Chapter 1268: Netherworld

And these things would become the shadow of a Nightmare that would haunt her for a long time to come; she swore that she had never seen anything so terrifying before this.

She stumbled as she fled to one side, and because she was panicking and choosing her path blindly, she crashed headlong into a crowd of people.

And the world before her eyes had become a bizarre and grotesque world.

The people coming and going before her made her feel that she did not belong to this world, and immediately, these people slowly gathered and surrounded her.

"Who are you? What are you doing here?" a middle-aged woman stared at her and asked: "What are you doing here?"

This middle-aged woman looked kind and benevolent, which made her feel much calmer inside; she swallowed her saliva, struggling to steady herself.

"I don't know why I'm here either, ma'am, please help me, I'm really scared."

Right now, Li Yan felt as if she had grabbed onto a life-saving straw; she felt that the middle-aged woman before her looked kind and should be able to help her.

"Where is your Spirit Tablet?" the middle-aged woman looked at Li Yan suspiciously and asked a question that Li Yan found somewhat baffling.

"What Spirit Tablet? I don't have a Spirit Tablet, I'm here to study, I don't know why I appeared here," Li Yan said fearfully.

"So... you are a living person." A strange look appeared in the middle-aged woman's eyes, and her gaze immediately became excited.

"Living... person?" Li Yan was somewhat puzzled.

"Don't look at those people; they have been dead for too long, their brains are muddled, year after year, day after day, living the lives they lived before they died."

"But I am different from them, I know what is going on here," the middle-aged woman chuckled and said: "I know, we are already dead..."

Originally, Li Yan had pinned all her hopes on this middle-aged woman, and she had been listening earnestly to what this woman was saying.

But she did not expect that the middle-aged woman's last sentence would make her feel as if she had fallen into an ice cellar.

"You... you are not a person?" Li Yan swallowed her saliva, looking at the middle-aged woman before her in terror; she was truly frightened to the extreme now.

In her own words, she had finally found someone who looked like a good person, but she never expected such a result.

"Of course not, hehe, it has been a long time since a living person came here, over ten years; you are the first one." The middle-aged woman looked at Li Yan excitedly, her eyes revealing a strange glow.

Seeing that her expression was wrong, Li Yan became afraid: "What do you want to do?"

The middle-aged woman reached out, grabbed Li Yan, and chuckled with her eyes shining: "What do you think?"

"Come with me, to my house; my son is not yet married and is waiting for a descendant to perform a ghost marriage with, but the descendants never arranged one. Since you have come, be my son's wife."

"No, don't, let me go, help!" Li Yan screamed in terror; she struggled desperately, but the middle-aged woman dragged her along as she walked back.

"Here, it's useless even if you scream until your throat breaks. This is a Netherworld formed when the Ghost Gate opens wide after the midnight hour; it does not enter the Five Elements, it is not within the Three Realms, no one can save you..."

The middle-aged woman had immense strength; she dragged Li Yan and walked outward, and no matter how Li Yan struggled, she could not break free.

"I'm not going, let me go, let me go quickly."

No matter how she struggled, the middle-aged woman held onto her tightly and dragged her forward, and Li Yan felt that ahead lay Avici Hell; if she were to fall into Hell, she would never be able to come out again.

Suddenly, she did not know where a burst of strength came from; she violently broke free from the middle-aged woman and pushed her to the ground.

And the body of this middle-aged woman, who looked quite sturdy, scattered all over the ground like broken parts.

She crawled forward desperately: "Don't go, come back, everyone come quickly, there is a living person here, she is a living person."

"There is a living person? There is actually a living person here?"

The middle-aged woman's shout attracted the gaze of everyone around, and everyone turned their heads to look at Li Yan.

"There is actually a living person here, she actually broke into the Formless Nether Realm?"

"Catch her, don't let her run."

A group of people moved sluggishly toward Li Yan, and Li Yan turned her head and ran as fast as she could.

And the people behind her pursued relentlessly.

Just at this moment, a figure appeared; he was not a stranger, but Li Daniu.

"Dad..." Li Yan was both surprised and happy; she ran desperately toward her father.

"Come over, quickly." Li Daniu bent down and drew a line in front of him, then urged her to come over quickly.

Li Yan ran over desperately and crossed this straight line, and the moment she crossed this line, the line turned into a river.

This river gradually expanded, and in an instant, it divided the two places into two banks.

On the opposite bank, countless people looked over here unwillingly across the river; those standing in front were even pushed into the river water by those behind.

But this river that appeared inexplicably was a natural chasm to them; no matter how unwilling they were, they had no way to cross over.

Everything went black before her eyes, and Li Yan returned to the real world; she gasped for breath violently, and cold sweat poured down her body as if it were free.

That scene just now was almost like a nightmare to her; she felt that sometimes the bizarre and grotesque dreams she had were the same as the situation she had just encountered.

But the difference was that she felt the dreams she had were incredibly real; those things seemed to have truly happened to her.

She had originally thought that she would be left there this time and would never be able to come out, but she never dreamed that the one who saved her at the final moment would actually be her father.

Truly, before this, she had always thought that the things her father came up with were nothing more than superstition, but now it seemed that these were not superstition; these things were things that truly and realistically existed.

"Now you should believe it, right?" Chen Yu smiled slightly.

She raised her head abruptly and saw that besides Chen Yu, there were her father, Zhou Bin, and Zhou Meng beside her.

"That wasn't a dream..." Li Yan gasped for breath violently: "That was real, those people... they truly exist?"

"They are people who lived decades ago; by now, most of their bones have almost turned to ash," Chen Yu smiled and said.

"But what was the reason for that scene just now?" Zhou Meng raised her head and looked at Chen Yu in confusion.

"That place is called the Formless Nether Realm, which is a phenomenon that appears in the place where Yin energy gathers when the Ghost Gate opens wide every night."

Chen Yu said: "The people there are actually people who have been trapped on the spot by the Yin-Gathering Ground for decades; they do not enter Reincarnation, yet they cannot accept the fact that they are already dead."

"So in their minds, they will repeat the things from before day after day, year after year, which is to say, the things that happened during their lives," Chen Yu said.