Chapter 960 Canyon

Lin Fan wanted to say something, but he found that he couldn't open his mouth no matter how hard he tried.

It was as if there was this strange thing that was forcing him to keep his mouth shut.

It was just too strong for him to break free.

After a long silence, the figure said, "It's time for you to leave."

Then with a single flick of what seemed to be a finger, Lin Fan's consciousness was forced out of the memory.

Once he had been forced out, he found that he had regained his ability to move once again.

However, no matter how he tried to get back into that memory, he found that he wasn't able to do so at all. It was like there was some kind of strange power that was blocking his entry into this memory.

It was very similar to the strange power that had forced him to keep his mouth shut earlier.

Lin Fan tried many times to break into the memory, but he found that it was just impossible for him to break through this strange power.

So in the end, he had no choice but to give up on this.

Since this was the last memory he wanted to check anyway, there was nothing left for him to do. So with a single thought, he pulled his consciousness out of the sea of memories and returned to the outside world.

Once his consciousness came out, the rest of the strange power was subdued by his void law and was swallowed by it.

Seeing him suddenly open his eyes, Yuki and Momonga both raised their guard just in case he attacked.

When he had been absorbing the strange power earlier, he had been strangely subdued which caught them off guard. He wasn't like how he was the first time, where he had tried to attack them.

So they thought that he had either completely subdued the strange power like they had planned, or…he had been completely taken over by the strange power right away and now it was no longer the Lin Fan that they knew who was controlling this body.

But Lin Fan quickly proved that it was still him with the key phrase that had been decided.

Only Momonga knew the key phrase, so when Lin Fan said it…

"Angela has put on a few pounds lately."

Angela immediately pulled him in with the hand that she was holding and proceeded to beat him.

Lin Fan just sat there letting himself be beaten.

Momonga gave a satisfied nod when he saw this since this was a bit of revenge that he was getting on Lin Fan for everything that he put them through.

Yuki just watched with a look of schadenfreude.

When she was finished, Lin Fan's face was completely swollen.

He could have dodged, but the test was to see if he would let himself be hit.

It was a double test of seeing if they would say it and if they would let themselves be hit. After all, even if whatever was in the strange energy took over Lin Fan, they wouldn't know the relationship between them since it wouldn't be able to read through Lin Fan's memories that quickly.

So whatever was in the strange energy would most likely dodge if Angela attacked them.

After letting himself be hit, Lin Fan quickly apologized to Angela and explained that it was just a test.

However, Angela had been a bit self conscious lately because of her weight.

It was all the fault of those sweets and how delicious they were.

Before she came to the human world, she never knew about these delicious treats. But now that she had been exposed to them, she couldn't resist them at all.

Especially the new treats that she found in the Lin Astral Empire.

Unlike the Blue Star Planet that struggled to fight against the Beast Race and had food problems, the Lin Astral Empire had abundant food because of their experts guarding their territory.

The level of cooking in the Lin Astral Empire was far above that of the Blue Star Planet, so there were treats that even Lin Fan had never heard of before. However, there wasn't a single dessert that didn't taste good since Lin Fan was a part of the Lin Astral Family.

The cooks of the Lin Astral Family were specially gathered from all the cooks in the Lin Astral Empire, so they were the best of the best. The things that they cooked were naturally delicious.

As well, they used the best ingredients offered in the Lin Astral Empire.

That was just the power of the Lin Astral Family.

It was inevitable that Angela would gain a few pounds from eating all these desserts.

But it wasn't a problem since at her level of cultivation, she could easily burn through the fat that gathered and restore her figure.

However, as a woman, she couldn't help feeling a bit insecure about it.

When it was pointed out by Lin Fan, she didn't hesitate to…beat him.

After this little incident, they didn't waste any time to head out of town.

With Lin Fan absorbing the rest of the strange energy, he had been able to fully form the statue inside of his dantian. With that fully formed statue, his control over the strange energy was much greater than before.

With this control, he was able to easily move all of the skeletons out of his way with coordinated balls of strange energy around them.

This created a straight path out of the city for them.

With this distraction, they were able to make their way out of the city without any incidents at all and were able to follow the system's map again.

They found that once all of the skeletons entered the city, there were no more skeletons left in the surrounding area.

After following the path set by the system's map, they quickly arrived at what seemed to be a large canyon.

When they looked down, they found that they couldn't see the bottom at all.

It was like this place was a bottomless pit.

But the worst part was that it was just too wide for them to jump over it.

As for flying over it…it was much too dangerous since they couldn't see what was underneath them.

There could be all kinds of hidden danger underneath them in the canyon, so they didn't dare risk it.

But the map was pointing them across this canyon, so they didn't really have a choice. They had to find some kind of way across or else they wouldn't be able to finish this mission.

Not to mention, time was against them.

They had spent quite a bit of time in the city dealing with the skeletons and that had used up quite a bit of their time.

If they continued at this pace, they definitely wouldn't be able to reach the goal in time.

So they had to speed up a bit.

Without a choice, they did the only thing that they could do. They started looking around the area, trying to find a place to cross this canyon.

Luckily for them, they were able to find a bridge quite quickly.

Unluckily for them, this bridge was just a simple rock bridge that cut across the canyon. It was nothing more than a strip of rock that led from one side to what they assumed would be the other side.

After all, there should be something holding this strip of rock up.

It was just a problem that this was a very simple and small rock bridge, so they wouldn't have anywhere to run or to defend themselves if there was something that attacked them from below.

Still, after going through their options, they still decided that this was the best way.

After all, it was better than flying. At the very least, they would have some ground to stand on and move around on to fight instead of being trapped in the air.

So going in a row, they made their way across the bridge.

It was Yuki right in front, Angela and Lin Fan in the middle, and Momonga in the back.

This was the formation that they decided was the best for them.

Yuki with her snow laws would be able to instantly cover them and deal with anything that came at them. Momonga in the back was already surrounded by many different ghosts that he had summoned earlier.

He was the one that could use his summons to support Yuki and block their back if necessary.

As for Lin Fan and Angela in the middle, Lin Fan was there since it was the safest place and Angela was there to protect him if anything went wrong.

It was Lin Fan who was on the task for the master of the store, so it was important that he make it to the end.

Lin Fan was against this, but he was also the weakest person, so his arguments were rejected.

Just like this, they started making their way across the bridge.

It seemed quite peaceful at first, like nothing was going to happen…

Until something happened.

It was subtle at first, but then they started hearing the bone clacking sounds around them.

Out of the darkness of the canyon, they saw something white flying up towards them.

These things were clearly skeletons, but they were different from the skeletons before.

These things looked like fish instead of humans and they were flying through the air with what seemed to be wings where their fins should have been.

And of course, the one thing that they all had was the same strange energy as the skeletons.