"Ha ha!"
They were still laughing when they arrived at the Gold Race's secret base.
The inside was pitch-dark!
Everything depended on their golden bodies for light.
"Old Matriarch..."
The moment they returned, they heard someone wailing in grief.
"Make way!"
Di Tang and the others took the lead, charging into the abyss.
Li Tianming saw a Gold Race giant lying amid the crowd, roughly thirty meters tall.
She looked exceedingly old. Her skin was no longer golden, but gray, like rotting wood. It had long since lost its luster, becoming dry, dim, and mottled with rust-like stains.
The heterodimensional decay formed a murky mist that burrowed across her body like venomous snakes, making ghostly sounds.
It really was heterodimensional decay!
And it was at an advanced stage.
Under the ravages of the heterodimensional decay, the old matriarch's face had completely shriveled. All her teeth had fallen out, her eyes were dull and lifeless, and her breath had become extremely weak.
Every single stellar particle in her body bore the mark of heterodimensional decay, which had thoroughly absorbed and stripped away the essence and power of those stellar particles.
She truly was at death's door!
Li Tianming also noticed that there were indeed more than a hundred people nearby suffering from heterodimensional decay, though to varying degrees. Some merely had gray spots on their bodies and could still move normally. Others had turned gray over most of their bodies, making movement extremely difficult; they had already lost their combat ability.
"Over a hundred people!"
There were only a little more than three hundred healthy members of the Gold Race in total.
This ratio was enormous—at the very least, far greater than in the Heterodimensional Abyss.
"Is this related to the usage rate of Order Ruins and Derivative Ruins? Or to