Soft and resistant, as though he had plunged into sludge.
Li You's expression brightened. Just as I thought. As a derivative of Abyss Eye, [Curse's Mourning] wouldn't be rejected.
He looked at his right hand, half submerged, and his gaze gradually grew resolute.
The next instant, white bandages rapidly extended, winding upward along his right arm.
His shoulder, chest, limbs, and finally his head!
White bandages covered his entire body, leaving only his stark black-and-white eyes exposed.
The moment the bandages enveloped him, bone-eroding agony swept through his body. His frame rapidly shrank, his muscles withered, and he became a skeletal, shriveled mummy.
Li You let out a muffled groan and nearly fell from the air.
Fortunately, his life as a Wastelander had meant no shortage of beatings since childhood. Otherwise, that alone might have knocked him unconscious.
He clenched his teeth so hard that crimson blood began seeping from his gums.
"Brother Ye, this time it's my turn to save you!"
The shriveled mummy plunged resolutely into the Abyss Domain.
Dense abyssal power enveloped him, as though he were sinking into a swamp. A crushing sense of suffocation coiled around his neck like a python.
Li You couldn't breathe. The "sludge" kept pouring into his mouth and nose, and even the bandages couldn't stop it.
He could only push deeper, deeper, and deeper still.
Yet even when his life reached its end, he still hadn't made it fully inside the Abyss Domain.
It was as though he had fallen into a bottomless abyss, never able to reach its end.
Li You died.
Even though the Abyss Domain was already shattered, even though [Curse's Mourning] shared its origin, it was still beyond his ability to penetrate.
Dense abyssal power spread through his body. Gradually, his vacant eyes darkened, until they