I created the myth of the Great Old Ones.

To clarify beforehand, Tang Yu does not have a mental illness.

By burying her grandmother's ashes in the ground and planting saplings, Tang Yu finally fulfilled the old woman's last wish.

She looked down the mountain and saw the Lingjiang River flowing quietly, while the abandoned town in the distance was still bustling.

The world seems to have remained unchanged.

When Tang Yu returned from the mountains, she couldn't remember where the tree was.

Like the thousands of trees in these mountains, it will grow strong and become a touch of green here.

Back at the car parked by the roadside, Tang Yu suddenly noticed a narrow mountain path.

The mountain path seems to have always existed here, unchanged since time immemorial.

But Tang Yu recalled that she had never seen a similar road before; it seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.

Tang Yu approached the entrance to the road, about to step in, when suddenly a strong premonition made her abandon the action.

She thought for a moment, then picked up her phone and called Lu Ban.

Thanks to the abandoned town, there was still a pretty good signal on Jiangcheng Mountain. Lu Ban answered the phone and, after learning about Tang Yu's experience, he immediately drove here.

Looking at the mountain path, Lu Ban felt a sense of familiarity.

"This might be the right path."

Lu Ban wasn't sure if the formation still existed, so he told Tang Yu to wait where she was while he walked up the steps.

A certain feeling welled up in his heart, and Lu Ban turned around.

He saw Tang Yu standing still.

It seems the formation is gone.

Lu Ban called Tang Yu along, and the two of them climbed the moss-covered steps.

"Was this the place back then?"

Tang Yu asked.

She first met Lu Ban on this mountain road in Jiangcheng Mountain, but she didn't know what Lu Ban was doing at the time.

Now, Tang Yu is inclined to believe that Lu Ban may be an immortal being who obtained the power of Xuan Jun and has lived from that era to the present.

Otherwise, there's no way to explain how he could know so much about the lower classes and even recreate the scene from that time.

Could it be that Lu Ban really traveled through time and went back to the past?

There are just too many paradoxes.

Tang Yu's curiosity about Lu Ban's past experiences ended there.

She understood the principle that the more you know, the more unhappy you become.

If she hadn't learned these mortician skills from her grandmother, she wouldn't have become a forensic doctor and wouldn't even have a boyfriend.

This truly shows that the more you know, the more unfortunate you become!

However, Tang Yu didn't dwell on it too much.

Someone has to do these things. Anyway, her interest in her boyfriend is about the same as her interest in a corpse whose cause of death is unknown. So, she might as well become a forensic pathologist.

Following Lu Ban up the mountain, Tang Yu looked around at the scenery after climbing a thousand steps. The mountains and forests were still the same, but with a more secluded feel. Walking this mountain path at night would obviously require more courage.

Not to mention, the slight pollution swirling among the clouds made Tang Yu always feel that something was stirring behind the bushes, and that the distance between her and Lu Ban was growing ever wider.

It is said that some surveyors got lost in the mountains of Jiangcheng before. The investigation at the time concluded that they were poisoned by severe weather and miasma in the mountains. However, Tang Yu now thinks that the surveyors probably encountered pollution here and lost their minds due to a lack of mental fortitude, which ultimately led to their unfortunate deaths.

"Don't stop."

Lu Ban suddenly spoke up and pulled Tang Yu along.

Tang Yu then realized that she had been paying attention to the scenery around her, and as a result, she had inexplicably stopped walking. It wasn't until Lu Ban reminded her that she came to her senses and found that there was already a certain distance between her and Lu Ban.

Once the clouds and mist envelop her, she might lose sight of Lu Ban and become lost in the mountains.

"This road looks like it needs some work."

Lu Ban's mutterings caught Tang Yu's attention.

"Should we handle this?"

She began to wonder about Lu Ban's identity.

Although reason told Tang Yu that this man was not as simple as he seemed, just a director who liked making movies, and that there might be some tragic story behind him that would lead to a terrible end if she got involved, she was still curious.

To humans, danger is like a brightly colored insect, radiating an alluring glow.

“There are some bad things in this world that can cause harm if left unchecked. If I encounter them, I will take care of them.”

Lu Ban answered casually.

"The last time I met you on the mountain, were you also dealing with something?"

Tang Yu asked again, not daring to let go of Lu Ban's hand, somewhat worried that she would suddenly be all alone.

"That's it."

Lu Ban replied.

He saw a platform.

Lu Ban walked over and found that the place was full of broken walls and ruins.

"This is from the movie..."

Tang Yu couldn't help but sigh.

The buildings she saw were worn down by time. The Taoist temple that once displayed the statue of Fang Geng had long since collapsed, and the statue inside was naturally nowhere to be found. The entire courtyard was dilapidated and deserted, without a trace of human presence.

That's normal. If a dark-skinned man in a dark suit suddenly appeared and invited everyone to drink red tea, that would be truly terrifying.

Lu Ban checked it out and figured that this place hadn't changed since then.

He saw some small bones, human remains, which he estimated belonged to the foreign soldiers who died at the time.

Their bodies were either devoured by Fang Geng's clan or eaten clean by wild beasts later on, leaving only a trace of their integration with nature.

There were also some weapons and ammunition here, and Lu Ban saw the path leading to the next level.

He and Tang Yu exchanged a glance, then he climbed up.

The twisted temple had vanished without a trace, leaving only rubble and debris, covered by unknown plants that devoured the corpses along with it.

Above that is the cave where Xuanjun resides.

Lu Ban arrived at the platform.

However, the cave has disappeared without a trace.

There are only bare stone walls here, as if no one has been here for a hundred years.

Lu Ban, relying on his memory, found the cave dug by the foreigners, but found nothing there either.

The past seems to have been swallowed up and buried by these mountains, vanished without a trace.

Lu Ban guessed that after the dark-skinned man's gaze disappeared, all of this was probably buried in obscurity.

The seal on the evil god will no longer be loosened, and there is no need for Xuanjun to continue it.

From then on, only the verdant Jiangcheng Mountain remained, standing silently.

Chapter 600 [Sublimation] Difficulty

The time flow in this alternate world is different from that in the main world.

[Time ratio: 1:5]

[On the way to another world]

In his field of vision, brutal and cruel words appeared and disappeared. Then, the withered creature was enveloped and entangled by a dazzling array of colors that did not belong to this world. When all of this faded away, the withered creature finally saw everything in front of him clearly.

He first felt an unusual tactile sensation.

This is the earth.

In the legends of the Fog City, this hard substance is the basic component of the earth, but for a long time no one in the Fog City has ever descended to the deepest part of the fog to explore the earth.

Deep within that mist lurk monsters that will devour all living beings; they themselves are part of the mist.

After withering, color appeared.

Unlike the perpetually gray and foggy city of Chongqing, this place is vibrant and colorful, with lightning-like flashes of light. The skyscrapers stand like palaces in a sea of ​​clouds, one after another.

He saw on the street, “humans” who looked different from him, flesh and blood, coming and going in a hurry. He had encountered many of these humans in his past missions and had also killed many of them with his own hands. During the long mission process, he learned about the development of these humans in different alien lands.

They may have experienced destruction, or been eroded by pollution, but the withered human civilization they witnessed still retained reason and hope, unlike the increasingly decaying foggy city.

If these civilizations are civilizations in the rising sun, then the foggy city is undoubtedly a civilization in the twilight.

A certain emotion brewed in each mission, and even the usually emotionless Fog City people withered up with it.

If he hadn't become a chosen one and hadn't come into contact with other realms, then Wither might have just lived his life in a daze, like an ordinary person from the Fog City.

But he didn't.

He arrived in a foreign land, came into contact with other forms of civilization, and then his withered spirit collapsed.

It turns out that life in the foggy city is not so wonderful.

It turns out that some places really do have sunshine, nights, and birdsong and fragrant flowers.

If withered had never seen those beautiful things, he could have endured the emptiness of the foggy city.

After witnessing all of this and actually destroying some things with his own hands, he understood the meaning of his existence.

Since I cannot save the foggy city, then let the whole world be polluted.

He can break the seal of evil gods, slaughter innocent people in villages, seduce the fallen, and overthrow civilization. As long as he has pollution in his hands, he can do anything.

Having completed numerous tasks in the foreign land, Withered is finally able to undertake tasks of [Ascension] difficulty.

According to his understanding, in this level of difficulty, one would not only encounter things that could cause one to become alienated, but also have the possibility of directly or indirectly coming into contact with the Great Old Ones, the Ancient Gods, and so on.

Pollution was nothing to Wither. He compared it to other places and found that the pollution in Fog City was definitely strong compared to the otherworldly places he had visited. So the pollution in most worlds was actually ineffective against him.