Chapter 299 - Chapter 299: Chapter 145: Night March of a Hundred Ghosts_3

Chapter 299: Chapter 145: Night March of a Hundred Ghosts_3

His gaze swept over the courtyards in front of several wooden cabins, which held a few water barrels, stone mills, and some simple tools.

Such a rudimentary environment made Shen Yuan frown, and he couldn’t help but speak to himself:

“During the era of the Great Yin Empire, even though there were no conveniences of technological civilization, the civilization of spells had reached its peak, where basic talismans replaced many rudimentary tools.

Even ordinary households abandoned their usual farming implements, replacing them with inexpensive talisman devices, greatly enhancing their farming efficiency.

The grassroots of Great Xia would also have inspections by the God of Nourishment Office to provide help for struggling families.”

“In this peak era of cultivation, even the lowest classes of people can easily have enough food to eat, and the environments they live in would not be as simple as this.

Moreover…”

Shen Yuan’s gaze shifted to several deserted fields, where places overgrown with weeds were once thatched cottages that have already collapsed.

This meant that the simple wooden cabins in this village were already considered good dwellings, as most of the thatched cottages had completely collapsed.

“This place is not within the Great Yin Imperial Dynasty?”

Shen Yuan could only make this judgment.

The next moment, Shen Yuan’s gaze fixed on the sky in the distance.

The dim sun seemed to be frozen just above the horizon, casting heavy twilight colors on the land. The fiery clouds reflected ominously across the sky, adding an unsettling hint of blood-red light.

Under this bloody shroud, skeletal hands reached out from piles of shattered tombstones, and numerous warriors resembling corporeal skeletons climbed out of their graves, wandering around the wilderness with rust-covered long swords.

“Caw!”

In the dried-up trees, crows with three eyes let out harsh squawks that echoed across the wilderness.

At this moment, it seemed the world was changing. In the once barren field, myriad apparitions were emerging.

Spirits shaped like lanterns, zombies covered in white hair, skeletons composed of conjoined bones. These terrifying creatures wandered the wilderness, instantly transforming the deserted field into a pandemonium inhabited by a myriad of ghouls.

From the shadows of a distant marsh, enormous crimson eyes peered at Shen Yuan through the veil of the forest, their gazes filled with indescribable savagery and greed.

The earth trembled as the mountains on the edge of the wilderness transformed into gargantuan giants. Their yellow bodies, grotesque faces, and gaping abdominal wounds that were devoid of any flesh or blood suggested their massive bodies had been devoured by evil spirits. Now, only their hollow shells aimlessly roamed the wilderness under the crimson twilight.

The ghastly spirits, the enormous crimson eyes lurking in the marsh, and the wandering skeletal giants had a bizarre aura, but none of them had reached the Spirit Refining Stage, and hence could pose no threat to Shen Yuan.

Nevertheless, the pandemonium before him was something Shen Yuan could hardly believe.

“What the hell is happening?”

“Life and death are out of balance, and the cycle of reincarnation is in chaos. How could such a disaster-stricken place exist in the Primal Chaos Realm?”

With numerous thoughts coursing through his mind, Shen Yuan infused his sword with Elemental Qi and turned it into a Sword Evasion—that tore the sky asunder—to ascend to the clouds enveloping the wilderness.

This place was too bizarre; he wanted to ascend to higher ground to figure out where he was based on the surrounding terrains.

The light of Sword Evasion reached the clouds in an instant, and as Shen Yuan looked down, his eyes met an endless sea.

The wilderness he was in was merely a giant island in the sea.

“What is this?”

Feeling a shiver down his spine, Shen Yuan, the next moment, felt an overwhelming malicious intent surging towards him like a tidal wave.

He turned towards the source of this malevolence, which was the dim sun suspended in the twilight sky.

As he looked up at this sun filled with an aura of death from above the clouds, his gaze pierced through the twilight light that held not a shred of warmth. Finally, he saw the truth hidden behind the sun.

It was a hazy, yellow eye that gazed down on the entire island from a commanding height.

It reflected everything in its sight, appearing as an unrivaled high god who reigned supreme over everything!