Ice apocalypse, I hoard tens of billions of supplies

However, at the very moment of Kuang Xiao's death, an extremely faint yet exceptionally clear mental thought, like a final burst of energy before death, entered the minds of Zhang Yi and Yang Xinxin.

That was the last vestige of clarity that the mad owl retained.

The voice was intermittent, a sign that his spirit was slowly fading away.

"Heh...heh...did you win? Too bad...you only killed...a mad...pathetic wretch..."

"If it were... me at my peak... you... wouldn't be able to kill me..."

"Be careful... in the Dark Sun Forest... there are many beings here... far more terrifying than me... I was corrupted like this back then... and lost myself..."

Zhang Yi's eyes narrowed, and he immediately used his mental power to ask, "Where are Burning Bone and Instant Meteor? Have you seen them?"

The fading consciousness responded intermittently: "...those two...the later intruders...they...went to the center...to find...the Night Witch..."

"The Night Witch...she...is...a hundred...a thousand times...more terrifying than me..."

The voice stopped abruptly here.

The last trace of the mad owl's existence vanished without a trace.

Zhang Yi and Yang Xinxin exchanged a glance, both seeing the seriousness in each other's eyes.

Night Witch, a name that sounds ominous, was actually described by Mad Owl as being a hundred times more terrifying than him.

Just then, the surrounding environment began to change strangely.

Like a faded oil painting, the illusions created by the mental pollution of the madman have completely dissipated.

However, the figures of King Arthur, Indra, Benjamin Morgan, and others who were fighting each other began to blur and distort, and finally vanished completely like a bubble.

The true scene, which had been obscured by battle and illusion, was now laid bare before the two.

Where are the coalition camps now? Where are the allies who fought side by side?

They were standing on a mountain peak made up of countless giant white skeletons!

These skeletons were enormous, some with ribs like arched bridges and skulls like small mountains, exuding an aura of desolation and death.

Further away, there are towering, pitch-black mountains that constantly exude viscous black mist—the very embodiment of Samael's spiritual pollution.

The air was thick with the smell of decay and despair.

The seemingly intense "coordinated joint operation" just now, apart from the real battle between Zhang Yi and Yang Xinxin, and the brief support from Leibniz and Orion under the protection of the Apocalypse, was all a massive illusion created by Mad Owl using mental pollution before his death!

King Arthur and his companions may have already fallen into a frenzy of fighting their own battles the moment the mad owl launched its large-scale mental pollution campaign, and may even have already been swallowed up by the Dark Sun Forest.

What Zhang Yi and the others saw before was only part of the "script" that Kuang Xiao wanted them to see.

Yang Xinxin's empty gaze swept over this scene of true hell, and she said softly, "From the very beginning, he was trying to break our minds. Those scenes of fighting side by side were meant to make us lower our guard and make us more vulnerable to the final outbreak of pollution."

Zhang Yi silently gazed at the Eternal Judgment Sword in his hand, which seemed to have solidified even further. Feeling the surging power within his body, he felt a secret thrill, but also a touch of solemnity.

"Where did those guys go? I don't believe they were all swallowed up by the Dark Sun Forest."

The mad owl is dead, but the horrors of the Dark Sun Forest have only just begun to unfold.

Burning Bones and Instant Meteor's target is the Night Witch, but ahead of them lies an existence a hundred times more terrifying than Mad Owl.

Zhang Yi frowned, a question growing ever deeper in his mind.

"According to intelligence, Meteor Shower, as a spark, has no combat power. Burning Bone's strength is at most at the level of Lone City and Mourning Storm."

"Even we, who have come here, are having such a hard time fighting the Mad Owl. How could they possibly escape?"

"Moreover, the Night Witch they are searching for..."

He opened the intelligence reports given to him by the two great empires, which contained a list of all individuals suspected of entering the Dark Sun Forest over the past ten thousand years.

Among them are some extremely powerful beings.

"Which one is the Night Witch...?"

Zhang Yi found more than a dozen Black Moon Priests from the Dark Moon Empire and Silver Moon Guardians from the Radiant Moon Empire on the list.

They entered the Dark Sun Forest for various reasons, and none of them left.

If they are still alive, they will surely cause even greater trouble for Zhang Yi in the future.

"Let's find those guys first!"

Zhang Yi looked around. Kuang Xiao was dead, and the illusion slowly disappeared.

The survivors will not be too far from this place.

Just as he was thinking about how to find the person, a crack suddenly appeared in the ground beneath his feet!

Zhang Yi's eyes suddenly turned to that direction, and the second hand of time was activated.

The next moment, he saw a white dog's head emerge from the ground.

It's Brian's head.

It looked at Zhang Yi and Yang Xinxin, then glanced around before finally letting out a sigh of relief.

"Oh, damn it! Is it finally over? Those guys were really crazy! They suddenly started yelling and slashing at me with such a big sword. Luckily I dodged it!"

Brian popped out, barking as he ran to Zhang Yi's side, saying, "I still feel safe with you, my dear bro."

"You weren't affected by the illusion?"

Zhang Yi asked curiously.

Brian proudly declared, "How could mere illusions affect my unwavering will and courageous heart?"

But Professor Leonardo da Vinci bluntly exposed its flaws.

"I've modified this guy's brain so it won't be affected by abnormal external signals."

"But we don't know where they've gone, and we can't tell which way they are."

Brian looked at the erratic pointers on the magnetic field instrument on his wrist and sighed helplessly.

What a terrible start!

Zhang Yi looked at Brian and said, "Hey Brian! You're a dog, you should have a good nose, right? Can you help me find them?"

Brian shrugged and said, "LeBron James."

"This place reeks of corpses; my sense of smell is about to break down."

"Besides, those guys were fighting like madmen just now, who knows how far they ran off to? They might all be dead!"

Zhang Yi gave a thumbs up: "Your lips are as sweet as honey!"

Yang Xinxin suggested, "Then let's send a signal to them! Make signal flares in the shape of Chinese characters and launch them into the sky. That way, they can see them no matter how far away they are."

"Just have them gather at the center of Dark Sun Forest."

Zhang Yi thought for a moment, then nodded and said, "Good idea. Now that everyone is scattered, we can only rely on our own abilities. I hope they can all survive! Otherwise, it wouldn't be good to have a few less cannon fodder when the fighting starts."