The Gifted, Assemble!

【Urban High Martial Arts】【Supernatural Powers】After walking about three li, the mist began to change color. From pure white it became a grayish white, close to the hue of old newspaper left out too long. The light in his field of view dimmed, and the canopy overhead grew denser than before, but those denser branches were all dead, without a single leaf, like a layer of gray wire mesh stretched across the sky. Shen Wangshan stopped for a step. He raised his hand to make the flock of pigeons descend thirty zhang; the pigeons circled twice in the gray-white mist, then climbed again and returned to their original flight altitude. His expression was not quite right... The pigeon said something was blocking the way ahead. Not living, not dead, but a... thing that did not belong to this mountain. Shen Wangshan took the gray-white carrier pigeon out of his hidden pocket and held it in his palm. The pigeon huddled with its neck drawn in, wings tightened against its sides, feathers trembling slightly; the whole bird was locked in a stalemate of neither wanting to fly away nor daring to land. What did it mean, a thing that did not belong to this mountain? — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: The Gifted, Assemble! — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠