Before Shi Yi could react, shrill screams rang out from every direction, piercing his ears. A sea of blood-red light followed, like countless tentacles baring their claws as they charged toward them.
Boom!
The Double Pupils Woman struck, unleashing the terrifying secret art, Heaven-Opening Double Pupils.
Her aura was utterly terrifying. Within her Escape Light, Shi Yi felt like a lone skiff on a boundless ocean, utterly insignificant.
Crack!
The blood-red sky tore apart. The Double Pupils Woman carved out a passage, and just as she was about to break through the encirclement, even shriller screams erupted. Enormous faces crowded the entire sky, belonging to the saints of the Ancient Era. The sight made one's scalp crawl.
"The Ancient Sacred Academy is actually this dangerous?" Shi Yi could not help murmuring.
"The Sacred Academy was originally established to suppress certain things. Later, some factions harbored sinister intentions and tried to open the seals, throwing the Sacred Academy into chaos. A great war erupted, ending in utter devastation." As she fought, the Double Pupils Woman explained the origins of this Small World and the war of that time.
"Did those factions succeed?"
The Double Pupils Woman shook her head. "To preserve the seals, an supreme expert cut away the space containing the Ancient Sacred Academy, turning it into an independent Small World."
She continued, "That battle was merely the beginning of the Ancient Era war. Those factions refused to give up, and the flames of war continued to spread until they engulfed all Eight Regions.
"The distribution of powers you see now took shape after that war. Unless something unexpected happened, the environment, the laws of the Great Dao, and everything else in the Eight Regions of today's Lower Realm are far inferior to those of the Ancient Era.
"The connection