Along with the sunset, the Huangquan Road, enveloped in darkness, turned into a dead world without any vitalities, and what hidden underneath were endless crises and massacres. All the warriors shrouded in the desperate land were struggling to survive, but most of them failed.
Zhang Yan headed for the fighting noises, disguising his breathes carefully. He could sense the slight disorder of those familiar breathes－she must be in danger.
The fighting sounds were getting closer and closer, but he couldn't see anyone around, which puzzled him, "Why? I can feel the noises are near us, but nobody else is here! What's going on?"
"You might have entered a maze. If you can't find its eye or its regulations, you will be trapped here to death!" The voice of the Purifying Lotus was dignified.
"But you have been walking on the bleak land without any signs of a maze now. So, another explanation is that you might have suffered a soul attack."
"Soul attack?"
Surprises sat in Zhang Yan's eyes, "How can someone attack my soul? The Stone to Suppress Souls and you are in my Knowledge Ocean all the way! When can I be unconsciously attacked?"
The lotus replied him with uncertainty, "I have never encountered this before, but I can assure that your soul can't have been attacked, yet your status now is like that."
Zhang Yan stood quietly with a frown, "Then what should I do? Do I have to go on moving forward?"
"You hold your mind first, and let me check what's wrong with you." The lotus spun itself, and a trace of white energy flew out, spreading to all parts of Zhang Yan's body along with his spiritual energy. When the white energy arrived at his chest, it was suddenly blocked.
"I know! You are here! Come out!" Zhang Yan yelled under the control of the lotus.
A layer of faint purple energy, very similar to the lower part of the Nightmare Monster, began to separate from Zhang Yan's chest. He wondered, "What is this?"
The lotus answered with a snort, "It is called Dream, a parasite on the Nightmare Monster. Strictly speaking, it is not a creature, but a kind of energy with intelligence, and is able to be attached to any things. And once it did that, the host's soul and nerve will be under its control."
"I've forgotten about it. Fortunately, it is very fragile, and you can kill it easily." The lotus added.
It was such an amazing fresh to Zhang Yan; he sighed, "The world is wonderful! I can never imagine energy with intelligence before!" He transported spiritual energy in his hand, and smashed the Dream in a flash.
At the moment when the Dream disappeared, Zhang Yan's brain returned conscious, and he could saw the battle less than one kilometer away from him.
Unexpectedly, it was not a fight between humans and ghosts like he guessed, but two groups of warriors with dim crystal lamps.
Refusing to act rashly, Zhang Yan moved closer to them in caution, and stopped when he was two hundred meters away from them. After a careful observation, he strangely discovered that it was Meng Yao and her group fellows fighting against some other members of the Family Meng.
Zhang Yan didn't show up to help immediately, but chose to stay closer in the darkness to find out what was going on.
There were both six warriors in each group. Besides them, another six people were already lying on the ground, without any breathes, seeming dead.
Meng Yao uttered with great anger, "You have killed your fellows! Are you going to rebel? Aren't you afraid of the torturing punishment of the family?" Her breathes seemed heavy, and face pale under the lights of the crystal lamps.
An old man and four middle-aged people stood behind her; the old man was the one who Zhang Yan met in the Huangquan Auction House.
Opposite to Meng Yao were two old men and four middle-aged people. The head old man revealed a sneering smile, "Miss, we have been serving for your Family Meng for so many years, and now we are appointed to follow you into the Huangquan Road, a badly dangerous place, with no ideas about why we are here. We don't want to die in such an unclear situation! What's more, since we are now in the Huangquan Road, do you think we are still afraid of you?"
"Do you think you can still go back alive? To be frank, we have always wanted your body, and it is an opportunity today! Haha!" The four middle-aged people glanced over Meng Yao's body with greed and lust in their eyes.
Fears overwhelmed Meng Yao. She began to cover her body with her hand, intending to block their sight, while taking two steps back. The old man beside her moved forward in front of her, and snarled with a clod look, "You brutes! The Family Meng has treated you well! But you despicable traitors intend to rape the Miss! You are inhuman, and I won't let you do that!"
"If you want to do harm to the Miss, kill me first!" The old man righteously shouted.
The opposite old man responded with a jeering smile, "Meng Xiuping, you and I hold the same cultivation level! Do you think I will be afraid of you? We just want Meng Yao! And the rest of you can leave, or you will all die here!"
Meng Xiuping laughed out loud, "Meng Xiuwen, I'm afraid that you can't kill me!"