This is an extrely vast deep valley.
At the very bottom of the valley, there’s a palace entirely black, seemingly crafted from marble, its style quite unique with sharp spires and round edges, towering high like one tower after another.
Of course.
This palace occupies less than one-tenth of the giant valley.
Besides the palace, there are many other creatures in the valley, such as the strange bird Baiyu and his companions are riding now.
On the valley’s rock walls, there are caves one after another.
Inside those caves, strange birds hang upside down like bats, countless and completely uncountable.
"Everyone, get off."
Seeing this scene, Baiyu said to the people behind him.
If they are taken to the nest of the strange birds, the outco might be unpleasant. With that many strange birds, it’s unlikely he could escape.
Apart from the strange birds.
There are many other creatures in the valley, like the two-headed dogs, or with feet and cheeks, walking withered trees, and so on.
"Mr. Geman, where should we go?"
At this mont.
Beside Baiyu, the squad leader of the chanical God Church asked.
Currently, among the two Great Church teams, only one squad leader is leading.
Baiyu shook his head: "Based on my guess, this place should be related to the Dark War God. It’s just unknown what might be inside the palace..."
From his experience.
There might be a way out inside the palace, but the dangers inside are far beyond those outside.
If he were alone, he might enter and give it a try.
But with so many people going in, probably less than a tenth would co out alive.
As the group stood on the edge of the valley, pondering the next move, a furious, sorrowful roar suddenly erupted from inside the palace, filled with violent murderous intent.
The faces of the group changed slightly, even their hearts were affected, generating murderous intent.
Even Baiyu was no exception.
As the roar spread, all creatures in the valley went mad, tearing and attacking each other, creating extre chaos in the valley.
And those strange birds also sward out.
Relentlessly hunting other creatures in the valley, or being hunted by other creatures.
A few strange birds flew out of the valley, heading towards the periter.
The sky quickly darkened.
The darkness spread from the palace to the surroundings, quickly enveloping Baiyu and the group.
By now.
The group finally understood the situation in the valley.
They understood what repeated darkness was all about.
It’s all related to the roar!
And the reason they were attacked by strange birds was because the roar disturbed the creatures in the valley, causing so strange birds to leave the valley.
"This... If we had gone down just now, when darkness fell, we’d surely be attacked by those monsters."
The Scarred Church squad leader said solemnly.
A serious expression appeared on everyone’s faces.
Baiyu stared at the palace intensely and said solemnly: "We seem to have entered a certain specific domain. If we want to break the rules here, we must understand that roar!"
Indeed.
Everything originated from that roar.
"Then shall we go down after this darkness ends and take a look?"
The Scarred Church squad leader suggested.
Each interval of darkness is only about twenty minutes, which ans they have only twenty minutes to go back and forth.
Otherwise.
They’d be attacked by the frenzied creatures.
Until now, the dangers they found in the darkness were only these frenzied creatures.
"Not in a hurry."
Baiyu stopped him: "Let’s observe first. If those valley creatures fought each other every twenty minutes, they would have died out long ago, there’s no way so many of them are still surviving.
There are still unknown aspects of the darkness’ characteristics."
The group nodded, agreeing that Baiyu made sense. Despite the large numbers, it would be impossible to survive such intense fighting.
No matter what creature, they should have gone extinct.
The group found a hidden small cave, roughly ten ters long and six ters wide, at the top of the valley cliff. Inside, only a dozen strange birds hung upside down, which the group silently and easily dealt with.
Afterwards, they comfortably hid there, watching the situation below the valley.
Once this darkness passed.
The valley floor lay bizarre creatures’ corpses one after another, each dying miserably.
It was impossible to find a single intact spot on their bodies.
Estimating roughly, the group found that in this battle, thirty percent of the valley’s creatures died.
And then.
At this mont, the corpses on the ground suddenly changed, their flesh and bones began to squirm, and then, instead, split into two smaller similar creatures.
This discovery left everyone dumbfounded.
Split after death?
More and more corpses gave rise to new life, so splitting into two, others into three.
It seed that the stronger they were alive, the more new lives split out after death.
Everything proceeded in the silent valley, appearing eerily while also having a strange sense of sanctity.
"What... what kind of ghostly place is this?"
Even the well-inford mbers of the chanical God Church hadn’t encountered such a situation before, it was too bizarre, difficult to explain scientifically.
Even taphysical thods couldn’t explain it.
Baiyu squinted his eyes, calming the restless group, and pointed to the corpses of the strange birds on the ground: "Did you notice, the creatures we killed didn’t resurrect, nor did they give birth to new life."
The group turned to look.
The strange birds’ corpses still lay on the ground, just like that.
Completely unchanged.
"Does that an, killing them as outsiders ans they won’t reproduce?" a mber of the chanical God Church said.
Baiyu shook his head: "Not sure yet, let’s see. In the last darkness, there were a few particularly powerful creatures that didn’t die and got stronger during the slaughter, seemingly absorbing the Life Force of other creatures.
Wait for the next darkness, let’s see if there are changes."
The group nodded.
And so, they waited for the next darkness to gradually arrive.
Another familiar roar.
The group watched closely, lying on the cave walls, observing the situation below the valley.
This ti, however.
They discovered unexpected things.
The missing team mbers!
Previously, while on the road, those who vanished in the darkness now appeared in the valley, seemingly joining the bloody battle.
They fought hard to kill the creatures.
But due to sheer numbers, everyone gradually grew tired and began to collapse.
This scene.
Almost made the group in the cave unable to resist going down to rescue, but they knew very well, those team mbers below might already not be the people they knew, risking everyone’s lives to save them was clearly impossible!
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