The voice of the elf royalty faded away once again, and everyone suddenly realized that Xiu Yi's team of four had somehow transformed to look like their younger selves. "Xiu Yi, your appearance."

Xiu Yi touched his face and, upon seeing that Red Ghost and the others had already noticed the change in their appearances, said, "I don't know either, damn it, why did we come to such a ghostly place."

"Kid, you should at least explain clearly where we are, could it be that this space is the source of your inner fears?"

It was still Xixi who answered Zhan Yu, as Xiu Yi could not express himself well now; after all, it was a power the royalty had exerted on Xiu Yi. Xixi explained: A few years ago, Feng Yi happened to come to this nonexistent 3.5-dimensional Alternate Space to rescue everyone.

And now, it seems that everything from back then is happening again, with the only difference being that they can move freely this time. After some thought, Xixi further explained to everyone that based on the timeline from before, Feng Yi and Bai Zhexian should be in a corridor not far from this room planning how to deal with the monsters.

As for what kind of monsters they are and why they came to this peculiar space, it's a long story filled with complex and bizarre experiences that might take a while to explain. The world's rules here are based on a certain horror game's setting and are divided into three levels: surface, middle, and core worlds.

Due to the curse on this place, the worldview switches each time the death knell rings. To put it simply, the surface world's monsters are few in number and weak, the middle world sees a significant increase in monsters, and when the worldview switches, the transition between dimensions is visible to the naked eye.

For example, a wall in the surface world, during the switch to the middle world, would slowly peel and weather at a pace visible to the naked eye, like traces of decay over time, becoming full of scars, and you can clearly feel the dimensional transition.

The final one is the core world, where the scene rivals hell. Although Xixi can now look at it without immediately feeling nauseous, it still absolutely horrifies her...

It is a bloodstained world with decaying buildings, collapsed churches, and dried corpses and variously shaped dead bodies. Their tragic deaths are terribly shocking, with some crucified, some pierced by chaotic blades, and others submerged in a river of blood, where only one hand clutches wildly. Every step you take could be tainted by the blood on the ground.

The monsters have human forms, tall but faceless, and their walking seems like spasms from nervous reactions, with movements astonishingly quick.

This evidently is not the most troublesome aspect, as Xiu Yi had watched a certain horror film, resulting in perfectly integrating the curse of the evil spirit from that film.

Because, in that film, anyone who entered the room would inexplicably die, and the evil spirit would also harm the deceased's companions, allowing no one to escape.

Xixi thought for a moment and continued to say to everyone, based on the current timeline, Feng Yi would return to this room to rest in a few minutes, as his condition was already very poor at the time, while Bai Zhexian would explore the surroundings for about ten minutes. If the situation unfolds as before, this arrangement can be broken.

Zhang Xiaobo suddenly jumped from the ground, "How to break it?"

"Damn, fatty, you were pretending to be dead." Blade Warrior blurted out a curse without thinking.

The bewildered fat Zhang Xiaobo collapsed again after asking this, nearly prompting Protector Jin to lift her foot gently off his fat face and then put it down; she almost couldn't resist adding a kick to his chubby face.

To Zhang Xiaobo's question, and with regard to the Third Rhythm, Xixi obviously was most knowledgeable, as the Third Rhythm was always the mystery she wanted to study. Xixi explained, "It is not really a solution; the evil spirit was forcibly defeated by Brother Feng."

"Hmph, it seems that the evil spirit you mention wasn't that powerful."

"Wrong!" Xixi's voice rarely sounded so solemn in response to Zhan Yu, "It is a creature that cannot be killed; anyone defiled by the curse will gradually be killed by it."

"How does the monster kill?"

"Through intimidation and physical harm, the evil spirit has an immortal characteristic, and its powerful force can even drag people into Alternate Space."

"If that's the case, how did Feng Yi manage to eliminate the evil spirit?"

"Through the transcendence of the Third Law of the Universe."

"Transcendence?"

"Yes, transcendence as the Third Rhythm, it's a phenomenon we can't comprehend. Under the Third Rhythm's influence, the God Particle gains mass through self-interaction, with the law's scope being both infinitely large and infinitesimally small, extending infinitely or forming a point, transitioning from zero to one creating new life, or from one to zero annihilating everything. I can't explain it better; in Brother Feng's observer's perspective, observation becomes creation, creation is destruction, and creation and destruction are the essence of observation."

This…? The people from Jade Clear Sect listened in utter confusion, but Mengdie was different, as she had personally experienced being taken by Feng Yi's Third Rhythm from the Binary Star to a place beyond the light years.

Mingfei's brows knitted deeper and deeper, she said, "We don't have time for stories, get to the point, through what method did Feng Yi kill the evil spirit, so everyone can try his approach."

Hey! Were you listening at all? Xixi sighed with innocent helplessness, "The evil spirit simply cannot be killed."

"Uh, cannot be killed?" Mingfei reflexively asked again, then how did Feng Yi manage it.

"Didn't I say, through the Third Rhythm?"

This became awkward. Watching everyone's peculiar looks, Mingfei's cheeks flushed red to her ears, "Ahem, I never got what you meant by the Third Rhythm, who's to blame for my math teacher dying early."

"Even if we stayed together, we would still be individually drawn into an alternate space by the evil spirit," Xixi explained again: "The evil spirit's power defies human imagination, the reason it was defeated by Brother Feng is precisely because the Third Rhythm isn't limited by space dimensions. This law tends more towards the fundamental structure of the universe, so when the evil spirit tried to escape, it was easily caught up by Brother Feng's transcendence, then just..."

"Then what happened?"

"Then it was gone, Bai Zhexian praised Brother Feng with a poem, 'Beyond the Divine Wind', haven't you heard of it?"

Everyone exchanged glances...

"Beyond the Divine Wind"

—So, the fabled Divine Wind actually refers to Feng Yi? If not for Xixi's reminder today, the veiled poem would have merely been regarded as a bard's praise song.

As a mournful toll of the death knell echoed, everyone's tension peaked, Blade Warrior asked the pressing question, "How long until Feng Yi and Bai Zhexian return?"

Cold sweat already broke out on Xixi's brow by now, "According to the previous experience, Brother Feng should've returned before the knell sounded."

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