"Tap, tap..."
Footsteps echoed through the utter stillness, exceptionally clear, as though someone were walking through an enclosed space. Their echoes were oppressive, their rhythm chilling.
It was deeply strange.
Because that life-form had not moved. It stood motionless in the void, not even making the breathing motions of an ordinary living creature, much less taking a step.
Yu Xi remained vigilant. Those footsteps carried an indescribable rhythm, as though something had emerged from the darkness and merged with that "life-form."
"Hum!"
Suddenly, the footsteps vanished, but what followed was a terrifying pressure, appearing as that "life-form" opened its eyes.
An ordinary creature would already have fallen prey to this invisible assault by the time it sensed it. Though it would not necessarily die and have its Dao extinguished, injury and coughing up blood would have been unavoidable.
"It has incomprehensible fluctuations of life now..." As a bearer of Double Pupils, Yu Xi had not surpassed the limits and reached the ultimate extreme in every cultivation realm, but neither was she without correspondingly lofty accomplishments.
Thus, she could withstand that terrifying pressure, and could even resist it after detecting it, clearing away its negative effects.
At the same time, by resisting the pressure emanating from that "life-form," she had gained some measure of the power of strange transformation. It was immensely powerful, far stronger than it had been in its gray mist form.
Yu Xi could now be said to have experienced strange transformation firsthand, but the experience had given her no revelations.
That "life-form" was like a mystery, without any living creature's emotions or fluctuations. Even when she probed it with her divine sense, there was only emptiness.
As though it did not belong to reality.
"Who are you?" Yu Xi asked. That "life-form" had not immediately attacked, merely