However, this bustling marketplace was only what met the eye at first glance – upon closer scrutiny, one would quickly discover the walls of buildings mottled with patches, the figures of passersby blurry, and a chilling aura of specters pervading the air.
Before the onlookers had time to examine closely, the scenery of the marketplace that overlapped with the Water Dragon's Lament Illusionary Killing Formation began to twist.
A humming sound echoed incessantly.
The Water Dragons and buildings had already become indistinct.
Some building doors swung wide open like the gaping mouth of a giant beast, swallowing several Water Dragons as if they were tiny mudfish;
Ghostly figures grinned like butchers, unsheathing their knives to pin the Water Dragon to the wall, flaying and deboning them;
There were ghostly shadows – some fake, some real.
"What on earth is happening inside?"
Someone asked.