His expression did not change at all, but Yang Yong saw a rare gravity in his eyes.
"If this space weren't a small space inside the Whale Lord's Body, but somewhere outside... those Sea Demons would have spread long ago."
"There wouldn't be any living people left outside, either."
Yang Yong's pupils contracted slightly.
"It's that bad?"
Cao Xianming nodded.
"It's that bad."
The oil lamp's flame flickered, stretching and shortening their shadows.
Then Cao Xianming dropped an even bigger bombshell.
He raised a finger and pointed toward the sky.
Yang Yong followed his finger with his gaze.
The Wooden House's roof blocked his view, but Yang Yong knew what Cao Xianming was pointing at.
That sun.
Or rather...
The Whale Lord's Inner Core.
By now, it had gone completely dark.
"It's probably being affected by that thing."
Cao Xianming lowered his finger.
"The Whale Lord, this powerful Eerie, is consciously... devouring certain sources of Eerie."
Yang Yong frowned.
Cao Xianming continued.
"For example, that finger capable of turning every creature in the entire world into a Sea Demon."
"And that monster that can assimilate every creature it touches into a Corpse Mass."
"And... all sorts of other sources of Eerie we don't know about."
"The Whale Lord is consciously devouring these things."
Yang Yong's eyes widened.
He couldn't even close his mouth.
Before this, he had always thought the Whale Lord had eaten too many indigestible things out of gluttony, causing all those Eerie to run rampant inside him.
He had never expected...
This fellow actually played the role of a scavenger.
It was actively gathering those sources of Eerie that would spread throughout the world if left unchecked.
Swallowing them into its belly, trapping them inside its body, and using its own power to suppress and digest them.