Chapter 678: 9 Years Later_2

At a glance, it was almost all withered grass and decayed vegetation, the ground covered with yellowish-brown mud and patches of bubbling, muddy swamps.

A young girl in a gray dress lightly touched the ground, her figure turned into a mass of pale flames, flickering away and then reappearing at a farther place. With just a few blinks, she arrived in front of a village surrounded by black trees.

The village seemed quite dead, as if abandoned for a long time.

However, the girl glanced over and chuckled softly.

"Hiding here, are we?"

She took a step, intending to enter straight from the Great Gate.

At that moment, strains of string music emerged from the village, akin to the ancient Nikuhpa harp and the waist harp, the sound monotone yet inexplicably harmonious, but the melody was quite mournful and bizarre.

Simultaneously, a human chorus accompanied the strings.