Chapter 641 - 586: The Eve
Chapter 641: Chapter 586: The Eve
The scene within Dragon Fall Slope had changed drastically.
It was originally a vast forest.
Shaded by green trees, it teemed with birds and beasts.
Now, it had become a dead zone, devoid of any sign of life.
The trees were withered and dead; the birds and beasts had vanished.
A colossal, pitch-black rift had been torn across the sky, filled with chaotic spatial turbulence.
It was a heart-pounding sight.
The entire Secret Realm was on the verge of collapse.
Li Wei couldn’t understand how a Secret Realm could end up like this.
Even if the Dragon Fall Slope Secret Realm were fading away, it wouldn’t look like this.
This situation looked more like someone had violently ripped the Secret Realm Space apart.
Li Wei sensed that the source of the strange aura was deep within Dragon Fall Slope.
He quickly flew deeper into Dragon Fall Slope.
He didn’t dare use his Instant Teleportation Spell carelessly here.
A single mistake could get him lost in the chaotic spatial turbulence.
The spatial turbulence posed no danger to him, but getting lost would make returning to Maple City a major hassle.
Li Wei flew into the depths of Dragon Fall Slope and saw a massive opening where the Giant Dragon’s corpse had been trapped.
The space was shattered, and a huge spatial rift led into a deep, profound darkness.
The strange aura Li Wei sensed was coming from the other side of the spatial rift.
He now knew what that strange aura was.
It was the aura of another world.
On the other side of the spatial rift was another world.
Li Wei guessed that the world on the other side of the rift was responsible for what had happened to the Dragon Fall Slope Secret Realm.
They wanted to use this place to invade the Prime Material World.
Li Wei sensed trouble.
If the invasion point had appeared somewhere else, it wouldn’t have been so bad.
But it just had to appear right outside Maple City.
Maple City would bear the brunt of it. Once a planar war broke out, there would be almost no chance of survival.
The Beixuan Kingdom’s strength alone was nowhere near enough to meddle in a planar war.
This was a war on a worldly scale.
A tiny kingdom like Beixuan wouldn’t even qualify as cannon fodder.
Li Wei pondered for a moment, then decided to go to the other side to check things out.
’Maybe there’s a way to stop them from invading the Prime Material Plane.’
Li Wei flew into the spatial rift.
He passed through the spatiotemporal tunnel and arrived in a dim world.
Li Wei looked up at an endless expanse of pitch-black darkness.
His surroundings were gloomy, illuminated only by a few faintly glowing plants.
RUSTLE RUSTLE RUSTLE!
A sound came from not far away.
Li Wei turned his head, his gaze piercing through the dark bushes to a Burrower scout hidden beneath them.
He saw the Burrower’s unmistakable face.
He recognized the Burrower’s race at a glance.
When the Burrower saw him turn to look, it immediately burrowed into the ground and vanished.
A thoughtful expression appeared on Li Wei’s face.
’Burrowers... could this be the Underworld?’
Burrowers are a species unique to the Underworld.
They are born with the ability to tunnel through the earth.
Li Wei looked into the distance. If this was the Underworld, then he might run into the Zor Elves.
He might also encounter their Divine Spirit—Rose.
’The risk factor is quite high.’
Unlike the gods who resided high up in the Outer Divine Realm,
Rose, the Dark Deity born in the Underworld, had always lingered there. She had never gone to the outer cosmos to create her own Divine Realm.
She knew the gods of the outer cosmos did not welcome a Divine Spirit like her, and rashly heading to the Outer Divine Realm would only lead to danger.
It was better to hole up in the Underworld.
There were quite a few Divine Spirits in the Underworld.
Most of them belonged to no pantheon.
They existed outside of any pantheon, unrestrained, and naturally, they were not looked upon favorably by the Divine Spirits of orthodox pantheons.
Li Wei took a look around the area near the spatial rift.
He did not venture deeper into the Underworld.
He returned to the Dragon Fall Slope Secret Realm.
Li Wei expended Divine Power to repair the spatial rift.
A moment later, he gave up on repairing it.
The amount of Divine Power required to fix the rift was more than even he could bear.
The rift didn’t seem man-made; it was more like the world itself had cracked open.
Normally, any spatial rift would heal itself over time.
But not only was this one showing no signs of self-healing, it was actually expanding.
Li Wei left the Dragon Fall Slope Secret Realm and returned to Maple City.
He would wait until the banquet was over and meet with Otz alone.
The potential risk at Dragon Fall Slope was no longer something the Beixuan Kingdom could face on its own.
He had to rely on the backer behind Otz to have any chance of handling this crisis.
Otz turned around and was startled to see Li Wei appear in the room.
He hadn’t sensed at all when Li Wei had arrived.
Soon, his expression returned to normal, and he said with a smile, "Mage Li Wei, arriving so abruptly without any notice isn’t a very good habit."
Li Wei said, "Compared to that, I think you should be more concerned about the crisis Maple City is about to face."
Hearing this, Otz was startled and quickly asked, "Mage Li Wei, what do you mean?"
Li Wei told him what had happened inside the Dragon Fall Slope Secret Realm.
After hearing the news, Otz’s brow furrowed tightly.
"A spatial rift leading to the Underworld has appeared in Dragon Fall Slope?"
Otz paced back and forth in the room, contemplating a countermeasure.
He knew a bit more about incidents involving spatial rifts to the Underworld than Li Wei did.
This wasn’t a rare event.
At least, it hadn’t been for some time now.
Many spatial rifts connecting to the Underworld had appeared on the Celestial Vault Continent.
The Dark Races of the Underworld came through the spatial rifts to the Prime Material Plane, causing a significant impact on the races there.
The invasion from the Underworld had already been going on for several years.