At this moment, Fang Xiao, standing outside the affected area, had been watching the changes within.
He discovered that the Ruins of the Underworld's expansion truly had been gradually curbed.
"Was it really resolved so easily?
Did I overestimate the Ruins of the Underworld, or underestimate the might of the Five Divine Peaks?"
Although Fang Xiao's true body was not here, he could still see the situation quite clearly.
Judging by the amount of Dao Track power, the descending mountain phantom was by no means the complete Five Divine Peaks, but merely one of them.
Yet just one of the five peaks could so easily suppress the Ruins of the Underworld.
For a moment, Fang Xiao even wondered whether he had misjudged them, mistaken their respective strengths.
However, before he could identify the reason, a new change occurred within the Ruins of the Underworld.
Beneath the mountain phantom, waves of humming suddenly rang out from the suppressed Ruins of the Underworld.
Then, beneath Fang Xiao's gaze, it began to slowly contract.
"Something isn't right."
One had to know that irreversibility and indissolubility were the immutable traits of the Ruins of the Underworld.
Yet it had begun to contract after merely being suppressed by a Half-step Dao Artifact.
That was simply an impossible development.
Therefore, Fang Xiao felt certain that there was some variable here of which he was unaware.
As the Ruins of the Underworld contracted further, that bottomless black abyss grew ever deeper. Even one more glance made one feel as though their soul might leave their body and be sucked inside.
And sure enough, just as Fang Xiao had predicted, another change arose.
At some point, the Ruins of the Underworld's rate of contraction had begun to slow, but its entire mass started trembling incessantly, like a person