The surrounding environment returned to normal all of a sudden.

In the view was a grotesque red scene, with the ground littered with fragmented corpses, limbs scattered haphazardly soaked in thick and sticky blood plasma, while the plasma converged into crisscrossing streams and small puddles, leaving virtually nowhere to step.

The intense smell of blood shot straight to the crown of the head, causing Gu Mo, who had just felt a bit better, to experience another violent upheaval in his stomach, twitching slightly.

He originally found it hard to accept such a high concentration of blood plasma, needing some time to adapt, but the recent Illusion Realm briefly interrupted this adaptation process, deceiving his senses... Now that the Illusion Realm was broken, the real sensory perception returned.

It's like some old tropes in horror movies; if it's a continuous onslaught of scary scenes, it seems densely packed with terror, but since throughout this process, people's nerves remain highly tense, they become psychologically prepared for the continuous stimuli, thus making the degree of fright actually bearable.

However, if it suddenly stops in the middle, and everything seems to calm down, making people think the tense and exciting plot has ended, they begin to relax, and their tensed spirits start to slacken... and then, when frightened again at this point, it often breaks one's psychological threshold.

That's exactly the case here, with Gu Mo tightly clenching his teeth, barely suppressing the urge to vomit.

The black-haired girl beside him also didn't like such a scene, frowning slightly. Even though part of the cause for all this lay with her, it was still the first time for her to see such a density of Demon Ghost corpses piled up like mountains.

Yet, putting aside those irrelevant matters, she looked around and was amazed at the vast amount of Spirit Stones, lost in thought since just now.

She already knew beforehand that Spirit Stones were hidden here, and in enormous numbers, which was why countless Demon Ghosts were drawn here to fight and kill, but she hadn't expected this "enormous amount" to be beyond her imagination... These Spirit Stones weren't necessarily in their original form, after all, those gigantic clusters reaching up to tens of meters, turning this space into a crystalline jungle-like main crystal cluster—

Spirit Stones of such super-large specs, who knows how many people's deaths on super-large-scale battlefields it takes to gather enough essence to condense at once. Moreover, even if such a case did exist, it couldn't have been stealthily transported into the deep mountains of Mino and stored in such a place.

And gigantic Spirit Stones like these were everywhere here, at a glance, there were over ten of these giant crystal clusters, each towering tens of meters high... seemingly growing out of the ground like giant spikes, tilting all over the cave space, occupying a significant part of the originally spacious area.

Probably due to the nature of the Spirit Stones themselves, they seem like crystals, yet they are actually the material nature shown by condensed essence. So when many fragmented Spirit Stones accumulate together, over time, their essence flows, merges with each other, and concentrates into a whole, becoming a larger Spirit Stone.

Bringing about this scene in front of them must have taken more than just a month or two to achieve... Her father must have been collecting Spirit Stones and burying them here for a long time...

Hidechika thoughtfully pondered and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Fujikichiro's earlier advice was indeed correct—it wasn't a good idea to bring unrelated soldiers here; they were not suited to know about this... Over the years, when exorcising demons, she encountered many incidents caused by rural villagers being bewitched, abusing the Power of Spirit Stones.

This kind of thing has a peculiar Magic Power that confuses the mind; even the Demon Ghost would go crazy for them. As for ordinary people...

Wait!

Suddenly remembering something, the black-haired girl who's slightly dazed quickly turned to look at someone, only to find the other's face looking bad, fists tightly clenched, with a somewhat ferocious expression... Damn! Has he really been lost in the mind, bewitched by so many Spirit Stones?

Hidechika pressed her lips; humans are easily bewitched, Demon Ghosts often are too, yet she has not felt anything special about it, not knowing if it's her inherited bloodline or because, as a Half-Demon, she stands on the middle dividing line.

Thus, the feeling wasn't particularly strong, and she didn't react immediately, only realizing later upon second thoughts.

But this shouldn't be too big of an issue. Getting bewitched is only the first step; as long as he is prevented from further contacting and utilizing the Spirit Stones, breaking free from the bewitchment and returning to normal should happen quickly without completely losing his mind and falling to become a Demon Ghost...

As she thought about this, she took a step forward, preparing to knock him out and take him away; those bewitched are difficult to communicate with, and she couldn't even speak now.

"I'm fine, don't worry..."

Noticing the girl's approach, Gu Mo, who wasn't in the best state, saw the expression on Hidechika's face and thought she was concerned about him. After all, his face must look terrible, and the urge to retch was hard to suppress, yet he didn't notice the girl lightly clenching her little fist.

He waved his hand, tugged at the corner of his mouth, forcing a smile, and said bravely, "Don't worry, these mere things don't matter to me at all..."

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