Two days later...
"the Nine Yins Underworld... Old Silkworm King, that name you came up with is rather fitting."
Jueyin of the Flatfish Clan swished his tail slowly as he swam through the air above the enormous crater, over a hundred kilometers across. After sensing the atmosphere within it, he remarked to Yuhua,
The crater seemed to be a bottomless abyss.
Wisps of black smoke kept drifting up from below. The smoke not only blocked spiritual perception and sight, but also carried a frigid, corrosive quality. Even a brief glance downward stirred an instinctive terror, as though one were about to be swallowed whole. It was enough to make anyone recoil.
Even the Dark King couldn't help murmuring, "To limit my perception to this extent... these laws are quite strange."
Then it seemed to notice something and looked toward Reilo.
"Is something wrong?"
"No."
Reilo withdrew his strange gaze and shook his head lightly.
He did find it a little odd. It seemed that, aside from him, no one suspected that the reason they were being suppressed here wasn't the laws, but a change in the world's environment.
But on second thought, that made sense.
Human scholars had to learn about the severe consequences of energy backlash from the moment they began their studies. At nearly every stage of their lives, they faced the world's rejection. It wasn't as severe as what the Superhumans endured, but it still made every step difficult and left them constrained at every turn.
Because of that,
Reilo was naturally quite sensitive to the change in the world's environment here.
The others, on the other hand, had yet to notice, even though they were standing right at the mouth of the crater.
"Heh heh."
After a sinister chuckle, Old Silkworm King gazed into the vast,