NOVPUB"Death Mountain Range... is it really like this? If I stay too long and can’t make it through the Death Mountain Range, just the continuous eroding power alone is enough to kill a person violently. I can probably only hold on for half a month,"
Xia Yanyi said gravely.
"I can hold on for a month..."
Su Changkong thought silently to himself. After sensing the power that eroded his vitality and body, he felt that he could withstand it for a month.
"It doesn’t have much of a special effect on me... It might be related to my constitution."
As for Hong Zhenxiang, he stated that he possessed the demon monster’s unique immortal body, so he would not have any problems with the erosion from the Death Mountain Range for a short time.
"In any case... we need to get through this Death Mountain Range within half a month."
Xia Yanyi voiced his urgency. The less time they spent crossing the Death Mountain Range, the safer it would be. The longer they delayed, the weaker they would become. If they couldn’t keep going halfway, they wouldn’t even have the energy to turn back to Mirror Heaven and Earth.
The three didn’t stop. They moved swiftly through the Death Mountain Range, careful not to sprint at full speed while constantly being alert to their surroundings.
This Death Mountain Range surely had dangers beyond just the erosive force of the range itself!
"Hmm? These footprints... are they human footprints?"
An hour into the Death Mountain Range, the three stopped, drawn to a deep footprint on the ground ahead of them.
Judging from the shape of the footprint, it seemed to be a human footprint.
"These footprints are abnormal. We deliberately hide our tracks to leave no trace as we move through the Death Mountain Range, yet someone left a series of footprints?" Su Changkong frowned, sensing something off about the person who left the footprints.
"Be careful!"
At that moment, Xia Yanyi sent a telepathic warning to Su Changkong and Hong Zhenxiang.
As his words fell, from the tall weeds ahead, a figure burst out crazily, as swift as lightning. His right fist whipped up a fierce wind and thundered forward.
"Bastard!"
Hong Zhenxiang stepped forward and cursed aloud, throwing a punch like a demon king in a furious roar.
"Boom!"
Amid the booming sound, the figure was knocked back, crashing into a giant tree hundreds of feet tall, causing the immense tree to groan under the strain and split open with a huge crack.
Only then did Su Changkong and the others clearly see that the figure was a man in black clothes, outwardly no different from a human. Yet what was eerie was his pale, bloodless skin, his gray-white eyes, and a deathly gray mark engraved on his forehead.
The man in black, like a wild beast, was struck flying by Hong Zhenxiang’s punch. He attacked again, dragging multiple afterimages behind him, his figure splitting as though multiplying, making it hard to discern the real from the fake.
"Pfft!"
Hong Zhenxiang raised his fist and punched through the chest of an afterimage, but that figure was just a residual image. His target was not Hong Zhenxiang but Xia Yanyi.
"Sss!"
But Xia Yanyi, with a slight movement of his ears, ignored the other figures. Holding a black sword in his hand, swift and silent as a viper’s strike, he thrust out. All the surrounding illusions dissipated as the black-clad man’s neck was pierced, his body slowly turning transparent and vanishing like the wind.
The attack from the man in black didn’t stir up much of a storm and was easily killed.
But Xia Yanyi’s complexion changed, for as he had killed the gray-clad man, he felt a slight lightness in his body. On his arm, a new gray mark had appeared.
"Is this mark eroding my body? Originally I could hold on for 15 days, but now... I fear I might not last even 14 days,"
Xia Yanyi looked grim.
"Death Mountain Range... could it be that dying within it turns one into a kind of undead like that gray-clad man? And killing the undead results in the death marks being branded onto the killer, accumulating more marks as they kill more, hastening their own death!"
Su Changkong gained some insight and guessed the terrifying nature of the Death Mountain Range!
Death Mountain Range, it was historically a forbidden place.
The Death Mountain Range was filled with vast opportunities and treasures, but it was also a place of death.
Once inside the Death Mountain Range, one would continuously suffer the erosion of death’s power. If one died within, they would become undead creatures, attacking anyone entering.
If one were to kill the undead, the death marks from the undead would transfer to their killer, causing them to undergo severe and continuous erosion until death!
The Death Mountain Range within Mirror Heaven and Earth, projected by the Mirror Master using Great Divine Power, held similar perils!
Crossing the Death Mountain Range, they would face attacks from the undead and could not kill them. Once they did, the power of death’s erosion would intensify. However, if they didn’t kill them, they would be relentlessly pursued!
"Here they come again!"
Without giving the three much time to think, more shadows appeared from the nearby mountains, involving both human and beast forms, four in total. They were all entities that had entered the Death Mountain Range, died within, and ultimately turned into undead, attacking every living being entering the mountains!
"Roar!"
A giant wolf with gray-white fur, almost thirty feet in length, bellowed a thunderous roar from its mouth, stirring up a wild wind as it pounced.
Su Changkong drew his Iron-Cutting Sword from his waist. With a swift movement, he executed a horizontal chop, bringing forth a waterfall-like cold blade light.
"Sss!"
The giant wolf crashed to the ground, all four legs severed. There was no blood at the severed locations, but it couldn’t get up for a long time.
"Don’t kill them. Just incapacitate them!"
