In front of the group, with the Yin family’s ancestral graveyard at the centre, the entire ground within a radius of hundreds of miles emitted a faint glow.
A subtle holy aura suddenly emanated from the ground, giving a sense of peace and reassurance.
This was the complete opposite of the terror the group had felt earlier. Even the Purple Corpse Puppet outside the city gate, whose body had been trembling, calmed down.
“What’s happening?” The group was utterly bewildered.
Before, they felt a terrifying sensation, but now their minds were at ease, and the entire ground radiated a faint holy glow. What was beneath the Yin family’s headquarters?
Boom!
At that moment, a loud rumble sounded, and the earth began to tremble violently, as if an earthquake had struck.
“What’s going on?”
The group was alarmed.
“Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!”
A series of rumbling sounds followed, and the ground shook incessantly, like a continuous earthquake. Buildings in the city collapsed one after another.
“Retreat!” Dongfang Kaiyuan shouted urgently.
Yun Jing, controlling the Sky Control Boat with Lin Xiao, began to retreat. Lin Xiao instinctively commanded the Purple Corpse Puppet to return to the boat.
However, the puppet stood motionless, in a dazed state.
Ignoring the puppet, Lin Xiao’s Sky Control Boat swiftly retreated.
The other two boats also pulled back two to three hundred miles, stopping at the edge of the glowing ground, rising high into the air, remaining vigilant.
Lin Xiao and the others kept their eyes fixed on the scene ahead.
The sudden shaking of this area was too eerie, as if something was striking the ground.
“Could it be that this ground is a massive seal, and something inside is trying to break it?” Sheng Qianyu speculated, her expression grave.
“Very likely,” Sikong Jian said, frowning deeply, his face equally serious.
Though the ground still emitted a faint holy glow, everyone felt a deep unease.
This unease came not from the outside but from within their hearts.
It was as if something momentous was about to happen.
The faint glow gradually faded and soon disappeared entirely.
Crack!
The moment the holy glow vanished, all traces of the sacred aura disappeared. The ground, once radiant, began to crack.
In Lin Xiao’s and the others’ view, massive fissures spread toward them from afar.
From a distance, they could see clearly that the epicentre of the cracking was at the Yin family’s graveyard, where countless fissures radiated outward from the area piled with trees, vines, and grass.
At the same time, a profound sense of unease and fear surged in the hearts of Lin Xiao and everyone else, as if the end of the world was imminent.
Yet their gazes were drawn to the Yin family’s graveyard.
Crack!
Another loud noise, and the ground split further, with existing fissures growing larger.
The largest fissure, the one they first saw, had widened to two or three yards across.
At that moment, torrents of sinister qi surged out from the largest fissure, with dense sinister qi also emanating from the others.
Then, a hoarse voice, chilling as if from ancient times, echoed faintly from the largest fissure, “I will descend upon the world with darkness.”
Lin Xiao and all the Martial Emperors present were horrified, their scalps tingling.
Yet they were trapped in the same terrifying state they experienced upon entering, a fear that made them unable to look away.
Their hearts were filled with terror, but their gazes were fixed on the massive fissure outside the Yin family’s graveyard, as if their bodies were rooted to the spot.
The feeling of fear, unwillingness to move, and the urge to stare intensified. The more terrified they felt, the more their gazes locked onto it.
“I will descend upon the world with darkness.”
Another bone-chilling hoarse voice rang out. From the massive fissure spewing sinister qi, a pair of hands faintly emerged.
Then, the group saw a corpse, radiating torrents of sinister qi, crawl out from the fissure and slowly rise into the air.
The temperature in the entire area plummeted, as if winter had arrived.
An overwhelmingly terrifying aura burst from the corpse, spreading across hundreds of miles.
Lin Xiao and the others were instantly horrified to the extreme, their hairs standing on end.
That terrifying sensation had reached its peak.
Many Martial Emperors began to tremble uncontrollably, their faces contorting in fear.
Yet no one could shake off the terrifying feeling.
Or rather, no one could truly snap out of it, not even Lin Xiao.
“Hah!” At that moment, a thunderous shout came from behind the group, resonating across hundreds of miles.
Simultaneously, three torrents of yellow energy, like raging rivers, swept past Lin Xiao and the others from the side, surging toward the Yin family’s graveyard.
The three streams of yellow energy, like waters from the underworld, carried a heavy aura of death, as if they could corrode all things. Where they passed, yellow qi spread, and a putrid stench filled the air.
As these three forces surged and the voice rang out, Lin Xiao and the others finally snapped out of their trance.
The moment they came to, they were overwhelmed with horror, breaking into cold sweats.
They had just been trapped in that terrifying sensation.
If no one had woken them, they might have been stuck even longer.
Everyone felt a lingering fear. Even people of their strength had been ensnared by that sensation.
If they remained trapped in it for long, they might lose their minds entirely.
That feeling of growing terror yet wanting to stare was too horrifying. It was hard to imagine how dreadful it would be if it led to death.
If so, their faces might be contorted in terror upon death.
They now understood that the source of that terror came from the corpse emerging from the ground.
Something terrifying was indeed buried beneath the Yin family’s ground, seemingly a corpse.
However, with the torrents of sinister qi, they couldn’t see it clearly.
“Retreat now!” Sikong Jian shouted urgently. The three Sky Control Boats were about to retreat swiftly.
“No need to retreat!” At that moment, a voice sounded behind them. The group turned to see three elders rapidly approaching.
These three elders seemed over two hundred years old, their faces sallow, wrinkled, and bodies gaunt, like reanimated corpses.
One of them, recognised by many, was the Burial Sect Martial Emperor who had saved Lin Xiao multiple times.
“People from the Burial Sect!” the group exclaimed.
