The crescent moon hung high, white sand filled the sky, cold winds howled, and dark clouds blanketed the heavens.
The void tore open like the gaping maw of a giant beast, deep darkness spreading from within.
Su Feng stepped out of the Garganta with a gloomy expression, using Shunpo. One foot landed on the soft white sand as his spiritual pressure surged outward.
"Sooner or later, I'm going to destroy that damn thing..."
As expected, when passing through the Dangai this time, he once again ran into its janitor, the Kōtotsu.
According to established information and the Department of Research and Development's tests, the Kōtotsu should only appear once every seven days, periodically eliminating all matter lingering within the Dangai.
Yet Su Feng had discovered that every time he entered the Dangai through a Garganta, he encountered the Kōtotsu.
This time was even worse.
The instant he stepped into the Dangai, the Kōtotsu's enormous, searchlight-like face was already pressed close to him.
Had Su Feng not reacted quickly enough, he would likely have been swallowed whole by the Kōtotsu.
Mayuri Kurotsuchi and Seinosuke Yamada had once led a group from the Department of Research and Development in extensive discussions and research regarding this strange phenomenon.
Kagerōza Inaba, who had been responsible for observation and research, offered a relatively reasonable conclusion.
The Kōtotsu was not a living creature in any conventional sense. Its existence was not even composed of kishi or reishi.
The Dangai consisted of several layers of fractured space. To the Soul Society and the Human World, it was a place where both space and time were isolated. Time density within it was far greater than outside—roughly two thousand times greater.
One year in the Soul Society or the Human World was equivalent to two thousand years in the