For the moment, Great Monarch Mu Kuo could think of no way to respond. Instead, the more he thought, the heavier his heart grew.
By comparison, studying the underlying mechanisms of the Misty Jungle and considering a future beyond the Boundary Curtain region seemed to offer a better way forward.
The problem was that the more he observed the distortions caused by the clash between the Misty Jungle's underlying mechanisms and the Ultimate Dark Kingdom, the more something felt wrong.
This sealed spacetime, continually compressed and twisted by the Ultimate Dark Kingdom, was becoming increasingly restrictive—and increasingly targeted.
Someone with an established identity like him was still relatively safe. But for those Great Monarchs who could not afford exposure and had secretly turned toward the Illusory Nightmare Domain, their links to the Misty Jungle consisted primarily of Awakened Ones serving as nodes in the underlying network. Those nodes were now clearly being suppressed and bound.
The Ruin and Fall System was probably using this to pinpoint them more precisely.
And it was not merely pinpointing them. The Ultimate Dark Kingdom's stringent domain, along with the Abyss elements it had catalyzed, was visibly closing in on them. Even the oppressed underlying network of the Misty Jungle curled back upon them, turning into a twisted, clinging mire.
Those Great Monarchs who could not show themselves suffered conspicuous adverse effects.
What was going on?
Were they preparing to use the Death Hand on those people?
The Ruin and Fall System... was High Priest Yuanhou really that arrogant?
But this twisted, clinging sensation didn't seem particularly precise!
They were all on this network, all subject to the Misty Jungle's underlying mechanisms. Whatever the actual spacetime distances between them, the ranges over which its rules and laws operated were very close.
If the Ruin and