Chapter 257: I Am Not Satisfied With A Single Word

"Go, run!"

The Great Array collapsed, and the group of people watching from afar immediately retreated; the matter that was supposed to be foolproof had ultimately suffered a mishap.

The old man leading them made a prompt decision; since the matter was no longer feasible, they naturally had to retreat quickly. If the people trapped inside the Array were to come out, only one path would await them.

Whether it was Cold Spear Bai Yi or other top experts of the martial arts world, once they discovered them, they would absolutely be impatient to send them on their way. These people were certainly not characters to be trifled with.

But just as they turned to flee, they discovered that the scenery before their eyes seemed to have changed, becoming somewhat different.

Originally, they did not pay much attention to this, only focusing their minds on escaping quickly, escaping to a safe place, yet they kept going in circles, seemingly remaining in the same spot.

By the time they realized it, they could no longer run away. The Painting Scroll unfurled, having already enclosed everyone within it.

Soon, the scenery before these people changed once again, and when they realized it, a group of people appeared before them, staring straight at them at this moment.

The way this group looked at them made them afraid, made them panic.

Although they did not recognize all of these people, how could they not know Bai Yi, with his white hair and beard, holding the Cold Spear?

It's over, we've walked into a wolf's den!

"Sir, these are..."

"Peepers, they should be from that organization!"

"Kill them! Daring to scheme against us—no, daring to scheme against Senior Bai and Lord Shen, they deserve to die!"

However, the reason Shen Yu still kept their lives was merely to learn some things he wanted to know from their mouths.

Subsequently, Shen Yu forcibly searched their memories with the Illusion Heart Sutra, not fearing their resistance at all. This time, the use of Mental Power was surprisingly smooth; the other party's Spiritual Sea seemed to have no defenses.

When viewing the memories in the mind of the leading old man, Shen Yu subconsciously looked toward the north; that was a place that made them change color at the mere mention of it.

The reason the people of this organization had become so crazy was because they had inadvertently revived a terrifying existence.

This person had just awakened, and all those who went to disturb his slumber died right there.

It was just that after the other party awakened, he did not rush to leave, but for some unknown reason, stayed right where he was.

Yet the appearance of this person made their entire organization tremble; their high-level members knew very well that they had caused a huge disaster this time—old monsters are not all the same.

They could revive and emerge, but it had to be at the right time. If those slumbering old monsters were awakened, but the Spiritual Qi Surge did not arrive in time...

Without sufficient Spirit Qi to support them, without peak strength and cultivation realms, the lives of these old monsters would also wither away.

If they reached their end because of this, they would definitely vent their fury upon them.

Therefore, they had to struggle so desperately to break open the Forbidden Land, even sparing no cost to unseal those sealed existences everywhere, using their hands to forcibly tear open the gaps in the Forbidden Land.

Thinking about it, the price they paid for this process must have been enormous, but they had no choice; they could only do this.

Judging by the degree of fear shown by the people of this organization, that person who initially awakened by accident must be extremely terrifying.

The level of terror was far above those who were released by them later.

No wonder it was so easy for him to see the memories; this was clearly telling him that there was a terrifying existence in that place, and it was a terrifying existence that could suddenly erupt at any moment.

Once such a terrifying figure went mad, it would inevitably lead to corpses strewn across the fields and blood flowing for a thousand miles.

This was an attempt to borrow a knife to kill, to borrow the knife of that terrifying existence to kill.

They placed a multiple-choice question before him; that terrifying existence was not far away in the north, and had never left.

Whether to face it directly or avoid it, how to choose is up to you.

Planning three steps ahead, they had long since considered the outcome if this plan failed.

The leader of this organization also had great audacity, actually daring to scheme against even the person who made them feel fear and unease; this courage alone was enough to make one admire them!

Holding the Mountain and River Map, Shen Yu had already set off first. In his view, these terrifying existences were not scary; they were clearly here to deliver warmth.

A person more terrifying than the one he had just finished off, a person whose name made people change color—if he finished him off, the sign-in reward couldn't be too bad, right?

The next moment, Shen Yu appeared above a mountain range; what was surprising was that there seemed to be a bustling small town amidst the wilderness of the mountain forest.

People came and went in the small town, looking quite prosperous. On the street, a father and daughter were buying tofu. The young girl was quite sweet, and although the father was somewhat aged, his hands and feet were still nimble.

The two were a loving father and a filial daughter, the smiles on their faces were very sincere, and it all looked peaceful.

But not long after, the girl was targeted by human traffickers; the two of them relied on each other, and such a pair of the old and weak was naturally easy to target.

Taking advantage of when people weren't paying attention, two human traffickers drugged the girl and knocked her unconscious.

Afterwards, the girl was originally going to be sold into a Brothel, but people from a poor mountain village suddenly appeared and bought the girl back.

The people of this small mountain village were very poor, but there were several of them, and they happened to run into the traffickers who had drugged the girl.

So, they bought the girl at an extremely low price.

They were not kind-hearted, but because they were too poor, no one was willing to marry into the village. All the eligible young men in the entire village were basically bachelors, and everyone was waiting anxiously for a woman.

Under these circumstances, the girl was taken to the village and locked up. She was a thin and weak person, yet she had to deal with an entire village of bachelors; one can imagine what those days were like.

Bullied every day, humiliated every night, the sounds of miserable wailing were incessant day after day. Not long after, she had already been tortured into madness.

But even so, her days remained the same, never having changed.

And the old father who lost his child in the town searched desperately for his daughter, searching for a very, very long time.

Finally, he sold his rented house and all his belongings, only then obtaining some news from the human traffickers.

After layers of hardship, the old father finally found his daughter, but she was already tortured beyond recognition.

Pregnant with a child of unknown origin, she was still being humiliated by a group of men.

The eyes that once had light and hope were now left with only numbness, like a walking corpse that had lost all hope.

Sadness, pain—the old father wanted to rush up to save his child, but was kicked down by a group of burly men, and even his legs were broken.

He could only watch all of this helplessly, roaring in pain but unable to do anything. The sorrow of the world could perhaps be no greater than this.

Finally, the old father dragged his broken legs, crawling with his hands to escape the village.

He returned to the town, found a doctor in the town, and exchanged his body for drug testing in return for some poison. Afterwards, after experiencing the three-month ordeal of drug testing, he successfully gritted his teeth and survived.

Finally, he carried his aged, dying body, and just like that, crawled back step by step with his hands.

The old father poured the poison into the water well, poisoned an entire village to death, and finally hugged his daughter and threw himself into the well to die.

The scene before his eyes came to an abrupt halt at this point, and then returned to the previous image of the small town.

There, a father and daughter were selling tofu with smiles on their faces, seemingly completely unaware of the impending disaster.

In the corner, the two human traffickers were already secretly eyeing the young girl with the sweet smile on her face, and further away, four or five ragged mountain villagers were walking toward this side.

With a light sigh, Shen Yu spat out two words from the corner of his mouth: "Illusion!"

"It is indeed an illusion, yet it is not an illusion; this is something that truly happened in the past, just when I had just awakened, about two years ago or so."

"I watched that father and daughter throw themselves into the well, right before my eyes!"

A gentle voice came from beside his ear; Shen Yu turned his head back, and the figure before his eyes was very young, excessively young.

He looked like a scholar, his frail and weak aura appearing harmless to both humans and animals. Yet, how could someone who could make the people of that organization tremble with fear be a simple character?

"Are you here to kill me?" Standing before Shen Yu, the other party seemed to be startled by Shen Yu as well, looking him up and down.

"This world still has its limits, yet you have gone and broken those limits. That there should be a person like you in this world is truly terrifying!"