After an unknown stretch of time, Fang Yun felt as though his head were splitting apart. He slowly opened his eyes, then sprang to his feet and warily surveyed his surroundings.
Fortunately, there was no endless darkness here, nor any inexplicable giant head. He was in warm seawater.
"This is..."
Fang Yun immediately examined his surroundings and found a boundless sea around him. However, the water pressure was ten times that of ordinary seawater; even ordinary members of the Water Race would have trouble moving here.
The Mountain Bearer Great Sage Spirit Bones lay beneath his feet.
"So this is the Sky-Hanging River..."
Fang Yun breathed a sigh of relief.
When Fang Yun recalled what had just happened, he froze for a moment. He remembered only that he seemed to have entered a deep hole, then undergone something utterly terrible. None of the details were clear.
Fang Yun carefully examined his body and Literary Palace, and soon discovered that a tenth of his Divine Sense had actually vanished!
His literary guts also showed traces of having been shaken.
Although the remaining ninety percent of his Divine Sense still far surpassed that of everyone in the Emperor Realm throughout the Myriad Worlds, losing so much still had an enormous impact.
The entire world seemed veiled, no longer clear to his eyes.
Fang Yun hurried into the Strange Book World. Soon, he found that the first page of a book formed earlier in the Sacred Ruins depicted a hastily sketched giant claw. Though the strokes were simple and captured only its rough outline, they conveyed the fearless spirit of that claw tearing open the sky.
On the second page was the outlined image of a giant head standing in the void. Even with its eyes closed, it bore the air of looking