When Wang Zihao noticed that Duan Chen had activated his Ancient Text ability, a flicker of surprise crossed his eyes.
He didn't understand why Duan Chen chose to use his ability at this moment.
But clearly, Duan Chen didn't need to be understood.
Although the effect of the Ancient Text ability was almost the same regardless of who used it, it also depended on the amount of spiritual energy.
The performance of the Ancient Text ability by someone with strong spiritual energy was vastly different from that of someone with little spiritual energy.
Wang Zihao genuinely appreciated the extent of power his Ancient Text ability could perceive.
His eyes involuntarily bloomed with intense, dazzling colors like a rainbow, and his entire field of vision was filled with the light screen displayed by Duan Chen's activated Ancient Text.
Both Duan Chen and Bai Ye vanished from Wang Zihao's sight at that moment.
He greedily absorbed the details revealed when Duan Chen used this ability.
And Duan Chen did not disappoint Wang Zihao.
The Ancient Text displayed immense power in his hands.
Countless streams of light.
These were streams of knowledge.
They flickered and alternated in his eyes.
Duan Chen unconsciously received the messages transmitted by this village.
"If my predictions are correct, these lines we are seeing do indeed cover the underground of the entire village, just as you said."
Soon, he analyzed the information transmitted by this formation.
Furthermore, the information he could analyze was more comprehensive and complete than what Wang Zihao had deduced.
The information transmitted by the Ancient Text allowed Duan Chen to understand the meaning behind the existence of this formation in greater detail than Wang Zihao's verbal description.
It was something that language could not fully describe.
It was precisely because he understood it completely that Duan Chen frowned, his expression filled with caution and vigilance.
He retracted his Ancient Text ability, calmed his emotions, and then conveyed what he had learned to Bai Ye and Wang Zihao, who were eagerly awaiting his explanation.
As he spoke, their faces became increasingly cautious and solemn.
They had never expected that a mere cleanup mission could harbor such a terrifying presence.
By now, both of them were feeling somewhat exhausted.
Because they could not absorb spiritual energy here, any spiritual energy they used was almost unreplenished.
The level of spiritual energy in the air was too weak; the amount they absorbed was completely insufficient to compensate for the energy consumed.
"This should be a formation, just as I said. However, this formation has caused the village's inherent abilities to truly come alive.
In other words, this is a formation that converts non-anomalous entities into anomalous entities. I cannot decipher how this formation was formed."
Duan Chen rubbed his temples, finding it utterly incredible.
This was the first time he had encountered such a phenomenon.
He wondered how such an existence could possibly exist in this world.
If such a formation were to fully materialize, wouldn't that mean that anything placed here, whether it was a bowling ball or a doll, could be transformed into an anomalous entity?
And if living things could be influenced and mutated into anomalous beings?
The entire world would fall into chaos.
"How could such a formation exist?" Bai Ye also found it incredibly hard to believe, his face filled with shock.
Wang Zihao's expression was identical; he opened his mouth and uttered the same words as Bai Ye.
The two of them fell into complete doubt about this world. The more they encountered such matters, the more they felt their own strength to be weak and insignificant.
They were completely incapable of going against the world.
Moreover, the enemies they faced were in the shadows, while they were in the open, only able to gradually resolve the troubles caused by the hidden enemies.
This feeling was truly unbearable, and the sense of powerlessness within their hearts grew stronger.
Their emotions quickly plunged into a low ebb.
Duan Chen thought for a moment and spoke to comfort them.
"Nothing is impossible. However, fortunately, with your Ancient Text ability, I have deduced a method to break this formation that covers the entire village."
Upon hearing that there was another way, Bai Ye and Wang Zihao's spirits lifted, and they dispelled their dejected emotions.
They were quite capable of controlling their emotions; one had already experienced much unfairness and injustice, and the sorrows of life.
The other, having gone through the rigorous selections of the capital's competition, had long since learned to control his emotions, preventing personal feelings from affecting the progress of a mission.
The instant they reined in their emotions, a faint red light flickered somewhere beneath the ground in the formation.
But no one saw that fleeting red light. The red glow carried a sense of regret, as if lamenting why such negative emotions had not been transmitted further.
"What method?" Bai Ye quickly pressed.
Duan Chen thought for a moment and explained.
"We need to first find the center of the formation, which is the focal point. Once the focal point is found and destroyed, the entire formation can be destroyed."
This was the method he had obtained from his Ancient Text ability.
A gleam flashed in Bai Ye's eyes, and he was about to offer his help in the search, but then Duan Chen's next words made him feel a chill.
"However, based on my deductions, and the feedback from my Ancient Text, the focal point should be located near that church."
"What?" Bai Ye's expression was one of extreme shock.
The thought of returning to that church made his emotions involuntarily turn resistant.
It was due to the restraints on his spiritual energy, the ropes that absorbed his spiritual energy, and the terrifying angel statue and scarecrows inside that had left him with deep-seated trauma.
He felt that he might never be able to look directly at farmland again.
After all, scarecrows were most common in farmland.
"We have to go back?" Wang Zihao also asked with confusion.
That place was truly terrifying, and Duan Chen had not even touched the angel statue or the scarecrows there. Although they had retreated unharmed, that church had also suffered no damage.