Chen Ping'an continued to travel north along the so-called official road after leaving Crow Peak, but he would definitely venture along the small paths forking off the road to take a look whenever he came across them, continuing all the way until he reached a dead end. Perhaps he would come across deep streams hidden amid the tall and undulating peaks, or perhaps he would come across tall cliffs and sheer mountain faces. 0

As Chen Ping'an expected, Malicious Ghost Valley was brimming with mystery. When standing beside the mountain stream just then, he had detected members of the water race lying at the bottom of the stream and nurturing their souls. Even when Chen Ping'an squatted down and scooped up some water to wash his face, the demons hidden beneath the water were still able to hold back and refrain from attacking him. Since they were so cautious, Chen Ping'an also decided not to target them.0

As for the pair of steep cliffs facing each other, there was a suspension bridge connecting them together, yet the wooden planks of the bridge had already decayed completely, with only the lonely iron chains swaying slightly in the wind. 0

Walking across this broken bridge wouldn't be difficult for Qi refiners or pure martial artists, but Chen Ping'an saw a large and pitch-black python coiled around the middle of the bridge, with its body as thick as a corridor pillar. The python hissed softly, and not far away from it was an extremely wide spider web especially used for catching birds in the mountains. The head of the spider spirit was only as big as a fist, yet the spider spirit had already managed to successfully manifest the appearance of a human woman.0

If Daoist priests or Buddhist monks traveled here and witnessed this scene, perhaps they would step forward to slay the demons and eliminate the fiends, viewing this as an act of accumulating hidden virtue.0

In Chen Ping'an's view, however, even if the demons and fiends here wanted to feast on humans and commit grave sins, they needed to actually come across some humans first.0

Once again following a small fork path, Chen Ping'an ventured into the deep mountain forests, surprisingly coming across a rundown structure at the...0