Once Zong Shen had steadied himself, he swiftly looked around.
The light here was dim and strange.
Yet it was not completely dark.
As far as the eye could see, most of the area was shrouded in ever-changing dark-toned light.
It looked like colors smeared on with a large swath of poor-quality oil paint, creating an indescribably unpleasant sensation.
The sky overhead was a filthy purplish-red.
It hung low and churned, as though thick liquid might drip from it at any moment.
In the distance, twisted, indescribable shadows slowly writhed.
They resembled the organs of some enormous creature.
They also looked like the ruins of some incomprehensible structure.
The air was filled with a sickeningly sweet stench of decay.
It was mixed with the smell of rust and sulfur.
Every breath therefore made his lungs feel uncomfortable.
The ground beneath his feet felt strange.
Though it looked solid, stepping on it produced a sticky elasticity.
As Zong Shen walked, rings of dark-purple ripples spread beneath his feet.
As those ripples expanded, they occasionally reflected fleeting fragments of images.
Within them, distorted faces and severed limbs could be seen.
This was a physical entity formed from highly condensed pure nightmare energy, existing somewhere between matter and spirit. It appeared chaotic and disorderly.
[You have entered the Nightmare Dimension Borderlands (Surface Layer)]
[Final Phase Mission Objective: Annihilate the Nightmare Source—In Progress]
[Current Objective: Survive in this twisted land and locate the spatial anchor points and energy cores maintaining rift stability.
Warning: Both physical and spiritual rules in this area have been distorted. Conventional perception and judgment may fail.
Native creatures of the Nightmare Dimension will regard you as an intruder and launch continuous attacks.]
The prompt appeared in Zong Shen's consciousness, its letters trembling unstably at the edges, as though they too