After Xu Yanwu had more or less finished speaking with Mei, the group had already drawn close to the location of Chi You's final core.
That sense of urgency made everyone unconsciously slow their steps.
What made them even more nervous, however, was the surrounding calm.
For some reason, after approaching this place, the Honkai Beasts that should have been guarding Chi You's final core were nowhere to be seen.
"Why... have all those Honkai Beasts disappeared?" Himeko frowned.
Anyone could tell that something was wrong with this abnormal situation.
Meanwhile, outside.
As Xu Yanwu battled Chi You, although two of Chi You's cores had been shattered, his strength had not weakened in the slightest. Instead, he was even more ferocious than before.
Or rather... he seemed to be thinking less during the battle.
That made Xu Yanwu sense that something was off.
A desperate struggle?
Chi You's current behavior was as though he were distracted by something else. To a considerable extent, his battle against Xu Yanwu relied on instinct.
Distracted? Chi You was actually getting distracted while facing him?
Had Chi You already given up?
No... then what was going on?
At that moment, Xu Yanwu's group entered a certain place.
Xu Yanwu's female form also sensed the dense Honkai Energy here.
As well as an intense aura of death.
"What... is going on here?"
Xu Yanwu felt that something was wrong, so he urged the others, saying, "Something may be happening with Chi You... Hurry!"
"Chi You may not simply let us shatter his core!"
Xu Yanwu realized something.
Why was Chi You distracted?
Why had Chi You drawn Xu Yanwu into the depths of the sea to fight?
Why was there such a high concentration of Honkai Energy around Chi You's final core, yet not a