colors, some of which had extended into the corpse and were absorbing its nutrients, blooming even more brightly.

The air was filled with a cloyingly sweet fragrance that made one's throat feel tight, but if you smelled closely, you could still detect a faint scent of death.

Zhou sat cross-legged in front of Xiang, took Chen Yu's hand and said, "Xiang, we're back."

The dead cannot speak, and Chen Yu could only hear the murmurs of the other four people, which sounded like mosquitoes, making him feel that this place was extremely maddening.

Even more bizarrely, the dead man's perfectly intact right eye turned half a circle, chasing away the mosquitoes on his eyeball.

Then, the intact eye turned to Zhou and said with a smile, "You're back?"

Then, he turned his eyes to Chen Yu and asked in confusion, "Who are you?"

Zhou, who was standing nearby, quickly got up. Just as he was about to drop the spear, Chen Yu snatched it away, while Zhou himself was slapped to the ground by Chen Yu.

Grabbing Zhou by the neck, Chen Yu asked, "How did you recognize me?"

Before he could get an answer, he felt something grab his body and then strip away his consciousness.

When he opened his eyes again, he found himself back in the same place.

(End of this chapter)