The Origin Return Alliance Leader gripped the ship's rail tightly, leaning half his body over it.
After passing through the poisonous miasma, the Blood-Red Warship gradually slowed, finally stopping above the Immortal-Burying Abyss.
Below them were neither sprawling valleys nor ravines formed by ruptured earth veins.
An immeasurably vast circular crater occupied the entire landscape.
There was not the slightest irregularity along its rim.
Every arc was unnaturally precise, without any deviation from one end to the other. Even after countless years of wind and rain, it still retained its perfect circular shape.
The crater's interior was shrouded in darkness.
Even Zhou Xuan's Supreme One Divine Eye could not see straight to the bottom. The walls bore extensive signs of crystallization, interspersed with Dark Gold patterns.
Many of those patterns had already broken.
Yet as the Blood-Red Warship approached, patterns that had lain dormant for years actually lit up.
Light slowly spread along the crater walls.
A faint tremor also passed through the Giant Ship's deck.
The two forces were resonating.
Zhou Xuan did not immediately urge the Giant Ship downward. He walked to the bow and pressed a hand against the rail, letting Taiyi Divine Power seep from his palm into the hull.
The fluctuations coming from the ship grew increasingly clear.
This place had a connection to the Blood-Red Warship.
The Origin Return Alliance Leader was still staring below, his face filled with disbelief.
"Impossible."
"I've studied the Territorial Map of the Immortal-Burying Abyss hundreds of times."
"We've also captured plenty of the Court Guardian Pavilion's hidden spies on its outskirts. Every one of them described the Immortal-Burying Abyss as a naturally formed deep valley."
"How could it look like this?"
Old Ancestor Xuanming looked several times toward both sides of the crater's rim, and his expression changed