Multicolored light flowed and shifted.
Many beings felt as though they had entered a teleportation ritual and were being transported.
Perhaps it was an instant, perhaps a year.
Everyone was muddled, having lost all sense of time.
Even Chu Qing could not perceive the passage of time.
Relying only on his formidable strength, he could see seas turning into mulberry fields amid the multicolored light.
The platform they stood upon had not moved, but everything around it was changing.
A sound like bursting bubbles rang out.
All changes came to an end.
Everyone looked around and discovered that the darkness surrounding them had grown even denser.
The thick darkness was like seawater, madly pressing in on them.
The light released by the lanterns, oil lamps, candles, and other objects on the platform was continuously squeezed back by the darkness.
"How dare darkness invade us?"
Azure Gold Flying Snow gave a sharp cry and pointed at the darkness. "Retreat!"
The darkness churned. Not only did it fail to retreat, it grew denser and fiercer.
The other young men and women immediately frowned.
One young man said grimly, "In the name of the First Duke of Region Thirty-Six Thousand Eight Hundred Seventy-Two, I command the darkness to disperse!"
A lantern exploded.
The darkness churned and pressed in even more fiercely.
Everyone frowned, their faces changing drastically.
Most of them were creatures of the forbidden zones. Controlling darkness was as easy to them as eating and drinking.
Yet now, the darkness was resisting them. It even harbored killing intent toward them.
What was going on?
One lighting fixture after another exploded.
A young woman stepped into the darkness and said angrily, "I... Ah!"
The flesh on her body sloughed away, exposing black-gold bones.
A large hand reached out from the darkness, trying to