The dark red, viscous force field, brimming with repulsion, fell away behind them.
Before them lay an expanse of... "white" beyond description, pure to the utmost, yet so deathly still that it unsettled the heart.
It was neither light nor mist, but an absolute "emptiness" and "purity," as though even the concept of "existence" had been diluted and refined. There was no up or down, left or right, no color, no sound, no sign of flowing energy. They could not even sense time passing. There was only boundless, gentle "white," seemingly capable of absorbing every impurity.
The Whisperer entered this realm of "white" like a pebble dropped into a perfectly still lake, yet it stirred no ripples. The ship's radiating energy, its sounds, even its life fluctuations were rapidly "absorbed," "purified," and "diluted" upon entering the region, swiftly weakening. Even the lights on the bridge seemed veiled in gauze, turning dim and soft.
"Is... is this the 'Sanctum of Purification'?" Naruto stared wide-eyed at the pure "white" outside the viewport, feeling an inexplicable awe and... unease. This place was too clean, so clean that his own existence felt like "contamination."
"Energy readings... zero? No, not zero. They're too low to detect, and their properties have been completely neutralized." Elder Mochen stared incredulously at the readings on the detector, which had almost flattened into a straight line. "The spatial structure is abnormally stable. So stable that... it seems frozen solid. Even the sense of time is blurred."
"An ultra-high-order composite law field of 'Existence Purification' and 'Information Nullification' detected." Even the AI Echo's voice carried a barely perceptible "sluggishness." "Warning: prolonged exposure to this field will gradually 'purify' and 'assimilate' life-forms and energy constructs lacking specialized adaptations, ultimately reducing them to 'nothingness' or 'absolute stasis.' Maximum-level protection is advised."
Everyone felt