Dimensional Hotel-Chapter 554: Rotting Transformation

Yu Sheng cautiously led Hu Li and Erin to the place near the end of the fractured staircase, raising his head to observe the huge rift covering the end of the Tower. Erin nervously hid at Yu Sheng’s feet, grabbing his pant leg with one hand and a segmented piece with the other, trying to poke the unstable space near the rift.

... It’s unclear whether she’s being timid or reckless.

The gigantic Space Rift displayed a dizzying array of chaotic colors in view, as if distant starlight had passed through layers of distortion before projecting onto a fractured glass surface. Surrounding the rift were countless small and large fragments, with new ones constantly separating from the rift and existing ones disintegrating in mid-air. A low buzzing sound echoed in the ears, weak and hollow.

Hu Li thought for a moment and pulled a tail to toss across the rift.

The silver-white fox tail burst forth in mid-air with a bright propulsive flame, instantly whizzing past the rift.

"Savior, the connection to the tail broke," Hu Li turned his head to look at Yu Sheng, "But I’ve set it to fly back by itself ten seconds after the connection is broken—unless it’s destroyed."

Erin was shocked: "Goddamn it, your tail can be programmed!? With an offline mode? I thought once launched it was done..."

Hu Li immediately put her hands on her hips: "A tail is not such a trivial thing!"

Yu Sheng also wanted to make a sarcastic remark, but before he could, he caught sight of a flash of fire in his peripheral vision, followed by a silver-white fox tail spewing propulsive flames emerging from the rift—it veered toward the nearby black wall but regained connection with its owner halfway, stabilizing immediately and returning to Hu Li.

The demon fox girl raised her hand, grabbed the tail, extinguished the flame, and blew on it briefly before casually sticking it back among her pile of tails.

Yu Sheng stared blankly at the scene, finally unable to hold in: "... So if it doesn’t explode when launched, it can be reinstalled!?"

"Yep~" Hu Li nodded enthusiastically, "Why waste it? It’s worth several drumsticks."

Luna watched the scene and nodded with approval: "Yes, indeed."

Yu Sheng: "..."

He patted his forehead, forcing himself to ignore these minor details, and turned to look at the rift.

Let’s put the tail matter aside; at least Hu Li’s probe indicated that the other side of the rift is relatively safe—not a destructive environment where nothing survives.

On high alert, Yu Sheng gingerly took the lead, stepping out toward the end of the fractured staircase, with Erin, Hu Li, and Luna following closely behind.

Passing through the rift, there was a brief feeling of weightlessness, followed by a short period of sensory confusion and reorganization. The process lasted only two or three seconds before Yu Sheng felt as if he had "fallen" from somewhere, his body swaying, almost stumbling.

The next second, the scene before Yu Sheng stabilized, and what he saw took his breath away:

He stood atop a high mountain, its entire peak flattened, while a grand yet dilapidated ancient divine temple sat atop the flattened mountain peak. The temple had towering columns lined up, crumbling domes falling amidst ruins, once-majestic arches and beams shattered into fragments like jagged skeletons pointing towards the high sky.

Everything was just as he had seen again and again in Illusions and memory fragments!

Yu Sheng lifted his head again, seeing above him no sun, moon, or stars. The vast and boundless sky was filled only with countless chaotic blobs, a dim source-less celestial light permeating the entire space, and the "mountain" beneath their feet seemed to be the only foothold in this space, with no earth below. From the mountainside down were only floating debris after fragmentation.

The rift connecting to the World Bridge was crookedly standing in mid-air on one side of the mountaintop, like a giant scar, obliquely embedded on the summit.

"Is this the situation at the ’other end’ of the World Bridge?" Erin almost instantly jumped onto Yu Sheng’s shoulder, still tightly clutching the spider leg in one hand, while vigorously hugging Yu Sheng’s head with the other. Her small body tensed a bit, not knowing why, this place made her feel particularly anxious, a complex emotion of nostalgia and fear almost filled her already not-so-bright little mind, "Is this considered the ’Tower Top’? Or are we teleported to ’Black Star’?"

"The World Bridge doesn’t have a fixed ’other end’, it’s essentially a spatial passage. Only when a connection is established does its end collapse to a specific location," Yu Sheng gently patted the little Puppet’s leg, soothing her while explaining, "This is where it connected the last time it activated, so it’s still connected. Three thousand seven hundred years ago, the Omen Goddess set out from here. As for whether this is ’Black Star’... I’m uncertain, it doesn’t quite fit Yuan Hao’s description to me."

Just then, a low rumbling sound interrupted Yu Sheng.

Everyone’s hearts tightened instantly, and Luna blinked and switched to combat mode, instantly teleporting in front of Yu Sheng and raising her hand to point in a certain direction at the temple center: "Radar, there’s a reaction!"

Fox Fire erupted around Hu Li, "buzzing" several times as eight tails soared into the sky, burning with fierce ghostly blue flames that encircled everyone, and almost simultaneously, Yu Sheng also witnessed the changes at the center of the divine temple—

Amidst the collapsed ruins, a massive invisible curtain was slowly tearing apart, the barrier set by ancient puppets three thousand seven hundred years ago faded away, and the ancient remnants hidden beneath the barrier were finally revealed to all. It was a massive black remnant—having lost its original form, lost all former divine and lofty postures, leaving only a bizarre remnant mixed with humanoid and deformed limbs, piled like a mountain at the peak!

This was the last fragment left by the shattered Omen Goddess at this "point of departure," the "relic" that remained after Erin merged with the Alien God long ago—all vitality and will had already dissipated from this corpse, even to the point where only a heap of black shadows remained. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

Yet upon seeing this heap of shadows, Yu Sheng instantly realized the severity of the situation—his vision was distorted by the piled remnants, a massive buzzing noise filled his ears, the enormous "knowledge" was crammed into his mind before he could digest it, he saw the edges of shadows flowing, dissolving, and viscous as mud continued peeling off the surface of this "Divine Corpse," spreading throughout the ruins, permeating incessantly.

Amidst the thunderous roar stirred by "knowledge," Yu Sheng understood the unfolding events here.

The Gods are decaying.

Rotten pus falls from the gods’ corpses to the mortal world.

The sticky shadows that eroded the Black Stone Space Station, the monsters continuously falling along the World Bridge into the Boundary Land, all came from here.

Yu Sheng felt the arm that was holding his head tightening.

"I C..." Erin murmured, her small body tensing further, "The trouble seems a bit big, no, did I really fight this thing back then?!"

"Don’t mention back then," Yu Sheng’s sense of unease grew stronger, and his Spiritual Intuition began bouncing, "I feel a murderous intent... this place seems to be unfriendly to us!"

As if to confirm Yu Sheng’s judgment, no sooner had he finished speaking than the massive remnants in the divine temple ruins began to change—the viscous shadows flowing from around the Divine Corpse suddenly seemed to scent the prey, and then all shadows spreading throughout the ruins began writhing uneasily, layers of low murmurs and noises sounded from all directions, followed by numerous shadows advancing towards where Yu Sheng and the others stood!

"Here they come!"

Yu Sheng shouted, and the next second he heard the dense explosions of Fox Fire in his ears. Eight floating "Fox Travel Cannons" had already opened fire fiercely, a barrage of dense Foxfire Barrage unleashed upon the shadows continuously pouring out of the divine temple.

Suddenly ghostly blue flames spread all around, the soaring fire wall crazily expanded in the ruins, the viscous muddy shadows emitted rolling smoke under the broiling of Fox Fire, disintegrating and dissipating in large batches—yet the whole process merely delayed for a moment, more shadows crossed the weak gaps between fire walls and charged fiercely!

Countless twisted and chaotic forms stood up from the shadows like black tides.

Yu Sheng could hardly distinguish what those twisted-to-the-extreme things were, yet the noise of "knowledge" still echoed in his mind, amidst the roaring noise, information washed over him like a tide over and over—

These are artisans and scholars;

Those are soldiers and monks;

And some are trees, stones, the wind blowing past the divine temple in the evening, and the clear springs flowing through the mountains;

Also, the wonderful stories from ancient times, and the prayers of believers during morning devotions.

A floating, dilating, wriggling object rushed from the flames, enveloping thick smoke, shrieks, and the stench of decay, charging right toward Yu Sheng.

An elegant figure darted up without hesitation, Luna’s form lightly spun in the air, like a butterfly dancing, in the blink of an eye, shattered that wriggling object into countless fragments, flaming fireballs and burning dust scattered behind her like a luxurious long gown.

That was the blue sky above the old mother planet—a long, long time ago, in the era before the omen was born, in days when the sky hadn’t carried those dark red streaks, people had seen such skies, later conveyed by word of mouth about that clear and pure sky.

The young god heard the story of blue skies from the believers’ tales, and engraved it deep within memory—until those memories associated with blue skies decayed alongside Him, turning into the pus now scattered across the world.

Contamination is spreading, the first batch of deformed wriggling creatures rushed out from the viscous shadows were eliminated, yet their fragments floated down, merged into the mountain, and flowed back to the center of the divine temple, gathering once more from the surface of the Divine Corpse, hissing, coming forth again.