Chapter 359

The chaos storm finally arrived over the flesh forest.

The direction of gravity began to change randomly; Luo En felt himself being pulled toward the sky one moment and pressed toward the ground the next.

Even more terrifying was the visual distortion; the scenes he saw began to show multiple overlapping images, with the same object appearing in different positions simultaneously.

"This is the true power of a natural apostle..."

Luo En maintained his balance amidst the chaos while observing the storm's operating mechanism: "Direct rewriting of the fundamental rules of reality..."

He activated "Whispers of the Star-Eater," allowing his consciousness to establish a more stable connection with the stars.

The cold power of the stars stabilized his mental state like an anchor, allowing him to maintain clear judgment in this extreme environment.

Euphemia's situation was much worse.

Although her blood demons had evolved, they still could not fully resist the erosion of chaos.

That powerful blood demon began to undergo strange changes.

Its limbs were slowly melting, but at the same time, new limbs were growing from its torso.

"No!" Euphemia desperately tried to stabilize the blood demon's state through their bloodline connection.

But under such intense chaotic erosion, her efforts were like a drop in the bucket.

"Stop your useless struggle!" Luo En's voice pierced through the roar of chaos and reached her ears:

"In a chaos storm, any mandatory control will only accelerate collapse! Let it dissipate naturally!"

Upon hearing this advice, a painful struggle flashed in Euphemia's eyes.

This blood demon was a combat force she had spent huge costs to cultivate; giving it up like this was truly hard to accept.

But reason told her that Luo En's judgment was correct.

"I understand..." She gritted her teeth and actively severed the bloodline connection with the blood demon.

The blood demon, having lost its master's support, was immediately swallowed whole by the chaos; its screams echoed in the storm before gradually dissipating into nothingness.

But just when Euphemia thought she too would be swallowed by the storm, a strong hand grabbed her wrist.

"Hold on tight." Luo En's voice sounded exceptionally clear amidst the chaos: "I'll take you out."

Whenever they encountered particularly dangerous areas, he could always sense them in advance and find a path around them.

"How did you do that?"

Euphemia couldn't help but ask:

"I've seen many veterans walking in the abyss, but no one can adapt to a chaotic environment like you..."

"Observe, learn, adapt."

Luo En's answer was concise and efficient:

"Although chaos seems disorderly, it actually follows higher-level laws. The key is to understand it from the correct perspective."

The two struggled forward in the chaos storm, the surrounding scenery constantly changing.

Sometimes they would see scenes from other timelines—the same forest, but in different states.

In some timelines, the flesh forest became a forest made of crystal;

In some timelines, this place was a barren desert;

And in other timelines, the entire area was covered by some massive mechanical structure.

"These are all parallel worlds that could exist..."

Luo En observed as he walked, his understanding of the essence of the chaos storm deepening:

"The power of a natural apostle can not only distort the current reality but also allow other possibilities to manifest briefly..."

This realization gave him a brand-new assessment of Nari's abilities.

If one could learn this power, or at least understand its operating principles...

After a difficult trek, the two reached a relatively safe area.

At this point, there wasn't much distance left to the boundary between the fourth and fifth layers.

"Thank you..." Euphemia panted, a bit more gratitude in her eyes as she looked at Luo En, "If it weren't for you, my outcome definitely wouldn't have been very good."

Although she wouldn't necessarily die in the abyss just like that, once completely lost in the storm, the cost of getting out would be high...

And suffering damage to her own strength meant a drop in her status in the eyes of "Father," which was the thing she feared most.

After all, if there was Experimental Subject No. 18, there could be a No. 19... Her existence was not indispensable to the King of Blood.

"Don't thank me." Luo En didn't know the complex psychological activities of the other party, simply responding:

"I just didn't want to waste a useful pawn."

He pointed in a direction in the distance:

"The passage to the fifth layer is over there; go complete your mission now. Remember, just create enough chaos; don't push yourself."

Euphemia looked into the distance, then back at the chaos storm still raging behind her, an indescribable emotion welling up in her heart.

"What about you?" she couldn't help but ask, "Where are you going?"

"I have my own things to do." Luo En didn't offer much explanation, "After completing the mission, wait for my news at the observation station."

Having said that, he turned and walked toward the center of the chaos storm, that terrifying death whirlpool.

Under Euphemia's shocked gaze, Luo En's figure disappeared into the twisted space, as if he had never existed at all.

"Monster..." she muttered to herself, then turned and flew toward the territory of the Blood-Tear Archduke.

………………

"The rendezvous point is just ahead."

On the other side, Luo En stopped and looked at a relatively stable area ahead.

A massive bone platform stood silently surrounded by the chaos storm, like the last refuge in a tempest.

"Less than ten thousand meters away..."

Luo En felt the state of the substitute puppet through their mental link; the resonance had become clearer than ever before.

He could feel the puppet inside some massive existence, surrounded by warm liquid, like an unborn fetus.

A strange scent began to permeate the air.

It was the fishy, salty smell of the deep sea, mixed with some ancient and primitive life aura.

As this scent intensified, the entire platform began to tremble slightly.

It wasn't the disorderly vibration caused by the chaos storm, but a more orderly, more massive heartbeat.

Thump... thump... thump...

Each heartbeat struck Luo En's chest like a heavy hammer, causing his own blood to flow along with that rhythm involuntarily.

The water level rose slowly, and when it reached the height of Luo En's knees, a terrifying figure that countless explorers feared finally emerged from the depths of the darkness.

Nari, the "Eye of the Abyss."

Even though he had already learned about this existence through various materials.

But when witnessing it with his own eyes, Luo En still felt a deep shock from his biological instincts.

It wasn't "big" in the ordinary sense, but a way of existence that transcended understanding.

Nari's body cruised slowly through the seawater like a moving continent; its skin was a strange material somewhere between organic and inorganic matter.

The surface was covered with countless eyes of varying sizes—the smallest like walnuts, the largest like palaces—each emitting light of different colors.

Luo En could feel that every time an eye looked at him, a tentacle of consciousness probed into the depths of his mind.

It was trying to read his memories, emotions, and even thoughts in his subconscious.

What was truly impressive was that massive face surrounded by countless tentacles.

Unlike the ferocious and terrifying nature of other abyssal apostles, Nari's face carried a counter-intuitive sense of kindness.

But this kindness was tinged with an indescribable eeriness.

Because that face was too big—big enough to swallow a city.

When such a massive existence displayed maternal tenderness, it instead produced a surreal sense of horror.

"I felt it..."

Nari's voice didn't travel through the air but sounded directly in the depths of Luo En's consciousness.