Chapter 611: Soul Burial Forest (Five Thousand)

I have to say, although Patridge is not a very good person, his methods are really quite clever.

Watching those silk threads that looked like infrared warning lines being casually pushed aside by Patridge, the whole process did not even trigger the warning magic. Ron was amazed by this method and had no idea how Patridge did it.

But no matter what, the road ahead is finally opened.

Ron and the other two quickly got through.

At this moment, Ron couldn't help but feel a little fortunate in his heart that he had formed such a temporary alliance. If it weren't for the fact that this alliance had all kinds of capable people, if he acted alone, he would be discovered immediately after entering the canyon.

The group of old guys in the Andre family are obviously very powerful, but they are all terribly afraid of death. The entire canyon is about three kilometers long. Within these three kilometers, there are dozens of various warning magics deployed. If you are not careful, you will be in trouble.

And every warning magic was broken by Patridge.

Although Patridge is the only one busy at the moment, he is not bored at all with this kind of thing. He even looks very excited. As long as it is something that can make the Andre family unhappy, Patridge will be particularly happy.

After breaking through the last cordon, the four finally left the canyon.

I thought that after leaving the canyon that could be described as a narrow strip of sky, the Soul Burial Forest inside the crater should be suddenly bright and clear. However, after actually stepping into the Soul Burial Forest, everyone discovered that this was not the case at all.

filthy.

gloomy.

A looming madness.

The oppressive atmosphere is even stronger than inside the canyon.

The Soul Burial Forest, although also located in the Dusk Continent and within this world, seems to be a space independent of the Dusk Continent, and everything here is incompatible with the outside world.

It was mid-afternoon outside and the sun was just setting, but there was no sunlight at all here. It was not because of the surrounding mountains blocking the way. After entering the Soul Burial Forest, the first thing you saw was the thick fog that covered every area you could see in front of you.

On the ground and in the air, there was thick gray-black fog everywhere.

The thick fog blocked everything, and not a single ray of sunlight could penetrate the blockade.

There was clearly no wind at all, but the thick fog was rolling and wriggling slowly and chaotically.

Through the layers of thick fog, you can see huge and sturdy tree trunks, dense and low weeds, huge rocks, and hazy and distorted phantoms between the mountains and forests. They are twisting and wriggling, and you can hear a teeth-grinding hissing in your ears, but you don't know if it's just an illusion.

Gulp.

I heard the sound of swallowing saliva.

It's not just Ron, the other three are the same. Perhaps everyone who sees the Soul Burial Forest for the first time will find it difficult to conceal the horror and depression in their hearts.

As expected of being one of the four forbidden areas of Dusk Continent, this place is truly weird.

Even though the four of them could be considered extremely daring, at this moment, they could all feel a dense layer of small bumps appearing on their skin, and they had a creepy feeling of fear.

In other words, these four people are very skilled and brave. If they were replaced by practitioners with slightly weaker mental endurance, they would have turned around and ran away in embarrassment. After all, it takes an incredible amount of courage to enter the Soul Burial Forest.

Everyone silently gazed at the Soul Burial Forest in front of them, and no one said much for a while.

After a few seconds, everyone came back to their senses. Patrick walked forward, squatted on the ground, pressed the soil in front of him with one hand, and his spiritual awareness quickly spread along the ground.

A few seconds later, Partridge retracted his hand and stood up, shaking his head at the other three people: "Within the range of my spiritual sense, there is no warning magic."

"Also, this place is a bit weird. The perception of spiritual consciousness is strongly suppressed and interfered with. The range that can be perceived is only one-third of the normal range."

Partridge added.

But even so, this is good news.

Patrich's strength is so strong that the range of his spiritual perception may not cover the entire Soul Burial Forest, but it must cover half of it. Even if it is only one third, it can still cover about half of the area of ​​the Soul Burial Forest.

The current situation has basically been confirmed and the road ahead is smooth.

There are only two reasons why this happens.

The first reason is that the old guys in the Andre family believe that the warning magic in the canyon is enough to make all invaders nowhere to hide, so there is no need to set up additional warnings inside the Soul Burial Forest.

The second reason is that those old guys are convinced that certain existences in the Soul Burial Forest are capable of intercepting all invaders.

Somehow, Ron felt that the second possibility seemed more likely.

"Let's go."

I don't know who said it, but the team that had stopped started moving forward again.

Only this time, everyone was no longer as frivolous as before. Everyone's chest became heavy, as if a huge rock weighing thousands of tons was pressing on them. Every step they took was so heavy.

Perhaps because she was wearing a heavy suit of armor that looked quite defensive, Philomena walked in the front, while Ron, Patridge, and Hefferson followed behind. Everyone was alertly sensing the movements in all directions, and could react immediately if there was any disturbance.

Crunch, crunch, snap, snap…

The soles of my feet stepped on the ground, and the dead branches broke, making a crisp sound.

This place is truly a forest.

As you walk along the way, you can see many thick tree trunks. Looking up, you can see layers of tree crowns above your head. It is hard to imagine how the trees can still grow so lush in this place shrouded in thick fog and without sunlight all year round.

The fallen leaves formed a thick layer on the ground.

Click.

A different voice came from Hefferson's feet nearby.

The strength of the four people was extraordinary, and they could immediately feel that there was something wrong with the sound. They immediately looked in the direction of Heferson, only to see that the high priest of the elves was frowning at this moment. He squatted down, stretched out his hand to push away the fallen leaves on the ground, and soon a pale thing came into view.

Hefferson picked it up and found that it was half of a skull that had been crushed.

Then push aside the leaves around the skull, and a complete skull will appear in everyone's eyes.

Obviously, these are the remains of a cultivator who once broke into the Soul Burial Forest but ultimately failed to leave.

The skeleton is very small.

It can’t be a child. A child wouldn’t have the strength to break into the Soul Burial Forest. It can only be... a dwarf.

This should be a master of the dwarf tribe.

It was not a good sign after just a few steps into the Soul Burial Forest that he encountered such a skeleton. The most surprising thing was that the dwarf was very close to the entrance of the canyon. It was said that he could leave this strange forest as long as he rushed out a few more steps, but he ultimately failed to escape from the Soul Burial Forest.

Ron even looked back to confirm. Although covered by thick fog, the entrance to the canyon was vaguely visible.

Perhaps, they had been in the Soul Burial Forest for too short a time and had not been severely eroded, so their consciousness was still clear. But if they were like this dwarf, who had stayed in the Soul Burial Forest for too long and suffered a mental breakdown, they would not be able to see the entrance even if it was right in front of them.

Heferson also squatted down and examined the body carefully.

He was clearly good at this stuff, and it didn't take Hefferson long to come to a conclusion.

"Apart from the half of his head that I accidentally crushed, there are no other scars on the dwarf's body. His limbs are not twisted, and there are no signs of poison in his bones... If my guess is correct, his soul must have been taken away or destroyed by a powerful spirit in an instant, causing his body to become a living dead, and he eventually starved to death here."

Heferson's voice was low and suppressed: "Be careful, I can sense that there is at least one very powerful spirit in this Soul Burial Forest. It is not an easy existence to deal with."

It is conceivable that the enemy's strength is really strong, as Hefferson could issue such a warning.

Although everyone had their own ulterior motives when the alliance was first formed, after experiencing countless alerts in the canyon and as soon as they stepped into the Soul Burial Forest, everyone subconsciously began to share the information they had without keeping anything to themselves.

The weird atmosphere already shows that the enemy is difficult to deal with. In this situation, only by uniting as one can we fight for a chance to survive.

Just to live, that's all.

As they continued walking, they discovered more and more similar skeletons. They were all the same, without a single scar on their bodies, and no signs of poisoning. They were all corpses of people who had their souls stripped away and starved to death.

At some point, the entrance to the canyon behind me could no longer be seen.

The gray fog became thicker, so thick that everyone felt that the air around them was damp, as if drops of water were sticking to their bodies, which was very uncomfortable.

There were more and more bones on the ground. When we went deep into the Soul Burial Forest, the entire forest floor seemed to be covered with bones. The number of bones made everyone subconsciously tense. For thousands of years, no one knew how many lives had died in the Soul Burial Forest. Ten thousand, a hundred thousand? Or even more?

Even the bones of a giant dragon were found.

Even a giant dragon is going to die here. The danger level of the Soul Burial Forest has instantly increased to a higher level. The four of them no longer have the ease they had before. They have become more cautious and careful with every step forward.

In the dense forest, faintly, all kinds of indescribable sounds kept drilling into my ears.

It seemed like a woman's sad and resentful cry, or a baby's painful cry.

The sound was everywhere, and even if the four of them temporarily blocked their hearing, they were unable to completely block the spread of the sound.

This strange voice seemed to carry enough power to bewitch people. Even with the strength and realm of the four people, they inexplicably felt a little more upset in their chests, as if there was an unknown fire accumulating in their chests that seemed likely to burst into flames at any time, but no real flames came out, only thick black smoke kept coming out. This feeling only made people more irritated.

You have to know that these four people are all in the Destruction Realm and the Demigod Realm. The atmosphere in the Soul Burial Forest can actually affect their minds. Just this point is enough to make the four of them understand how terrifying the Soul Burial Forest is.

Four pairs of eyes could constantly detect hazy and blurred shadows from the thick fog.

Those strange shadows waved at the four people, as if luring everyone to come forward and get closer. Although they did not cause any substantial harm, just looking at this scene made people feel even more annoyed.

It felt like a feather was constantly scratching my body, or like a bunch of furry bugs were crawling behind my neck, or like a swarm of flies were buzzing around my head. Although it didn't cause any substantial harm, it was extremely annoying.

Finally, after an unknown amount of time, Heferson could no longer bear this feeling, and he gritted his teeth and rushed towards a shadow. However, when Heferson just rushed to the location of the shadow, he suddenly discovered that there was nothing here except a thick fog.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Just dozens of meters in front of Heferson, the shadow appeared again silently, and just like before, it waved at Heferson in a slow manner, as if it had maintained a certain frequency from beginning to end.

"call……"

Hefferson exhaled heavily.

To have achieved what he has today, Heferson is definitely not a stupid and reckless idiot. He could naturally see that there was something fishy about the shadow and would not rush in. He just rushed over to find out what was going on because he was really annoyed and he was absolutely confident in his own strength.

However, after failing to capture the shadow for the first time, Heferson immediately gave up the idea of ​​chasing it, but his face still looked very unhappy: "This place is so wrong."

"The Soul Burial Forest is truly worthy of being one of the four forbidden areas."

“How many people have died in this place over the years?”

"How long have we been here?"

Hefferson threw out several questions in a row.

"I don't know exactly how many people died, but looking at the corpses on the ground, even if it was an ancient battlefield, it would probably be no more than this. I'm afraid that the number of souls who died here is no less than 100,000." Ron said silently.

"As for the time I came in, in another quarter of an hour, it would be exactly a whole day."

As the master of the laws of time, Ron has an extremely keen sense of time.

The other three people were not very clear about this, so they were a little surprised that Ron could accurately tell the passage of time.

After all, this place cannot distinguish between sun and moon, and it is very easy to lose time in this Soul Burial Forest. Even though the three of them are quite powerful, they have no idea how much time they have experienced.

Of course this was Ron's secret, and the three of them were tactful enough not to ask.

"Ron, you said you saw the future before, so when exactly did you see the future?" Patridge asked another question.

Ron thought for a moment and then responded, "The future I saw was not a precise time point. I can only determine an approximate time period. What I saw could happen at any time point between the third day and half a month in the future."

"In other words, if we want to be safe, we must enter the Andre family's lair within three days?" Heferson frowned.

Ron nodded: "Yes, that's it."

Three days.

They looked at each other and could see the solemnity in each other's eyes.

Three days, this time is really a bit tight.

If it were any other place, three days would be more than enough, but this place happened to be the Soul Burial Forest. This place was really weird. The Soul Burial Forest inside the crater was actually not very big, but this place was filled with some kind of mysterious power that severely suppressed everyone's spiritual consciousness. Otherwise, if the spiritual consciousness was radiated, the situation inside the entire Soul Burial Forest could be perceived clearly in an instant.

But as the time the four people spent in the Soul Burial Forest continued to increase, the suppression of their spiritual consciousness became stronger and stronger. Now, even with Patridge's level, the range of their spiritual consciousness is only one tenth of what it was at the beginning. Coupled with the thick fog blocking their vision, the four people even suspected that they had lost their way here, and it is very likely that they have been standing still for such a long time.

This is not a good sign. In this case, it will be extremely difficult to find the target's location within three days.

The worst thing is that although they know that the entrance to the Andre family's lair is in the Soul Burial Forest, no one knows what the entrance looks like.

Of course, these four people are not ordinary people after all. Their strength levels are there. Even if they get lost here for a while, they are still confident that they can escape from the Soul Burial Forest. Otherwise, they would not easily set foot in the forbidden area.

"Shall we act separately?" Philomena said quietly, the mercury lamp still floating above her head.

The mercury lamp was flashing with a hazy luster from beginning to end. Strangely enough, although the Soul Burial Forest was covered with thick fog, the fog was instantly dispersed within the range of the mercury lamp. No matter how fierce the fog was in other places, it could not enter the influence range of the mercury lamp from beginning to end.

If it weren't for the mercury lamp, the thick fog would have separated the four people long ago.

Philomena felt that with four people acting separately, the probability of finding the Andre family's lair would increase significantly.

However, this proposal was unanimously opposed by everyone.

This place is weird in itself. If the four of them gather together, they can still take care of each other. If they are separated, they will not know how they died.

"whee……"

At this moment, a light laughter, like that of a child, suddenly came into my ears from the left.

Snap, snap, snap.

Immediately afterwards, a round ball suddenly rolled out from the bushes.

Looking in the direction where the ball was rolling, a blurry figure suddenly came into everyone's sight. In the fog, one could see a small figure, slowly crawling on all fours on the ground.

Although it was not clear, the feeling was quite obvious, as if it was just a baby who was born not long ago.

The four of them had seen many strange things and were not surprised. They had seen more gloomy scenes than this one countless times. Philomena, Hefferson and Patridge soon lost interest in the child.

To put it bluntly, this is just a ghost baby, no big deal.

If it weren't for the special aura of this place, it is hard to say whether this ghost baby can survive until now. To the four of them, it is just an ant that can be killed in the snap of a finger and is not worth worrying about.

However, Ron's eyes were fixed on the ghost baby.

Even through a layer of thick fog, Ron could still clearly see that this ghost baby was different from ordinary baby spirits. His limbs were twisted in a natural yet unnatural way. Although he was crawling on the ground, his legs were spread out to the sides like a frog.

It's not that the legs were broken artificially, it's as if they were born like this.

And its arms were obviously shorter than those of a normal baby. If that were all, it would not be too surprising. However, an arm suddenly appeared out of nowhere on the baby's chest, supporting the ground and preventing the baby spirit from falling completely to the ground.

Thinking of some information about the Andre family, Ron frowned more and more. The Andre family has always practiced close relative inheritance. In this situation, a super genius may be born, but it is more likely that a large number of deformed children will be born.

Partridge's branch left these deformed children behind to serve as food for the monsters in the underground palace.

So, what about the Andre family? How did they deal with this deformed child?

Take good care of it?

Impossible, absolutely impossible.

Based on Ron's understanding of the Andre family, although they have the purest bloodline and have been passed down from generation to generation, blood ties are extremely weak for the Andre family.

If these deformed children cannot demonstrate their own value, the Andre family will never raise them well.

When thinking about the countless corpses in the Soul Burial Forest, there are many remains of various young children, many of which have twisted limbs.

I originally thought that those remains might be the remains of the dwarves, but judging from the proportions, the number of these short skeletons is a bit too much.

A thought appeared in Ron's mind, his face turned pale in an instant, and even beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

Could it be that... those scumbags of the Andre family threw all these children into the Soul Burial Forest and left them to fend for themselves? Newborn babies with deformities were directly abandoned.

Are those who are not physically deformed also abandoned when they grow up to a certain age and are found to have mental problems? How many children have they abandoned over the years?

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