Two months later.
Amid a deafening explosion, a metal machine plummeted from the sky. Its body, with organs that looked like a writhing brain, burst apart into liquid, splattering thick, dark-green goo everywhere. Reilo and the Dimensional Swordsman met up once more.
The crater left by the falling metal at their feet was already healing at a visible rate.
"The Foolishness here is so powerful that even the two of us would have a hard time dealing with it together."
The Dimensional Swordsman looked down and saw Reilo carefully collecting samples of the brainlike organs in a glass test tube. By now, the sight no longer surprised him.
Unlike the wildly varying strengths of the strange phenomena, the Foolishness outside had grown steadily more powerful.
This seemed to suggest that the two of them were drawing ever closer to the so-called endpoint.
Over the past few days, the Dimensional Swordsman had been doing everything in his power to assist Reilo.
Although the two had spent only two months in the Nine Yins Underworld, at least a year had passed within the strange phenomena.
With Reilo's keen intellect, so much time and information had finally allowed him to uncover some basic clues about the origins and history of this drop of Space, as well as the Immortals' actions behind the scenes.
First, he could confirm that these strange phenomena were indeed byproducts created when the Immortals gathered pure Nine Underworlds Crystals, and that they were affected by the Immortals.
Second, he could confirm that the Immortals weren't gathering these Nine Underworlds Crystals for their power. It seemed they were fulfilling some kind of mission.
Finally, he could confirm that the Nine Underworlds Crystals truly possessed extraordinary power. Yet hidden behind them was the will of the Ancient Fern God, which was