Entering the Ruins (Part One)

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A rumble rose behind Er Dongsheng, as though something enormous were crushing its way forward.

His expression shifted. He spun around.

The shock on his face was unmistakable.

Countless bulges had formed along the walls of the enormous World Intestine. Mucus gushed from them like a river in flood, surging toward Er Dongsheng.

Splash, splash.

What was that?!

Startled, Er Dongsheng swallowed the World Stone in his hand without a second thought and broke into a run.

The splashing filled his ears. As the familiar sound sank in, realization dawned across his grim face.

No wonder he had kept hearing waves inside the Spacetime Maze. They had not come from the Blood Sea outside, but from the mucus pouring through these intestinal passages!

But what had made those whooshing sounds?

And the Spacetime Maze was actually connected to the World Intestine. How interesting.

He suddenly recalled the image of the Bronze Giant Hand appearing at White Bone Island to battle the Abyssal Will. It had seemed to say that place was its territory.

Could the Spacetime Maze have been its world all along?

A world the World Intestine was devouring?

Er Dongsheng's eyes brightened. He took a Bronze Rune from his robe.

"If I can find the entrance to that place, then perhaps..."

The Bronze Rune still gave off a faint, dim glow.

Splash.

Mucus struck a sealed intestinal wall, then immediately reversed course and chased after Er Dongsheng.

It was almost as if it had a mind of its own.

Unbelievable.