What do you mean by saying that the corpses I sew are all ominous creatures?

The convoy sped through the flooded streets, splashing up large white sprays of water.

About fifteen minutes later, the temperature inside the carriage began to drop noticeably.

A thin layer of white frost quickly formed on the inside of the car window glass.

"We're almost there," Lu Yan said from the passenger seat.

I opened my eyes and looked ahead through the windshield.

At the end of the car headlights, there should have been a wide open square and the antique archway of the City God Temple.

But at this moment, nothing can be seen there.

What stands in our way is a wall.

A massive, towering wall formed from a dense, almost tangible black fog.

The black mist was like a giant black bowl overturned between heaven and earth, completely enveloping the entire City God Temple complex and the surrounding streets.

The rain fell into the black mist without making a sound, as if it were swallowed up by some unknown monster.

"Stop the car," Lu Yan decisively gave the order.

The convoy stopped at an intersection about fifty meters from the edge of the black fog.

As I opened the car door, the icy rain instantly soaked my hair.

I zipped my windbreaker all the way up, stepped through the puddles, and slowly walked to the front of the group.

Lu Yan and Li Qing also got out of the car and stood side by side beside me.

"Oh My God……"

The team members who followed behind couldn't help but gasp when they saw the scene before them.

I stood still, calmly watching the churning black mist before me, while the evil core within my body throbbed slightly.

I attached my spiritual power to the baleful aura, which spread forward like invisible tentacles.

As soon as I touched the edge of the black mist, I felt a powerful repulsive force and a nauseating, rotten smell.

The concentration of yin energy here is several times higher than it was in Jinxiuyuan.

Moreover, these yin energies are not chaotic.

They are following a specific trajectory, rotating slowly and steadily around the center of the City God Temple.

Just as I predicted in the control room, the enemy had set up a trap here.

"Old Chen, you figured it out, didn't you?"

Li Qing wiped the rain off his face, his expression becoming very serious.

He held a compass in his hand, and the pointer on the compass was spinning wildly on the dial, as if it had gone mad, and it just wouldn't stop.

"Um."

I nodded.

"A very powerful formation."

This black mist not only blocks sight and sound, but it is also mixed with a large amount of corpse energy and resentment.

If an ordinary person enters without any protection, they will be possessed by the yin energy within three minutes, turning into a mindless, walking corpse.

I turned to Li Qing: "Where do you plan to set up your Yin-Intercepting Formation?"

Li Qing put away the compass and pointed to the four directions of the crossroads:

"This place is the only way to the City God Temple, and it is also a small node of the earth's veins."

I plan to use this place as the center and radiate outwards to four streets.

"By fixing the earth veins in these four directions, we can significantly slow down the rate at which yin energy flows back into the City God Temple."

At this point, Li Qing patted my shoulder, his tone unusually serious: "Old Chen, leave the outside affairs to me."

Be very careful once you go inside.

This black mist is just an outer shell; no one can say for sure what kind of monster is hidden inside.

If things are hopeless, prioritize survival; don't try to tough it out.

"I know what I'm doing," I replied softly.

After I finished speaking, I turned around, preparing to lead the way into the churning black mist with Lu Yan, when a hand forcefully pressed down on my shoulder.

"Wait a minute, are you just going to go in like this?"

Li Qing's voice came from behind, unusually stern.

I stopped and turned to look at him.

Li Qing frowned, staring intently at the solid black wall in front of him.

"Old Chen, Director Lu, we can't force our way through this formation."

Li Qing strode up to us and blocked our way.

He slammed an apricot-yellow flag into the puddles and pointed to the faint eddies at the edge of the black mist.

"Look closely, the flow of this mist is not gentle, but carries a hidden, strangling force; there must be a deadly trap hidden within."

If you just barge straight in, the formation will immediately scatter all ten of you.

"We'll pick them off one by one, leaving not even a complete corpse."

Lu Yan stopped and looked at him: "The situation is urgent, stop keeping me in suspense."

"Do you have any way to get us in?"

Give me a minute.

Li Qing took a deep breath, casually tossed the compass aside, and then pulled out a palm-sized Bagua bronze mirror from inside his clothes.

He bit his left index finger and quickly drew a complex rune on the back of the bronze mirror with his bright red blood. Then he held the mirror flat in front of his chest and muttered incantations.

As the incantation was chanted, a faint yellow light suddenly emanated from the surface of the blood-stained bronze mirror.

Li Qing suddenly raised his head and pointed the bronze mirror at the black mist in front of him.

The yellow light shone into the mist, causing the once seamless black wall to tremble.

Then, in an inconspicuous corner on the left, the fog thinned slightly, revealing a narrow passage just wide enough for two people to pass side by side.

"Found it! The exit is over there!"

Li Qing pointed in that direction, then turned to me and said quickly.

"Old Chen, this passage won't last long."

Follow this path, and no matter what sounds you hear or what illusions you see, never turn back or deviate from the route.

Once you get past the outer strangulation zone, the space inside becomes relatively stable.

I looked at the barely visible passage and nodded to him.

"Special Operations Team, maintain formation. Zhao Tie, lead the way, and follow Advisor Chen."

Lu Yan decisively issued the order.

I put my hands back into the pockets of my jacket and was the first to step into the passage opened up by the yellow light.

Lu Yan followed closely behind, with Zhao Tie holding a shield to protect the flanks, and the other seven special operations team members carrying magical artifacts filed in.

The moment our last team member stepped into the passage, the black mist behind us immediately swallowed up the faint yellow light completely.

Their escape route was completely blocked.

After entering the black fog, the surrounding environment underwent a dramatic change.

The sounds of the torrential rain, thunder, and even the wind outside vanished without a trace at that moment.

There was a deathly silence all around, with only the sound of our ten footsteps echoing in the empty street.

The air became unusually thick, like frozen lard in winter, and each breath required a great deal of effort.

Even more dangerous is the temperature.

The chill penetrated directly through the clothes and seeped into the very bones.

I slowed my pace and scanned my surroundings.

With visibility less than five meters, the once familiar old streets of Jiangcheng now felt completely unfamiliar.

The shops on both sides had their doors tightly shut, and their signs were mottled and worn by the black mist, as if they had experienced a hundred years in an instant.