Sinking, sinking without end. His body was completely beyond his control.
Only at a certain moment did that sensation of sinking abruptly vanish.
His vision cleared, and Lu Ye suddenly came back to his senses.
His body was wrapped in icy water. He turned to look around, his face filled with astonishment, because he had actually surfaced from beneath the water.
This was strange. He had clearly felt himself continuously falling downward, yet he had emerged from underwater instead. During that stretch just now, all his senses had been thrown out of alignment.
He looked around. As far as the eye could see, he seemed to be above a vast sea, with only a few scattered islands in sight.
Where was this?
Lu Ye was utterly baffled. Just moments ago, he had been somewhere in the Inner Realm, fleeing from Blood Calamity's pursuit. How had he arrived here in the blink of an eye?
The place he was in seemed to be a realm.
That made it even stranger.
Still, he could roughly guess that his current predicament was related to that enormous upheaval earlier. Perhaps amid that upheaval, he had inadvertently passed through somewhere akin to an Insect Path and arrived here.
Splash!
Just as Lu Ye was plagued by suspicions, a sound suddenly came from nearby.
Lu Ye turned and immediately saw a drenched head emerge from beneath the sea, just as he had moments before.
Blood Calamity!
This fellow had actually followed him here...
Lu Ye felt utterly helpless. He had clearly activated the Talent Tree's power earlier and burned away the force Blood Calamity had planted within him. By all reason, that Secret Technique allowing him to follow like a shadow should have failed.
Yet he had still followed Lu Ye into this inexplicable realm and