Tilting his head, Gu Xi glanced at the patterns on the stones by the pool and tried hard to make them out.
These were Death Script that had yet to fully take shape. In Gu Xi's eyes, it was like a modern person looking at oracle-bone script—he could recognize it, but he had to guess at the meaning inside.
If he spent a little time on it, he could more or less figure it out.
Sure enough, as he stared at the patterns on the stone, Gu Xi understood what was going on with the pool before him.
There was no need to find someone and ask, like before.
In truth, no matter who came here, no one would have imagined that the pool before them, only the size of a bathtub, was the Underworld of this world.
Because Death Aura and power no longer existed here, this pool had already begun absorbing Yin Energy to maintain its own existence.
As for the source of that Yin Energy, it definitely could not come from this world's Living World.
The Underworld was almost gone, so where was the Living World supposed to get Yin Energy? In the end, the target source of the Yin Energy had become this world's moon.
It drew a portion of Yin Energy from the moon to sustain the last remaining Underworld.
After understanding the situation here, Gu Xi took two steps forward and quickly arrived beside the pool. He reached out and pressed his hand down toward the purple, mercury-like liquid in the pool.
With that press, Gu Xi felt a special aura bounce outward, as if trying to spring his hand away.
With just that, Gu Xi knew what the liquid in the pool was.
Yin Energy condensed into liquid form. Even Gu Xi did