Ye Chen lowered his head to look at the steps beneath his feet and discovered that they were energy constructs condensed from an extremely high concentration of holy light power. That was why they could hover directly in the air without needing any structural support.
A thousand meters away in every direction within the hollow pillar-like space stood a towering, magnificent golden barrier shaped like a ring. Countless hexagonal grids covered its surface, giving it the peculiar yet orderly appearance of a honeycomb.
At the distant end of the floating staircase, there hovered an immense, extraordinary object as vast as a mountain, black and white in color, grand and imposing in presence.
The object's outline formed a gigantic "X," its upper and lower ends connecting directly to the golden barriers on the left and right.
Its central structure, a hundred meters tall and seemingly its core, hung suspended at the very center of this entire radiant world.
Based on the classified information about "Apocalypse" that he had learned from the Apex Hunter tea gathering, Ye Chen recognized at a glance that this gigantic X-shaped object was likely the middle portion of Apocalypse's double-ring structure—and only a tiny part of it at that.
After all, Apocalypse was nearly as large as the entirety of Hunter's Peak. It was impossible to take in all of it from nearby. The remaining portions extending into the surrounding barriers at either end were where its true immensity lay, while the central section now displayed before Ye Chen was merely the tip of the iceberg.
Furthermore, as Apocalypse's magnificent form entered his sight, an incomparably powerful aura of energy surged straight at Ye Chen the instant he arrived here!
At that moment, even as a sixth-level Nightmare Sensor, Ye Chen immediately felt his breathing grow heavy