The undead have descended upon the world? I possess a sword that can cleave the heavens once more!

I felt the constant tremors in the space.

Wu You reached into the inside pocket of his trench coat and felt the fuzzy texture. He took a deep breath and asked in a heavy voice, "Is this 'Gathering'?"

At this moment, the slight joy he felt from advancing to the eleventh rank had completely vanished. He only wanted to know what was happening and what he could do.

The hoarse voice responded after about two breaths, brief and concise: "Yes."

Hearing the response, Wu You didn't stop, and immediately asked, "Does this 'aggregation' mean gathering this entire deep dark realm we're in into one place?"

"Yes." The hoarse voice paused for a moment, "And not only the deep dark domain, but also the ordinary dark domain will be completely aggregated."

Hearing that the consequences were far more serious than he had predicted, Wu You couldn't help but gasp.

What will happen when all the Dark Realms and the Deep Dark Realms are 'aggregated' together?

Remembering what Elder Wei had told him before: the projections of the Li Lords were trying their best to prevent the deep dark domain from expanding outwards, so they could not act rashly.

Wu You already had an extremely ominous premonition: the Dark Domain represents the Corpse Realm's erosion of the real world, a rift between worlds, while the Deep Dark Domain is an area where multiple rifts overlap and expand. Now, these rifts and the areas where they overlap are about to be forcibly pulled together.

Wouldn't that create a super-massive, super-deep dark domain?

He mentally reviewed the scene, his brow furrowing involuntarily. He pressed on, "Specifically, which areas of the Dark Realm and the Deep Dark Realm will converge together? And where will they converge to? Do you know?"

The situation was urgent, and the hoarse voice didn't keep him in suspense like before. Instead, she spoke faster than usual and answered directly: "According to your terminology, the scope of this gathering includes the three southeastern provinces, and the center of the gathering is Dongjiang Province, one of the three southeastern provinces."

Upon hearing those four words, Wu You immediately recalled the scenes from the last Cleansing Furnace operation! And those wild ability users who colluded with the Corpse Species!

Wu You simply refused to believe that this sudden "gathering" had nothing to do with them!

"Those damned bastards..." He gritted his teeth and went over these words in his mind, but quickly suppressed his emotions.

Dwelling on his emotions won't help; what he needs now is usable information and feasible solutions.

"Do you have any solutions?" Wu You asked directly.

With such a major event occurring, it's impossible that the Lords of the Underworld, whose projections are present in various deep dark realms, are unaware of what's happening. However, the deep dark realms are still being 'aggregated' and dragged along, indicating that the Lords of the Underworld may not be able to spare much power or have any effective way to stop this 'aggregation'.

Neither of these situations is ideal.

The hoarse voice in his mind paused for a moment: "I have given you a special ritual that can terminate that 'aggregation' ritual."

"But now, it seems it's too late."

So, the "aggregation" ritual—is this "aggregation" achieved through some kind of ritual?

Wu You absorbed the information, but then realized it was no longer of any use.

After all, even the God of Beasts said it was too late, which means that the time window from the start to the completion of the "aggregation" ritual will be very short, or that the ritual He gave out to stop it will take time.

Wu You paused, then spoke again, but only got halfway through his sentence: "You are not a god—"

Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by the hoarse voice: "I can't make a move right now, it would expose my presence."

His speech was half a beat faster than before, very crisp, as if he didn't want Wu You to have any other bad thoughts.

"Coming to the Deep Dark Realm was already a huge risk for me."

"I will not intervene unless you face an unavoidable life-or-death crisis."

He will not intervene unless He encounters an unavoidable life-or-death crisis.

Wu You frowned slightly.

Before he could figure out how to respond, the voice added, its tone making no attempt to conceal the implication that it meant, "I know exactly what you're up to."

"You don't need to think about how to force me to take action. If necessary, I will directly take over your body."

As soon as he said that, Wu You's brows furrowed even more.

He knew that since the God of Beasts had chosen to bind with him, he would definitely not take any countermeasures.

As he said this, the God of Beasts added, his tone slightly more relaxed than before: "Of course, I know this will greatly affect our relationship."

"I don't want it to come to that."

Wu You remained silent for a few moments: "Then now, what can I do to slow down or stop this so-called 'convergence'?"

The hoarse voice remained silent for longer than before, and Wu You could almost sense that He was weighing something: "The only way now is to block those ritual nodes in your world."

"But now, the space is fluctuating violently, and there's no way to return to your world for the time being."

"Unless the aggregation is terminated, or—"

"The aggregation is now complete."

Wu You retorted, "So you mean there's nothing I can do right now?"

The hoarse voice replied, "At present, yes."

As the answer landed, another wave of tremors swept through the surroundings, more stable and sustained than ever before, as if something was steadily moving in one direction, pulling everything attached to its surface along with it.

Elder Wei, Zhu Yuanzhi, and the other ninth-rank torchbearers had also withdrawn their gaze from the strange phenomenon of the moving black sun in the sky, and all eyes turned to Wu You in the center.

Feeling the gazes of the crowd, Wu You organized the information that the God of Beasts had told him and relayed it to everyone.

He spoke as concisely as possible—only including the scope of the aggregation, the center of the aggregation, the current predicament, and so on.

However, during this process, Wu You discovered something peculiar.

So, after reaching the Transcendent Realm, the phenomenon of being unable to look directly at him due to the outward manifestation of divinity was temporarily suppressed? Even Wang Qi and Gongsun Baizhan, who were slightly weaker, could look directly at him now?

Wu You guessed in his heart: It must be the change brought about by the return to the true nature of mind after reaching the Tongming Realm?

However, the situation is not good now, and he has no mood to think about it in detail.

After he finished speaking, the faces of the row of people standing opposite him had different expressions, but the solemnity in their eyes was the same.

Zhu Yuanzhi sighed, the wrinkles on his square face deepening as he spoke in a deep, forceful voice: "Is there nothing we can do?"

Old Wei did not sigh.

He stood there for a moment, pondering: "The situation is still unknown, we cannot afford to panic."

Then he turned to Zhu Yuanzhi and the others: "Zhu Yuanzhi, you continue to coordinate the defensive formation within the stronghold."

"Zhao Xuan, you will all return to your respective areas and follow instructions."

After giving a few simple instructions, Old Wei turned his gaze back to Wu You, his tone lower than before: "Xiao You, come with me."