The extremely spacious sealed space was not peaceful. It was filled with extremely chaotic, violent and crazy forces, rampaging through every inch of the space.
In such a harsh environment, even a "metallurgist" or a "saint" would have no chance of survival.
“…Wait a minute, what is this?”
Within a few seconds, she made a new discovery.
The sealed space was roughly a regular rectangular block, and the inner wall was sealed by a special force.
Since Qi Ji was unable to transfer his own power, he had no way of truly testing how strong that layer of encapsulating power was.
But in fact there was no need to test, because the monster was constantly slapping and hitting it with its thick and slippery patterned tentacles, but it could not shake it at all.
There is no doubt that this power is very strong, and even the divinity second only to the gods cannot break it.
However, Qi Ji actually found a loophole in a certain corner!
It is not a weak point, nor an area where power is weakened. It is simply a void where no sealing power exists!
Through it, you can even go directly to the outside world!
"Luckily this monster has gone mad and doesn't seem to have any sense at all, otherwise it would have discovered this loophole long ago and found a way to break through or squeeze out, right?"
Although the monster is as big as a mountain, it still seems a little small compared to the sealed space as vast as the ocean.
The loophole was located in the corner of the sealed space, quite far away from where the monster was. The monster just slapped and burned randomly with its tentacles and red light, and basically did not move.
"I don't know who created this seal, and how this hole came about... Did the seal lose its power over time, resulting in a hole, or was it broken by someone else from the inside or outside?"
Qi Ji made random guesses without any evidence and couldn't help but feel a sense of inexplicable luck.
"If this monster really escapes, how will the church and government deal with it? In other words, can they handle it? How long will it take? Will the gods intervene?..."
She didn't know where the seal and the monster were located, but a complete mythical creature that was out of control, crazy, cruel and bloodthirsty would bring unimaginable disasters even if it landed in a deserted wilderness.
"It doesn't even have to do anything. It just needs to stay where it is and it can turn all the weak creatures within a radius of hundreds of kilometers into monsters...
"This is a mythical creature, this is a demigod..."
As she thought about it with some emotion, she suddenly felt a strong curiosity in her heart.
This loophole...can lead directly to the outside world...
Then, don't you mean...
As long as she extends her perception outward, she will be able to understand the environment surrounding this sealed space, and even go a step further and deduce the location of the seal?
"Hmm...it's very tempting, let's go and take a look."
Qi Ji did not hesitate for too long, and drove his own perception, diving into the unguarded loophole!
"brush--"
In an instant, the surface of the Reed Mormon Mirror, which was originally covered with dark vortices and faint red light, underwent drastic changes without any warning.
The black color that twisted into a vortex faded away, and the crimson light also went out.
But the smooth mirror surface was no longer revealed...
Instead, a picture of a vast, dead, lifeless, eerie gray forest and an extremely depressing, gray, dark sky covered with lead-black clouds emerged.
And this is the scene she observed through her perception through the loophole in the seal.
Chapter 268 Mysterious Place
"This... is the scene outside the seal?"
Observing the extremely depressing gray-white forest and lead-black clouds, Qi Ji's mind moved, allowing his perception to continue moving, completely passing through the loophole and coming to the outside world.
"What is this place? There is no such terrain in the human world..."
The monotonous, dull, lifeless gray forest stretched all the way to the end of the sight, and the dark clouds in the sky were also endless, without a single gap.
Judging by the naked eye, the forest covers an area of more than ten kilometers, and even near the horizon, the deformed and diseased trees show no signs of thinning out.
Obviously, the area of this forest far exceeds the order of tens of kilometers.
A woodland that covers such a vast area and has such distinct characteristics would have been discovered and recorded in various documents even if it was not within the territory of the human world, as long as it was in an area known or explored by human civilization.
However, Qi Ji flipped through the hundreds of millions of core library books in his mind and found that whether it was rigorous and detailed geographical academic works or imaginative folk legends...
There is no mention of descriptions like "vast expanses of gray-white forest."
"Could it be that this forest...is located in an area beyond the knowledge of human civilization?"
A guess suddenly came to Qi Ji's mind.
Human civilization’s understanding of the world is actually not comprehensive.
Even if the people on Earth do not know their home planet like the back of their hands, they can at least go into space and get a panoramic view of the planet from interstellar space and know the approximate distribution of land and ocean.
But the humans in this world, let alone ascending to the starry sky and overlooking the mountains, are not even able to explore the ends of the earth and the ocean.
In a sense, the human civilization of this world's understanding of the world it lives in is only equivalent to that of the people on Earth before Columbus's voyage around the world.
So far, apart from various scattered islands and reefs, humans have only discovered two continents.
One is the "Northern Continent" where human civilization exists, and the other is the "Giant Island" in the southern continent, located at the end of the South China Sea and covered with mountains and hills.
The explored area of the "Giant Island" on the southern continent is about one-third of the northern continent and is the habitat of the giants.
Human beings' understanding of the southern continent is still in the stage of colonial development, and there are too many unknowns and mysteries that remain unexplained.
Even the homeland of human civilization, the prosperous, vast and resource-rich northern continent, has not yet been fully explored by humans.
From the western coast of the northern continent all the way eastward, there are the Templar Empire, the Glorious Plantagenet Empire, the Sharp Fang Kingdom, and the Star Confederation.
Further east is the "Mountains of End" that runs across the north and south, where countless powerful and strange species lurk. The deeper you go, the higher-level creatures will appear.
It is said that in the deepest part of the Mountains of End, there live ancient dragons from the mythological era. It is a forbidden place that even the divine dare not set foot in.
As for what is on the other side of the unclimbable Mountains of End, no one knows.
To the north of the glorious Plantagenet Empire is the northern power, the Crestor Dynasty, a snowy country with 80% of its territory covered by the "Endless Plains".
"Endless Plains" is an extremely cold land that stretches for at least tens of thousands of miles. The further north you go, the worse the environment becomes. Legend has it that in the coldest places, even the air will freeze into frost.
On this eternally silent ice field, large tracts of uninhabited areas and wilderness are like holes in an old rag, too numerous to count and impossible to calculate.
There was once a powerful high-level extraordinary being who went deep into the endless prairie alone, trying to get a glimpse of the end of the ice cover.
However, no one was able to return safely with the results, not even the Metallurgist.
In short, whether it is the northern and southern continents, or the mysterious islands in the ocean...
In this world, there are too many mysterious places that humans cannot set foot in and have not yet discovered.
In other words, the location of this sealed space, this strange and depressing gray-white forest...
Located on an unknown island, or an unknown area in the southern continent, or on the other side of the End Mountains in the northern continent, or somewhere undiscovered in the Endless Plains, or even a new unknown continent?
A completely new world that no human has ever set foot in and that has no record of existing?
"Tsk, things are getting interesting."
Qi Ji was immediately interested.
However, she did not rush to explore this gray forest, but mobilized her perception to make it "turn its head".
She wanted to see what this sealed space looked like from the outside.
As her "perspective" reversed, she saw a chaotic and manic darkness.
"This is……"
She controlled her "perspective" to move back several dozen meters, allowing the entire chaotic darkness to come into view.
"A, big black pimple ball?"
I saw a black irregular object, roughly spherical in shape, supported by the crowns of several large trees.
The sphere was about ten meters in diameter, and its surface was turbulent with chaotic darkness, as if it contained countless chaos, disasters, and terrors.
This huge black ball was supported by several big trees. It looked very heavy, causing the lush and powerful treetops and trunks to sink deeply.
The large trees that were pressed down by it all had strange shapes, bending downward at an extremely unnatural angle.
It feels like this black ball was originally on the ground, but a few trees just happened to grow under it.
So over time, the black ball was pushed up, and the trees were also affected by the weight of the black ball, becoming their current strange posture.
There were no holes on the surface of the black ball, and no one knew how Qi Ji's perception got through it.
Moreover, the diameter of the black ball is only a dozen meters!
Not to mention the sealed space that is as vast as the ocean, even the size of the divine monster itself is almost as big as a mountain... This doesn't match at all.
"That big tentacle monster is trapped in this ball?"
Qi Ji, sitting in the rocking chair in the tree house, scratched the back of his head, half curious and half confused.
“…Forget it. Space magic and the like should be considered standard in the fantasy world. For a strong person who can seal mythical creatures, it shouldn’t be difficult to do something like conjuring the Sumeru Buddha from a mustard seed.”
She didn't dwell on it too much, shrugged her shoulders, controlled her "perspective", and began to fly over a gray forest.
The gray-white trees and lead-black clouds swept past at a high speed. Qi Ji's perception was speeding at an extremely fast speed in this completely unknown area, and he rushed out for dozens of kilometers.
But the scene within the field of vision hardly changed at all, whether it was the forest or the dark clouds, everything remained unchanged, even giving Qi Ji the illusion that he was not moving at all and was standing still.
"How big is this place..."
She frowned, feeling a little embarrassed.
"I'm almost at my limit, but let alone the end of the forest, I didn't even see an animal... This place is so quiet, it feels like death."
If Qi Ji's powerful perception was concentrated, a mere tens or hundreds of kilometers would not be worth mentioning at all.
But the problem is that her perception seeped out from the tight seal through that tiny loophole, so the attenuation was too great.
Just like looking through a small hole, no matter how good your vision is, it will be severely limited and weakened.
The fact that Qi Ji can extend his perception by dozens of kilometers under such huge restrictions is already terrifying.
If she continues, the information she observes will become seriously distorted and the "connection" will become extremely unstable.
In short, if there are no new discoveries, this "exploration" will have to come to an end.
"According to the current decay rate, it can only last for a maximum of five kilometers..."
Although she no longer had any hope, she still drove on, despite her near-exhaustion state of mind, with the mentality of trying her best to do it.
"Wait, what is that?"
Suddenly, her eyes lit up and she sat up straight involuntarily.
She saw, in the forest far away...
A thin column of smoke rose up and floated almost straight up into the thick dark clouds in the sky.
There is a small but concentrated fire burning there!
In Qi Ji's understanding, there are only a few fire sources that can perfectly meet these characteristics...
Smoke from cooking, or a bonfire!
In either case, it means...
In that place, there are intelligent creatures active!
“Could it be the indigenous people of this area?”
After thinking of this possibility, Qi Ji excitedly controlled his "perspective" to lower the altitude and dived into the root of the wisp of smoke.
I wonder what the residents here are like?
Is she a girl with furry ears and a furry tail? Or a loli from the demon tribe wearing a shrine maiden's outfit? Or a barbarian girl with a voluptuous figure and tanned skin?
This should be considered a forest, right? Could that be an elf lady with pointy ears?
Hehehe~~I'm really looking forward to it~!
In her expectant reverie, a ruined camp with corpses strewn all over the ground unfolded before her eyes.
"……what?"
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