Chapter 141: The Source of the Anomaly

Being able to make Qing Lin ask the question of "whether to leave any survivors" shows that she truly understands Feng Zi's personality by now.

But Feng Zi only "narrowly" dodged the attack of dozens of tentacles and shook his head, saying:

"Although I would also like to uncover more information, it is obvious that this opponent does not look like it can be communicated with at all.

"And according to my deductions, this 'thing'... should be the final obstacle blocking us from resolving the crisis."

Since he had already said so, Qing Lin nodded slightly and said: "Understood, no need to hold back."

Having said that, she casually brandished the hunting knife in her hand, severing all the tentacles that were attacking from the surroundings.

Feng Zi also pressed forward, using his fists to strike hard against the tentacles hidden within the mist.

Without the concern of looking after others, he could finally let loose.

But the moment his fist touched the surface of a tentacle, Feng Zi's expression darkened.

He could clearly perceive that although the strength of that unknown existence was a bit stronger than an ordinary Demon, it did not exceed the scope of the Golden Core realm.

If it were just a clash of raw strength, the opponent would be no match for him at all.

But when Feng Zi made direct contact with the tentacle, he immediately realized the tricky aspect of this opponent:

There was a more "essential" power within the opponent's body; once in direct contact with it, an extremely cold power would seep into his meridians.

For an ordinary Qi Refiner, once entangled by this power, the True Qi within their body would be "stagnated" and "polluted"—

True Qi is the foundation upon which a Qi Refiner relies to stand in the world; once encountering such a situation, the outcome is imaginable!

For Feng Zi, this level of trouble could be resolved at any time, but encountering such a thing during a battle still required him to divert part of his focus to deal with it.

The moment he encountered this situation, he immediately withdrew, picked up the precious bow carried on his back, and reminded Qing Lin:

"Be careful, this thing cannot be directly touched."

Without needing a detailed description, Qing Lin immediately understood what he meant.

In an instant, a dazzling blade light tore through the thick mist, and the tentacles hidden within the mist fell to the ground accordingly.

Facing the humanoid that had lost its means of self-preservation and attack, more than ten arrows were fired almost simultaneously, piercing through its different body parts.

That was merely an existence with a human shape, and the flesh and blood on its body had not even taken a fixed form; Feng Zi had no idea where its weakness actually lay.

Facing this kind of enemy, he would not make the mistake of empiricism again.

Although the response was hasty, every single arrow contained a powerful force comparable to a full-strength strike from a Golden Core cultivator.

In the blink of an eye, more than ten blood flowers exploded on the body of that strange humanoid.

Suffering such heavy injuries, the humanoid felt pain and instinctively retracted all the tentacles it had spread around.

How could Qing Lin let such a good opportunity pass?

She immediately took a step forward and slashed fiercely—

In an instant, countless ink-green lights bloomed, actually shredding everything in the surroundings to pieces!

But unexpectedly, under that sharp ink-green blade light, everything in the surroundings did not suffer the slightest damage.

Looking at the scene before him, Feng Zi could not help but be dumbfounded:

Unknowingly, Qing Lin's control over power, her understanding of technique... had actually reached a higher level?

By the time the blade light dissipated, the moon-white mist did not rise again.

Feng Zi walked forward and discovered that the strange humanoid had already dissipated, as if it had never appeared.

Qing Lin, who followed closely behind, saw this and naturally understood what Feng Zi was worried about, saying first: "The opponent did not escape; I definitely struck it."

Since Qing Lin had said so, Feng Zi naturally believed her.

Thinking of the tentacles that quickly underwent Fading after being severed and turned into a stone-like texture, there was only one conclusion that could be drawn:

That unknown existence had received a fatal wound and could no longer maintain its form.

Seeing that the moon-white mist did not appear again, Feng Zi understood that his deduction should be correct.

An existence that had caused such a large-scale anomaly was easily resolved by him and Qing Lin just like that.

This sounded incredible, but looking at the strength of the two of them, it was not an unexpected result.

But Feng Zi could not help but doubt: "Is it all over just like this? Was that unknown humanoid the source of everything?"

It looked like that was indeed the case, but he always felt that the situation was not so.

After seriously recalling the various clues, Feng Zi subconsciously muttered:

"No... according to what that refugee said, before all this happened, a moon-white meteorite had fallen; what about that meteorite?"

In fact, he also understood in his heart that this kind of speculation had no basis—

Perhaps that meteorite disintegrated in the air? Or perhaps that meteorite was left behind at the crash site?

There were too many possible reasons, but Feng Zi always instinctively felt that the strange humanoid was not the root cause of all this.

After all, he was pursuing the source to resolve the "Fading" anomaly, but after that strange humanoid disappeared, only the moon-white mist had vanished.

And the existence of that strange humanoid, in Feng Zi's view, was more like a "guardian" or a "tracker" type of role.

He looked around, and before long, he actually discovered a round boulder that was a full two adults' height tall.

That boulder looked no different from an ordinary stone, and its entire body was moon-white.

In this "Fading" environment, even Feng Zi had a hard time discovering it for a moment.

Following Feng Zi's gaze, Qing Lin also saw the boulder and raised her eyebrows in some surprise:

"Strange, why haven't I discovered it all along... there is actually a human aura inside that stone?"

Hearing Qing Lin say this, Feng Zi was also somewhat surprised:

He was not surprised by the situation that there might be "something" inside the boulder;

But at such a close distance, Qing Lin had actually not perceived a human aura within it, which was somewhat unusual—

One must know that ever since Qing Lin woke up, the sensory ability she displayed had always been far stronger than his own!

This made him increasingly firm in his previous speculation.

Upon hearing this, Feng Zi said without hesitation, "I would like to see just what kind of sacred entity could cause such an anomaly."

Having said that, he walked forward cautiously, with Qinglin following closely behind him.

But until the two reached the giant rock, still nothing happened:

That moon-white giant rock just stood silently in place, as ordinary as any stone one might see anywhere.

Afterwards, they circled the giant rock a few more times, yet still discovered nothing.

There were no strange patterns, no cracks of any kind, and certainly no monster suddenly jumping out from the stone...

That giant rock just stood there as it always had, as if silently mocking the caution of the two.

Feng Zi had no better ideas, so he had no choice but to throw caution to the wind and reach his hand toward the giant rock, intending to obtain more useful information.

However, the moment he pressed his hand against the stone, in the astonished gazes of Feng Zi and Qinglin—

Fine cracks rapidly crawled all over the entire giant rock!