This scene made Fang Yu feel that something was strange.
How could the contrast be so enormous?
Two places separated by only a short distance, one was deathly silent like an abyss, while the other overflowed with vitality and life.
What exactly had caused this?
A moment later, Fang Yu stopped dwelling on it and continued forward.
After passing through the lush region and traveling for just over a thousand meters, he arrived at another barren area that was utterly silent.
Along the way, he discovered that nearly eighty percent of this region was steeped in deathly stillness, while only a few places possessed life.
Not long afterward, Fang Yu saw a series of rugged mountain peaks.
However, most of them had already partially collapsed.
He entered one of the mountains and climbed to the summit.
Under the high hanging full moon, an abandoned ancient hall quietly stood within the moonlight.
The ancient hall was silent and enormous, majestic in appearance.
Inside stood a bird-shaped stone statue covered in thick dust.
Although it had long since fallen into ruin and was buried beneath layers of dust, it still carried an extraordinary aura.
"It's really clean. Nothing was left behind."
Fang Yu walked forward and swept his gaze around the surroundings.
Unfortunately, aside from the stone statue, he found nothing else.
At that moment, his foot stepped onto the thick dust and produced a loud clang.
It felt as though he had kicked something.
A metallic trembling sound rang out.
After brushing away the dust in the corner, a broken ring the size of a fingernail was revealed.
The ring possessed an ancient style.
Yet when held, it felt warm and gentle rather than cold like metal, almost like holding a piece of warm jade.
What surprised Fang Yu even more was that despite the ancient hall being covered in dust, the ring itself was completely spotless, as though it could isolate itself from dust entirely.
"What is this?"
"What exactly is the origin of this object? And what connection does it have with this statue?"
Fang Yu carefully stored it away, planning to investigate it after leaving this place.
Afterward, he continued searching but found nothing else.
Once he confirmed that there was nothing special about the ancient hall, Fang Yu departed.
Over the following few days, Fang Yu crossed several more mountain peaks before finally arriving at a place filled with elegant green mountains and spiritual beauty.
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!
High above, atop the beautiful cliffs, roaring sounds echoed endlessly.
A waterfall cascaded downward from above.
The silver stream stretched over a hundred meters long, appearing incomparably magnificent as white mist filled the surroundings.
Below lay an open area.
Around it bloomed endless strange flowers and exotic plants.
At the center region, elemental energy swirled while auspicious radiance flowed through the air.
There was a massive lake there, hazy and indistinct.
Around the great lake, elemental energy was so dense it almost liquefied.
It was a sacred cultivation land that every mage dreamed of obtaining.
At this moment, Fang Yu stepped inside and absorbed the world's elemental essence.
After entering his spiritual world, those elements nourished his stars.
He had a feeling that he was already not far from breaking through to the second level of the Fire Element Mid-Tier.
"I never expected there to be a cultivation holy land with such dense elemental energy here."
"An unexpected gain!"
Fang Yu muttered softly as he silently absorbed the dense elemental energy filling the great lake.
A moment later, Fang Yu interrupted his cultivation.
He vaguely sensed strange whispers echoing around him again and again.
This place was dangerous, so he maintained a high level of vigilance.
Afterward, Fang Yu wandered around the great lake while observing the surroundings.
Ahead of him, moonlight spread like frost.
Below the lake, shimmering water reflected faintly as mist drifted through the air.
Everything appeared blurry.
Yet several vague figures glowing faintly passed by beneath the lake, creating an extremely eerie sight.
"Hm?!"
"What is that?"
Fang Yu was greatly shocked.
Suddenly, thick fog surged around the great lake.
The fog was extremely dense.
It spread across the lake, and wherever Fang Yu looked, everything covered by the fog became completely blurred.
He could not see anything around him clearly at all.
Especially now that it was nighttime, the darkness made the fog's concealment even stronger.
Fang Yu tried to avoid it, but after running for quite some distance, all he could still see was the endless fog advancing toward him.
The fog enveloped everything.
Its cold and sinister aura invaded all living things it touched, including Fang Yu himself.
It was freezing, bone-chillingly cold.
Seeing this, Fang Yu activated his Boots Magic Tool.
His figure moved like lightning, his speed astonishingly fast as he darted dozens of meters away, attempting to bypass the fog by circling around it on a larger scale.
After retreating far enough, Fang Yu's expression became rather grim.
The fog covered far too vast an area.
No matter how fast he moved, he still ended up surrounded by fog in every direction.
There was nowhere left to escape.
The fog completely swallowed him.
"What exactly is this fog?"
Everything here made Fang Yu feel deeply unsettled.
And at that moment.
A faint song suddenly drifted through the fog, sounding almost like a sorrowful sigh.
Fang Yu frowned.
He used his spiritual perception to investigate the strange surroundings, yet found nothing.
Within the dense fog, the singing gradually became clearer.
It sounded as though a woman was lamenting the injustice of the world.
As the song echoed continuously, the gray fog from all directions began gathering toward Fang Yu's location.
Suddenly, Fang Yu's body trembled violently.
The song continued drifting through the air and entered his ears, causing an indescribable chill to spread throughout his entire body, as though he had been thrown into a world of polar ice.
The singing was invading his mind.
Fang Yu's consciousness roared violently.
This bizarre scene caused his pupils to contract sharply.
He wanted to move his body, but he could not do so at all.
Under the assault on his spirit, Fang Yu could neither move nor speak.
He was completely unable to resist it.
Then the sudden change occurred.
Inside Fang Yu's spiritual world, the Nine Heavens Cloud Crane Fire Seed within his Fire Nebula began trembling as flames ignited.
Boom!
In the outside world, hazy fire-colored radiance flowed around Fang Yu's body.
Streams of firelight spread outward like a torrential flood, instantly engulfing the entire fog.
The scene was incomparably dazzling and carried an indescribable divine aura.
The eerie singing chant emitted by the strange demon was abruptly suppressed into silence.
The dense fog surrounding Fang Yu actually began gradually thinning out.
Vaguely, Fang Yu managed to see a blurry figure falling into the great lake.
At the same time, Fang Yu's body finally regained the ability to move.
But at that very instant, killing intent suddenly erupted beneath his feet.
A gray hand emerged, gripping a sharp bone sword as it slashed directly toward Fang Yu's throat.
"Zero Domain — Armor."
At the critical moment, Fang Yu completed a Star Path with a single thought and instantly cast his spell.
Frost surged violently as a solemn ice-blue armor condensed around his body in an instant.
With a loud boom, the bone sword aimed at his neck shattered directly upon impact.
The hand gripping the sword also rapidly withdrew.
As space twisted strangely, a half-transparent figure was revealed rapidly retreating backward.
Murderous intent flashed through Fang Yu's eyes as he stared at the figure desperately trying to conceal itself, yet still exposing a blurry outline.
"Zero Domain — Ice Spear."
In an instant, the Star Path shone brightly as Fang Yu swung his right hand.
An ice spear shot through the air.
A loud explosion rang out ahead.
The strange figure was clearly shocked and wanted to dodge, but it was already too late.
A shattering sound echoed out as the lower half of the strange body exploded apart.
Yet in the next moment, the figure still completely disappeared.
"It can turn invisible?"
Fang Yu narrowed his eyes and carefully sensed everything around him.
Suddenly, his body moved.
He violently swung backward, slashing down with the ice spear.
With another explosion, the transparent figure struck by his Ice Element spell crashed heavily onto the ground, finally revealing its true appearance.
Gray eyes.
A body formed from dense fog.
Those obvious traits clearly identified it as a Ghost-type undead creature. It specialized in spiritual attacks.
Unfortunately for it, it had encountered Fang Yu, its natural nemesis.
The Nine Heavens Cloud Crane Fire Seed had directly shattered its spiritual enchantment.
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