I Can Upgrade Everything Infinitely - Chapter 191 - 183: Ye Family Village
Chapter 191: Chapter 183: Ye Family Village
Through the faint, grayish-black mist, Xu Qing could vaguely make out some indistinct figures and what seemed to be the simple, rural life of villagers.
However,
the entire atmosphere felt eerie. A village like this shouldn’t just appear so abruptly in such a vast wilderness, and it was in the middle of nowhere.
Most importantly,
the entire village was shrouded in grayish-black mist. The villagers within were blurry, and it was impossible to tell if they were even truly human.
This in itself was abnormal.
The closer Xu Qing drew, the thicker the eerie atmosphere became.
“You two go scout ahead.”
Xu Qing commanded.
“Yes.”
“As you command.”
After hearing Xu Qing’s command, the Vajra Daoist Soldier and the Ice Daoist Soldier responded respectfully before entering the grayish-black mist, one after the other.
HUM!
Strange ripples spread out.
The moment the Vajra Daoist Soldier and the Ice Daoist Soldier stepped into the grayish-black mist, Xu Qing’s vision distorted and changed, as if space itself were twisting.
His vision blurred.
The Vajra Daoist Soldier and the Ice Daoist Soldier vanished from Xu Qing’s sight, but he could still sense their positions.
They were directly in front of him.
He could sense they were right ahead, yet he couldn’t see the two Daoist Soldiers.
The next moment,
with a thought, Xu Qing used the True Spirit Manifestation Technique, preparing to share the vision of his Daoist Soldiers, but he discovered the grayish-black mist had a blocking effect.
It could only be said…
…that ’Mysterious: Deserted Village’ was truly extraordinary.
“Hooo…”
Xu Qing took a deep breath. “It seems using the Vajra Daoist Soldier and the Ice Daoist Soldier to scout the path is not going to work. I have no choice but to go in myself.”
“Let’s go!”
He hesitated no longer.
Xu Qing focused his mind. With a thought, he pushed the Devouring Demon Technique Second Secret Method to its absolute limit, taking on the aspect of a true Great Demon.
HUM! HUM!
Pitch-black Demonic Qi swirled around his body.
His Demon Nature flared.
Xu Qing slowly walked in. The surrounding grayish-black mist billowed as if it possessed Spirituality. As he entered, the mist constantly flowed and shifted.
At the same time,
as the grayish-black mist flowed and shifted upon his entry, the scene before his eyes changed. By the time Xu Qing came to his senses, he found himself standing at the entrance to Ye Family Village.
“This is…”
Xu Qing looked around, somewhat surprised by the scene that met his eyes. The wilderness was gone, replaced by towering peaks that joined together to form a continuous mountain range.
Ye Family Village was situated at the edge of this mountain range.
At that moment,
Xu Qing stood at the entrance to Ye Family Village. A willow tree grew there, its main trunk scorched black with faint traces of lightning flickering within it—clearly a Thunderstruck Willow Tree.
Upon closer inspection,
he discovered that the willow tree was faintly showing new signs of life.
A stone monument stood at the entrance, carved with the three large words ’Ye Family Village’. A wide path led from the entrance straight into the village.
After a moment of thought,
Xu Qing didn’t walk forward. Instead, he took a few steps back. He had only taken about a dozen steps after entering from outside the grayish-black mist.
Therefore,
if he walked backward instead of forward, normal logic dictated that he should only need to retrace his dozen or so steps to exit the grayish-black mist.
HUM! HUM!
But every time Xu Qing retreated about a dozen steps, he felt a sense of spatial distortion and illusion. A dense, grayish-black mist would suddenly appear around him.
Then, when he came to his senses,
he would find himself standing at the village entrance once more.
“Just as I thought,”
Xu Qing said in a low voice. “This ’Mysterious: Deserted Village’ is easy to enter, but not so simple to leave. I can’t tell if this is an illusion formation or the result of actual spatial distortion.”
“For now, I can’t be sure.”
At this thought,
Xu Qing composed himself.
With a thought,
through the faint connection in his mind, Xu Qing vaguely sensed the positions of Ye Langtian, the Vajra Daoist Soldier, and the Ice Daoist Soldier.
Among them,
Ye Langtian was to the southeast, while the Vajra Daoist Soldier and the Ice Daoist Soldier were to the east and west, respectively. They were not in the same place. After confirming their positions, Xu Qing set off toward the southeast.
First,
Xu Qing followed the main road from the entrance into the village.
Before long,
Xu Qing entered the village proper. It was filled with one stone house after another, but not a single one was occupied.
Before he knew it,
Xu Qing had walked through the entire village. He counted carefully and found there were one hundred and eight stone houses in total, all of them completely empty. There wasn’t a single villager to be found.
It was completely deserted.
“No wonder it’s called the Deserted Village,” Xu Qing murmured. “There really isn’t a single person here.”
Moreover,
Xu Qing had already reached Ye Langtian’s location. He could clearly sense that Ye Langtian was right in front of him, yet he couldn’t see or find him.
The sensation…
…was as if the two of them were not in the same space, but in two separate, overlapping spaces, like parallel dimensions.
He could be sensed, but not seen or touched.
So,
Xu Qing changed direction, heading toward the location of the Vajra Daoist Soldier and the Ice Daoist Soldier. When he arrived, he was met with the exact same situation.
