Light Fortress
Chapter 617 - 154: Snow in the Cemetery_2

Chapter 617: Chapter 154: Snow in the Cemetery_2

The truly powerful beings, those with abyssal might, have their aura contained, unfathomable, and not even a trace of joy or anger can be felt.

But as for his fellow disciples... Shen Li could now feel varying degrees of "emotional" fluctuations from them, even the "eldest senior brother" Zou He was no exception.

The eight-person team, entered the cemetery together.

Shen Li was the last one in line.

The moment they entered the mausoleum, a "blazing" gust came through the Golden Gate.

"Boom~~"

The deep gust sounded like a dragon’s roar, long and resonant.

Shen Li squinted his eyes... he only felt that the "gust" that hit his face was not as scorching as he imagined, but rather mixed with a hint of chill, followed immediately by a blinding storm of wind and snow, pelting down like hail.

The spiritual power he had released was compressed by an invisible and mighty pressure.

He had lost all his "vision".

His senior brothers walking ahead.

One by one, they blurred into white within the wind and snow.

He paused in his stride.

Everywhere he looked, nothing but white.

What... what had happened?

Shen Li was stunned.

After stepping through the Golden Gate, what he saw was not at all the Qingzhong Cemetery from his memory.

This place... was it a snowfield?

But... how could there be a snowfield inside Qingzhong?

He took a deep breath, calming his mind, and then hastened his steps...

The wind and snow were intense.

He quickened his pace, trying to find the silhouettes of his "senior brothers" in the distance, but after a few minutes, Shen Li realized something was off... this snowfield was definitely a space beyond that of the cemetery.

This place... was too big.

It was very likely that this was a Disaster Realm.

The space within the cemetery had been rewritten by higher spiritual rules.

And those who entered the cemetery were "randomly" transported away.

As for... the original plan of forming a judgment squad with his senior brothers, eight Transcendents in total?

The team had been disbanded the moment they entered the tomb!

Shen Li’s expression turned ugly, the communication channel was unsurprisingly blocked, and attempts to send messages through sealed objects were futile... the possibility of messages getting out of the cemetery was completely obstructed.

His team was one of the last few to enter the cemetery.

And the previous teams... had they all been disbanded as well?!

About the "Transcendent out-of-control" phenomenon within the cemetery.

Under the onslaught of this immense snowfield... relying solely on the limited strength of a mid-level Transcendent, it was really hard to make any breakthroughs.

He must find his companions!

However, within such bizarre spatial rules, it was hard to imagine where all the Transcendents who entered the cemetery had been transported... but if he quickened his pace, he surely wouldn’t fail to find even one companion, right?

With this thought in mind, Shen Li began to run.

A dark figure sped across the snowfield.

He squinted, surveying his surroundings with his eyesight... since his spiritual power had been suppressed, he could only rely on the most basic methods to search for clues.

And soon, he made a discovery.

Shen Li caught the scent of blood... the scent itself was very faint, mixed in with the fierce gales, resembling the smell of rust.

A sense of dread clutched at his heart.

He stopped.

Following the direction from which the scent was carried by the wind, he slowly approached a large crag... and what he saw next made Shen Li stand still, disbelieving his own eyes.

A corpse hung upside down before him, fresh blood trickling from the neck, scattering in the breeze.

This corpse belonged to "Shu Chong", one of his senior brothers.

He was part of that eight-person team.

Not far from the crag, amidst the howling wind and snow, more pungent rust-like scent wafted through.

Shen Li walked slowly inward, making out one after another corpse hanging in the pallid snowfield... The Transcendents from the prison hadn’t entered the cemetery quickly, but they were responsible for the "finishing" of the operation, so they were the last to enter. The corpses of those Transcendents who had entered the cemetery before him were already ice-cold, frozen into frosty remains.

Some of them, Shen Li could name.

They had greeted him before.

They had sparred and contended at the Taoist School.

And now... they were all hanging from the steep crag’s façade, swaying stiffly in the wind.

The wind blew fiercely.

A corpse fell to the ground before Shen Li, shattering into fragmented pieces of ice... This corpse was a senior sister from the prison that Shen Li knew, who had made plans to spar with him before entering the mausoleum.

Shen Li crouched down, looking at his senior sister’s cracked face, his eyes filling with a trace of bewilderment.

There seemed to be a small "flame" lingering between senior sister’s brows.

She had been deprived of her spirit, leading to her Silent Annihilation.

And the "chief culprit" behind the eradication of her spirit... was this wisp of flame, the aura of which Shen Li felt was somewhat familiar.

Could this possibly be... Gu Shen’s "Chi Huo"?

His fingers trembled as he gently touched the forehead of his deceased senior sister, feeling the residual warmth.

No...

It wasn’t "Chi Huo"!

Despite the similar aura, no one understood the fluctuations of "Chi Huo" better than he did. With Gu Shen’s strength, it was indeed possible to kill this senior sister... but he wouldn’t have left the slightest trace behind.

It was a deliberate act.

Furthermore, leaving a "flame" as a clue.

It was obvious... this was meant to point the disaster towards Gu Shen...

Who had done this?!

"Are you looking for me?"

A very light voice arose from the distant Wind Snow.

Shen Li abruptly stood up, his expression furious, as he looked towards the depths of the Wind Snow.

That voice even carried a faint laugh.

The Wind Snow far away suddenly grew more intense, pulling out a tall, thin figure. Shen Li couldn’t see the person’s face but felt that the Extraordinary Aura emanating from them was very familiar... similar to the "Chi Huo" he had sensed earlier.

What made him alert was that he couldn’t detect any "spiritual fluctuations" coming from that figure.

That indicated one thing.

This individual’s "Spirit Realm" was stronger than his own!

"Iron Eater, Shen Li."

The tall figure slowly emerged from the Wind Snow, pronouncing Shen Li’s name.

Shen Li, however, narrowed his eyes, speaking coldly.

"Xu Yan."

If, in Changye, out of a hundred people, only one disliked this person,

Then Shen Li... would definitely be that unwavering one.

From the moment Xu Yan appeared before everyone’s eyes, Shen Li felt a repulsion, as everything that person did was imbued with a poor imitation.

He was imitating Gu Shen.

Imitating the person whom, after a year of daily interaction, he had come to respect deeply from the bottom of his heart.

"It seems you really don’t like me,"

Xu Yan said with a light chuckle.

He raised his palm, and with a clatter,

A head fell, striking the snowy ground, splashing mottled and scattered fresh blood.

"If I recall correctly... this guy was your senior brother, wasn’t he?"

Xu Yan tilted his head slightly, stating softly, "He didn’t like me either."

Another person was dead...

A member of their eight-person squad...

Shen Li’s face turned pale, his fists clenched. He desperately wanted to convince himself that all this was nothing but an illusion of the Disaster Realm.

But the shattered visage of his senior sister was real.

The warm blood of his senior brother splattered on him was also real.

All of it was real.

Shen Li looked towards Xu Yan, his voice hoarse, "Why are you doing this?"

"Isn’t it obvious?"

Hearing the question, Xu Yan spread his hands, looked around, and said softly, "I am killing people..."

He smiled and said,

"Of course, you could also understand it as... I am killing for Gu Shen. Killing so many people in one go is really quite tiring. I’m very curious to know what kind of reaction the top echelons of the Federation Government would have if they saw this scene."

Here were disciples from three different Taoist Schools.

And also five innocent Transcendents who had become separated from their major houses.

A very faint and flickering light emerged from Xu Yan’s forehead.

"Next, it’s your turn."

He said softly, "Letting an out-of-control person, who can even kill their old friends when in a frenzy, leave the Security Committee Building and come to the Qingzhong Cemetery, would be the biggest mistake Zhou Wei would have made since his appointment."

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