The Abyssal Garden: No Room for the Idle

Su Qi was swept into the twisted ripples. The sensation was bizarre, as if different doses of anesthesia had been injected into every part of his body.

Sometimes it felt as if his hand was on his neck, his neck on his buttocks, his buttocks on a tree.

The senses were in turmoil.

The five senses seemed to be torn apart, indescribable.

After... the twisted ripples dissipated,

Su Qi slowly opened his eyes. The moment he did, he felt a gust of chilly wind hit him, and all the players around him were sprawled on the ground, contorted in various poses, holding their heads as if they were recovering from a state of stupor and confusion.

"My head! It hurts so bad!"

"What just happened?"

"For a moment, I felt like my body was sliced into pieces!"

"It seemed like an illusion, but it was too real!"

Penelope Bloom also took a deep breath, "Are you all alright?"

"We are, more or less."

Ethan Dawn looked unnerved at a red handprint on his shoulder, "But why do I feel like someone was pawing at me just now..."

Penelope Bloom frowned slightly, seeming to have a similar mark on his shoulder, "It feels like I had the same sensation."

"Su Buxian, do you have it?" Ethan Dawn looked at Su Qi.

"It doesn't matter whether I have it or not, don't get caught up in those details."

Su Qi looked around seriously, "Focus on the matter at hand. Haven't you noticed where we are now?"

At that moment,

They found that all the players had been brought to a desolate place, a dark red Sky Dome... enveloping this area like a lid, with wild, twisted rituals like Runes filling all directions with terrifying energy.

"Where on earth... have we come to?"

Xuanwu looked around and said gravely, "If I'm not mistaken... this is the place where that voice exists, though it seems to be bound by various rituals. The force we just felt seems to have brought us here."

They also saw traces of rituals in the City, the energy aura between the City and the black fog vortex unabashedly revealed, with all the Spiritual Energy used by the players previously having been absorbed by the black fog above them.

Now, from all these signs,

Was this all for... that voice's existence?

"What kind of High Sequence being is this..." Luna Fern said, not even smoking now, feeling the place was filled with Ominous presences, and dared not to act rashly.

"This terrifying existence must be extraordinary," Zero stated calmly, "But... what it's asking assistance for, how can we, such insignificant beings... possibly help it?"

Su Qi looked into the distance and said softly, "Just ask it directly."

Everyone was startled, following his gaze... in the distance... at the center of a huge crossroad.

But the surrounding city buildings had long been eroded, Destruction... into ruins, and the cement on the ground had massive cracks like those left after an apocalyptic disaster.

At the center

Was a completely ruptured crevice, forming a huge pit with an unclear bottom.

But... it was obvious that a vast amount of dark red fog was being absorbed into the huge ritual a hundred meters in the Sky Dome.

The entire dark red ritual... was even more like countless chains, extending from the horizon and sealing off everything here!

"What do you say? Shall we all go over together?"

"It looks like that's our only option now."

While Su Qi looked at this scene, he could clearly see the huge, deep red exclamation mark extending to the Sky Dome, the eerie and terrifying aura seeping through, the exclamation mark displaying a countdown to Destruction by the second.

And that pit.

Su Qi found it remarkably familiar; he stretched out his hand and compared, "Though it has expanded more than tenfold compared to before and is more excessively weathered, the hole is still the same hole."

Where the Ancient God's Heart had once fallen... where the Traveling Merchant had been encountered.

It was special.

After all, it was where two major events coincided.

If promoted a bit, it could perhaps become a tourist check-in hotspot.

"It's just that, I didn't expect to return to this world and find it different again... and oddly enough, there's also the addition of the Yellow-robed Master."

Su Qi didn't think it was a coincidence.

Like meteorites would fall into their craters, all traces must follow some pattern.

He felt that what was happening now was also intricately connected to everything that had happened before.

Su Qi surveyed everything around him; there were no signs of any other living things, and deathly silence pervaded everywhere.

"Let's move on, everyone... be careful, don't panic, don't be noisy, and act within your Strength. If you can't move forward, immediately retreat to a safe place," Justice Chief said solemnly.

Everyone knew they couldn't stay long in this place, and they must find the opportunity to leave quickly no matter what!

All the players started moving, quickening their pace towards the pit.

Under the dark red sky light, everything seemed so eerily bizarre.

"No, it's not that easy to approach!"

With each step closer, they felt the weight pressing on their bodies grow heavier, and their heartbeats quickened!

"What on earth is happening?"

"Take deep breaths, it's normal, see the massive amount of energy being sucked into the center... the energy around is too vast, to approach, we must withstand this impact."

"Of course, this impact can be shared by all of us, although it will mix with all sorts of twists, unpredictable weirdness, but if we grit our teeth, it shouldn't be too problematic."

"Besides."

And Su Qi, looking at that deep pit, said softly, "I want to remind you all... of one thing."