Lush grasses and trees, chirping birds.
Beasts raced through the mountains and rivers, some roaring as they hunted, others fleeing in panic.
Everything brimmed with life.
Only Chu Qing felt his hair stand on end.
Anomalies were not frightening!
Even the titans of the restricted zones had been slaughtered by his killing moves. Would he fear some petty anomaly?
But the anomaly he had experienced firsthand this time surpassed everything he knew.
For the first time in all these years, he had sensed true terror.
He was not afraid of death.
He feared an anomaly capable of affecting an entire continent.
The anomalies he knew could at most affect a single city. They could not even influence an empire.
But the anomaly here...
He raced across the continent, yet saw neither brightly lit towns nor torch-bearing people aflame.
He could not even find the three Pioneers.
"Putting on airs and playing tricks!"
"How utterly ridiculous!"
Chu Qing sneered and directly linked himself to the earth veins.
One minute...
Three minutes...
Five minutes...
Before long, he had saturated the entire continent.
Then he rose into the air.
The next second;
Vein after vein of earth exploded. The entire continent fell apart.
Crash!
Whoosh!
Chunks of continental debris tumbled into the ocean, revealing black earth beneath.
There was another layer of continent beneath this one?
Chu Qing hovered in the air and examined the land below.
Then he discovered that it was not land at all, but a turtle shell as vast as a continent.
The continent he had seen before was actually formed from ash that had accumulated on the turtle shell over untold ages.
"No wonder the earth veins on this continent were so few and so thin."
If this continent had been given several dozen more eras, a true