The surroundings were utterly quiet, save for the rustling of the wind through the trees.
Chen Shouyi felt as if he had been given a second life.
The pressure from moments ago had been terrifying. It had been like facing death itself, leaving him ice-cold, as though he'd fallen into an icy cellar.
Great Divine Power?
Or... something even more terrifying!
"Crack..."
Hearing a noise, Chen Shouyi turned around and was shocked to see the surface of the sturdy Ruins behind him—the ones he had never been able to damage—beginning to crack apart in great chunks. Countless pieces of stone tumbled down.
With a rumble, one corner collapsed.
"Hiss!"
Chen Shouyi couldn't help sucking in a breath of cold air, his expression grim.
It wasn't just the Ruins that had been damaged. He realized that even the "texture" of the space around him had changed ever so slightly.
With an Intelligence of 22.2, he could clearly memorize anything he saw at a glance, even a few ants on the ground or the precise shape and texture of every leaf. He never forgot anything.
But now, he found himself uncertain.
It was simply too incredible, too far beyond his imagination.
Could power strong enough to alter space really be something even Great Divine Power couldn't manage?
Chen Shouyi suddenly realized that this forbidden land might be a hundred times more dangerous than he had imagined. No wonder this was a forbidden land to the gods of Tamu, and God of Conspiracy had been as terrified of it as a tiger whenever it came up.
Of course, perhaps even he didn't know the full truth.
The evil creatures on the outskirts alone were enough to make a deity of Weak Divine Power tremble in fear.
"If there's a being like that here,