With battle after battle on the bridge, the water of Blood Lake had indeed begun to clear.
It had once been murky dark red, but now a faint trace of transparency could be seen.
Of the six people, only Xie Dong himself understood why.
Sure enough, some kind of filth from the Demon World had been neutralized.
"Eh, the Greater Demons are getting weaker!" Little Illusion said delightedly. "If they weaken just a little more, I'll be able to attack!"
Everyone was happy, except Xie Dong, whose expression remained grim.
"Why aren't you happy? You've accomplished a great feat," Chen Qiu asked in confusion.
"It's not that simple." He shook his head.
He felt as if he had fallen into a giant net, one that was extremely dangerous.
It had been woven by certain beings hidden behind layer upon layer of shadows. He could neither see through it nor fathom it. He seemed able to grasp something, yet it slipped from his mind in an instant.
His concerns were justified.
Because by the next day, Blood Lake had become darker and murkier.
It was like clear water pouring into a lake and briefly making it clearer, only for the churning to stir up even more silt and leave it even cloudier.
"The Greater Demons are stronger again!" Little Illusion said with a miserable frown.
The cycle repeated endlessly.
Wenren Sheng saw everything happening in the Demon World.
He also understood what it represented.
The Anomalies in the Origin Realm were discharging abscesses into the Earth Universe, slowing the rate at which they lost their sanity.
Blood Lake was an abscess from the Origin Realm that the Demon World had accepted.
Correspondingly, the Earth Universe was being contaminated, transforming from a rational material universe into a chaotic fantasy universe.
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