Zhang Chu's words had not yet faded.
Boom—
Naihe Bridge changed!
The entire Stone Bridge shook violently.
The light pouring from its cracks seemed to have its lifeline seized from within the instant it touched the Return to Ruins Power!
It began collapsing inward from the edges!
The iron-gray light repairing the bridge peeled away layer by layer, like bark stripped from a tree to expose the bare grain beneath.
Zhang Chu swayed violently amid the tremors!
He could feel the bridge beneath his feet reviving at an irreversible pace!
His movements grew sluggish again, and a rapid series of cracks sounded from his knuckles.
"You won't get out!"
Shi's voice was hoarse and urgent. In his dark-red eyes surged an emotion he had never felt in all his long years guarding this road.
"This is Naihe Bridge! The foundation of Underworld Heaven!"
"No one walks out alive without paying a price! Strong as you are, you're no exception!"
"Underworld Heaven?" Zhang Chu repeated, as though it were a name he had long since tired of hearing. "You think I care?"
He took a step forward.
But he had barely moved!
Everything before his eyes changed!
"Hm?!" Zhang Chu went on alert.
An entire world unfolded before him.
It was a world he had never seen.
The sky was gray.
Now and then, a wisp or two of purple light, dark and thin, welled up in the gray, only to be swallowed at once, leaving a fleeting trace!
A strange smell hung in the air.
It was so faint he could barely detect it, yet every inch of his skin tightened on instinct.
But what shocked him more was the ground beneath his feet!
He had never seen land like it.
Flat and empty, with no mountains, rivers, plants, or