Excessive ferocity due to caution

"Owner?"

Su Qingyao looked at Zhao Yi standing still, somewhat surprised.

Zhao Yi came to his senses.

"Hmm... let's go."

He didn't say anything, and Su Qingyao didn't ask any further questions.

Continue south.

Zhao Yi still remembered the location of Yin Xiashan.

Traveling south, the journey was eerily quiet; there was no sign of human habitation, and not even the roars of animals or the chirping of birds could be heard.

The most common creatures I encountered were vengeful ghosts.

However, these vengeful ghosts were not very strong. Most of them were just ordinary people in life. After becoming vengeful ghosts, they only had the strength of a half-step great evil spirit and were killed by Zhao Yi with his divine sense!

"eccentric……"

Su Qingyao followed behind Zhao Yi and uttered a question.

"These ghosts have absolutely no intelligence; they are more like... puppets than vengeful spirits."

Her expression was strange.

"But why... do I have it?"

"Logically speaking, I should be the same as them..."

Zhao Yidao:

"Perhaps it was because the process of contracting the disease was long back then, and when you died, it was still in the early stages of the infection. Death indirectly helped you prevent the spread of the disease, which is why you were able to retain your mind even after becoming a vengeful ghost."

This is, of course, just speculation.

"However, most vengeful ghosts retain some of their consciousness."

"It's strange that these vengeful spirits, which were transformed from diseases, didn't exist."

Zhao Yi frowned.

The vengeful spirits he encountered on the road were all in a daze, their minds and memories severely corrupted.

Continuing south, the devastation on the land worsened.

More and more fierce ghosts are roaming around.

Furthermore, as they got closer to Yinxia Mountain, the two of them keenly noticed that the vengeful spirit was becoming stronger and stronger, and its corrupting influence was becoming more and more severe!

"I feel like I made the right choice coming to Yinxia Mountain this time."

Su Qingyao's expression became much more serious.

This place is still more than 50 miles away from Yinxia Mountain, but a fierce ghost of extremely high level has already appeared!

Moreover, looking at Yinxia from afar, it was shrouded in thick black fog and could not be seen clearly.

And the stench of decay grew stronger.

"Someone has been here."

Zhao Yi stroked his chin and picked up a ring that had fallen into the mud and dust.

More precisely, it is actually a ring.

The ring is engraved with a language that does not belong to the Warring States period.

It is obvious that the ring was left behind by an outsider.

"A storage ring, and it also has access permissions."

"This means the ring's owner is not dead."

Zhao Yi gripped the ring tightly in his palm.

There is still a faint connection between it and its owner, who has already entered Yinxia Mountain.

"Strange...why would I throw away my storage ring?"

Su Qingyao didn't quite understand.

Zhao Yi's gaze was sharp as he sniffed the ring.

"It's not about throwing it away."

"It smells of blood."

"It must have fallen during the battle. That guy's finger was broken off, and the ring fell to the ground with it."

Zhao Yi searched around and, sure enough, found a severed finger in the grass.

"Besides me, there are actually people who came for the main plot of the movie... That's interesting."

Although this martial arts world has been completely devoured and destroyed by a disease called "Sin," many places still have advertisements and information about Bright Cliff, so most actors choose to go to Bright Cliff.

Firstly, that place is safe, and secondly, Zhao Yi is very likely to appear there.

As for the actors who came to Yinxia Mountain to investigate, they were all incredibly audacious and had absolute confidence in their own abilities.

Of course, there is another very important prerequisite, which is that you must know how the disease is transmitted.

Only by preventing infection could they have made it this far alive.

Otherwise, let alone them, even Zhao Yi, who possesses the Touch of Oblivion, would find it difficult to confront this disease head-on.

While the Touch of Oblivion has a great suppressive effect on diseases, it can only suppress them, not truly eradicate them. Once the disease has been dormant for a certain period, it will disrupt the balance...

The outcome will not change in the slightest.

"Master, although... I think we might be in trouble."

Su Qingyao reminded Zhao Yi, who then slightly raised his head.

In the distance, shrouded in black mist, many terrifying ghosts flew towards this place!

"You...come..."

"Can……"

The moment it approached Zhao Yi, a strange sound came from the mouth of a vengeful ghost.

It is trying hard to express something.

However, it was incoherent and didn't make sense.

These vengeful ghosts have empty eyes and are completely devoid of their own consciousness.

After several unsuccessful attempts to utter those words, these vengeful spirits slowly crumbled, began to howl madly, and their auras became extremely unstable.

"Death...die!!"

A fierce ghost's eyes flashed crimson as it charged towards Zhao Yi!

The ghostly claw gathered countless ominous signs; with a single move, the world changed color!

A chilling wind howled.

Zhao Yi's eyes flickered slightly. Using his silent divine power, he conjured a golden cage, locking the several vengeful ghosts inside!

"Walk."

Watching the vengeful ghost howl madly in the cage, Zhao Yi led Su Qingyao past the area and went deeper inside.

"Aren't you going to kill them, master?"

Su Qingyao looked back and saw that the vengeful ghost trapped in the cage was terrifying, as if it could break free at any moment.

"Don't kill them for now."

Zhao Yidao.

"I have a very bad feeling, but I need to go inside Yinxia Mountain to confirm it."

The two walked through the black mist. The mountains and forests remained the same as before, with many broken tombstones appearing along the way.

These tombstones are stained with gruesome blood and exude an eerie aura.

"There's a body!"

Ahead on the road, several gruesome corpses appeared.

The ground was stained with blood, and there were also gruesome marks from a recent battle.

"They're from outside."

"It seems there are quite a few people who entered Yinxia Mountain before us this time."

The two exchanged a glance and followed the trail of blood deeper into the area.

With someone clearing the way for them, Zhao Yi felt much more relaxed.

But as they ventured deeper into Yinxia Mountain, they finally witnessed a scene that sent chills down their spines—

A massive, solitary mountain, its soil and rocks seemingly blended with some kind of flesh and skin, with vines spreading out like blood vessels.

On the mountainside, there were many blood-red tumors, and many living people were trapped inside!

Zhao Yi glanced at them and saw that some of them even possessed the strength of high-level ferocious beasts!

What terrifying thing could possibly imprison a high-level ferocious beast?!

P.S.: First update.

I'm having writer's block and feeling dizzy.

There will be another update before 12 o'clock.