Surviving in high-level martial arts and stacking Hextech

Chapter 82 Star Mist Gray Corridor

Jiang Feng stepped onto the black frozen earth.

They are separated by only a thin line.

The rainwater overhead had all disappeared.

Turning around again, the Dead Sea was still churning, the wind was howling, and the rain was pouring down.

"It seems this rain is limited to the Dead Sea area," Ding Xiuqi said, exchanging glances with Jiang Feng.

"Hmm." Jiang Feng said thoughtfully, "This should be the legendary domain power that only grandmasters possess?"

Ding Xiuqi nodded. "That should be it."

During the conversation, all the students had disembarked from the starship.

After checking everyone's mental state one by one, Ge Cheng waved to his subordinate Da Liu behind him, and then life-saving bracelets, just like those worn during the monthly exam, were quickly distributed to everyone.

"Dear students, I believe you all know how to use this bracelet, so I won't go into its specific effects. If you encounter any danger within the ruins that you cannot handle, be sure to crush it immediately!"

Everyone responded in unison.

As Jiang Feng mentioned the bracelet, he glanced at Fang Ruo in the group of mentors with a half-smile. Fang Ruo happened to be looking over, and the moment their eyes met, her face stiffened, and she turned her head away awkwardly.

Ge Cheng pointed to the entrance to the ruins not far away. Jiang Feng followed his gaze and saw a broken stone gate standing there, hundreds of feet high.

"Ahead lies the outer entrance to the Martial King's Ruins. The restrictions left by that Grandmaster still exist; none of you with cultivation reaching the Qi and Blood Realm are permitted to enter. Anyone who forces their way in will be obliterated by the formation!"

He waved his hand dismissively, "This expedition will last for half a month. Everyone... take care!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Hengzhou could no longer contain himself. He took the lead and transformed into a streak of light, rushing into the broken stone door shrouded in gray mist.

Following closely behind, top geniuses such as Zhang Shixu also followed suit.

"Jiang Feng, if you get separated after entering, remember to meet up with us," Lin Lu said, moving closer to Jiang Feng.

Beside her were Ding Xiuqi, Chen Lin, Guo Chun, Zhang Ruanruan, Luo Feng, and Yuan Guannan.

The eight people had already reached a tacit agreement before entering the ruins to help each other without affecting their own competitive interests.

"Alright, let's go inside and talk." Jiang Feng nodded, his Darkblood circulating slightly within him, and stepped into the massive gate shrouded in gray mist.

The instant he passed through the stone gate.

"Buzz—"

A strong sense of weightlessness came over me, and the scene before my eyes distorted instantly, like a shattered mirror.

When he regained his sight, he found himself all alone.

"As expected."

He murmured to himself and began to look around.

They found themselves in an incredibly wide, ancient corridor shrouded in thick fog.

Beneath his feet were cracked, dark blue-green stone slabs. Amidst the swirling mist, he could see tall, human-shaped stone statues standing on both sides of the road, stretching into the distance.

The expressions on the faces of these stone statues are clearly visible, and what gives him the creeps is that these figurative expressions are all negative.

Anger, depression, fear, confusion, sadness, pain, shock...

With three layers of protection around him, Jiang Feng walked forward with a furrowed brow.

These expressions are so realistic that even the textures on them are clearly visible.

He had a guess in his mind:

These statues are probably not carved by humans, but rather... formed from living people who were completely petrified!

This conjecture isn't exactly far-fetched, after all, this is a world of high martial arts, where anything can happen.

What made him furrow his brow was that, if that were the case, what kind of despairing scenes had they witnessed in their lifetime?

Furthermore... these stone statues are about tens of feet tall. What kind of race are they, to have such an exaggerated size?

Could they be subordinates of King Wu?

To be honest, he didn't even know how King Wu died; he only knew that this was the place where he passed away.

"rustle……"

In the deathly silent corridor, only the echo of his own footsteps reverberated.

Just as he vaguely saw a light appear ahead—

Whispers echoed from the stone statues on all sides.

"Why...why did the king abandon us..."

"It hurts so much...my body, worms are growing inside my body..."

"The starry sky... Don't look at the starry sky! It's watching us!"

It is spiritual pollution.

Jiang Feng was prepared for this. Although the Heart Lock Suppressing Evil Protection could not be used as a means of attack, it was still a high-grade Xuan-level weapon, which was quite authoritative in defending against this kind of pollution.

Hearing these sounds, he was only slightly distracted, but far from losing control.

Keep moving forward.

I don't know how long I walked.

He suddenly stopped in his tracks.

Then, he stared blankly at the two figures blocking his path.

"Dad... Mom...?"

What stood in his way was the image of his parents from his mind!

"Wait a minute..." The moment this thought crossed his mind, he froze again. "On Earth, didn't I grow up in an orphanage? Where did I get parents?"

He stared intently, and only then did he vaguely recall that the two people's faces were clearly the photos of his parents that Ye Weiwei had shown him when he was a child.

They are his parents in this world, existing in the deepest memories of his heart, which is why they are reflected in his mind.

"......"

In the silence, Jiang Feng chuckled softly.

He took a step forward.

The smoke disappeared.

He naturally wouldn't feel any emotional fluctuation towards someone he'd only met once or twice in a photograph.

Is this fog going to test him with his family?

But he's an orphan!

It cannot be selected.

"Even if you're going to change, at least change into Sister Ye Wei."

Jiang Feng chuckled to himself and overcame this mental barrier.

Ahead, the gray fog dissipated, and a bright light shone forth.

.......

Meanwhile, outside the ruins, at the starship.

One after another, beams of green light flashed frequently in front of the instructors. It took quite a while for the continuous light to finally stop.

Before Katsuragi's eyes, more than ninety pale-faced students had been eliminated from the Misty Corridor and forcibly sent out.

He could only give a helpless, bitter smile.

"Alright, alright, consider this a preview of what real starry sky mental pollution is like. You... go aboard and rest."

........

The moment Jiang Feng stepped out of the corridor, the suppressed whispers in his mind vanished completely.

He has fully regained his senses.

As the fog dissipated, his vision cleared.

He was standing on a cliff face, the sky a deep orange-red.

Behind them was a vortex leading to the misty gray corridor.

He looked ahead and saw an enormous, open depression, as if formed by a meteorite impact. The depression was probably several kilometers in diameter, surrounded by steep, black rock walls.

From a distance, one could see countless monsters crawling in the depression, and in the very center of that depression, there was a huge pool!

In the pool, the bright red liquid gurgled and splashed, just like blood. Even from this distance, Jiang Feng could still sense the vigorous blood energy boiling and churning within the pool.

"That is... the opportunity left behind by King Wu?"

He squinted and examined it carefully.