The shadows that surged in afterward seemed to have been cowed by the sudden, devastating blow, their offensive briefly stalling.
Only then did Shen Yi have the chance to examine these things more closely and quickly match them with fragments from his memories.
"So they really are Beyond-World Undead..." Shen Yi murmured, his gaze icy.
He recalled that when Lilith had first brought him beyond the world, they had encountered similar creatures.
Lilith had called them Beyond-World Undead—strange beings formed when pure Rule Fragments of death gathered and twisted under certain special conditions within the void beyond the world.
They possessed no intelligence, only the instinct to devour all life and drag everything into lifeless silence. They were among the loathsome and dangerous scavengers of the void beyond the world.
Yet these undead were clearly far stronger than the ones he had encountered back then.
Not only were the deathly rules within each individual denser, more solidified, and more aggressive, but they also seemed to possess a faint yet genuine degree of coordination.
Their cooperation when they had besieged Xilos earlier had been crude, but it was by no means completely mindless charging.
Moreover, judging from the scorched, frost-eroded, and energy-clash marks lingering throughout the surrounding void, Winnie and Xilos had clearly dealt with these things quite often during his absence.
The vicinity of this fragment of a shattered world, once relatively tranquil, was now a complete mess. Rule Disorder rippled everywhere, along with the unsettlingly cold aura left behind after the undead had been destroyed.
Shen Yi wasted no more time. With a flash, he appeared beside Xilos and Winnie.
First, he used the Flame of Continued Combustion to draw a blazing white circle through the surrounding void. The circle rapidly expanded and connected, forming a hemispherical flame barrier