Chapter 155: Third Under Heaven.

Xiao Fen and Lycaon could be considered bold because of their high skills. Finding this residence where the mission failed and all life was wiped out, they didn’t do too much preparation and just jumped down easily. They glanced at each other, with a hint of mutual appreciation in their eyes.

Always standing behind and waiting for others to get things done properly and smoothly—neither Xiao Fen nor Lycaon could do such a thing. Many things could only make one feel more at ease if they did them personally and saw them with their own eyes.

After walking a few steps in this viscous pool of blood emitting a strong smell, Xiao Fen suddenly said: “Strange, why isn’t this blood drying up, nor is it smelling bad?”

Lycaon looked up at the sky. The sun overhead was shining brightly. It was already May, and the temperature had risen quite a bit. Although it wasn’t summer yet, so much blood staying in such temperature for most of the day was enough to produce various fermentation and deterioration reactions. The smell would surely become extremely stinky, not just pungent with the scent of blood like now.

If one wanted the door hinge to remain immortal and the blood pool not to stink, there was only one way. That was to make this blood pool alive. In other words, although the blood in this residence appeared solid and motionless on the surface, underneath, all the blood was flowing ceaselessly. Because of the constant blood replacement, the blood in the entire residence would neither dry up nor stink.

Watching Lycaon point at the blood pool submerging their ankles, Xiao Fen also nodded. The strong bloody smell stimulated him, making him a bit dizzy. Added to that was the sun shining overhead, he now wanted to vomit, and his eyes also started to blur.

Lycaon supported Xiao Fen from behind and asked in a low voice: “Where to now?”

Xiao Fen pointed to the main hall in front and said: “That place has higher terrain. I looked from outside just now. There’s no blood there temporarily. Let’s go there and take a look. Maybe we can discover something.”

Lycaon nodded and asked inexplicably: “How is your ability to control your body?”

Xiao Fen paused for a moment. Before he could answer, a strong force came from his body. It was Lycaon suddenly grabbing his clothes and forcefully throwing him toward that main hall.

Incomparable strength. This was Xiao Fen’s first reaction. The powerful strength Lycaon suddenly burst out with made Xiao Fen’s body seem weightless. He flew for dozens of meters, landing directly from the courtyard to under the eaves outside the main hall.

Xiao Fen made a light turn in the air, kicked the wall of the main hall, borrowed force to change his balance, and then landed on the ground. He turned his head to look at this main hall. What attracted him was not the corpses lying all over the hall, but the plaque inside the hall, which actually had four large characters written on it.

“Third Under Heaven”.

What an arrogant tone. Xiao Fen looked at this plaque and frowned. This wasn’t some martial arts world. Once words like “Third Under Heaven” were written, it wouldn’t be long before the Imperial Guard and Eastern Depot came knocking. If nothing else, the charge of treason could be listed. Being skinned and having tendons pulled wasn’t impossible either.

And now, such words suddenly appearing on this plaque definitely couldn’t mean that the Imperial Guard’s investigation was unfavorable. It could only mean that these words had just appeared. But these words were obviously not newly made. The only way to explain this situation was one possibility.

Before this, the “Third Under Heaven” plaque was covered with another layer of paper. Yesterday, somehow, this paper was torn off, finally revealing the words inside. Only in this way could one explain why the Imperial Guard and Eastern Depot were so slow to react to this obvious plaque before.

Who wrote it, why was it written here, what did “Third Under Heaven” refer to? Why was it torn off? What was the relationship between these situations and that failed Trialist? What was the relationship between all this and the Main Quest?

Xiao Fen looked at these four words, dazed for a moment. Not long after, a sound of footsteps wading through the blood pool came from behind him. Lycaon walked up, turned his head to glance at the situation in the main hall, and asked: “Did you find anything?”

Xiao Fen shook his head slightly and said: “I have some discoveries, but not all. We’d better walk around the back. At least we need to find the source of this blood, as well as the location where the battle broke out early this morning. If possible, see if we can find that failed Trialist.”

As soon as the words fell, the plaque hanging high in the inner hall seemed unable to hold on, or perhaps was stimulated by the moisture of the blood. It started to sway slowly. Before long, it fell from its hanging place and shattered on the ground with a crash.

Xiao Fen couldn’t help but want to walk into this main hall to see what was going on. Just as he was about to step forward, he was suddenly grabbed by Lycaon. The tall Trialist looked serious and said: “Listen, Palin, I just told you, don’t enter dark rooms. No matter what is in these rooms, at this time, there is more danger in such dark environments.”

Xiao Fen’s body paused. One foot was suspended over the threshold without stepping in. At this moment, a smoke different from the other darkness quickly swept under Xiao Fen’s feet. If Xiao Fen’s foot had really stepped in just now, he might have been entangled by this strange black smoke.

Xiao Fen secretly thought that it was dangerous. The bloody smell outside was too heavy, affecting his normal perception. The dizziness just now was actually the best embodiment of this suppressed perception. And now, he could no longer clearly perceive the situation in the hall, so that when danger was right at his feet, he knew nothing about it.

“Bypass this house, let’s walk behind. In this yard, there must be a place with higher terrain. Theoretically speaking, that should be the place where all the blood surges out. Maybe we can see some living people there.”

Lycaon stared seriously at the black gas in the main hall until the black gas slowly condensed into a strange shape, then said: “We must speed up. These Hell Creatures are undergoing changes. We must solve the problems here before they completely change. Not just the blood, the Life Energy here is also very abnormal.”

Xiao Fen didn’t speak. He calmly followed behind Lycaon. The two of them, one after the other, bypassed this main hall occupied by Filth Creatures along the sticky blood-colored passage in front of the hall. Through a small archway, they entered the middle area of this yard.

Although sunlight could still be seen here, the shadows of different rooms shrouded the area, making it gloomier than the front. The black smoke Xiao Fen saw in the main hall earlier was now slowly moving in the various corridors. It was just much lighter in color compared to the smoke in the hall that could almost condense into substance.