Hmm?
Jiang Qiao's gaze suddenly sharpened.
Behind the stone door was actually a vast beach!
The cold, restless sea wind howled past, sending waves crashing onto the sand with a rumbling roar.
Feeling the salty dampness rushing toward him, seeing wave after wave rolling in a hundred meters away, and hearing strange wails faintly mixed into the howling wind...
He suddenly had an illusion.
It was as if he had arrived at some forgotten World's End, with an abyss extending beyond the world itself lying ahead.
And within that abyss.
Uncanny, incomprehensible beings were silently watching him.
"How could there be a sea here..."
"Could this be..."
"The Nether Sea?"
An idea surfaced in his mind.
He found it hard to believe, yet this guess seemed highly plausible.
The Nether Era...
The Nether Sea...
The Red Moon Restaurant...
The three seemed to be connected somehow.
The old man in the little temple was a remnant from an ancient era. He might have witnessed the changes in the world where the Supernatural Source originated.
But.
He was only the second manager of the Red Moon Restaurant.
Deep within that untraceable river of time, this Weird Restaurant must have participated in many Major Events.
It was absurd.
Yet it was extraordinarily real.
Suddenly.
Jiang Qiao remembered the prisons beneath the restaurant... Those prisons built from enormous Stone Slabs, empty and seemingly never used.
The Old Woman, a figure with one foot already in the Ninth Tier, had been imprisoned in the cells above.
Then who were these prisons at the bottom prepared for?
"Right."
"At the end of the upper-level prison, damp wind also blew in through the window of the storeroom. It seems that was the wind from this sea."
Jiang Qiao listened to the strange sounds faintly carried by the