Just then, a tremor completely different in frequency from before rose from beneath their feet.
The previous tremors had a fixed frequency and measurable amplitude.
But this time, the vibration shot up from beneath their feet with extreme speed, without the slightest warning.
The ground had originally felt soft yet resilient beneath their feet, like stepping on a sun-dried hide.
But now, that resilience was completely gone. Their feet had already sunk roughly half an inch into the ground.
"Something's wrong."
Luo Qinghan's voice came from the left.
Large cracks had appeared across the surface of her ice membrane.
Some force seeping up from beneath the Living Star was rapidly corroding the laws.
The next moment, the fluctuation arrived ahead of schedule.
According to the pattern observed from the flying ship, a fluctuation should pass roughly once every half hour. Yet only the time it took to drink a cup of tea had passed since the last one.
Moreover, this fluctuation came without warning and was several times greater than before.
The height of that wall had soared to nearly a hundred zhang.
The ground seemed to have been seized and yanked upward by an invisible giant hand.
Without warning, a massive fissure dozens of zhang wide split open beneath Xu Changqing and Luo Qinghan's feet.
The two sides of the fissure curled inward with slime, while an immensely powerful suction force rose from below.
Xu Changqing tried to take to the air, but his feet were wrapped by that hide-like layer and the liquid.
Dark green fluid crept upward along his legs. The concentration of Wood-attributed laws contained in every drop was unbelievably high.
Although these laws caused him no tangible harm,
they suppressed the surrounding spiritual energy and the mana within his body to an extremely low level