Entering the ancient restriction felt somewhat different from the teleportations he had experienced before.
Song Yan felt the bizarre, dazzling scenery before him shift rapidly, while a gentle force faintly tugged at his body.
In the time it took to take a single step, firm ground met his feet, and a muddled scent rushed into his nose. It mingled the smell of rotting vegetation with rust, and was very strange.
The view suddenly opened up. He was already within the Red Mountain Forest Sea region of Luohou Abyss.
The Spiritual Qi was somewhat denser than in the outside world.
Song Yan surveyed his surroundings, then walked slowly forward.
The trees here were exceptionally tall, most twisted into grotesque shapes, their bark faintly tinged with dark red and dark purple.
Huge ferns grew everywhere, and vines climbed and tangled freely, casting the woods into even deeper gloom.
A wisp of Sword Qi rose into his eyes. There was indeed a relatively dense, peculiar presence all around, though the Sword Qi surrounding him kept it outside.
"So this is Sha Qi?"
Song Yan lowered his gaze. The Baleful-Averting Ring on his finger flickered faintly with spiritual light, its patterns rippling as it absorbed the surrounding Sha Qi, just as those two had said.
A moment later, a faint trickle of impure Spiritual Power would emerge as well.
The ring spared him from constantly expending Sword Qi to resist it, which certainly made things much easier.
But Song Yan had not come here to enjoy himself.
He looked at the ring, considered for a moment, then took it off and erased his imprint from it.
His perception of the Sha Qi immediately intensified. Even without using Void-Viewing, he could sense its icy quality.
Sword Qi flowed slowly out of his inner palace, guarding