As they spoke, at the end of the spatial passage ahead, the outline of a dim bubble appeared, its surface covered in crack-like patterns.
Compared with the active, stable world bubbles they had passed before, each giving off a different luster, this bubble looked especially ashen and withered, as if it might burst completely with a soft pop at any moment.
"We're here. This is the place."
Lilith spoke slowly.
At the same moment, Shen Yi and the others also drew closer to that dim bubble. In the end, like drops of water merging into a surface, they passed through that fragile world membrane.
After a faint sensation of weightlessness and spatial transition, the group's feet touched solid ground.
The scene before their eyes made everyone instinctively hold their breath.
Desolation.
Utter desolation.
But this desolation was not a desert or a void in the usual sense.
They stood on a patch of ground that could barely be considered solid, its color like ash mixed with rust.
And as far as the eye could see, most of the space did not extend outward, but downward, toward the surroundings, collapsing in on itself.
It was like an orange whose contents had been sucked dry, its peel shriveled and caved in.
The spatial structure of this world seemed to have lost its support, collapsing inward, compressing, twisting. The cosmic backdrop that should have been vast and boundless had now been squeezed into a suffocating narrowness.
Shen Yi raised his head and could see the twisted, folded spatial wall itself. That wall was showing a sickly dark purple, covered in black cracks like spiderwebs. Through the cracks, he could vaguely make out the chaotic, empty base color of Beyond the World.
He could feel it.
The size of this world bubble had probably