Chapter 392: So Big!

"Didn't expect the senses to be this sharp."

Tang Luo said; ordinary zombies are rather mindless, extremely sluggish, their heads filled only with thoughts of feeding and destruction.

Once they want to eat, even if the Tathagata stood before them they would still take a bite.

However, there are also some zombies whose perception of danger is unexpectedly keen, just like this one that has lain back inside its coffin.

Tang Luo had only raised his hand when this newly risen zombie made the correct decision.

The decision was not bad, because at least it could die inside its own bronze coffin.

The raised hand fell, striking the bronze coffin; a faint light flashed between Tang Luo's fingers.

The entire bronze coffin and the zombie inside were both burned to ash by the Glazed Flame.

Zombies, this sort of thing, have no "potential" to tap into; meeting the Glazed Flame, it is like dry tinder meeting fierce fire.

Burned up in an instant.

This is what truly counts as nothing having happened.

The 5 in the mission became a 6; this unexpected matter was resolved by Tang Luo.

If it were the usual, Tang Luo would have been interested in searching the ancient tomb, looking for clues, perhaps able to deduce what great figure this zombie had been in life.

Now, there are more important things to do.

Tang Luo drew a Flight Talisman, slapped it on himself, and rose into the air.

"What's the situation?"

Before long, Tang Luo found Ao Yulie and the others.

"Gone mad." Ao Yulie pointed at Lu Xiuqi before him and said.

One dragon and one dog found Lu Xiuqi at the fastest speed, then discovered that this schizophrenic Recorder and Disseminator had already gone mad.

He only grinned foolishly and vacantly, showing no reaction to Ao Yulie's arrival or to any external stimuli.

"What about the others?" Tang Luo asked.

"I specially checked a few; the conditions are all about the same." Ao Yulie said, "Some are a bit better, still able to say a couple of lines like 'It's over, all over,' and some are just like him, grinning foolishly and vacantly, only a little better than vegetables."

Outside it's a mess right now, a bunch of people collapsing and committing suicide, a bunch of people planning to party hard before suicide.

Some feel it's about time to enter the apocalypse; even if they don't commit suicide they still have to party hard.

To call it chaos and turmoil would not be an overstatement.

The changes in the numerous Recorders and Disseminators are like tiny wavelets in the great sea, utterly inconspicuous.

"Master, there is a great terror behind these matters." Ao Yulie said.

The mutated Empress, the Recorders and Disseminators of terrifying bizarre events, the "Black Hole Eye" photograph that makes one's mind nearly collapse at a single glance, and the ghost phone calls.

Even the Suit Man, and the Feng Family that was the first to be resolved by Tang Luo.

These matters seem isolated, but behind the scenes, there seems to be a common purpose: to spread fear.

Among them the Recorders and Disseminators are the most obvious.

Spreading laughter, the opposite of spreading love, spreading fear.

"Master, someone is definitely deliberately stirring up trouble." Ao Yulie declared solemnly.

"I don't think so." Tang Luo shook his head, "From the angle of spreading fear, aside from the Black Hole Eye having a bit of scale, even the Feng Family's mist and corpse mushrooms are too petty."

"If it were deliberate, just the Black Hole Eye alone would be enough; I feel this is some kind of instinct."

"Instinct?" Ao Yulie froze for a moment, then understood Tang Luo's meaning.

Simply put, it is breathing; this is an instinct.

"There should be a source, right?" Ao Yulie said.

"Let's try to find it." Tang Luo reached out and pressed his hand on the head of the foolishly grinning Lu Xiuqi, performing Soul Ferry.

After the Soul Ferry, one could see that Lu Xiuqi's soul had undergone a change.

No longer the original two-faced appearance, it had become incomparably strange, giving a feeling of atavistic regression.

Front and back were still two faces, but the upper and lower jaws of both faces protruded to varying degrees; at a glance, they looked like a monkey's.

The standing posture had also changed; the body was hunched, legs bent, hands hanging at the sides.

A veritable big macaque, and a foolishly vacant big macaque at that, like a patient who has had their frontal lobe removed.

That originally extremely faint and thin thread behind the back had already swollen, thick as an ordinary person's forearm.

Because one could also clearly see it constantly extending outward, like a pointer pointing toward the source behind the Recorder and Disseminator.

At the same time it might also point toward the source of the entire series of bizarre events.

"Found it." Tang Luo ended the Soul Ferry.

Light flashed on Ao Yulie; he swept up Tang Luo and Xiaotian Quan and rushed into the clouds, heading for the destination.

Amidst the thick cloud layers, Ao Yulie flew, flickering lightning around him faintly forming a human face.

This has nothing to do with Ao Yulie.

It can also count as a kind of bizarre event; giving it a name like "Human-Face Lightning" would be more appropriate.

After coming into contact with the Recorders and Disseminators, Tang Luo and the others had already discovered that the bizarre events existing in this mission world were actually far more than just seven.

Now, with the full eruption of the "Black Hole Eye" event, even more bizarre events will certainly surface one after another.

Even if the gods and demons hold their ground, these matters will still jump before their eyes.

If at this time neither camp has reached a count of four resolved bizarre events, it turns into a competition.

Whoever resolves four first can cause the other side's mission to fail.

At that time, the correct choice is to seek out those simple bizarre events and complete them as fast as possible.

Even if victory or defeat has already been decided before this, the most prudent choice at this time is also to try to find that kind of simple bizarre event and resolve it.

But Tang Luo is different.

As the Victorious Fighting Buddha, he certainly couldn't just finish this mission by casually taking care of another small fry.

His target was the source of these bizarre events!

Greater danger, greater merit.

Ignoring the roaring human-faced Lei Yu around him, Ao Yulie charged straight out of the cloud layer; those slow-moving clouds couldn't keep up with his speed at all.

"Master, the sky, or the sea?"

Ao Yulie hovered above the vast sea surface; a certain special aura in the surroundings was extremely dense.

It seemed something was about to be born into the world.

Just for the moment it was hard to judge whether it was the sky or the ocean.

"I'll go up, you go down."

Tang Luo spoke, his body soaring into the air; like Sun Wukong, he didn't much like underwater combat either.

"Good." Ao Yulie plunged headfirst into the seawater.

Tang Luo flew toward higher altitudes; the surrounding temperature kept dropping, the cold wind like knives.

"..."

Before long, the surrounding space abruptly darkened, as if Tang Luo had flown out of the atmosphere and arrived in outer space.

Looking down, one could see a sphere very similar to the real world's Earth.

But smaller in size.

"Heh." Tang Luo let out a light laugh.

He raised his head to look into the "depths of the dark universe."

There, a gigantic eye existed.

A black hole that originally required telescopes and all sorts of intricate, sophisticated instruments to see had completely appeared "before" Tang Luo.

A ring of dark red halo — that was the iris around the pupil; surrounding it was a mass of black, faintly outlining the shape of an eyeball.

In the middle of the iris, it was originally black, but as he gradually, gradually drew closer, another radiance appeared.

The surging black gradually turned white.

Cold, ruthless, without a shred of emotion — the eye, the instant their gazes met, was enough to make a person's mind collapse and go mad on the spot.

Xiaotian Quan had already obediently closed his eyes, burying his head in Tang Luo's greatcoat.

This eye was not something the current she could casually meet the gaze of.

Even the former Xiaotian Quan would probably find it hard to stare directly at this eye, as massive as a celestial body, constantly drawing nearer.

"Interesting, let this poor monk see just what kind of thing you are." Tang Luo raised his hand, executing the Glazed Nirvana Great Hand Seal.

A giant palm appeared, different from before.

This time the palm, though tinged with a faint gold, was not the usual semi-transparent form, but a true "flesh palm."

Muscle texture, bone traces, fingernails — all clearly visible.

Five fingers spread open, as if to grasp the entire heavens in hand, seizing toward that constantly expanding eye.

Like two celestial-body-like colossi, their speed seemed slow, but in reality they collided in an instant.

No terrifying energy leaked out, sweeping up shockwaves that destroyed everything.

The moment the Great Hand Seal touched the "Black Hole Eye," it began to distort; the eye seemed like a real black hole, possessing infinite attraction, wanting to suck the Great Hand Seal completely inside.

Tang Luo's expression didn't change; he clenched the raised palm.

The Great Hand Seal clenched simultaneously, as if truly crushing an eyeball.

The Black Hole Eye exploded within the Great Hand Seal's palm!

"Zhu Yan..."

A strange cry rang out, as if calling a certain name.

"Dwarf?" Tang Luo frowned, "No, it's Zhu Yan?"

"Three hundred li further south, called Mount Geng; the grasses and trees, many water jade, many large snakes. There is a beast, its form like a fox but with fish wings, its name is Zhu Yan; its cry is self-naming; when seen, its state has terror." — from the *Classic of Mountains and Seas: Classic of the Eastern Mountains*.

From the *Classic of Mountains and Seas: Classic of the Eastern Mountains*.

It was actually a Zhu Yan!

Tang Luo was slightly surprised; the *Classic of Mountains and Seas* was written extremely early, and many of the strange beasts recorded in it are "endangered species" in the Mountains and Seas Realm.

Very rarely seen.

The Zhu Yan is one of them; one might not see a single one in a lifetime, yet it unexpectedly appeared in this mission world.

As Tang Luo crushed the Black Hole Eye with one hand, the surrounding scene instantly changed; the darkness receded.

It wasn't in some dark universe; Tang Luo was merely in the high sky where cold wind blew bleakly.

What was seen just now, and the Black Hole Eye everyone saw, were all fake; this doesn't count as an illusion technique, it's the Zhu Yan's ability.

It was originally a strange beast that brings fear.

"The main body isn't here." Tang Luo looked around, finding no trace of the Zhu Yan, "And a single Zhu Yan probably couldn't cause this much impact; there should be something else."

He flew downward, wondering what Ao Yulie in the sea had discovered.

Descending to the sea surface, before Tang Luo could enter the water, the originally fairly calm sea suddenly surged with horrifying waves.

A massive shadow emerged from the deep sea, rushing straight for the surface.

Waves rolled up thousands of layers of snow!

A colossus burst out of the ocean; in a split second, it was as if a torrential rain had fallen.

"Master! There's something down below!"

Having transformed into dragon form and burst out of the sea surface, Ao Yulie shouted loudly, "So big! Too big!"