Chapter 537: The True Face of the Sea Curtain and the Sea God Palace

Many of the audience got goosebumps all over from the scene Zhang Lin described!

It was truly hard to imagine a procession of over a thousand people marching through a narrow mountain peak while singing.

Up ahead there were also horns playing funeral music, and continuous weeping!

Most importantly, all of this was taking place in absolute darkness.

Such a terrifying scene could only be a funeral procession!

The listeners only had to imagine themselves mixed into such a funeral procession to get chills all over.

Half-Li had actually been dragging his broken leg, shuffling along with the procession for so long.

The listeners were all worried that, under these circumstances, Half-Li's mental state would break down.

Such a funeral scene would be creepy even in broad daylight, let alone in pitch darkness!

All around there were also many deformed people, a single glance at whom could give you nightmares!

The fact that Half-Li didn't immediately go mad already showed that his mental fortitude was extraordinarily strong!

And the purpose of this procession was also very strange—in such a lightless place, marching forward while singing and playing funeral music, what on earth were they doing?

Could it be that there really were pallbearers up ahead, conducting a funeral for someone?

All kinds of questions kept welling up in everyone's hearts!

Zhang Lin continued: "Because he guessed this was a funeral procession, Half-Li thought to himself, what kind of extraordinary person must have died to have so many people mourning him in the darkness?"

"And why was the sky so dark—could it be that even the Lord of Heaven was mourning this person's death?"

"In that instant, he also thought of Genghis Khan!"

"But Genghis Khan died a thousand years ago—how could there still be people holding a funeral for him now?"

"Many questions rose in Half-Li's heart, when suddenly all the sounds fell silent together!"

"And he saw an extremely faint glimmer of light!"

"That light spread over a large area, extremely faint and hazy—if he hadn't been in the darkness for a long time, he wouldn't have noticed it at all."

"The moment Half-Li's eyes caught a sense of light, he almost broke down weeping with emotion!"

"Only now did he realize how terrifying it was for a person to be deprived of light!"

"He lay flat on the ground, burying his head, not daring to let anyone spot him, and kept shuffling forward with the procession."

"That light also gradually strengthened, spreading hazily over a large area from ahead, and finally allowed Half-Li to roughly make out a few human figures!"

"Because of this, he became even more frightened than when he had been in the darkness—for as far as his eyes could see, shadows upon shadows, a surging sea of heads, stretching boundlessly without end, at the very least over ten thousand people!"

"Fortunately, everyone slowed their steps at this point, and the song on their lips sounded especially mournful."

"Everyone was focused on looking straight ahead, no one was glancing left or right, and Half-Li's clothing, taken from that cave, seemed no different from the others', so for the moment he certainly wouldn't be discovered."

"He steadied himself, shuffling forward with the main body, humming aloud to pretend he was also singing, while looking ahead."

"He saw that the area of light was enormous, hazy and indistinct, comparable to a giant estate!"

"But the light looked utterly strange—seeming to be there and not there, flickering unsteadily, appearing to flow yet also appearing still!"

"In any case, in all of Half-Li's experience, he had never seen such a light source, nor did he know what was emitting that light."

"The farther forward he walked, the brighter the light became; gradually he could even see his own hands. Those people walked even more slowly, and Half-Li was surrounded on all sides by people. He had no choice but to keep moving gradually along with the crowd!"

"He did his best to conceal himself, to prevent others from noticing he was an outsider."

"Until the horns suddenly blared out again, and the movement of the crowd came to a halt."

"At this point, the horns sounded wave after wave, and suddenly, with a single shout, everyone dropped to the ground at once."

"It happened so unexpectedly that Half-Li stood frozen for no more than a second or two, and became a crane among chickens—strikingly conspicuous!"

"Although because his leg was broken he was already lying on the ground, Half-Li's upper body was propped up high, simply so he could see more clearly."

"Seeing this, Half-Li hurriedly lay flat as well, his heart pounding wildly, fearing he had already drawn others' attention. But after a while, he found that no one seemed to be paying him any mind."

"After prostrating for not long, amid the sound of horns everyone stood up again and continued forward."

"They walked a stretch, lay down again, then stood up, repeating this three times, and had already drawn closer to the light source."

"Half-Li looked ahead and could hardly believe his eyes! What he saw was a vast expanse of hazy water!"

"That vast expanse of water was a strange deep blue, not below his line of sight, but directly in front of him."

"That hazy, flickering light was also emitted by this vast expanse of water—or rather, transmitted through it!"

"At this moment, he finally understood what Forty-Two had meant by the sea curtain!"

"Half-Li had never seen such a marvel in his entire life, and once seen, he would never forget it for the rest of his life!"

"That vast expanse of water was right in front of him, as if he were facing an incomparably huge water tank."