Zhenwu's Dao Path, Binding Laws, Seas Turn to Mulberry Fields!

His fiery-red body steamed with blazing blood qi. Meng Chuan held nothing back, fighting with his back to the river.

Clang!

The instant he withstood the demonic arm, he wasted not a single word. Raising his great halberd, he slashed at Demon Mountain's head!

Shu lands, Ba Mountain.

Deep mountains and ancient forests like these had been affected most profoundly by the changes in the human world's dimensions.

Several mountains that had risen to more than twice their former height were blanketed in crimson-red earth. Black ancient trees, like the claws and fangs of savage ghosts, appeared even more towering and sky-obscuring, while yellow-brown dead grass stretched on without end...

In the distance, great masses of gloomy wind wailed between the cliffs. No human figure had ever set foot here.

Only withered branches rustled, like the whispers of ghosts.

The reason was that the famed Ultimate Darkness [Purgatory] lay here.

Deep within the Demon Nest.

Beneath dark-red daylight like blood, there was not a trace of living human aura.

A brown hill abruptly rippled with waves. A slender figure drilled out of the Void and headed deeper inside.

The outline of a great hall, like the entrance to an abyss, became clear beneath the eternal blood-red daylight.

It was majestic in form—not built of brick and stone, but seemingly forged from solidified dark-red energy piled together with countless wailing souls.

Its towering forked spires pierced the filthy clouds.

As the slender figure approached, the dreadful hall seemed to come alive. Veins like those of a living creature pulsed slowly, radiating a pressure that made the soul tremble.

"Gulp..."

The slender figure's heart sank. The hall doors resembled the maw of a colossal beast, deep and lightless...

Before the doors.

Guarding the Divine Lord's hall was a mass of ghostly blue