The Inner Perimeter was clearly more dangerous than the Outer Perimeter. In their current condition, going there would only hold her back, and she might even have to waste energy protecting them.
Yet however well Su Jiu had planned things, reality rarely went as she wished.
In the time it took her to say those two sentences, the ripples on the lake had already grown increasingly dense, while the ground beneath their feet began to shake.
Chu Luohen stood right beside Su Jiu, so he also heard her quiet murmur. "The disturbances in the power of spatial laws are growing stronger."
Su Jiu turned her gaze toward the lake and suddenly noticed something wrong with the reflections in its formerly clear waters.
She looked at the vegetation around them, then at the vegetation reflected in the lake, a trace of disbelief flashing through her eyes.
"What is it?" Even faced with the earth's trembling, Chu Luohen maintained his composure, seemingly unaffected.
"Look at the reflections in the lake."
Chu Luohen followed Su Jiu's gaze and indeed discovered the problem. The lake seemed to hold two overlapping reflections: one showed the vegetation around its shores, while the other depicted an entirely unfamiliar place.
At first, the image of that unfamiliar place was faint, but as the tremors intensified, it gradually grew clearer, even threatening to completely obscure the lake's original reflections.
Meanwhile, the others began talking among themselves. The shaking had become so severe that those nearby had to use Sword Control to leave the ground and keep their balance.
Strangely, even after leaving the ground, they could still feel fluctuations in the spiritual qi in the air. What had originally been chaotic became highly orderly, streaming in groups toward the center of the lake before vanishing there.
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