With a grim expression, she landed at the edge of the area where Chu Fan had vanished.
This Chaotic Stone Forest was rather peculiar. Countless bizarrely shaped, dark-hued boulders stood tall, so as large as houses, with even the smallest towering over a person. They were scattered about haphazardly, forming a series of narrow, winding passages.
"Hmm?"
The mont she stepped onto the edge of the Chaotic Stone Forest, Baili Bing couldn’t help but frown.
The place made her feel uneasy.
Despite it being a Stone Forest and not a dense jungle, the light seed to dim the mont she entered, and the surrounding temperature felt as if it had dropped several degrees.
A faint yet bone-chillingly cold aura, like an invisible spiderweb, silently enveloped her entire body.
Her instincts scread at her, creating an impulse to turn and leave at once!
’Sothing’s wrong with this place...’
She slowed her pace, cautiously sensing her surroundings.
After advancing no more than a hundred feet, Baili Bing’s expression changed drastically. "Such dense Evil Qi!" she gasped.
She could sense that the Evil Qi settled deep within this Chaotic Stone Forest was far more concentrated and pure than anywhere else!
Moreover, the wisps of Evil Qi currently drifting through the air were being drawn by a powerful force, converging on the center of the Chaotic Stone Forest from all directions like countless rivers flowing to the sea!
’It’s that boy’s doing!’
’He’s stirring up the Evil Qi here!’
’The madman!’
’Isn’t he from the Demon Suppression Bureau?’
’How could soone from the Demon Suppression Bureau practice such a Demon Dao technique to manipulate Evil Qi?!’
Alarm bells blared in Baili Bing’s mind, and she was instantly determined to retreat.
’Catching that boy is a secondary concern.’
’If such pure Evil Qi were to invade my ridians and taint my Primordial Qi, it would leave a hidden danger on my future Cultivation Path that would be difficult to eradicate. It might even give rise to Heart Demons!’
She made a decisive choice, turning to retreat from the bizarre Stone Forest by the way she ca.
However, the mont she turned—
"VMMMM!"
A low hum resonated from the depths of the Stone Forest, as if an Ancient Array had been activated.
Strange, interwoven patterns of black and blood-red light suddenly flared across the surfaces of the surrounding dark boulders. The Evil Qi in the air instantly grew turbulent, its concentration increasing severalfold!
The once-clear path back beca blurred and distorted in the churning, grayish-black Evil Qi. Her field of vision shrank drastically, allowing her to see only a few dozen feet ahead.
"An Array?!"
Baili Bing’s heart sank, and her expression grew even darker.
Only then did she realize that he hadn’t been fleeing in a panic. He had deliberately lured her into this Desolate Land, a place that concealed an Ancient Array!
At the sa ti, a cold, mocking voice drifted through the swirling Evil Qi. "The Evil Qi here is so rich. It’s the perfect... burial ground for you!"
The voice was ethereal, seeming to co from all directions at once.
Both shocked and enraged, Baili Bing was about to follow the voice to find Chu Fan and eliminate the culprit.
But then, sothing else happened!
"CRACK... CRACK..."
A grating sound of grinding joints ca without warning from the ground beneath her feet.
The sound wasn’t loud, but it carried a soul-piercing chill that made the hair on Baili Bing’s entire body stand on end.
She jerked her head down to see the rocky ground just ahead of her suddenly roiling like boiling water. An impossibly dense wave of Blood Evil Qi erupted from it like a geyser!
Then, a hand made entirely of stark white bone, with sharp, pointed knuckles, burst from the ground. Its five fingers, like hooks, shot straight for her ankle!
The bony claws were wreathed in Blood Evil Qi so dense it seed tangible. Everywhere it passed, the very air seed to hiss and corrode.
"What is this thing?!"
Horrified, Baili Bing’s face paled as she shot backward. She swung her longsword, and a sharp, ice-blue stream of Sword Qi instantly slashed toward the ergent bone claw.
"CLANG!"
The sound of tal striking tal rang out!
Her Sword Qi, powerful enough to slice through refined iron, only produced a shower of sparks against the bone claw, leaving nothing more than a shallow white scratch!
Seemingly enraged by the attack, the subterranean creature heaved itself further from the ground. More dirt flew as a complete skeleton slowly climbed out.
The skeleton was a dark gray color, as if eroded by countless ages, yet its fra was perfectly intact.
Two clusters of eerie green Soul Fire flickered in its eye sockets, radiating a cold, deathly stillness, and an intent full of greed.
It clutched a rust-spotted broken sword, which was also wreathed in dense Evil Qi.
What shocked both Baili Bing and the secretly observing Chu Fan most was that the energy fluctuations radiating from this skeletal monster were even a sliver stronger than that woman from dicine King Valley!
It was a tyrannical pressure condensed purely from death and Evil Qi!
The skeletal monster’s eerie green Soul Fire swept over Baili Bing before glancing toward the distant Chu Fan, hidden in the shadow of a great boulder. Its jawbone clacked open and shut, and a greedy thought was clearly transmitted...
"Fresh flesh... tasty souls... devour... devour all..."
It saw both Chu Fan and Baili Bing as food!
’How can a monster like this be hidden beneath the Chaotic Stone Forest...’
A chill went down Chu Fan’s spine.
He had only intended to use the Evil Qi here to deal with the woman; he never expected to draw out such a terrifying monster.
The pressure emanating from this skeleton was even greater than the woman’s!
Without a mont’s hesitation, Chu Fan moved, pushing his "Fleeting Shadows" technique to its absolute limit. He transford into a faint, nearly invisible shadow and shot back the way he ca.
’I have to get out of this damn place first!’
However—
"WHOOSH!"
The scenery before him abruptly shifted. The edge of the Chaotic Stone Forest, which had seed so close, inexplicably changed. It was as if he wasn’t running toward the edge at all, but in the opposite direction!
’Is this... an Array?’
Chu Fan’s heart sank.
The Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy in this area was extrely chaotic and unstable.
The Array seed to be damaged in places.
But aside from the ti Yue Mankong had guided him in breaking the Nine Nether Spirit Locking Array, he actually knew very little about Arrays.
anwhile, the skeletal monster seed completely unconcerned with Chu Fan’s "little maneuver."
Its full attention was locked firmly on Baili Bing, whose aura was stronger.
In its simple consciousness, this "food" contained far more energy!
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