A human silhouette... Was it an Anomaly, or something else?
Ignoring the things following behind him, Bai Zhi continued up the stairs, a thoughtful look on his face.
Anomalies were a good thing. It would be stranger if there were no anomalies at all. As for those things trailing behind him, he could not even be bothered to spare them another glance.
Those vague humanoid shadows were far less interesting than a talking Fukushima Watermelon...
Since those things posed no immediate threat to him, he could not be bothered to waste time dealing with them. Right now, he was considering something more important.
—Such as the origin of this trial scenario.
As the inheritance trial for the Unique profession [Eastern Ghost Emperor · Shen Tu], this trial scenario should naturally have countless connections to that profession.
So where, exactly, did that connection lie?
Make bold assumptions, then verify them carefully.
Bai Zhi had already formed his own hypothesis regarding this dead-silent world.
The dead-silent world he was currently in should be the Underworld... or rather, the Underworld of the past.
From the images that had appeared on the Stone Tablet atop the Square Stone Platform, he had learned of the Underworld's true origins. Long ago, the Underworld itself had been a world much like the Shadow World.
But then an irresistible disaster had struck. Only a few people survived in the entire world, after which that world was fused into their own. Following a long period of development, it became what was known as the Underworld.
The point in time he was currently in might have been when this world suffered its devastating blow. Those shadows cast upon the walls that followed behind his own shadow might just be the Ghosts of legend.
After all, those things looked far too