The Post Sky Tipping Era
Chapter 76 - 63 Terrifying Experience

Chapter 76: Chapter 63 Terrifying Experience

Zhao Jingqiao, Cai Jianming, Qian Kai.

Three Cultivators of the Inspiration Realm had just invaded Li Yi’s home, but the bizarre phenomena that unfolded before their eyes left them frozen in place, unable to comprehend. The front door that had clearly just been opened had now vanished without a trace, and not only that, blood was seeping from the fist marks, palm prints, and footprints on the ceiling.

Moreover, the blood seeped quickly, staining the ceiling red. In less than ten seconds, the original ceiling was already covered with blood that penetrated deeply.

"Drip! Drip!"

The blood was thick and began to drop continuously, with some even splattering on Zhao Jingqiao and the others.

They touched it with their hands and then brought it close to their noses to smell.

The stench was pungent.

This strange change gradually turned the unease in their hearts into an inexplicable sense of fear.

"Damn it, what the hell is going on? Is it that my senses are being disrupted by a master’s energy field, causing hallucinations? Quick, close your eyes, don’t look, use your inspiration to sense everything around you, and see what is actually happening here," Zhao Jingqiao was the first to react, immediately closing his eyes.

Because he knew that powerful Cultivators possessed spiritual power that could interfere with others’ perceptions, causing all sorts of illusions, or even hypnotize their enemies, which was terrifying.

Once the mind was disturbed, what the eyes saw and the ears heard could all be false.

As all three men closed their eyes.

A special kind of perception emanated from their bodies.

With their inspiration, they could sense their surroundings without using their eyes; solely relying on their bodies, they could perceive more and with greater accuracy than their eyes could see, like a kind of biological radar, scanning the nearby environment. This ability was a talent given after their bodies had undergone evolution, and every Cultivator who stepped into the Inspiration Realm would automatically master it.

As their inspiration spread out.

Zhao Jingqiao was the first to sense the presence of his two companions nearby, and then everything around began to emerge in his perception: the ground, the walls, the ceiling... However, when his inspiration extended to where the front door should be, he found that the door was still gone, only a wall remained.

In addition, the blood from the ceiling continued to drip.

Clearly, everything they had seen before was not an illusion, it was all real.

"How is this possible?" Zhao Jingqiao clenched his teeth, unable to accept such an inconceivable sight.

He let his inspiration continue to spread.

And it permeated the room.

In the room, he sensed the medical pod and Li Yi’s father lying inside, all of which were normal and showed no problem. But when his inspiration reached the kitchen area, a chilling occurrence happened: in the gloomy kitchen, the outline of a person appeared within his perception.

"Found it."

At that moment, Zhao Jingqiao suddenly opened his eyes.

It wasn’t just him; Cai Jianming and Qian Kai also snapped awake, their gazes immediately fixed on that dim kitchen.

However, in their line of sight, there was no one in the kitchen, only gloom and deathly silence.

But inspiration does not lie.

Although invisible, that ’person’ was definitely standing in the kitchen.

"Are you Li Yi’s mom? Give us a way out; we can leave a large sum of compensation and promise never to trouble Li Yi again," Zhao Jingqiao spoke to the empty kitchen.

But in the kitchen, the invisible ’person’ made no response.

Blood continued to drip from the ceiling, and the air was filled with a pungent stench, becoming more intense. It was no longer the scent of fresh blood but more like the smell of decay, like... the stench of a corpse.

"Thirty million, let the three of us go. That’s the largest amount of money I can offer," Zhao Jingqiao took a deep breath and said again. Although he had originally quoted over one hundred million to Li Yi, he actually didn’t have that much money; thirty million was already his limit.

But still, all around there was deadly silence, and no response from that gloomy kitchen.

The smell of rot in the air became even thicker, nauseatingly so.

"What do we do?" Panic flashed in Qian Kai’s eyes.

He couldn’t understand the changes around him, but his Spiritual Sense was frantically warning him, a great crisis looming over him. If he didn’t resolve this crisis soon, he felt he might not be able to leave Li Yi’s home alive today.

"Run, through the window," Zhao Jingqiao, seeing that communication was impossible, gritted his teeth and rushed to the window, flipping himself out and leaping from the third floor.

Cai Jianming and Qian Kai immediately followed upon seeing this.

The third floor wasn’t very high, and as Cultivators, they landed smoothly, then burst forth with astonishing speed, sprinting towards the outskirts of the community.

They didn’t dare look back or hesitate, fearing that if they were even a second late, they might not be able to leave Li Yi’s home.

They ran twenty kilometers in one go.

Only when they were about to leave the old city district did Zhao Jingqiao and the others stop at a road intersection.

"Damn it, what the hell is going on in Li Yi’s house? Have the Silent Ones really awoken? Why do I feel like it’s not quite right?" Qian Kai caught his breath and couldn’t help but curse.

Cai Jianming was also shaken, saying, "Me too. What we faced just now didn’t seem to be a living person at all. That kind of aura, that sense of frantic warning from the inspiration, it was like the unknown terror we encountered in the danger zone."

"Wait, before we discuss anything else, something seems... off about our surroundings," Zhao Jingqiao suddenly narrowed his eyes, looking around at everything.

The streets were deserted, not a soul in sight, the entire city was deathly silent, the sky was dark and oppressive, with no sign of the sun.

At this moment, it seemed as though only the three of them remained in the world.

"Why is this happening? Is there something wrong with the three of us, or has the world suddenly changed?"

Qian Kai stood on the empty street, continuously turning around to look, the fear in his eyes growing thicker.

"Illusions, they must be illusions. We must still be trapped within someone’s spiritual power field, our senses being interfered with," Cai Jianming murmured, "In reality, we must still be at Li Yi’s home, that ’person’ simply doesn’t want to let us leave, we’ve been targeted."

"That’s impossible, our inspiration would never deceive us, not even a master with powers greater than Spiritual Sense could achieve this extent."

Zhao Jingqiao clenched his teeth, a chill rising inexplicably within him, "Li Yi’s ’mother’ has some serious issues; all the strangeness stems from that person. No, I can’t even be sure that thing is human."

"Who?"

Suddenly, Cai Jianming sensed something, and he sharply turned toward a certain direction, subconsciously firing a shot in that direction.

Bang!

The gunshot sounded, and the bullet hit a vague shadow.

The shadow was hiding in the window of a shop by the roadside, its form concealed in the darkness, even not clearly visible to the eyes of someone in the inspiration realm; one could only recognize an outline of a human shape.

"Speak, who are you exactly?" Cai Jianming stared dead at the figure, his hands holding the gun starting to tremble slightly.

That shot, he had definitely hit the mark.

But there was no reaction from the other side.

"I don’t want to sit here waiting to die, I’m going for it," Qian Kai couldn’t stand the eerie atmosphere any longer, and with a low roar, he moved, lunging directly at the vague figure.

"Qian Kai, don’t be reckless," Zhao Jingqiao shouted.

But it was already too late.

Qian Kai had charged into the dimly lit shop, gathering strength for a strike, sweeping out a leg with the intention of crushing the vague figure.

However, the explosive strike of someone in the inspiration realm now seemed to be of no effect; the powerful force disappeared without a trace, the figure remaining still.

"How can this be? Wait, is there someone else?" Qian Kai paused at first.

But then, as if he sensed something else, he raised a fist and fiercely smashed it toward the side.

Another vague figure appeared in the darkness.

Although he hit with a punch, there was still no sign of the figure swaying; they simply stood there motionless, the scene exactly as before.

Before he could be further shocked, a heavy set of footsteps came from the darkness behind, rapidly approaching him.

"Eye-witness." Without any hesitation, Qian Kai’s eyes shone brightly as he used the Eye-witness Skill.

The surrounding darkness seemed to dissipate slightly due to the Eye-witness.

In that moment, Qian Kai saw everything around him clearly.

It was the pale, cold face of a woman and a pair of dull, lifeless, ashy eyes... no, not just one pair, there were two, three, four pairs... it seemed as if there were countless pairs of such eyes in the surrounding darkness, staring at him.

In an instant.

His hair stood on end and a wave of fear surged up from the bottom of his heart, overwhelming his entire being.

Qian Kai wanted to run, but his body was now stiff on the spot, unable to move. An icy hand had reached out from the darkness behind at some point, resting on his shoulder, the fingers slender and skin pale, but blotched with faint mottling of corpse spots.

Meanwhile, outside.

Zhao Jingqiao and Cai Jianming only saw Qian Kai rush into the shop, then completely vanish into the darkness, invisible to them.

Everything fell into a silence as still as death, no sounds were heard, nor any noise of a struggle.

This strange scene mysteriously chilled the heart.

As a cultivator in the inspiration realm, even if Qian Kai couldn’t defeat the opponent, the noise should have been made if he was taken down by the enemy.

Wait, there was a noise.

Suddenly.

A moment later, a person emerged from the darkness.

It was... Qian Kai, who had disappeared earlier.

But now, Qian Kai’s face was deathly pale, his eyes vacant and soulless, with a strange smile on his lips, and he silently gestured to Zhao Jingqiao and Cai Jianming to come over.

Seeing this, both their hearts sank to the bottom, their bodies went cold, and their eyes filled with despair.

In that moment, they also realized what they had encountered.

A few minutes later.

Back at Li Yi’s home, the door that had been opened now slowly closed, in the room, the empty medical pod, not known when, had gained an additional sleeping woman, and everything seemed to have returned to tranquility.

The ceiling still bore clear marks of fists, feet, and palms, only that no fresh blood flowed anymore.

However, the only thing slightly different from before was a persistent shadow on the nearby wall, which from afar looked like three people with twisted forms and horrifying expressions.

And Zhao Jingqiao, Cai Jianming, and Qian Kai, who had broken in here earlier, had completely disappeared.