Scripps's enormous bone wings beat furiously, and its black dragon body dropped rapidly like a falling comet.
The fierce wind howled past their ears, carrying the fresh scent unique to the mountains, rivers, plants, and trees below—utterly different from the thin, biting cold of the high sky.
The mountains of Yan Country had shed the haziness and artistic charm they possessed from afar, revealing a more magnificent and perilous true form.
Strange peaks rose high, bizarre rocks jutted everywhere, and deep gorges resembled scars torn across the earth. Faintly visible within them, surging rivers wound through the landscape like silver ribbons.
Ancient trees towered into the heavens, lush and verdant as they covered the vast mountain wilderness, radiating an exuberant vitality.
Qin Chuan's gaze swept over the scenery rushing past below, but most of his mind remained immersed in the changes within the Shadow Domain.
The twenty-five percent Divine Kingdom Transformation progress represented more than an expansion of range and the completion of laws. It also brought about a wondrous increase in his sense of control.
What stood out most was that faint feeling of connection to the shadows of the world. Though it remained hazy, it made his perception of the surroundings more three-dimensional and refined.
He could "feel" the darkness accumulated on the shaded sides of the mountains, "touch" the mottled shadows cast by the interwoven branches and leaves of ancient trees, and even detect the unchanging chill at the bottoms of some mountain streams.
This perception was like an entirely new dimension added beyond his original field of vision—the dimension of shadows.
Although he still could not perceive things clearly, much less control them precisely, this was undoubtedly tremendous progress.
In the future, as the Shadow Domain's Divine Kingdom Transformation deepened, this ability would inevitably grow even