This is the true immortal of the Taoist sect.

The city gate was deserted.

There were no guards, not even anyone.

Li Daoxuan led the Divine Phoenix through the gate, only to find a desolate landscape stretching before him.

The house was dilapidated, the furnishings were decaying, and there was even a stench of decay in the air.

Li Daoxuan opened his five senses and carefully sensed, but he could not detect any living creatures.

But when he turned his gaze to the tallest building not far away, a sense of danger inexplicably rose in his heart.

"Huh? Master, why is no one here?"

Shenhuang asked curiously.

Li Daoxuan frowned and remained silent, walking straight toward the tallest building in the center of the city.

This is a three-story building, constructed of stone, and it looks quite majestic from the outside.

In this world, under these circumstances, Li Daoxuan couldn't even imagine how many lives would be lost to build such a tall building.

The building's doors were wide open, stained with black grime. Even without close inspection, it was clear that the grime was dried blood.

A sinister, putrid smell wafted from inside the building.

Li Daoxuan finally sensed the presence of something.

He pointed to the house not far away and said to Shenhuang:

"You wait there, I'll go in and take a look..."

Shenhuang was taken aback, and quickly shook her head, saying:

"I...I want to go with Master..."

Li Daoxuan shook his head.

"The situation inside is unclear, you should wait outside..."

Shenhuang dared not disobey, so she had no choice but to obediently go to the empty house next door with a bitter face and wait, then watched Li Daoxuan's figure disappear into the dark door.

It was like being plunged into the gaping maw of a bottomless abyss.

As soon as he entered the building, Li Daoxuan's martial arts true energy naturally surged out of his body, forming a protective layer.

This was his body's instinctive perception of danger, which allowed him to protect himself.

Although the sun was shining brightly outside, it was pitch black inside the building.

If Li Daoxuan hadn't already reached the sixth level of cultivation and possessed night vision, he would probably have been unable to move an inch here.

Li Daoxuan gripped his long sword, proceeding cautiously with each step.

Suddenly, I stepped on something and it made a cracking sound.

In the deathly silent space, it sounded particularly jarring.

Li Daoxuan looked down and saw that it was half a pale human skull.

It was no big deal if he hadn't looked; Li Daoxuan seemed to have seen something out of the corner of his eye, and his gaze slowly moved forward.

In the dim darkness ahead, a huge, pale white shape could be faintly seen.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a small hill made of human bones...

It's right in the center of the building's lobby.

"So many skeletons...did the entire town die here?"

Li Daoxuan's expression was solemn. This so-called town, which offered him protection, seemed far more terrifying than the village they had visited before.

Just then, something suddenly approached rapidly from the side.

Accompanied by a whistling wind and a chilling killing intent

Without a second thought, Li Daoxuan turned around and swung his sword.

A thin, solid sword aura instantly slashed down from the sky.

"Sizzle..."

The sound of a sharp blade slicing through flesh rang out.

Turning my head, I saw something of unknown species split in two and fall from the sky.

Before Li Daoxuan could see clearly, something else approached from the other side.

Li Daoxuan drew his sword again, and once again killed with a single strike.

This time he saw clearly that what was rushing towards him was actually a person...

Perhaps they cannot be called human.

It is a creature that looks like a human but has actually become a monster.

Its skin was deathly pale, its limbs were long and thin, its eyes were only the size of mung beans, and its mouth was full of sharp teeth.

They crawl on the ground at extremely high speeds and are far stronger than ordinary humans.

Perhaps they were human beings when they were alive, but now they have long lost their humanity.

These strange monsters began to appear in the darkness.

They pounced on them one after another.

Soon, these monsters were everywhere.

The ground at Li Daoxuan's feet was already piled high with mangled corpses.

These monsters seem endless, and they know nothing of fear.

Li Daoxuan took a moment to look into the depths, and the monsters continued to surge out like a tide. He immediately realized that even if he exhausted his true energy, he might not be able to kill them all if this continued.

He immediately stopped, leaped into the air, and used the monsters' heads as footholds to fly deeper into the depths.

He had already sensed that there was a real threat to him deep inside the building.

Li Daoxuan flew through the air, killing countless monsters, and finally broke through a heavy stone door.

The moment Li Daoxuan stepped into the stone gate, the monsters seemed to receive a unified command and immediately stopped, not leaping over the stone gate even half a step further.

Moreover, every single monster seemed to have been paused, frozen in place, completely motionless.

Li Daoxuan breathed a sigh of relief, but he was not at ease.

The fact that these things reacted this way means that there is definitely something more dangerous waiting inside this stone gate.

Li Daoxuan composed himself and turned to look.

Behind the stone gate was a corridor, which was very high and wide, several meters long.

At the end of the corridor, there was still complete darkness.

But Li Daoxuan seemed to see a cold, eerie light.

He suddenly felt that the dim light was somewhat familiar.

When Li Daoxuan crossed the corridor to the other end, he realized that this place was a completely different world, an extremely tall and spacious hall.

Or it could be described as a temple used for sacrifices.

In the center of the hall stands an altar, upon which stands a statue.

It is humanoid, with a pair of antennae on its head and six arms.

It also has a pair of folded wings on its back.

Clearly, this is the deity worshipped in this town.

The pile of bones covering the entire floor of the hall is the best proof of this.

These people were probably all innocent victims who were sacrificed.

And Li Daoxuan finally remembered what the faint light he had just seen was.

That was the radiance emitted when the soul dissipated.

Ordinary people can't see it, and normally even a sixth-level martial artist can't see it.

But Li Daoxuan was different after all.

"Click..."

A sound was heard.

Li Daoxuan stood with his sword in hand and shouted:

"Who is it? Show yourself..."

After a moment of silence in the hall, a voice drifted out.

"Human? You... are also a divine child?"

The word "also" made Li Daoxuan pause.

He stared intently at the statue, and a figure completely wrapped in black cloth emerged from behind it.

It's a person.

Li Daoxuan probably figured something out.

asked:

"Are you the divine child of this town?"

The man was shrouded in a black robe, so Li Daoxuan could not see his face clearly.

But what I saw was a pair of eyes that gleamed with a sinister light.

Upon hearing Li Daoxuan call him a divine son, the other party clearly showed some disdain.

He said in a slightly sneer:

"It used to be..."

"once?"

"That's right, because now... I am God..."