Warning! The evil god's minions are invading the eerie dungeon.

When darkness fell and that cold, sinister aura appeared, Qi Xie almost immediately sensed the pollution and restlessness deep within his soul.

There is no doubt that the power of an evil god is mixed in with this darkness.

And it's not just the influence of the residual power of the evil god.

That darkness is alive.

That aura just now possessed a strong sense of self-awareness, clearly searching for something.

Fearing that the evil spirit within him might be detected, he didn't dare to be careless, even though he had eaten the food from the dungeon. Instead, he immediately hid in the shadows and only came out after the probing aura had faded away.

Qi Xie could confirm that the thing just now was neither the main body nor an avatar of the evil god, but rather a forbidden-level monster that had been tainted by the power of the evil god.

The reason is simple: if it's the former, the "Master of Myriad Shadows," then even if he hides in the shadows, it's probably useless.

"Luckily, I managed to hide in the shadows in time..."

Qi Xie muttered to himself silently, looked down at his shadow, and nodded involuntarily:

"Now I have an excellent stealth skill..."

He just jumped into the shadow space to conceal his presence and existence.

The principle sounds simple.

But in reality, this was an operation that was completely impossible to achieve before.

The shadow he controls is his own shadow, which includes shadow tentacles and shadow space.

However, as soon as his physical body jumps into the shadow space, his shadow disappears in reality, which is equivalent to losing its anchor coordinates.

When he comes up with another idea, he won't know where it will come from.

It can only be speculated that, due to the influence of the evil god's contamination within him, if he chose to blindly leave the shadow space, he would probably appear directly in the evil god's stomach.

Therefore, the operation of hiding in one's own shadow space can only be achieved after obtaining the [Imagination].

Do you remember how Jia Yu faked his death and came back to life?

Qi Xie drew inspiration from this.

Even if his true form is hidden in the shadow, he can use [Imagination] to maintain the existence of his shadow and attach his consciousness to it to perform some simple operations.

This might become one of his trump cards when certain insurmountable dangers arise.

"What the hell is going on... I've only entered dangerous-level dungeons twice, and both times there were these kinds of overpowered things..."

Qi Xie still felt a little palpitated.

He thought of the cyclops head outside the "ghost house," which was also a forbidden and eerie sight.

That dungeon is also the one that has left him with the most questions so far.

For example, where did the final fate of "Elegy" lie? What exactly corrupted Xiao Chen and ultimately Li Chenggong?

What is {Shadow Eater}? What is its connection to {Blood Eye} and the evil god?

There's also something rather insignificant.

Whose face did the Painted Skin Demon, who ultimately collapsed and died simply from imitation, truly belong to? Why couldn't Jiang Zhengyi find a similar person even after using the official system to search through most of the known high-level and top-level practitioners throughout East Asia?

The reason why this last point of suspicion is the least is that a person of this level of strength already has the ability to hide themselves from the public.

This is something that Qi Xie can do right now.

Once this dungeon is over, he will quietly disappear from everyone's sight using the same method he just used to hide in the shadows.

"hiss……"

Qi Xie quickly connected the similarities between the two instances and made a comparison.

The cyclops head outside the "Ghost House" is eerily searching for clues to the "Elegy." There's also a forbidden-level anomaly here, and its behavior suggests it's searching for something...

Are there clues about [Elegy] around here? Or clues about something of the same level as [Elegy]?

Qi Xie pondered for a moment, but due to a lack of information, he was unable to make a judgment.

So he turned his attention to the strangeness itself.

Why would there be something so strange, possessing the power of an evil god?

Considering that the evil god had previously descended upon the strange world and was seemingly put into a state of slumber by the strange forces, Qi Xie felt that this matter was not particularly difficult to understand.

"Perhaps some ancient and powerful beings in the supernatural realm managed to seize a portion of the evil god's power... Hmm... That's usually how it's written in novels... This also fits the information I currently have..."

"hiss……"

"So, this darkness outside is caused by some ancient, powerful, and eerie being? No, how could a forbidden-level creature be worthy of seizing the power of an evil god..."

Although Qi Xie couldn't beat this thing, that didn't stop him from looking down on it.

What kind of nobody dares to lay a finger on his wife?

In his view, only something of catastrophic magnitude or greater would qualify as the main course for a fully resurrected evil god.

Hmm... it seems he really did take poor care of the Great Lord...

Shaking his head, Qi Xie pulled himself back to his senses:

"So this dark and eerie place must be related to the ancient and eerie beings who successfully seized the power of the evil god back then, uh, the followers of those ancient and eerie beings? Similar to my relationship with the evil god?"

From this perspective, he suddenly thought of something else.

He first learned about "evil gods" outside of himself from "Crawling Shadow" in the hospital instance.

The other party is clearly a shadow-type anomaly, which, upon closer examination, is an anomaly in the realm of darkness and shadow.

The darkness before him now was also a realm of darkness and shadow.

This realm happens to be part of the name and authority of the evil god.

"They are all ancient and strange followers who have seized the power or authority of the evil god 'Master of Ten Thousand Shadows'?"

Are these ancient, eerie powerful figures directing their retinues to gather something important?

Qi Xie felt as if a thread had pierced through his brain, connecting all the doubts.

"From this perspective, {Shadow Eater} and {Blood Eye} might be the ancient and bizarre group that seized the power of the evil god back then?"

No wonder...

No wonder the description is not only powerful but also somewhat resembling an evil god...

No wonder the writhing shadow sensed the aura of the evil god on me and wondered if I was from the Blood Eye family, and even said I was overacting...

I still can't figure out how these guys can put the evil god into a slumbering state.

However, does this mean that something eerie has indeed invaded reality and is disguising itself as human?

Qi Xie frowned slightly, but then relaxed.

Although it sounds scary, it's not a big problem for him.

Firstly, because of Li Chenggong's diary, he had already alerted the Weird Special Operations Bureau.

Secondly, given his rapidly increasing combat power, coupled with the support of the Great Lord.

Even if the other party has a forbidden-level bizarre invasion into reality and attacks him, he is quite confident that he can hold out until he can summon the evil god.

After all, there's the B-grade [Daydreaming] and the third-grade [Substitute Coin].

With the addition of the B-level [Flesh Rebuilding] skill, he wasn't really afraid of being instantly killed.

Of course, after being summoned, one must escape the evil god's predatory range.

He wasn't foolish enough to believe that skills and seals of this level could counteract the evil god's devouring power.

"Encountering problems in the real world isn't a big deal, since there aren't any catastrophic or higher-level anomalies. As long as we don't expose ourselves in the anomaly world, we'll be fine..."

"hiss……"

Qi Xie suddenly seemed to remember something, and froze on the spot, his face gradually turning ugly.

He remembered.

The one-eyed giant's head that was outside the "ghost house" back then.

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