Beyond the Timescape

It was a gloomy world. A thick, pitch-black substance like bitumen surrounded the world, creating something like an exterior shell around it. Inside the world, the sky was full of dark red striations that spread out almost like a spider web. Drops of blood oozed out of the striations, falling down onto lands riddled with holes. It was like rain.

In the middle of the striations that leaked the rain of blood, high in the canopy of heaven, there was an astonishing sight. It was a massive tumor! Īt looked like a dead sun high overhead, or perhaps some misshapen god that had parasitized this world, creating an incomparably gruish and eerie sensation.

Xu Qing and all the other gods who had disappeared into the halo... were now materializing into that rain. This was where they had been teleported to.

Upon appearing in the gruish blood rain, the gods instinctively scanned the area. Clearly... this was the first time any of thēm had been to this place.

Xu Qing was there, and he surveyed the surroundings more thoroughly. He didn’t just scan the world, he also scanned the area outside of it. Thankfully, he was now isolated from the danger he had sensed earlier, thanks to the unique properties of this place. The divine will in the starry sky could not come here. That realization caused Xu Qing to breathe a sigh of relief. At the same time, he was now a lot more curious about this strange world.

So this place isn’t the location of that earth meridian I sensed?

Xu Qing looked up at the dome of heaven. Upon noting the blood-red striations and the gruish ball of flesh, his pupils constricted. Just looking at the tumor gave him an idea of what might be going on here.

He looked down at the ground. The lands were black, and when the blood rain fell, it created a sludge that looked like a festering scar. Countless blood-red imps came to life when the blood rain fell. They had no facial features, and they just numbly went about doing specific forms of hard labor. Off in the distance were successive mountain ranges that looked like the flayed bones of enormous beasts.

The valleys in between the mountains were full of thick fog. Within that fog were withered trees, monstrous and distorted in appearance. Their bark was a pale, sickly color, and their roots looked like fractured vertebrates strung together. They had long, thin branches that reached up into the sky like hands trying to grasp the canopy of heaven! But when the blood rain fell on them, it corroded them, causing them to leak black sap that converged and grew into umbrella-like mushrooms that could block the rain. The mushroom umbrellas came in all sizes. From what Xu Qing could tell, the big ones were in locations where there were many withered trees, and they were the size of cities.

Beneath the umbrellas grew numerous pustules that almost resembled grapes. Atop the mushrooms were delicate crystals that emitted a glimmering light that contained both illusion and reality.

It was the light that caught Xu Qing’s attention. Apparently, the glimmering light contained a vast minor world! The world seemed to be hiding something as it flickered in and out of view within the angular surfaces of the crystals.

Xu Qing felt even more curious than ever. It’s almost like heaven and earth are at war here!