The Black Sun hung high overhead, and Demon Mist drifted through the air. Beyond the Red Mountain Range, bitter cold mingled with scorching heat, the eerie coexisted with the dark, and six evil, terrifying presences silently lurked in the infinite distance, hidden amid mystery and the unknown. No one could imagine what dreadful, ghastly dangers would await if they were touched.
Even with the Azure Emperor's approval, Meng Qi was unwilling to provoke Nine Chaos Heavenly Venerable and the other three old monsters. After all, within the Nine Abysses, they possessed the strength of Pseudo-Other Shores. By drawing on the Nine Abysses, they could condense their illusory Great Daos of either destructive chaos or icy death into half a Dao Fruit. They could manipulate the River of Time within the Nine Abysses, trace the past, and peer into the future. Just two of them joining forces would have a chance of completely holding off the Azure Emperor.
In these circumstances, if he were exposed, the consequences would be unimaginable!
What Pseudo-Other Shores lacked compared to true Other Shores was the range of their influence: they could not extend beyond the Nine Abysses. They could only peer into the future and discern fate, but could not possess the myriad possibilities. Their precognitive sense and their ability to manipulate the heavenly secrets were inferior, making them prone to suffer losses in that regard. Their overall strength was also somewhat lower than that of true Other Shores.
Of course, if Pseudo-Other Shores like Nine Chaos Heavenly Venerable ascended to true Other Shore, the boost granted by the Nine Abysses would sharply diminish. It would no longer be capable of raising them by an entire level, and would at most offer a slight increase. The reason was that the Nine Abysses were, in essence,