Li Yan did not hear the Great Devil King's warning. After entering the black stone forest and rounding several massive, eerily similar boulders, his expression beneath the Grey Mask changed again.
His advancing steps abruptly halted. More of his senses immediately spread around him, while the divine sense he had kept trained on his surroundings had already become severely distorted.
Normally, when Li Yan used his divine sense to probe the surroundings, the only issue was that the farther he searched, the more divine sense it consumed.
But the moment he rounded a black boulder, every image within his divine sense suddenly twisted into a tangled mass. The once-complete scene transformed in an instant into warped lines.
It was like a clear sky suddenly giving way to a torrential downpour, until everything before his eyes became nothing but chaotic streaks of rain ripped about by wild winds.
Everything he saw through his divine sense had become fragmented lines—large and small, slanted and straight. The most immediate sensation Li Yan felt was as though someone had seized the bottom of a complete painting and yanked it violently downward...
"Gravity interference!"
The instant Li Yan stopped, the cause surfaced in his mind. His divine sense had been torn by countless gravitational forces as it extended straight outward, resulting in uneven stresses.
What unsettled Li Yan even more was that, even with the scene broken apart like this, he could see no farther than five li. Beyond that lay only vast, dense blurs.
If the view had been unobstructed, his divine sense here could not even see as far as his eyes...
The moment Li Yan paused, he reacted swiftly. Without making any motion of turning around, his body rapidly retreated backward.
"There's something strange about the stone forest!"
At nearly the same