The final advice from this Eclipse Moon cultivator made Baiyu slightly worried.

The entire city had turned into this state, and the various grotesque creatures inside the city, transformed from human bodies, were likely all created by the Doctor single-handedly.

From the descriptions of those bizarre creatures, this "Doctor" seemed to be a human.

But whether the Doctor was connected with the Demons was uncertain.

However, Baiyu speculated.

The Doctor was very likely up to something fishy with the Demons, otherwise, they couldn't possibly conduct various experiments so blatantly in the city.

"What should we do next? Continue investigating or retreat to the bookstore first?"

Xiao Qing, seeing the current situation, didn't know whether to advance or return with a report and could only ask Baiyu.

"Let's take a look first; we can't just retreat without getting any useful information here, right?"

Although the deceased Eclipse Moon cultivator urged retreat.

Baiyu couldn't just walk away from Kelly's request without at least figuring out what happened here, to have something to report back.

It's said the Demons had invaded.

But Baiyu hadn't seen a single Demon here; it would be unreasonable to go back like that.

Baiyu took a deep breath, starting to inject the Power of Destruction into the Spirit Realm entrance, slowly unraveling the Sealing Power at the entrance.

Crack.

A few minutes later.

The seal on the Spirit Realm entrance was completely unraveled.

Baiyu was ready; if demons rushed over as soon as the seal was broken, he would immediately attack.

After all, even this Eclipse Moon cultivator could repel demons from the sealed entrance.

With Baiyu, Xiao Qing, and Erza, he was very confident in resealing the Spirit Realm passage.

However.

After the seal on this passage was unraveled, nothing came through from the other side. Seeing this, Baiyu prepared and then entered the passage.

Gray-black, heavy mist lingered in the forest.

The soil underfoot was extremely damp, and there was a stench of decay and blood.

When Xiao Qing arrived.

Baiyu began to proceed again, not far ahead, and saw corpses lying in a disorderly fashion on the ground.

The Silence Bookstore had many outposts in the Black Forest Realm, and clearly, these soldiers were from the outposts, all brutally murdered.

Green vines grew over their bodies, their skin turning a sickly green.

Much decaying liquid mixed with blood oozed from their corpses. These vines appeared to be alive.

No.

Upon closer inspection, Baiyu realized these things were not just like the living, but truly alive, absorbing nourishment and blood from the corpses like parasites.

As Baiyu and Xiao Qing walked over, the vines sprang to life, rapidly closing in on them, intending to devour them entirely.

Baiyu released the Power of Destruction around him, and as the vines reached, they were instantly shredded by it.

"Be careful, I have a feeling things aren't that simple."

Seeing these vines, Baiyu instinctively thought of the Green Mother, who seemed to love cultivating living creatures and strange plants.

They continued forward.

Not far ahead, they finally discovered the remains of demons; yet these demons, like the human corpses, also had all sorts of bizarre vines growing on them, menacingly twisting in the air, attacking any living thing that came near.

After clearing away these plants, Baiyu found the demons' condition resembled that of the humans.

The wounds on these demons were not inflicted by humans but by an even more terrifying and bizarre creature.

Baiyu and Xiao Qing were about to advance further.

Suddenly, an arrow shot out from the dense forest.

The arrow struck right at the protective barrier Baiyu had condensed with the Power of Destruction, shattering it.

A large cloud of green toxic mist erupted.

Prepared in advance, Baiyu and Xiao Qing activated their defenses the moment the green poisonous mist exploded.

Hiding behind a big tree nearby.

A demon with green skin and severely festering wounds prepared to flee after missing its shot.

But at the moment of turning away.

Baiyu appeared behind it, reached out, and with overwhelming force pinned it to the ground, rendering it immobile.

"Speak, what do you know?"

Baiyu didn't speak aloud but used Spirituality to communicate directly with it.

Yet the information received was chaotic.

Aside from words like "Polluter," "Pollution Source," and "Doctor's research," there was the incessant spread of fear.

This demon was already severely injured.

Not only was its body affected, but its mind was in turmoil.

The most apparent was the overwhelming sense of fear in its mind, an extreme terror of a particular creature, inescapable.

While Baiyu probed its thoughts, the demon suddenly convulsed and exploded like a poisonous cloud bomb.

Though it didn't harm Baiyu.

It gave Baiyu deeper understanding of these creatures.

Highly unstable, likely to self-destruct at any time, and possessing a strong aggressive desire with twisted bodies and minds.

"There's a large area of mental pollution ahead, I can feel it."

Xiao Qing's eyes were heavy.

She removed a gemstone bracelet from her wrist, flicked it gently, and a milky white healing aura expanded around them.

Within the aura.

All toxins were expelled.

Baiyu took a deep breath, "Let's go check it out. If anything seems off, we retreat immediately."

They continued forward.

This time, nothing else ambushed them, but many corpses on the ground were missing limbs, eerily disfigured.

Until they reached the military fortress of the bookstore in the Black Forest Realm.

There they encountered a regimented army of alien races.

These aliens had smooth skin, gills on both sides of their mouths, and webbed hands and feet.

They lacked eyelids.

This meant they could never close their eyes, forced always to remain open.

Baiyu, well-versed in Extraordinary Biology, was no stranger to this race. At first glance, they resembled the Naga Race but were deadly enemies with them, known as the Deep Divers. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

The Deep Divers were fierce and combative, extremely brutal.

Yet outside this fortress, their eyes were filled with extreme unease and fear.

Baiyu and Xiao Qing could clearly sense.

A powerful source of pollution within the fortress constantly radiated its influence outward. Baiyu didn't approach the castle recklessly but ascended into the air to survey the situation from afar.

A towering tree made of emerald green, as if carved from a crystalline gemstone, stood tall.

Surrounding the tree was a ring of blood pools.

The blood inside boiled continuously, bubbling with blood blisters.

Baiyu could see the blood pools contained many soaked humans, demons, and aliens, all praying and worshipping within them, with blood still flowing from their bodies.