"Rumble!"
The instant they reached the end of the stairs and passed through the portal that resembled both a Boundary Gate and an entrance to hell, the passage behind Di Yi and the others suddenly collapsed. The barrier that isolated it from the world shattered like porcelain, spilling out surging divine light.
"This..." Chi Wuxia was somewhat horrified. She could sense the tremendous terror that had struck the place they had just passed through. Filled with an aura of destruction, it was exploding completely.
They could imagine that, had they been a little slower and still been there, they would certainly have met with disaster, collapsing along with the passage, utterly unable to resist.
For the law runes there were densely packed and interwoven with tremendous ferocity, like a great calamity in which heaven and earth collapsed. Boundless order and energy were compressing everything, seeking to return it all to the very first point of origin.
"Was it affected by what happened back then?" Though a chill rose in the woman's heart as well, she was relatively calm. After all, they were not in danger at the moment.
She believed that this great destruction had been caused by the Emperor Battle not long ago, which had altered past and present and rewritten the records of ancient history. Thus, something had happened to this passage leading from beyond the world into reality, and punitive order was interweaving here.
"Don't overthink it." Di Yi watched the changes behind them without taking them to heart and led the two women and the hou onward.
The world beyond the portal was very dark, as though nothing existed. Everything had become void, without a beginning or an end.
"Where are we going?" There was no matter and nothing to serve as a point of reference.