The Mysterious Card Maker: Starting with Zhang Jiao's Deification

The three of them chose their spots. Lin Fan hid on the trunk of a big tree, where the leaves provided cover, making it a good hiding place.

Da Niu chose to hide behind a rock not far from Lin Fan, saying, "In the face of the strange, Mr. Lin is the one who needs more protection."

Although Lin Fan had witnessed Su Wanqing's bizarre methods of killing, it still felt a bit unpleasant to hear Da Niu say it out loud.

Su Wanqing had disappeared on her own, and Lin Fan and the other man had no idea where she was.

"Mr. Lin, when did this start? Are there really strange things appearing at night?" Da Niu took a bite of the beef jerky he carried with him and shouted to Lin Fan in the tree.

As the sky gradually darkened, Lin Fan leaned against a tree and said to Da Niu, "It's not time yet, let's wait!"

As the sun sets below the water's surface, night officially falls!

But clearly nothing happened; the water was unusually calm. Yet, it was this very quietness that made people more uneasy. Imagine a dense forest where there wasn't a single sound.

I don't know how much time has passed.

"Shh...shh..." A series of faint sounds came from afar, like someone dragging their feet.

Lin Fan looked in the direction of the sound and saw a person dressed in white appear behind Da Niu.

Da Niu seemed to sense something as well; his body visibly stiffened, and he slowly turned his head away.

The thing was very close to him, its face almost touching his ear.

Under the moonlight, a gray and distorted face slowly emerged from the darkness, her lips parted in a grin as she smiled at Da Niu.

"You...are you going to that bridge too?" Big Bull's skin instantly tingled! Without any hesitation, he rolled over and took off running!

"Get out of here!"

He let out a low growl and ran in the opposite direction from Lin Fan, seemingly trying to lure the strange creature away to another place.

To the surprise of Da Niu and even Lin Fan, the strange creature did not pursue them.

It simply turned its head slowly, looking in the direction the bull had fled, and then, as if losing interest, continued walking step by step toward the shore.

It wasn't just her!

in the dark

One, two, three...

More and more figures began to appear in the surrounding area, including strange beings of the Green Domain, Blue Domain, and even Purple Domain levels. They all gathered on the shore in a surprisingly consistent direction.

Lin Fan sat on the tree, watching everything that was happening below, somewhat dazed, his gaze slowly sweeping downwards.

A strange creature was staring intently at him from below, as if deep in thought. It paused for a moment, then continued walking toward the shore, as if Lin Fan didn't exist.

Lin Fan's eyes narrowed slightly; the mark of the Ghost King hadn't attracted these strange creatures.

Or rather, there was something more attractive there that drew them in.

He looked in those strange directions.

The shore was filled with strange figures, who were pushing and shoving each other, but no fighting took place.

Lin Fan's eyes narrowed. Among the strange creatures, there was one with an extremely terrifying aura, whose oppressive power far surpassed that of everything around it.

A demon king of the Purple Realm level!

"Even the Demon King has appeared, what... what are they waiting for?"

Time passed by, little by little.

"Click"

A sound came from the ruins in the center of the pool.

Lin Fan's pupils suddenly contracted. At this moment, a long crack had been torn open on the surface of the water beside the ruins.

An indescribable aura of terror emanated from the crack, ancient, cold, and even carrying a certain... inviolable rule.

"Is this the Gate of Hell?" Lin Fan said in a low voice. Rather than calling it the Gate of Hell, it could actually be described as a larger version of the entrance to a secret realm.

As the crack continued to widen, the once calm waters began to churn, and a floating bridge slowly rose from the bottom of the water.

"Whoosh!"

The water flows down the bridge and finally stops at a suitable spot, connecting the bank with the "Gate of Hell".

At that very moment, all the strange things stirred.

"Get out of the way!"

"Let me up!"

"Get down here!"

Instead of rushing onto the bridge, those strange creatures scrambled towards the Purple Domain Strange Creature, and even the Purple Domain Strange King.

They clung tightly to the body of the Purple Domain-level monster, fearing that they would be pulled down by other monsters at any moment.

The enormous purple-level monster was covered with countless other strange creatures.

"What's going on here?" Lin Fan looked at the strange scene before him and couldn't help but feel a little puzzled, but after seeing what happened next, he understood.

Those purple-level monsters did not resist the monsters attached to them; they simply stepped onto the bridge on their own.

Several monsters that had fallen from the Purple Domain-level monsters no longer cared about vying for a spot on the Purple Domain-level monster; they turned and ran towards the crack.

But just as they were celebrating that they could step into the rift...

"Buzz!"

An invisible wave swept out from the crack!

The next moment, those strange bodies suddenly froze!

Then, with a loud "bang," their bodies exploded in mid-air! As if they had never existed, they were completely erased without a trace.

This scene drove the remaining monsters even crazier, and they desperately climbed onto those purple-level monsters!

A purple-scaled monster roared and charged onto the bridge. Dozens of low-level monsters were already hanging from its body, making it look like a twisted mountain of flesh, and it rushed straight toward the crevice.

"Buzz!"

The volatility has returned!

But Lin Fan saw that a mark suddenly appeared on the strange forehead of the purple domain—an eye covered in thorns!

The next moment, its body disappeared into the crevice, taking with it some of the strange things hanging on its body!

At the same time, Lin Fan also noticed that the auras of those Blue Domain level monsters who had just stepped into the rift changed, and they showed faint signs of breaking through.

"what!"

Some of them exploded the moment they passed through, as if they hadn't been detected at all!

Lin Fan's breathing tightened slightly. "Is this considered hitchhiking?"

Before Lin Fan could finish speaking, another Purple Domain Eerie creature forcefully rushed onto the bridge from the side, its aura even more terrifying than the previous one.

"Buzz"

A crack wave swept across!

"Bang bang bang..."

When that strange creature from the Purple Domain stepped into it, it paused for a moment, and then, along with the strangeness it carried, it exploded on the bridge.

Lin Fan's gaze suddenly narrowed!

"A mark!" The Purple Domain Strangeness did not show any mark.

Without the mark, one can't even enter the Purple Domain level?

Then, one after another, eerie figures disappeared into the crevice, and without exception, those who entered all bore the mark of "eyes covered in thorns".

That's exactly the same as the 'Mark of the Demon King'.

At this moment, he finally understood completely that the Mark of the Demon King was not a curse, but a pass to the secret realm.

He looked at the crack, his gaze burning with intensity.

"What on earth is in there?!"