Mysteries III

In the Great Abyss.

To Zhang Rongfang's eyes, Bottom Crawler no longer even looked humanoid.

Though his back was pressed against the stone wall, every part of his body displayed a strange, wavering quality beneath the Netherworld Eye.

Like an illusion in water, rippling with the waves.

Bottom Crawler's body was also slowly and constantly twisting with the surrounding wind.

Most crucially, countless tiny particles bulged up and vanished across the surface of his body every moment.

Looking closely, every single one of those particles was a tiny human face twisted in pain and despair.

"Why are you staring at me like that? You're making me shy." Bottom Crawler licked his lips as he faced Zhang Rongfang.

"Nothing. I..." Zhang Rongfang did not reveal what he had seen. He drew in his focus and remained outwardly calm.

"My question this time is whether you know of a place. There..."

He carefully described the situation of the Decayed World to Bottom Crawler.

After hearing the description, Bottom Crawler fell slightly silent, as though recalling something, or perhaps thinking.

After quite a while, he smacked his lips.

"I seem to remember something like that. But the Spirit Eye Clan didn't call that place the Decayed World. They merely called it Yi—Yi, as in change. That place..."

He paused and did not continue.

After waiting for quite some time, he finally spoke again.

"That place contains something extremely troublesome. It is called Silent Sound."

"Silent Sound? What is that?" Zhang Rongfang did not think that the previous jumble of chaotic noises could be called silence.

"It isn't silent itself. Rather, it makes everything around it silent," Bottom Crawler answered, grinning. "The Spirit Eye Clan left few records. All they knew was that when they opened a spatial passage, Silent Sound approached and invaded