"Alright, I understand." Lin Yi composed himself and focused all his willpower on controlling the anchor point matrix, spreading the summoning call to call the Principal.

After calling for a while, the radar-like anchor point matrix finally caught some kind of signal. Lin Yi's soul shuddered as if struck by a current, and immediately after, the entire world he perceived began to undergo incredible changes.

The anchor point matrix shot him out as if it were a launch pad, while the world he perceived kept whirling like a kaleidoscope, blooming wildly like countless crystal petals.

Within those crystal petals, each petal seemed to be filled with countless prism-like fragments, and inside those fragments were even more intricate scenes.

Though these scenes were very fragmented, they were filled with a large amount of mixed information. Just glancing at them a few times made Lin Yi's head swell, making him drowsy, as if he might lose balance and fall into one of these fragments at any moment.

No, to be more accurate, Lin Yi himself could not tell whether he was falling or not. The world within the crystal petals bloomed before his eyes in a regular yet irregular form. He couldn't discern if he was heading into the depths of the petals or if the petals were enveloping him through their blooming.

The scenes before Lin Yi's eyes became increasingly magnificent, much like what Doctor Strange saw when guided by the Ancient One to observe the mysteries of the multi-universe for the first time.

He didn't know how long he had traversed, but the changing scenes around him gradually began to slow down, and the constantly blooming glass petals also gradually stabilized. A dim world slowly unfolded before him like a vast painting...

It was a dark sea region with jagged black rocks standing amidst the surging waves, looking terrifyingly like demon fangs emerging from the abyss.

The entire sea area was shrouded in a black mist like flowing sand, with crimson lightning flashing in the sky. Swirling vortices formed a pattern amid the raging waves, resembling a star moon lit night.

Among these demon fang-like black rock clusters, countless shipwreck remnants were faintly visible. The hulls were entwined with glowing green seaweeds and moss, with tattered flags hanging from the fallen masts, and the ship bodies covered in strange secret patterns, as intricate as heretical scriptures covering the mountain walls.

Behind these black rock clusters, twisted mountain outlines appeared intermittently in the black mist. They floated on the black water like giant skeletons, their surfaces cracking into bizarre markings from which a lava-like thick liquid flowed, though its texture and color were very different from lava.

White viscous substances also appeared on the mountain walls near those liquids, which seeped out from the mountain cracks as impurities—impurities that Lin Yi recognized as the solidified extraordinary material that seeped out from the desolate land before the Corpse Bone Forest!

Zealots once used this to construct matrices and also for creating the Rage Angel as raw material.

And surprisingly, these raw materials were just impurities that precipitated from the chaos mountain range in the Grey Mist Sea...

As these impurities mixed with the black mist and continued to spread and expand, they diluted upon entering the Gray Mist Sea, ultimately becoming the "Grey Mist" of the Grey Mist Invasion...

These mountain peaks protruding from the sea were all covered with divine-like patterns, some resembling vast star maps imprinted into groupings, some appeared as cautionary texts processed with some atavistic treatment, while others, with no writing pattern, emitted an aura much more complex and profound than star maps...

"Is this... the depths of the Gray Mist Sea?" Lin Yi murmured in disbelief, "Those extraordinary materials seeping from the mountains, are they the source of the Grey Mist Invasion?!"

Tian Bufan's voice also rose in his mind: "That's right... more precisely, it's part of the invasive power of the Grey Mist Invasion. There's another part of the power, stemming from the penetration of the 'Root,' 'Angel' contamination, and various mutations caused by 'Root' pollution."

"And here, this cluster of maritime mountains you see, is a lost land, a misplaced land, an exiled land, an apocalyptic land outside the world's and reality's layers..."

"Let me put it another way, which might be easier for you to understand..." Tian Bufan paused, "... Returning Ruins."

"Returning Ruins? Wait... you're not saying, the 'Returning Ruins' from mythology, are you?!" Lin Yi was shocked, "The one at the Extreme East Sea of myth, where all things return to void, that 'Returning Ruins'?!"

"That's right." Tian Bufan said, "The truth the 'Principal' is looking for is here... 'The Principal' himself is likely here too."

Lin Yi's face lit up with joy: "That's great! I'll call for him again right away!"

"No." Tian Bufan interrupted Lin Yi's next action.

Lin Yi was immediately perplexed and was about to ask, but sensed that Tian Bufan's mood seemed off, so he kept quiet.

"Wait a bit, just wait a bit..." Tian Bufan murmured, his tone not great, "Observe first."

Lin Yi sensed the change in Tian Bufan's emotions, and after waiting for a moment, couldn't help but ask: "What's the matter, Young Master Tian? How's the observation going?"

"It's not very clear, but I have an ominous premonition..." Tian Bufan said in a low voice, "Fortune Life Wei Liang the Celestial's guess might come true."

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