Azure Heaven Saber
Chapter 1204 - 1204 61 The Change at Zichen Lake Brothers

Chapter 1204: Chapter 61: The Change at Zichen Lake [Brothers, thanks for waiting.]_5 Chapter 1204: Chapter 61: The Change at Zichen Lake [Brothers, thanks for waiting.]_5 Bai Yihwen said calmly, “If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I, Bai Yihwen, would not be so foolish as to dig my own grave.”

The two exchanged a glance.

Bai Yihwen was right in front of them, they weren’t worried about him running away.

Moreover, concerned that Bai Yihwen might have an ambush set, those who came this time were experts from above the Cloud Top.

They also didn’t care about Bai Yihwen’s tricks.

“Does this devilish fog appear only at night?”

The two were old hands, experienced and worldly, and they instantly understood Bai Yihwen’s implication.

“Indeed.”

…

Following that, the two accompanied Bai Yihwen on visits to a large number of households in village settlements along the shore of Zichen Lake.

“Has anyone gone missing recently?”

As expected.

The villagers began to speak up one after another.

“Why not, just in the past year and more, over seventy people have gone missing from our village… and our village only totals more than three hundred people.”

“That many?”

“Yes, for no known reason, they just went out and never came back…”

“Did it start a year ago?”

“Yes.”

This scenario was the same in dozens of villages they visited.

Only in one village, when they found a mischievous child, did things become a bit clearer.

“Little Hu, Er Gou, and some others often play outside, but that day Little Hu and Er Gou disappeared… We were playing hide and seek, and I sneakily wanted to see where they had hidden…”

The child’s face showed obvious fear.

“I… I saw Little Hu and Er Gou… run into that thick fog, and after that, they never came out again…”

“Little Hu must have been taken by a water ghost… Wah…”

The child burst into tears.

…

Leaving the village and finding a place to sit down and discuss, everyone had solemn expressions.

“There are several hundred, even thousands of villages in the surrounding area, and tens of larger towns.”

Bai Yihwen pointed to the map and said, “We’ve only patrolled a corner of the east bank now, over thirty villages, and the combined number of missing people has already exceeded three thousand.”

“All remain missing without a trace, no sightings of dead or alive. No foreigners have passed through, there haven’t been any disasters or epidemics, nor any other abnormalities… such mysteriously missing.”

“Among them, there are even Martial Artists.”

“And, perhaps you haven’t noticed, but this Zichen Lake has been expanding outwards at a rate of half a ‘zhang’ overnight.”

Bai Yihwen said.

“Half a ‘zhang’ overnight?”

The two Dark Division experts felt their scalps tingle.

They were well aware of what it meant for Zichen Lake to expand outward by half a ‘zhang’ in a single night given its size.

“Yes.”

Bai Yihwen pointed to a straight pine branch at the lake’s edge and said, “I put this up last night, fifteen ‘zhang’ away from the shore of Zichen Lake. By this morning, it was only fourteen and a half ‘zhang’.”

The two Dark Division experts leapt to measure it carefully.

After looking at each other, “Indeed, it’s fourteen and a half ‘zhang’.”

The two said in unison, “We won’t sleep tonight, just keep an eye on this pine branch.”

“Good!”

Bai Yihwen didn’t try to stop them.

Because he knew they had to confirm this point.

As twilight began to fall.

The two Dark Division experts suddenly noticed that with the coming of night, a faint mist began to rise slowly over the lake.

Becoming thicker and thicker.

A strong wind howled past.

But when the strange thick fog encountered it, the fog didn’t seem affected in the least. It didn’t even sway.

It was as though the wind was devoured by it!

“How bizarre!”

The two tried to reach out with their psychic power to touch the fog that had become so thick that they couldn’t see their own hands.

But as soon as their psychic power entered, it immediately felt wrong.

The mist was actually devouring their psychic power.

Moreover, it was pulling them towards the fog with their own psychic power!

In an instant, they were pulled out more than ten ‘zhang’.

“Kill me!”

The two shouted in unison.

They both felt that if the fog devoured a high-level Martial Artist, it would likely become even more terrifying.

With a wave of his hand, Bai Yihwen shouted, “Disperse your energy!”

The two immediately released their energy.

Boom boom!

Two huge rocks were flung out, carrying the force of the thrower, and smashed heavily onto the heads of the two Dark Division experts.

With a ‘plop’.

The two fell to the ground simultaneously.

Pinned beneath the boulders.

But doing so cut off their psychic power.

Spouting blood, they lay squashed under the boulders.

Having released their energy, they were nearly crushed to death.

With another wave of his hand, Bai Yihwen produced two long ropes, swiftly throwing them out and lassoing the ankles of the two men.

“Use your energy!”

The two gritted their teeth, blurry with blood and using their energy.

Bai Yihwen didn’t care that both men were still being crushed by the boulders, and brutally dragged them backward.

Dragging them out.

By the time he pulled them back, both Dark Division experts were badly mangled.

Their bodies looked like bloodied gourds.

Barely alive.

And yet they had to thank him, “Thank you!”

Bai Yihwen gave a wry smile, “No need, I just saw that the fog was strange, so I prepared a bit more.”

A silent night passed.

All were focused intently on watching the thick fog and the inserted pine branch.

Watching the strange fog swell and undulate slowly.

Until dawn.

The two Dark Guards were experts of high caliber from above Cloud Top, and because they had not suffered internal injuries, they recovered quickly.

By morning they had mostly recovered.

When everyone arrived at the tree and looked at it, they were rendered speechless.

More than half a ‘zhang’?

Overnight, a full ‘zhang’ and a half had been devoured!

There were still thirteen ‘zhang’ from the shore.

In a single night, four and a half meters of land had vanished into nothing.

The eeriest part was, the lakeshore still existed!

Both men were deathly pale.

“You must immediately order the government to relocate all towns and villages on the shores of Zichen Lake inland! Not a single person or animal is to remain! All those who disobey should be executed on the spot!”

“And if there are civilians who refuse to comply, it is better to kill them than to let them be swept into Zichen Lake!”