As it turned out, "we've come all this way" really was a compelling argument for people from back home.
Tramping through wildly overgrown grass and shrubs, they hacked a path forward. Their satellite navigation signal kept cutting in and out, but with its intermittent directions, they followed the broken traces of what had once been a road.
The farther they went, the deeper they sank into that gray-green "ocean."
The conditions here were no longer suitable for ordinary people to travel through.
As they pushed farther into the wilderness, the humidity grew frighteningly heavy. Even breathing felt damp.
With so much moisture rising from the vegetation, every sort of plant smell mingled together—sweet, foul, bitter, and sharp—until it made their heads ache.
The farther they got from the city, the more these wild lands shed all traces of human influence and returned to an age of untamed jungle.
Even areas humanity had once held securely were now being reclaimed by nature, bit by bit.
Li Yun looked at the "road markers" on the ground, so overrun with vines that their traces were almost impossible to find without a close look, and fell into thought.
He had to admit that the Numinous Spark released this time had a far more profound impact than the first.
The others might not understand why. He understood perfectly well, but naturally, he had no intention of explaining.
The share being distributed has increased.
The main differences came down to a point or two. When the First Round of the "Azure Sky" descended, all that had been "spent" was the remnant of a ruined Tenth Tier Grotto-Heaven, whose worth was comparable to a Ninth Tier treasure.
Even then, the Luo Heaven Dharma Net—one of the thirty-three Miro Heaven Nets from an Immortal Dao cosmology, with abilities