Seven days passed, yet the dark clouds blanketing the entire Demon Realm's sky showed no sign of dispersing.
Perhaps it was merely psychological, but everyone felt a suffocating oppression in their hearts that they could not shake off.
Chen Rui's premonition had been right. Since that day, the Twin Moons had never appeared again. To the Demon Realm, the Twin Moons were equivalent to the sun and moon. Without them, day and night had ceased to exist; at any time, the sky was a dim, murky gray.
The effects went far beyond disrupting daily life. They would bring all manner of dreadful consequences. The fact that crops had stopped growing alone was a fatal blow.
Over the past few days, Chen Rui and the others had tried every conceivable method: Lola's magic, Chen Rui's attacks, the Starshine's bombardment...
Yet even when they managed to tear open the cloud cover temporarily, it swiftly returned to normal. They could never disperse it completely, as though the gloom filling the heavens were an inseparable part of this world—unless the entire world itself was destroyed.
This abnormal phenomenon was certainly no coincidence. It was most likely related to the Abyss that had occupied the Surface World. Although the gate of Two Worlds had been sealed, and Abyss creatures including Quiliana could not lift the spatial blockade and descend upon the Demon Realm, everyone had still underestimated the methods of the Abyss Sovereign.
As a dark will endowed with divinity, it possessed boundless wisdom and countless secret arts. It was surely trying to use this method to exterminate the entire Demon Realm.
This form of "destruction" was more thorough and more terrifying than the previous invasion by a vast army.
Though the gate of Two Worlds would reopen in just over a hundred years, it