Far away.
In a distant land.
Perhaps this place lay hundreds of millions, even billions, of kilometers away from the Twin Sages Tree...
But that did not matter.
All that mattered was that both sides were within the same Spacetime Layer.
The sky was clear.
Yet at some unknown point, it had turned somewhat gloomy.
When sunlight poured down.
The color it revealed was an eye-searing, bizarre blood red.
Making the enormous valley below—
Originally a landscape of breathtaking mountains and clear waters, teeming with life—
Seem filled with an inexplicable, sinister, eerie air.
And when the countless creatures living within instinctively raised their heads, staring up at the heavens in stunned confusion, what entered their eyes was no longer the sun.
It was a blood-colored eye, with layer upon layer of halos revolving within it...
Wherever its gaze fell.
All life immediately let out the most shrill screams.
Their fur was stripped away, their blood and flesh extracted, while their eyes and brains circled through the air, transforming into things resembling flies and insects that continuously emitted piercing shrieks.
Even the earth and vegetation were swiftly collapsing and rotting away...
If one broadened their view.
They could directly see the enormous canyon, spanning over a million square kilometers.
At that very instant.
It was as though some existence had seized it in its hand.
The steep slabs of earth, like sharp claws, closed in from every direction, gradually wrapping up the entire valley, along with the lifeforms within that remained alive despite having become too horrific to behold...
Before long.
Something resembling a cocoon, yet incomparably massive in size, appeared atop the valley's former site.
With it as the center.
Tens of millions of square kilometers of surrounding land were rapidly contaminated.
They became toxic and saturated with poison,