Engines turned, steel trembled, bearings spun, rocks shattered—heartbeats, breathing, shouts, tide sound, ripples, surges, pauses, diffusion, contraction, resonance.
At that moment, countless vibrations emerged in Huai Shi's ears. Those chaotic, clamorous sounds rose and fell, flowing into his consciousness. Then, under the integration of his soul, they gradually changed from loose disorder into patterns that could be traced, separated layer by layer before being recombined.
The insignificant echoes and noise vanished.
At last, he heard the surging resonance.
Like a heartbeat.
The heartbeat of hell.
That malicious heart... slowly being implanted into the deepest reaches of this hell!
Within the rushing Blood Tide, towering trees stood scattered throughout the vast hell, rapidly growing across the chaotic battlefield and spreading their branches.
Then, little by little, they took hold of everything.
This sea of blood tax, gathered from countless lives, was the shell and extension of that colossal entity. Wherever the scarlet veil spread, all withering life dissolved into the boundless red, while every frozen organism swelled beneath the infusion of immense vitality, going mad and feverishly embracing destruction and death.
Now that the resonance had finally reached his ears, Huai Shi closed his eyes and distinguished every change within it. It was as though he could peer through earth and sky and glimpse the outline of this immense hell.
Great waves rose and fell across the earth. The flames of war covered every corner, but when Huai Shi passed over those tremors and probed deeper, he sensed the enormous, tangled root systems beneath those giant trees.
Scarlet rivers, like blood vessels, had long since sunk deep into the very depths of hell.
The surging sea of blood was an unprecedented curtain and carpet, blanketing the earth, while each giant tree was a long nail driven into hell, nailing this vast