When everyone returned to the canyon, the canyon was already gone.
The original Gobi Desert landscape had long since been flattened, leaving only a massive crater, as though it had been struck by a meteorite.
High in the sky, the clouds had been torn apart into countless fragments, each one resembling a scale—or broken ice floes in the Arctic.
"Where's the mist?" Everyone was astonished to discover that the thin mist that should have shrouded the canyon was gone too.
The canyon being flattened was one thing, but how had the mist disappeared as well? That was the entrance!
"The entrance was devoured?" Canaan exclaimed.
Kelon shook his head. "No, the entrance is still at this location. Don't approach that area."
He quickly marked off a perimeter. That was still the entrance to the Valley of Terror—only now the canyon was gone, and so was the mist.
It looked like an ordinary stretch of Gobi Desert, without the slightest unusual marker.
"When Taotie was taken away, the absolute devouring effect within one meter of it devoured the special environment that should have surrounded the Valley of Terror's entrance," Kelon explained.
An anomalous area would sometimes have certain special markers.
For example, this place had always been shrouded in mist that never dispersed.
But that did not mean the mist was the Valley of Terror itself. It was merely a minor derivative—a thing called Un-dispellable Mist.
Its absoluteness was far inferior to the Valley of Terror's core characteristic. Taotie had been taken away by the Valley of Terror's core characteristic, but at the same time, its "absolute devouring" had eliminated the Valley of Terror's secondary characteristic: the undispersing mist.
Sometimes, when a Contained Object's form was changed, its characteristics remained unchanged.
Taotie was like that. Even if it turned into a