Excessive ferocity due to caution

Behind the town, there is a desolate and bleak highway.

Along the highway, the buildings were almost completely destroyed, and there was no wild grass to be seen. The wasteland was bare, with only soil and gravel.

After walking for a while, the ground suddenly trembled slightly.

A huge building flew over everyone's heads!

When they looked up, they realized it was the Torture Tower.

The Torture Tower seemed to sense something and felt that the place was not safe, so it flew away into the distance.

Qin Yao, observing this, was slightly lost in thought and said:

"Will those who haven't come out yet be trapped inside forever?"

Jiang Muming shook his head and said:

"It is certain that even if they stay in the torture tower forever in this place called the Abyss, they will never be safe."

"I have seen more than one execution tower before, and they all collapsed, with no living creatures to be found inside."

"The giant in the Execution Tower is indeed terrifyingly powerful. If it were placed in the outside world, even the people of the capital would have to go through considerable trouble to deal with it."

"It can be in the Abyss..."

He didn't continue.

Everyone already knew the truth.

Although the execution tower is a living thing and can foresee danger to a certain extent, it is constantly swaying in the Avici Hell. How can it always be ahead of disaster?

After traveling about fifty li further, Qin Bai took out a map, carefully examined it, and said solemnly:

"Brother Yizi, the road has veered off course."

"If we continue, we might have to cross the wilderness, but after that mountain, there's a ruin, and I'm worried there might be something strange or cursed inside."

In the past, they would have been eager to find as many cursed items as possible.

But now, it's too late.

Something unexpected happened, and they had to get to the location marked on the map as quickly as possible.

Zhao Yi stared at the barren mountain, his eyes gleaming.

"Judging from the route we've traveled and the markings on the map, the place your father left for you is only about 200 li away from us. Under normal circumstances, if we hurry a little and don't encounter any unexpected events, we can get there in two or three hours."

"But if we take a detour, it's hard to say."

Qin Yao raised her finger and pointed to the bald mountain in the distance.

"How about we go up the mountain and check out the ruins first?"

Following Qin Yao's instructions, the group climbed the barren mountain. Although the mountain wasn't very high, it broadened their horizons in the vast wilderness.

"The ruins are vast..."

"And it's completely in ruins now; there must have been a war here before."

Jiang Muming has a sharp eye and is very experienced.

"Based on my previous understanding of the Abyss, such places are likely to be inhabited by some wandering, vengeful spirits."

"We're just passing by, so let's not bother them. It should be fine."

The group took a quick look around and found that the ruins covered a vast area, stretching as far as the eye could see. Taking a detour would be very troublesome.

"It seems we'll have to take a risk!"

Qin Bai's face turned serious as he held the map.

He once again deeply understood how his father had almost been caught red-handed at a foot massage parlor years ago.

That's the feeling of being threatened with death!

The group descended the mountain and entered the ruins.

There were almost no other trial participants here, because most of the trial participants who had traveled this path were now imprisoned in the Torture Tower.

Those who hadn't yet entered the town were mostly dealt with by the cameramen.

On the broken streets, the cold wind howled, like the wailing of a female ghost.

The bus stop sign on the side of the road was covered in rust, and the words "Route 334" were still faintly visible on it.

Zhao Yi squatted down to take a look, his expression subtle.

"What happened to Brother Yizi?"

Qin Bai stopped and looked at Zhao Yi with great curiosity.

Zhao Yi replied:

There are bloodstains.

"And it had only recently dried up."

He looked around.

There were no bloodstains elsewhere.

Zhao Yi raised his head, seemingly understanding something.

"Let's go quickly."

The group set off.

On the way, Zhao Yi explained to them:

"The bloodstain was elongated, wider at the top and narrower at the bottom, scattering in an explosive pattern. The amount of blood was one drop... This means that this drop of blood fell diagonally from the sky..."

"Just before that, some creature flew overhead. It was very fast, but it was injured."

"They're either being chased or on the run."

"Whichever it is, it means that this area is no longer safe."

Hearing Zhao Yi's analysis, the group was surprised. While admiring Zhao Yi's meticulousness, they also felt a chill run down their spines.

What exactly happened in Wujian?

Is this an omen?

Or is it simply a cunning and insidious struggle between them?

Zhao Yi looked eastward, towards the depths of the Infernal Realm.

"We can still walk here freely now because of the Infinity Seal. Once the seal is broken, our situation will become extremely dangerous..."

In terms of danger, perhaps only other forbidden zones like the Amber Forest and the Immortal Road can rival the Invincible.

"The area we're in is already dangerous enough. If something goes wrong with the seal, we'll be in dire straits."

Upon hearing this, Qin Bai glared and said:

"No way, the seal on the Void has always been very stable in the past, and has never had any problems..."

Zhao Yi:

"Your father only said that something had happened in Wujian, but he didn't say what happened."

"We always have to consider the worst-case scenario."

He said this, but he knew in his heart that ever since Zhao Yi took the 'Darkest Personality' from the Chaos Body, the Chaos Body had become a powerful but constantly weakening empty shell.

Since it is constantly weakening, once it exceeds a certain limit, it will inevitably show some signs.

Zhao Yi guessed that the sudden change in this Boundless Trial was likely related to the weakening of the Chaos Body.

They traversed the ruins, and corpses gradually appeared along the way.

Some of them looked like humans, but they wore very ancient clothes and held weapons that exuded a strong murderous aura tightly in their hands.

Most of these people are missing limbs, such as half a head, a leg, or an arm.

"They are not trial participants..."

Qin Bai muttered to himself.

The trial participants wouldn't wear such strange clothes, and their aura wouldn't be so eerie.

"It was a body of great evil... It was possessed by a strange entity born within its body after death."

Jiang Muming glanced at it and said this.

This situation is almost exactly the same as Ouyang Feng's situation back then.

But Ouyang Feng was a man-made being, and he didn't die.

Jiang Muming squatted down, briefly examined the several bodies that were still twitching slightly, and carefully analyzed:

"These evil spirits outside the seal are beings of roughly the same strength as me."

"They are all at the peak of the Great Ferocious level, only one step away from becoming a Dominator."

Zhao Yi stood beside him and said:

"These guys aren't from the eerie ruins, they're from somewhere else."

A glint flashed in Jiang Muming's eyes.

"How did you figure that out, young man?"

Zhao Yi explained:

"Their deaths were too gruesome, a complete one-sided massacre... If it were a sealed area within the Abyss, the strength of the strange creatures wouldn't differ so much."

"Moreover, there's no other blood on them at all..."

Zhao Yi activated his Evil Eyes and focused his observation on the weapons, hands, and feet of the corpses.

Only their own blood.

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PS: First update.