Chapter 598: These Things Happened Right Before My Eyes

"Go, run quickly!"

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 setback.

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

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

Yet, 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, focused only on escaping quickly to a safe place, but they kept circling around and around, seemingly remaining in the same spot.

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

Soon, the scenery before these people shifted once more, and when they regained their senses, a group of people appeared before them, staring straight at them at this moment.

The way this group looked at them made them fearful and panicked.

Although they did not recognize all of these people, how could they not know the white-haired, white-bearded Bai Yi, who held a Cold Spear in his hand?

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

"My Lord, these are..."

"Peeping toms; 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 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 any resistance from them 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 turn pale at the mere mention of it.

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

Just after this person awoke, everyone who went to disturb their slumber died right there.

It was just that after the other party awoke, they did not rush to leave, but for some reason, stayed where they were.

Yet the appearance of this person made the entire organization tremble with fear; their high-level members knew very well that they had caused a huge disaster this time—an old monster is not the same as other old monsters.

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 and without their peak strength and realm, the lives of these old monsters would also wither away.

If they were to reach their end because of this, they would surely vent their fury upon them.

Therefore, they were so desperate to break open the Forbidden Land, even going to any lengths to unseal those imprisoned existences everywhere, using their hands to forcibly tear open the gaps in the Forbidden Land.

Thinking about it, the price they paid in 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, the person who had initially and inadvertently awakened must be extremely terrifying.

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

No wonder it was so easy for him to see their 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 result in corpses strewn across the field and blood flowing for a thousand miles.

This was borrowing a knife to kill—borrowing the knife of that terrifying existence to kill.

They had 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 head-on or avoid it, the choice is yours.

Thinking three steps ahead for every one step taken, they had long since prepared for the outcome should this plan fail.

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

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

A person even more terrifying than the one he had just finished off, a person who made others turn pale at the mention of their name—if he finished them off, the sign-in reward couldn't be too shabby, could it?

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 wild mountain forests.

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

The two were a picture of filial piety and paternal love, the smiles on their faces very sincere, looking entirely 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 no one was paying attention, the two traffickers drugged the girl and knocked her unconscious.

Afterward, 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 they happened to come in a group of several, and they just happened to run into the traffickers drugging 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. Before long, she had been tortured into madness.

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

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

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

After going through countless hardships, 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 held light and hope now held only numbness, like a walking corpse that had lost all hope.

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

He could only watch all of this with his own eyes, 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, using his hands to crawl out of the village.

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

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

The old father poured the poison into the water well, poisoned the 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 image of the small town from before.

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

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

Letting out a soft 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 first awakened, about two years ago or so."

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

A gentle voice came to his ears, and Shen Yu turned his head; the figure before him was very young, excessively young.

He looked like a scholar, his frail and weak aura appearing harmless to both man and beast. Yet, how could someone who could make the people of that organization tremble in 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 could actually be a person like you in this world is truly terrifying!"