At the borderlands, the river raged and chaos churned.
The two intertwined, and their interaction formed a strange place.
Crack! Crack!
Crack! Crack!
Jiang Yan stood there and tentatively raised his right hand. He immediately felt a vague, indescribable stiffness.
At the same time, his body, his soul, every part of him rejected this place.
It seemed this was no place for living beings. If he stayed here for long, something dangerous would probably happen.
At Jiang Yan's current level, his instincts and spiritual perception could practically be taken as revelations of fate. In other words, if he remained in this so-called borderlands for too long, he would inevitably be weakened, and might even attract some kind of calamity.
"This place really is lacking the substance that Mother River lifeforms need to survive."
"No wonder the invasion of darkness brings the calamity of world destruction. Never mind the unimaginable horrors lurking in the darkness; even this strange environment could wipe out the vast majority of living beings."
"But what secrets lie in this darkness? Could its depths be a place where life itself cannot exist?"
Tap, tap, tap!
Tap, tap, tap!
Though Jiang Yan was being repelled by this place, he didn't leave at once. Instead, he walked step by step toward the darkness.
He walked like this for a full half hour before finally stopping.
Here, Jiang Yan could barely sense the Mother River's flow anymore. All around him, chaos energy writhed slowly like a living thing. When it struck his body, it felt like a thousand knives slicing him apart, and it carried a terrifying power of corruption.
"Here..." He lowered his head and raised his right hand. His palm, once plump and healthy, had lost the luster of life and was slowly withering.
Jiang Yan could feel