Exploring the Passage and Ancient Warnings
Inside the passage, the darkness was so thick it felt tangible, wrapping tightly around Lin Yu and his two companions like a giant beast waiting to devour its prey. Their breathing sounded heavy and labored in the dead silence, every inhalation and exhalation feeling like a desperate struggle against the darkness for a meager share of air. Channeling the Chaos Power throughout his body, Lin Yu slowly gathered a ball of dim light in the palm of his hand. Flickering unsteadily in the gloom like a dying candle in a gale, the light stubbornly tore open a small patch of darkness, barely illuminating their immediate surroundings.
Wherever the dim light reached, the strange symbols and patterns carved into the walls of the passage emerged one by one like phantoms waking from a deep slumber. Twisted and bizarre, these symbols resembled writing yet transcended any known writing system in the world, looking like cryptic encodings from an ancient era. The patterns were even more hair-raising, depicting various mystical and evil rituals—groups of distorted figures gathered around a massive black altar, offering living sacrifices as blood gushed forth and pooled over the eerie runes; alongside them were terrifying beasts with bared claws, seeming ready to break free right out of the stone walls. All of this appeared to recount a secret history, sealed away by the passage of time and steeped in absolute taboo.
Chapter 281