What kind of place is this? Lin Feng looked around; it was pitch black, and he had no idea where he had been thrown to in the earth-shattering energy explosion. Perhaps he was already dead! Lin Feng had a bizarre thought. He didn’t feel the pain of any injuries; instead, the sensation was quite strange, as if his whole body was suspended in some unknown liquid.
To put it more clearly, he could hardly feel the existence of his own physical body. It was as if his soul had left his body, reminiscent of the first time he entered the virtual realm of Fantasy World in a spiritual form. The only comfort was that his mind remained clear. There was no light, no sense of direction, no touch, no sense of presence. In this bizarre space devoid of up or down, front or back, left or right, where all six senses were null, aside from being able to think normally, he could do nothing else. “Uncle Wang? Team Leader Li?” He tried calling out a few times, but it was in vain; the sound seemed to resonate only within his own mind. “What a damn ghostly place this is!” Scenes from the night’s events replayed in his mind like movie clips. Every detail worth pondering and speculating about replayed in his heart thousands of times. Even if he was reluctant to think about these complex messages, they still replayed uncontrollably time and again. This strange state persisted. After an unknown length of time, a faint light appeared in front of him. A figure emerged from the light. Strangely, Lin Feng felt this figure was very familiar.
“Father, specimen number 1769 has not shown any trace of supernatural elements. Should we dispose of it?”
“No supernatural elements detected?”
“Exactly! And we’ve captured too many specimens this time; the cleansing fluid is evidently running low! To continue the catalysis, we must use the reserves from the backup storage!”
“Has the holy artifact been located?”
“No!”
“Worthless! The holy artifact must be on him; how could we not detect it?!”
Suddenly, the light brightened. As if through a layer of transparent liquid, two figures appeared before Lin Feng. Their faces were grotesquely large, their bodies bizarre, like mercury, constantly changing shape – one moment bulging, the next moment caving in significantly. However, by their general outline, Lin Feng instantly recognized one of them as the crazy old man, Lancelot, the legendary head of the Yu Shan Lan family. “Wasn’t this old bastard turned into a vegetable by his son, Lan Jianren? Why is he here in such a strange state?” Puzzled, he instinctively moved forward to get a closer look. Unexpectedly, as he lunged forward, his hands and feet suddenly grasped onto something solid, a tangible, transparent, glass-like barrier. Lin Feng’s face pressed tightly against the barrier that restricted his freedom.
The two figures with grotesque appearances suddenly retreated. But now, the scene that fell into Lin Feng’s eyes was no longer bizarre and comical; instead, they appeared as two perfectly normal people. One of them was indeed the crazy old man Lancelot, with whom he had once had dealings. He instantly realized one thing – he had been soaked in a strange container like a specimen. Instinctively, he swung his fists and feet, fiercely attacking the transparent barrier. Bang, bang, bang, but to no avail. At the same time, he heard their voices again.
“Father, be careful! This brat indeed has something special!”
“What are you panicking for? Continue with the cleansing fluid to catalyze. He possesses the holy artifact; we must do everything to awaken the dark forces within him!”
Lin Feng only caught snippets of this conversation, then the strange liquid enveloping him suddenly increased in concentration, and his consciousness was engulfed by countless chaotic thoughts. He seemed to hear a faint sigh from the deepest part of his mind, and then he was plunged back into chaos.
A roar erupted in Lin Feng’s consciousness, revealing an explosive scene. In this scene, a massive creature with two heads was roaring and howling wildly. This two-headed beast seemed like a demon from the abyss of hell, one punch collapsing a mountain, one kick creating a pit over a hundred meters wide. The background of the scene was clearly just before the energy outburst of the Nine Absolute Spirit Gathering Array. In the scene, Lin Feng saw the Witch King, after merging and transforming, grab Lan Yu, who then merged into the monster as a beam of light, even more bizarrely, after the two-headed monster consumed Lan Yu with some unknown power, Lan Yu’s head appeared on the monster’s chest and abdomen.
The scene of the two-headed monster rampaging flashed by quickly. Lin Feng’s mind then shifted to scenes of the hellish landscape within a hundred miles of Yu Pan Mountain. It was as if there was an all-seeing eye within him; wherever the scene swept, life was extinguished, and monstrous creatures proliferated, with all sorts of bizarre species emerging across the mountains. These bloodthirsty, frenzied creatures roamed everywhere. A group of students was surrounded; in just a moment, these locust-like creatures swept through, leaving only piles of bones. The camera angle changed continuously, showing scenes of bloody and cruel slaughter everywhere. In the scenes, there were also many humans who had undergone mutations, crazily killing any living creature they encountered.
“What the hell is going on?! What the hell is going on?! What on earth is going on here?!?!”
The scene flashed again. Lin Feng suddenly saw the mutated Xina Was, or perhaps the Black Titan, or that Lan Yu, who was supposedly killed by him but was now a monster.
“You little bastard!” the monster said, “Because of your disobedience, thousands have lost their lives!”
The monster’s arm suddenly turned into a whip, swiftly reaching out to an unknown place. In the blink of an eye, it grabbed a woman and threw her in front of Lin Feng with a thud.
“Mom?!”
“Because of your disobedience, she must die too!” The monster, seemingly trying to provoke Lin Feng, lifted a large claw, and before Lin Feng could react, it stomped down hard, targeting the woman’s head.
With a squish, the woman’s head burst like a ripe watermelon.
“Mom!” By the time Lin Feng reacted and tried to intervene, the tragedy had already occurred. Overcome with rage, he swung a punch at the monster, but it countered with a punch of its own. Crack, his entire arm turned into a spray of flesh and blood. Despite this, the monster’s casual punch did not lose momentum, striking Lin Feng’s shoulder with another thunderous blow. With just one punch, half of Lin Feng’s body was gone. Mad Lin Feng had lost all reason, and his other intact fist followed up with another punch. Bang! The result was the same; the monster blasted off half of his body again. At this moment, Lin Feng seemed to remember something, looking down at his now shattered body. He could actually see his heart beating, albeit without any flesh or bone around it. “Little brat, won’t you submit yet?” It seemed like three different tones rang in his ears simultaneously, blending together in a bizarre way to form a complete sentence. It was as if the three heads of the monster each spoke a few words to him. “Black Mountain Old Demon?!” A strange thought floated through Lin Feng’s mind. What the hell is going on? What the hell has happened? Lin Feng roared in anger, but to his surprise, his roar shattered the three-headed monster into fragments, which then vanished into thin air. And his own body suddenly restored itself as if nothing had happened.
