This time, it was no longer mere horseplay, but a true world-awakening bell toll, deafening and earthshaking!
The majestic chime was like a basin of icy water poured over his head, restoring a measure of clarity to Jiang Xuan's consciousness as it teetered on the brink of sinking.
Then, as Jiang Xuan regained a little awareness, intense lingering fear and palpitations surged through his heart. The next moment, without hesitation, he activated the Golden Bell again:
"Dong!" "Dong!" "Dong!"
Only after another three successive majestic bell chimes did Jiang Xuan's consciousness finally wrench itself completely free from that boundless abyss of sorrow.
"Phew..."
Yet this experience still left Jiang Xuan deeply shaken, fear lingering in his heart.
At this moment, he no longer dared to entertain even the slightest hope of judging this Eerie Secret Realm by ordinary logic.
"This is fundamentally not a power that someone at the Early Dao Foundation stage can touch... All things will proceed toward death. Humans are so, all living beings are so, and even worlds are the same. And this is absolutely no vague, illusory omen..."
Turning to survey the gray, decayed, deathly silent world around him, a realization suddenly arose within Jiang Xuan's heart. "Looking at how everything in this Secret Realm has withered and all vitality has been severed... this is very likely what truly happens when a world is 'dying.'"
"A power capable of driving an entire world into extinction... I absolutely refuse to believe that it is something a mere Early Dao Foundation cultivator could comprehend or resist."
At this very moment, Jiang Xuan completely understood that he had been deceived—deceived by that old fox of a sect master.
His claim that he did not know the specific circumstances inside was the first lie.
His claim that the upper