"Is this... the backlash from refining Demon Resonance!?"
Feeling the sinister chill left by the melting black snowflakes, Lin Sheng's eyes flickered strangely.
That sensation immediately brought the possibility to mind.
"It seems Black Desolation Mountain really does hold some strange secrets."
But after cultivating the Supreme Heavenly Demon Scripture, he could not have been more accustomed to this backlash. Strong as this force was, it was still far from enough to affect him.
His gaze settled on the pitch-black mountains in the distance. His figure flashed, and he stepped into this uncanny forbidden land.
With that single step, space and time seemed to slip out of alignment.
Though he had moved only one step, it felt as though he had entered another space.
He could no longer feel any of the foul weather outside, only an indescribable, sinister chill.
Without pausing, he headed straight toward the black mountains.
They were only a hundred li away. At his speed, he reached them within a few breaths.
At the foot of the mountains, Lin Sheng tilted his head back to study their pitch-black slopes.
As he drew closer, he could clearly feel the sinister chill around him growing more intense, several times stronger than when he had first entered.
While a Divine Form Martial Artist could still resist the backlash in the outer region, this fierce, chilling aura at the foot of the mountains was already enough to threaten a Grandmaster.
By now, he could sense this aura more clearly. It was indeed quite similar to the backlash of Demon Resonance, yet there seemed to be a faint difference, as though the Demon Resonance had not been fully refined.
"If the energy of Demon Resonance is the foundation of this world, then this backlash, which still retains some of that energy,