After completing her advancement, Xu Zhi immediately took Little Aberration deeper into the Lost Land, afraid that something might catch their scent and come after them.
After reaching the middle layer, the traces of modern civilization had already faded far more than in the outermost layer. As she rode Doggie onward toward the deep layer, she found fewer and fewer signs of humanity. Even the towering buildings seemed to have vanished without a trace.
The closer she got to the deep layer, the stronger Xu Zhi felt the Lost Land's ever-present pull on her becoming. Her Familiars seemed unable to sense that attraction; she alone was troubled by it.
The feeling was strange. It was as if there were something deep within that she desperately wanted, or as if she had lost something important but could never remember what it was. Her thoughts were completely consumed by that pull, leaving it difficult to focus on anything else.
Fortunately, that strange attraction made it easy for her to tell whether she was heading deeper in rather than outward.
The Lost Land was not nothing but unchanging forest. Some places were said to be deserts, others plains, or vast underground caves, or even an enormous sea. Xu Zhi was not particularly curious about those places. The area through which she entered the deep layer happened to be mountainous, with endless peaks stretching as far as the eye could see and poisonous insects, snakes, and ants everywhere. Fortunately, Xu Zhi was no ordinary person. Otherwise, she would not even know how she died in a rainforest like this.
After crossing another mountain, the scene before Xu Zhi suddenly opened up.
It was not that she had reached a plain or anything similar. Rather, there were no more high mountains ahead, only a boundless,