Klaus grabbed Lu Yuan's wrist, tapped his toe against the cliff's edge, and leaped with him into the bottomless abyss.
The sensation of weightlessness followed. Then a violent wind surged up from below. The drop was actually dozens of meters deep.
After falling from above, it was as though something swallowed all the light in the entire space. Nothing could be seen, only a scorching, fishy wind battering them head-on.
The farther down they went, the fiercer the wind became, and the enormous heartbeat drew closer and closer.
The next moment, Klaus landed, the Bone Armor on his body absorbing most of the impact.
The two landed on a stretch of ground that was soft, warm, and sticky beneath their feet. They sank into it slightly. The ground below was clearly made of Flesh as well.
By the faint dark red glow around them, Lu Yuan could barely make out his surroundings. At the same time, Gray-White Text appeared before his eyes.
[Environmental Perception: Taboo aura detected. Please leave immediately.] [Environmental Perception: Pollution concentration continues to rise...]
A flood of notifications flashed over and over, instantly filling the edge of his vision. Lu Yuan forcibly suppressed them. He knew they were already extremely close to that mass of Flesh.
Only then did Lu Yuan notice that they had landed on a protruding cliff platform midway down the abyss. Beneath their feet was still pitch-black and bottomless.
The heartbeat came from below. With every beat, the Flesh throughout the abyss rose and fell once along with it.
The patterns accumulated on those Bronze Pillars lit up at the instant of each heartbeat, then went dark again. Between light and darkness, it was as though the entire abyss was breathing.
Using the dark red glow, Lu Yuan saw the roots