In the end, for the sake of caution, Zhou Baiyu decided not to reveal which deity's follower he was pretending to be.
He thought of a rather risky method but perhaps it was the only way he could reasonably enter the Central Temple, which was situated atop the huge tendrils comparable to the World Tree itself.
Once he had a plan in mind, Zhou Baiyu started moving towards the outermost ring.
When he got near the Pantheon, there really wasn't a concept of "scenery" anymore.
Inside the Long Xia Boundary, even though the stench of corruption spread, the city could still be recognized as a city, and the islands still recognizable as islands.
There were even quite a few places that seemed to have not been infected by the corruption, only upon very careful observation could one spot traces of corruption—tentacles.
But near the Pantheon, everything was already entwined with black tentacles.
On the ground, only faint traces of the original landscape could be discerned.
