When body and mind were completely swallowed by the darkness before them, even a Dou Di could not help but feel an indescribable fear.
Only Xiao Yan, holding the Emperor Flame, was like a bright lamp, radiating a reassuring glow and illuminating the hazy chaos as far as the eye could see.
"Try not to be too afraid of the dark. Still, apart from the darkness, there doesn't seem to be any other danger here. At least, that should be true for Dou Dis."
As she spoke, Yao Wan naturally kept Qing Lin protected.
"How did you cross through here back then?"
Xiao Xuan silently used his soul power as a medium to investigate, only to discover that his soul power could not extend at all through this pure darkness and void. The range of his spiritual sense did not even reach as far as the area illuminated by Xiao Yan's flame. The understanding he had built over thousands of years was overturned at this moment; his vision was, after so long, sharper than his spiritual perception. It felt like a dream.
Everything upon which life depended had turned to nothingness. Once the sense of direction etched into instinct was lost, the passage before them became a bottomless abyss.
There were not no places like abyssal depths on the Dou Qi Continent, but neither their scale nor their nature could compare to what lay before them.
"Did you just crash around like headless flies?"
Yao Wan subconsciously murmured, then could not help glancing at the Yao Emperor. What she meant was obvious.
"Why not put it more plainly? It's true that my remnant soul never left the Dou Qi Continent, but I did not point you in the wrong direction, did I? Otherwise, you might have gotten lost here. And