[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-after-the-sky-fell":3,"chapter-after-the-sky-fell-after-the-sky-fell-chapter-867":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","After the Sky Fell",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2281723,4462,"Chapter 867: A Strange World","after-the-sky-fell-chapter-867",867,"\u003Cp>If possible, Li Yi still wanted to simply erase this bizarre building outright; he had no desire to deal with the supernatural—not because he feared ghosts, but because some supernatural phenomena made no sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This isn’t supernatural power—at least not residual from World 36. I’d never forget the scent of that world’s supernatural: cold, rotting, dark. But this place doesn’t feel like that.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yi paused for a brief observation, then reached a conclusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since overwhelming power couldn’t erase this place, the best course was to seal it off and forbid anyone from approaching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet out of curiosity, he wanted to enter the building and find out what was going on here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though curiosity kills, Li Yi believed—with his strength, past experience as a courier, and the ability to instantly cross dimensions via his immortal warship—he could never be trapped inside and unable to escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Forget it. Risking myself is unwise. Better to play it safe.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, Li Yi suppressed his curiosity—but he didn’t leave. Instead, he pointed a finger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A glow of his Primordial Spirit manifestation coalesced; surrounding cosmic energy gathered, forming a hazy human figure. Li Yi flicked his finger, and a drop of blood shot out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hazy figure rapidly solidified, becoming a living person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Divine Art: Body Division. Though not powerful, it inherits some of my strength—perfect for reconnaissance.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yi closed his eyes and began to meticulously control the clone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if the clone died, he’d merely lose a fraction of his Primordial Spirit energy—no real loss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once prepared,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yi’s consciousness guided the clone into the building, where every corner radiated strangeness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though it was daytime, the old building remained dim. As soon as he stepped inside, he felt utterly isolated—as if he were no longer in Tianchang City, but in some incomprehensible place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Nothing special.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yi guided the clone to circle the first floor. He found nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The problem must lie on one of the upper floors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He immediately climbed the worn staircase, soon reaching the second floor. But the second floor was normal too: two doors stood open, empty, filled with dust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed previous evolvers had already searched here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yi continued upward. The third floor also bore signs of prior inspection, so he didn’t waste time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as he neared the fourth floor, he suddenly stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who’s there?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yi shouted. Though it was only a clone’s voice, it echoed through the building like thunder, shaking the walls and sending dust cascading down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had just heard the sound of a chair moving—and footsteps—on the fourth floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was highly unusual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one could possibly be inside this building. Li Shaoqing had sealed it off long ago. Only evolvers who had accidentally wandered in might remain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that probability was extremely low.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Li Yi’s voice echoed, the person on the fourth floor gave no response.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the next moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yi’s form turned into lightning, piercing through the corridor, smashing through the door, and surging into the room on the fourth floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because it was a clone, he acted without restraint—no fear of dying here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet when Li Yi entered the room, he frowned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This room was utterly unlike the other abandoned ones below. It bore signs of habitation: a sofa, a TV, a dining table, and the floor was clean and tidy—as if regularly swept.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is the problem here? So the evolvers who came before vanished here?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yi’s gaze shifted to the dining table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Food remained on it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three bowls of white rice, three dishes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Braised fish, fried tofu, stir-fried greens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ordinary home-cooked meals—but they were cold, the rice dried out. This meant no one had eaten them—or perhaps they weren’t meant for the living at all, but as offerings to the dead, to spirits?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yi looked up at the dim lighting, then carefully scanned the rest of the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bathroom, kitchen, bedroom—all layouts were normal, like a typical household.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t understand.” He frowned, then took a deep breath and stomped his foot. Terrifying power erupted—countless silver lightning bolts shot from his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yi intended to use this clone to destroy the place. Whatever strange force was here—if it could be destroyed, then all problems would vanish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But such an act had happened here before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Previous evolvers who had wandered in had also tried to destroy this place—and all had failed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though this clone displayed considerable power, the result was the same as before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When his power was spent,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The room’s furnishings remained unchanged. His unleashed energy had failed to destroy anything—just as it had outside. This strange force was precisely why the building still stood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyone else would have lost patience—or found no solution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Li Yi was a courier by origin. When overwhelming power fails, you use your mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Something exists before me, yet cannot be destroyed—as if it belongs to another world. This resembles the supernatural. So… am I missing some medium?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then what is the medium in this room?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The light?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or water?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or did Li Yi’s gaze fix on the three bowls of rice?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a brief hesitation, he immediately pulled up a chair and sat at the table. But nothing unusual happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Li Yi, without hesitation, picked up a bowl and took a bite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Four Seas and Eight Continents, he recalled a legend: if a living person accidentally enters the underworld, they must not eat its food—otherwise, they will be forever trapped there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These meals weren’t meant for the living—they were meant for the dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By eating this rice, Li Yi’s body now carried some lingering aura or power—this, he believed, was the correct medium.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as he swallowed the bite, the surroundings seemed to shift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Things that had always been present—but invisible—now reappeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First came the corpses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dozens of desiccated bodies littered the floor, scattered haphazardly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Judging by their appearance, they were evolvers—trapped here, then concealed by this room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then sounds reached Li Yi’s ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though distant, he clearly heard them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The honking of car horns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this was not Tianchang City—Li Yi knew it too well. Tianchang City no longer had cars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stood instantly and rushed to the window, gazing outward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A foreign city—no, a foreign world—lay before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Did I just cross dimensions?” Li Yi frowned again.\u003C\u002Fp>",1052,"2026-06-20T01:27:08.613Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","df39cca76e792951b2ecf6fdedb42d0e0b1aea4a8f0dbc11b837823885ee262c","after-the-sky-fell-chapter-868","after-the-sky-fell-chapter-866",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fafter-the-sky-fell-cover.jpg"]