A Sudden Transformation

Everyone hurried out of the hall, sealed the entrance, and quickened their pace down the mountain.

After ten minutes or so, they reached the path along the cliff again and discovered that the distant view had changed.

Or rather... Chang'an City had changed.

"Look!"

The moment one of them spotted it, an inexplicable fear seized them all.

The Immortal Alliance officials and Mo Shuyun stared toward Chang'an in shock. A mass of black light shrouded the distant city, so vast that it had swallowed nearly every tower in the city center. Only the four outer corners remained visible.

"What on earth is that... a storm cloud?"

"My heavens, it's still growing!"

"It wasn't like this when we came. What happened in the city?"

Everyone spoke at once, their faces full of unease and fear. That was Chang'an City, the heart of the entire Immortal Alliance!

A small sect like the Clear Song Sect could disappear without anyone giving it much thought. But now that something inexplicable had happened in central Chang'an, they could no longer watch with the detachment they had shown before.

Only Chen Xuan had seen anything like it.

It was the phenomenon that occurred in the Botanical Garden when Wanderer Guagua repeatedly crossed the Erosion Point, causing the Erosion to spread rapidly.

On the surface, the affected area looked as though it had been wrapped in a film of oil or a halo of light. In reality, two spaces had overlapped!

A realization flashed through his mind. Every clue seemed to fall into place.

His earlier guess had been right: there was an Erosion Point near Chang'an City. What he had not expected was for it to be inside the city itself.

So... was Ji Yanshu a Wanderer?

The more he thought about it, the more things