Chapter 617

Under that surging energy, Luo En felt his physique undergoing astonishing changes.

213, Massive Enhancement

"What are you doing? Let me go."

Luo En shouted loudly.

Yet he could feel that after the energy flooded into his body, his physique had indeed gained tremendous enhancement.

The statue bore no ill intent, but Luo En always felt uneasy.

When all the energy had poured into Luo En's body, the statue vanished as well.

Luo En lay on the ground for a long while before standing up.

He felt boundless energy surging wildly through his body.

"This power?"

Luo En stared at his hands in surprise—he had never experienced such terrifying energy before.

He noticed the jade pendant's markings had vanished.

Though a faint trace remained, no energy whatsoever leaked from it anymore.

"Why? What exactly is going on?"

Luo En felt deeply astonished.

Did the statue appear solely to transmit energy to me?

Yet he could sense the statue must have wished to convey some message—so why did it make no sound?

As Luo En was astonished, those several curses suddenly arrived here.

One curse swiftly attacked Luo En, its hand coated in black mist, clearly laced with deadly poison.

And this time, its strike was remarkably swift.

Yet to Luo En, its speed had become painfully slow.

Then Luo En casually reached out and seized the curse's throat.

The curse had no time to react before it found itself in Luo En's grip.

Before it could cry out, Luo En crushed it to dust.

In an instant, one curse was obliterated; the others were stunned and retreated rapidly.

Without hesitation, Luo En lunged forward and seized another curse.

The curse stared in shock—Luo En had been so weak before.

Yet now he could grasp him effortlessly, and the curse had not the slightest strength to resist.

"You—how did you do this?"

The curse cried out in terror.

But Luo En refused to answer; he crushed the curse into powder once more.

The remaining curses fled in panic—they never imagined Luo En would suddenly become this powerful.

Luo En immediately chased after them, eliminating them one by one.

After eliminating these curses, Luo En immediately found the Nai Zi.

The Nai Zi was still worried about Luo En's safety, planning to hide the jade pendant and return to search for him.

Yet the next second, Luo En appeared before her.

"Are you alright?"

Only after confirming Luo En was unharmed did the Nai Zi smile.

Luo En said.

"I've dealt with those curses. Let's hurry back to the village and see what happened."

The village looked no different from usual, yet it was deathly silent.

The Nai Zi furrowed her brow slightly—she smelled something unusual.

Luo En said.

"Be careful."

After saying that, he swiftly patrolled the surroundings.

The entire village was empty—had something truly happened here? Luo En looked around.

The Nai Zi nodded.

"Given the current situation, something has likely happened—but there's no trace of curse energy nearby."

Amidst the weeds, Luo En suddenly spotted a small statue, extremely similar to the one he had seen before.

Yet this statue appeared crude, as if hastily carved after imitating the original.

But this statue gave Luo En an uncanny feeling—he picked it up and examined it closely.

The Nai Zi also saw the statue and asked curiously.

"What is this?"

Luo En told the Nai Zi everything about the statue granting him power.

"But why would it grant you power?"

Clearly, the villagers had deeply revered this statue.

Yet now the statue was broken, and the villagers had vanished without a trace.

Could it really have been caused by those curses?"

Luo En shook his head—he was still completely baffled.

At that moment, Luo En suddenly saw a figure approaching along the mountain path in the distance.

Luo En hurried forward and found that the man was none other than the villager he had seen in the temple.

Luo En quickly went up and asked.

"Where have all the villagers in this village gone?"

The man looked at Luo En with confusion, his eyes filled with unfamiliarity—he clearly did not recognize Luo En.

"Who are you? I don't live in this village; I came up here just to gather firewood to take back."

After saying that, he turned and walked away.

Luo En furrowed his brow tightly; he remembered the villager vividly—he could not possibly have mistaken the man.

So he blocked the villager again.

"Then where do you live?"

The villager regarded Luo En with great suspicion and said.

"Who are you? Who are you looking for?"

Luo En said.

"Don't you remember you once invited me to sleep at your house?"

The man shook his head vigorously.

"No, impossible—I've never invited anyone to sleep at my house. You must have mistaken me for someone else."

After saying that, he fled as if escaping a demon.

Luo En stared at his retreating back, deeply puzzled.

Who was that villager before? He turned back to look at the village.

He faintly remembered that the room where he had stayed was somewhere in this village.

But now it looked somewhat dilapidated.

Naizi looked at Luo En.

"Could it be you really mistook the person? Perhaps the one who invited you to stay wasn't a villager at all."

Luo En also felt a chill creep up his spine.

If not a villager, then who? Could it be a curse? But there was no trace of cursed energy on him.

Nothing could be determined here, so Naizi and Luo En returned to the academy.

They planned to first search the academy's library for relevant information before deciding their next move.

"I never expected something so eerie would happen this time."

Naizi said to Luo En as she flipped through the documents.

Luo En nodded; before this, he had never imagined such a supernatural event could occur.

At that moment, Naizi pointed to a page and handed it to Luo En.