Passing through that mysterious portal, a flash of light blinded everyone's eyes, and after a dizzying spin, they found themselves in a strange and exotic realm. The sky here was a dazzling purple-pink, as though a painter had recklessly smeared it with the most intense colors. Heavy clouds resembled giant masses emitting a faint, luminescent glow, slowly shifting and colliding, merging and occasionally bursting with blinding flashes of light, as if a silent, fierce battle were raging deep within the clouds.
The ground beneath their feet was a stretch of barren, scorched earth, from whose cracked fissures pungent smoke periodically erupted. The smoke rose in wisps, twisting and turning in the air to assume bizarre shapes, some like ferocious demons, others like souls struggling in agony. In the distance, rolling mountain ranges appeared in an eerie cyan-black, their rocky surfaces jagged and sharp peaks piercing the vault of the heavens, resembling the ferocious, giant claws of the earth reaching out to tear apart that brilliant yet oppressive sky.
Xu Tiancai looked around vigilantly, Starlight Power circulating slowly within him. He could sense a powerful and unfamiliar energy fluctuation permeating this space, an energy that seemed to be watching them, making his spine tingle slightly. "Everyone be careful; this place is full of anomalies. Let's not scatter too easily," Xu Tiancai said in a low voice, a hint of solemnity in his tone.
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