After flying for about half an hour, the void remained unchanged, and the trap Angel had imagined didn’t exist.
Perhaps Feng finally grew a conscience? No longer setting up malicious traps, but genuinely allowing him to find the treasure?
Angel was very skeptical of Feng’s limits, but at least for the moment, there was nothing wrong.
And as they delved deeper, that sense of oppression grew stronger. Although it hadn’t yet caused substantial harm to Angel, it might become insurmountable if it continued to intensify.
Angel had already noticed that Wang Wang, whether sensing the threatening aura or the oppression playing tricks, was trembling all over. And there was still quite a distance to the source of the oppression.
"Can you still hold on? If not, you can hide in my spatial bracelet," Angel said.
Despite Wang Wang’s severe trembling, it shook its head without hesitation: "No... need."
Angel nodded, not persuading further, and continued deeper.
Initially, they still communicated, but now with Wang Wang trembling violently, the communication naturally ceased.
They continued silently, advancing for another hour or so.
In the unchanging dim void, a different hue finally appeared.
Angel saw that in the depths of the darkness, a light spot seemed to appear. Because it was so distant, it looked like a star with a faint flicker.
In any other place, Angel might have ignored it. But this was the void, an eternally black crevice. Spotting a light, no matter how dim, was exceptionally striking.
It’s like a black dot on white paper, where attention naturally focuses on it.
Although it’s currently unclear what exactly the light spot is, its appearance might be related to the Treasure Land... Could it be where the treasure is?
In this vast void, changes are welcomed; the fear is in its lack of change. The appearance of the light point also calmed his previously unsettled heart a bit.
And as his heart calmed, Angel heard a panting sound next to him.
Turning back, he saw Wang Wang trembling even more fiercely. The translucent liquid within its body, though stable even in a strange world, started fluctuating, making a rustling sound.
"Can you still hold on?"
Wang Wang didn’t transmit any information waves, but after a long pause, slightly nodded its head towards Angel, indicating it could still hold on.
Angel hesitated for a moment but didn’t persuade it further, nodding to signal to continue forward, though he slowed down even more.
The journey that originally took five minutes was deliberately stretched to half an hour by Angel.
As they moved deeper, the distant point of light seemed increasingly bright, and at the same time... Angel saw a second point of light. That light spot seemed even further away, with a similar brightness to the initial point, slightly dim due to the distance.
Soon, the third point of light... the fourth point... up to the tenth point of light, all appeared within Angel’s sight.
With the growing number of light spots, Angel knew he was getting closer to the endpoint. However... Angel looked back at Wang Wang, wondering if it could still persevere?
Just at the moment Angel looked back, Wang Wang raised its eyes.
In an instant of eye contact, Wang Wang finally transmitted a faint information wave: "I can’t move forward anymore, that aura is too terrifying."
From Wang Wang’s perspective, that terrifying and dangerous aura had almost materialized, enveloping it everywhere, trying to invade its body and erode it entirely.
Angel couldn’t perceive the "dangerous aura," but the sense of oppression was indeed growing more severe, he understood Wang Wang’s choice.
"Shall I put you into the bracelet?" Angel asked from a distance.
Wang Wang wanted to refuse but the outside world was simply too terrifying, and staying here it probably couldn’t last much longer, so it nodded slightly.
Angel separated a small area inside the bracelet, then constructed a Mist Illusion like he did for the Kulakuka Tribe, placing Wang Wang inside the illusion.
Once Wang Wang entered the bracelet, its trembling body finally calmed a bit. Despite the private space being not particularly secure, at least that terrifying aura couldn’t penetrate it.
After putting Wang Wang into the bracelet, Angel no longer needed to deliberately restrain his speed, so he accelerated slightly, flying towards the nearest point of light.
During the journey, Angel noticed that the surrounding oppression suddenly began to increase rapidly. This increase was no longer the initial gradual climb, but a compound escalation; even Angel’s physical body was beginning to feel the difficulty.
However, the sudden intensification of pressure allowed Angel to capture a flash of insight.
Before this, he always felt that the pressure here was familiar, but couldn’t recall where the familiarity came from. Now, he had a vague guess.
This oppression didn’t seem to be coming from some creature.
Rather, it came from a will.
Not the grand will shared by the Pan-Dimensional Plane, but the World Will, or a more minor Continent Will.
Back when Angel was on the Continent of Yuantan in the Abyss, he felt a similar sense of oppression. However, back then, the Continent of Yuantan was on the brink of collapse, yearning for aid, and Angel, as the savior of the Continent of Yuantan, felt more love from the Continent Will than oppression. Hence, Angel didn’t immediately recognize the source of the oppression here.
Now, even though he had a realization, Angel still felt confused.
Why would a World Will appear here?
Could there possibly be a world here? Angel couldn’t believe that a world could be this small, existing inside the inner ring of a Spatial Tempest.
Moreover, this place is incredibly close to the Tidal World... Angel paused in thought.
No, it’s not that this place is close to the Tidal World, it’s part of the Tidal World!
This is the corresponding void of the Tidal World, and according to the division plan, this indeed is the Tidal World!
Could it be that the World Will he sensed belongs to the Tidal World?
In this vast void, a wisp of the Tidal World’s World Will exists?!