The sight of the black-dressed woman atop the mountain startled Yu Sheng and the others.
A person in a normal state! An "Awakened One" who was clearly completely out of place in the chaotic, frenzied environment around her!
However, just as the woman atop the mountain parted her lips, seemingly about to say something, a shadow suddenly appeared behind her. Before anyone could react, the shadow had already pierced through her body. The woman only had time to turn back in bewilderment before the life left her, and her body toppled sideways onto the mountain.
"Ah... holy crap!" Eileen cried out when she saw this. "This isn't how the opening is supposed to go, is it?!"
Yu Sheng immediately grabbed a handful of fox fur beside him. "Go over and see what's happening!"
Huli took off running toward the "mountain," which was formed from countless twisted buildings and bulging city roads piled atop one another.
The next second, that "mountain" seemed to come alive. The buildings and roads piled across its surface began to rise and writhe like a turbulent, restless dream, rapidly changing their structure. Huli tried to take flight midway, only to find herself inexplicably drilling into a completely enclosed "garage" the instant she took off. The surrounding walls constantly collapsed and flowed like melting wax, while the road split open with hole after hole. She hurriedly leaped over them, only to run into a stairwell. The stairwell slanted upward like a staircase, but its end suddenly broke off. Across the gap, a rusted staircase that could never be reached drooped over the opposite intersection, while the ground beneath her feet began to shake violently, as though it were made of loosely piled bricks.
Huli let out a startled cry and instinctively leaped forward, only to discover that