Not to ntion the commotion caused by the Eviltooth Fish appearing outside the area of the Lake of No Return, the ferry continued on its way without any changes, of course, except for Agunas who kept maintaining that Domain.
Even though the ferry sinking wouldn’t have affected Feng Yuan and the others, Agunas was actually worried about whether the Mist Bugs that kept coming like moths to a fla might provoke an excessive reaction from Veronia.
As top-level Divine Beasts, Agunas wasn’t certain he could withstand the destruction caused by Veronia going all out.
On another side, when the ferry Feng Yuan and the others first boarded contacted the opposite ferry traveling at night, the other side scoffed at the story.
There was no way, even if the captain of this ferry hadn’t seen the Eviltooth Fish that erged from the river and was eliminated by the Domain, he wouldn’t have believed such a thing.
Even the report made to the pier managent office resulted in them scolding the other side for talking nonsense and questioning whether they used sothing strange to cause hallucinations.
It wasn’t until Liao Yu completed the procedures and Maomu City’s Special Duty Team directly notified Lin Du City’s Special Duty Team that the matter was taken seriously.
Furthermore, upon discovering traces of the Eviltooth Fish at Linqiu Dock, those in the know were thrown into a panic.
This wasn’t because they feared losing contact between Lin Qiu and Lin Du, but purely out of fear of the internal anomalies occurring in the Serene Forest Sea.
While the Lake of No Return isn’t well-known, it is a key monitoring area, not only because the internal situation of the lake remains unknown but also due to the creatures within it being among the top three most dangerous in the entire Serene Forest Sea.
In order to monitor and prevent any anomalous changes in the Lake of No Return, Lin Du and Lin Qiu City even collaborated, expending a lot of resources to establish a monitoring point near the lake, just for the sake of surveillance.
However, despite all this, such an incident still occurred.
According to the feedback from the Lake of No Return monitoring station, during this period, no humans or Spirit Beasts approached the lake.
It must be known that for the Wild Spirit Beasts residing in the Serene Forest Sea, the Lake of No Return is an extrely dangerous place, and they wouldn’t approach it casually.
Therefore, there’s no possibility that soone deliberately disguised their Spirit Beast as a Wild Spirit Beast to approach the lake.
Moreover, there’s an important issue: how did the Eviltooth Fish from the stream adapt to that environnt?
Although related research didn’t continue, the researchers tried everything except directly seeking help from the Divine Beasts, which was almost impossible, and all other thods failed to allow the Eviltooth Fish to adapt to environnts outside the Lake of No Return.
"Agunas, can you release the Domain for a mont? That fish seems... a bit odd?"
Long Boduo, always as unobtrusive as a shadow, noticed sothing strange about the Eviltooth Fish and imdiately called out to Agunas, with no other choice. Within Agunas’ Domain, the Eviltooth Fish would inevitably be destroyed as soon as it surfaced.
Long Boduo himself isn’t a top-level Divine Beast and couldn’t possibly preserve even one or two Eviltooth Fish against Agunas’ Domain.
Hearing Long Boduo’s words, Agunas lifted the Domain of Ti Dissipation with so confusion, and the Mist Bugs that were pouring in incessantly like moths to a fla quickly advanced towards the ferry again without the influence of the Domain.
At this mont, Long Boduo took action, opening the entrance to the Road to the Netherworld directly on the ferry. Unlike the Crystal Domain and Agunas’ Domain of Ti Dissipation, the entrance to the Netherworld opened by Long Boduo was fixed in place on the ferry, keeping it relatively stationary with the ferry.
"Veronia, you go over there."
Agunas imdiately understood Long Boduo’s intention, but by the ti he spoke, Veronia was already standing before the entrance to the Netherworld.
Although the entrance to the Netherworld normally doesn’t have any destructive power, it doesn’t an that thing poses no threat to living beings.
Under Long Boduo’s guidance, the entrance to the Road to the Netherworld, which could have accommodated living beings, beca eerie and creepy, and the slowly releasing aura from the Netherworld interfered with the surrounding environnt.
Of course, unlike the simple leakage of the aura from the Netherworld, which causes environntal damage, the aura flowing out from the entrance to the Road to the Netherworld opened by Long Boduo seed unaffected by the progress of the ferry, continuously circling around the entrance.
This is the orderly protection possessed by normally opening the entrance to the Road to the Netherworld. Otherwise, with Long Boduo’s Authority, he would need to occasionally use the entrance to the Road to the Netherworld in this state to guide the separation of Wandering Spirits and living beings.
If it happens too frequently, the real world would definitely be severely corroded by the aura from the Netherworld brought by this entrance.
"These Mist Bugs are a bit strange."
Watching the Mist Bugs trying to approach the entrance to the Netherworld but then avoiding it with fear, Feng Yuan was sowhat perplexed. Although the dangerous creatures in the Serene Forest Sea tend towards the dark Attribute, it doesn’t an they chase after the Energy of the Death Series and Ghost Series unless these things are born from such an environnt.
But the Serene Forest Sea shouldn’t have such an environnt, right?
Thinking of how Long Boduo previously had Agunas stop the Domain, Feng Yuan had an unexplainable bad feeling. Could it be that this matter is also related to the Netherworld?
Should he try seeking out the Divine Beasts that bring good luck and pay respects? But if good luck ans the chance of encountering such coincidences increases, then wouldn’t that be...
Unlike Feng Yuan, who had wandered into strange thoughts, Long Boduo focused all his attention on the water after Agunas lifted the Domain.
Although the Eviltooth Fish within the ferry’s range had been cleared, these creatures were not uncommon in the stream. As the ferry advanced into areas previously uncovered by the Domain, upon "seeing" the Eviltooth Fish, Long Boduo unhesitatingly used Telekinesis to take it out of the water.
"As expected, I thought this thing looked familiar before, and it really is. Hey? Agunas, did you say they appeared here a few days ago?"
Long Boduo examined the Eviltooth Fish caught before him and suddenly thought of sothing, asking. Agunas swayed his tail and replied:
"That’s right, the ti traced back to that result. If you need to confirm the exact ti, I can go over the Ti River and check."
Just searching for information, and that too without needing to contact entities from past spaceti, posed no pressure for Agunas.
"No need, no need, this thing, it should be the anomaly caused by that eerie stone statue in Kui Shan Town earlier, but why did it affect this place?"
Long Boduo spoke while looking puzzled at Feng Yuan. He really didn’t understand why the stone statue, which didn’t cause much stir in the Netherworld, would result in such anomalies here in the Serene Forest Sea.
"Is this creature also from the Netherworld?"
Feng Yuan was montarily stunned. Hearing Long Boduo say this, he thought of sothing. If the Eviltooth Fish itself wasn’t a creature from the real world, then it wouldn’t be surprising that it couldn’t adapt to waters outside the Lake of No Return.
After all, the survival environnts were entirely different. As for the Lake of No Return, it was highly likely that there was a unique spatial rift connecting directly to the Netherworld beneath it.
This wouldn’t be surprising. Although the Netherworld is also an independent Domain, due to its unique nature, it shares close connections with the real world.
The lack of Netherworld rifts near human residential areas is solely because such things are rare and because any Netherworld rifts found in such areas are imdiately repaired.
Vulnerable zones like the Serene Forest Sea are different. Since human activity is low in these areas and the Netherworld rifts cause minimal environntal damage, they are generally left untreated even if discovered.
"No, but it should be a creature influenced by the Netherworld rift. Although the aura from the Netherworld isn’t very noticeable, and most people might not detect it, this fish is likely living near a Netherworld rift. But why did it suddenly appear here?"
Long Boduo said, getting sowhat confused. Isn’t this creature a specialty of the Lake of No Return? If anything, the Netherworld rift should also open into the Lake of No Return, right?
Why did it suddenly decide to co here?
Thinking of that eerie stone statue and the Thousand-layer Stone Caverns of this place, Long Boduo suspected whether there was so connection between Kui Shan Town’s culture and this place?
Feng Yuan didn’t share this thought, simply because the distance was too great.
Although traveling by high-speed rail only takes a few hours to get from Lin Du to Maomu City, this was a high-speed rail. In ancient tis, there weren’t any fast transportation thods.
Moreover, the Serene Forest Sea, due to its inherent danger, hasn’t faced warti attacks and there is no situation of taking refuge in Kui Shan Town during wars.
"Tsk, it’s really troubleso, running so far and still encountering matters related to Kui Shan Town."
Gently tapping his head, Feng Yuan had a face full of helplessness.
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