Chapter 342 Underground

• Yesterday, when Felix Cohen came here, he could feel something was off. Then he used his vision and picked up a lot of anomalies. Looking back now, it had to be the array here sucking up all the negative energy from everyone. “Never thought an array this freaky could exist in the world!” Felix was surprised. Even though the Spectral Citadel’s legacy recorded countless powerful arrays, none were as weird as one that could absorb negative energy from the human body. Still, he let it go. The world’s huge, and there’s plenty he doesn’t know. “Alright. Since you’ve cleared out the Sang family and the Devour Heaven cult, you’ll manage this place properly.” Felix spared the Wu family because, compared to the Sang family and the Devour Heaven cult’s cruelty, they were… well, kind. All these years, they just used food to control people and harvest their negative energy. They didn’t slaughter everyone in the end like the Devour Heaven cult and the Sang family did. They didn’t even leave the bodies alone. And honestly, even if he wiped out the Wu family, someone else would set their sights on this place, and who knows how many more would get hurt. Might as well let the Wu family keep a tight hold on it. The Wu clan knew their place. Chances are, from now on they wouldn’t dare push it too far. “Also, knock off that crap that hurts people and doesn’t do you any good.” “The techniques you practice carry a lot of negative energy from others. Sure, right now it boosts your strength. But give it time, and that junk will seep into you. In the end, you’ll turn into puppets.” Back then Felix had studied the spiritual natural energy in Wu Tianqi and Wu Hongyu’s bodies and found a thread of killing intent in it. If that kept going, that killing intent would take over their bodies. They’d end up mindless husks. “Relax. We won’t do this anymore!” Wu Tianqi promised again and again. Felix didn’t really believe him, but whatever. This place was a danger zone; there was no way he’d let those arrays keep operating. After laying out the rules to the two of them, Felix got up and left. He walked out of the Wu family’s villa. Felix opened his vision and started hunting for array flags across the entire resort. Soon, he reached the little courtyard where that old hag from the Devour Heaven cult had stayed. Under his vision, Felix was shocked to find the ground beneath the courtyard crammed with bones—human and countless others he couldn’t even identify. The deeper it went, the more bones there were, and judging by how rotten they were, some had been down there for hundreds, maybe thousands of years. There were so many that Felix’s scalp prickled. “How many people died here?” And in those bones, he sensed a terrifying energy he’d never seen before, along with heavy killing intent. The deeper he looked, the thicker that energy and killing intent got. After he pushed his sight around a hundred meters down, his eyes started to burn. His vision had reached its limit. Gritting his teeth against the pain, Felix forced his sight another meter. And there, one meter below, there wasn’t a single bone. Just foggy, empty nothing. In that emptiness, there seemed to be an even more terrifying energy lingering. It felt familiar, like he’d seen it somewhere. It hit him—the energy was kinda like the one on Sword-Without-Limits’s broken blade. Felix tried to look farther down, but before he could even push another centimeter, that empty layer erupted with a blast of raw, terrifying energy. It shot at his eyes like lightning. Felix could feel it—this energy was so wild that even if he went all out, he couldn’t stop it.