Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 290 - 136: The Great Revered One’s lair? The sword’s glow that illuminates the Great Demon Forbidden Land! (A large - of 10,000 words seeking subscriptions)_1
Fan Wu distanced himself from the Nanjun County Prince and came to this place for one particular reason – he had sensed a trace of familiarity in the air, a scent he kept relentlessly pursuing.
Only now had he finally realized why this subtle scent felt so familiar.
It belonged to his old friend.
The Great Revered One!
"The trail has grown too old... Perhaps, in another ten days or half a month, it will vanish completely. The scent on this mud seems to be at least a month or two old," Fan Wu marveled at the keenness of his own senses.
It could only be said that the enhancement to the Power attribute given by the leveling system had astonishingly strengthened everything about him.
Indeed, his sensory perception had become hundreds of times more exaggerated than that of some keenly perceptive wild beasts!
"Could it be... is this the lair of the Great Revered One?"
Fan Wu narrowed his eyes, then shook his head, feeling that this possibility was rather slim.
"If this were the lair of the Great Revered One, then the traces of him wouldn’t be as faint as they are now," Fan Wu pinched some soil between his fingers, flicked it off his hands, and proceeded alone deeper into the area.
He opted to continue following the Nanjun County Prince, for the path taken by the Prince was bound to be the safest one.
If Fan Wu had come here merely for safety, then why bother coming at all?
Wouldn’t staying within the Prefecture be far safer?
What Fan Wu sought was the very opposite of safety.
He craved danger.
For it was within the perilous moments that he could glimpse the highly coveted Free Attribute Points he yearned for so dearly.
The sky at this moment was pitch black.
One could not see one’s own fingers when stretched out in front of them.
It couldn’t get any darker than this.
Fan Wu wasn’t moving very quickly, walking at the pace of a regular person on flat ground. The vegetation here was lush and had grown to a point of extreme disorder.
Moreover, Fan Wu noticed that the plants in this area differed from those outside; they seemed to have been influenced by an invisible force over the years, causing them to undergo subtle changes.
As Fan Wu walked, he casually plucked a fruit from a nearby tree.
"Pear." With a gentle squeeze, the fruit that closely resembled a pear was promptly crushed in his hand.
But the liquid that oozed out wasn’t translucent and slightly yellowish.
It was bright red!
After having crushed the fruit, Fan Wu could distinctly smell a scent of blood lingering slowly on his palms.
And among that bloody smell was a hint of something foul, reminiscent of the pus leaking from a human wound. It was particularly nauseating.
This thing clearly wasn’t edible, but of course for Fan Wu, even eating it wouldn’t pose any problem.
As he ventured deeper and deeper into the Great Demon Forbidden Land.
The landscapes that came into Fan Wu’s view.
Began to look increasingly bizarre.
The ground beneath Fan Wu’s feet felt unusually moist as if he were not stepping on soil but rather on clumps of flesh. However, under his feet, the ground was obviously dirt and weeds.
The strange smell pervading the air had grown ever more intense, so potent that even someone like Fan Wu found it off-putting.
No wonder this place was dubbed a forbidden land; a cursed location like this could slaughter countless ordinary folk even without any sinister creatures being present.
Fan Wu sensed that the odd odor contained a unique destructive power, as if merely breathing it in would cause severe corrosion to a person’s internal organs.
Rather than being an odd scent, it would be more accurate to describe it as a toxic gas.
A type of poison that could provoke an epidemic on a massive scale!
If someone were to capture even a small jar of this gas from this place, that little jar could probably kill hundreds of people.
Even a Cultivator might not be able to withstand it.
"Gajee—"
"Gajee—"
Fan Wu suddenly heard an alarming sound, resembling the chirping of some insect, which contradicted what the Commandery Prince had told him – that there were no creatures here.
But then he thought it made sense. When the Commandery Prince headed towards the core area of the forbidden land, he always followed a relatively safe path. He would not have encountered any unusual circumstances, and that seemed normal enough.
Fan Wu’s case was different; he roamed the Great Demon Forbidden Land without any pattern.
By doing so, it was natural that he might encounter things the Commandery Prince had not.
It was within reason.
And not beyond expectation.
The insect-like chirping near his ear began to get clearer and clearer because Fan Wu had been heading toward the source of the sound... He didn’t realize just how long he had walked, maybe the time it took for an incense stick to burn? Or perhaps two?
The one thing Fan Wu did know was that he finally understood what was making the noise.
It was indeed an insect.
But...
This insect was somewhat large.
In front of Fan Wu laid a vast precipice as if it had been cleaved by an axe, and on the nearest steep cliff in front of him, there was a monstrously large bug sprawled across it.
The creature somewhat resembled a hybrid of a praying mantis, a centipede, and a grub, with a pair of large, axe-like forelimbs at the front, and a body segmented like a centipede’s.
Yet, it lacked the armored exoskeleton of a centipede; it was more like a soft, squishy giant grub that induced shivers down one’s spine.
