A prickling numbness.
Even the lightning had become a natural barrier around the Land of Inheritance.
How was she supposed to get in? She could feel the storm's resistance from this far away. It would only grow stronger up close, never mind the force of the lightning within it. Ye Chuqi doubted her small frame could take it. She asked Big Black Fish, who had already tried approaching. He swished his tail to say that even at the storm's outermost edge, his body could barely stand it, let alone entering.
It hadn't done him any real harm yet, but he had already felt pain and discomfort. Any closer, and he would surely be injured.
If even Big Black Fish couldn't withstand it, Ye Chuqi wasn't about to assume she could survive the forces of nature.
"It's not just nature," San San added. "I'm not sure whether this violent weather has anything to do with us destroying the Formation, but I'm certain the Formation has amplified those natural forces many times over."
In other words, the Misty Sea's depths might not originally have been this extreme. When Eldest Senior Brother transformed these waters, the price of creating a Pure Land was making the storms elsewhere far more terrifying.
The Land of Inheritance was probably where all that terror was concentrated.
Once the Magic Barrier around the Thirteen Misty Islands vanished, the storms might surge for a while, but eventually they would grow calmer than they were now.
That calm was only relative. The area would still be unfit for human habitation. Worse, without the Magic Barrier to keep them out, the terrain of the Thirteen Misty Islands would draw many Sea Beasts close, posing an enormous threat to humans.
No wonder Milforth had been so anxious.
Ye Chuqi's problem now was