Following the direction given by the Fire God Aesira, Qin Feng and Su Mumu had just stepped outside the range of Silver Moon City's defensive Divine Pattern when a familiar, sinister coldness washed over them.
It was the same Dark Energy found on the scales of the Evil Dragon Jinli and surrounding the Abyssal Apostles. It was as thick as undiluted ink, coiling around the edge of the distant forest. It collided with the holy radiance emanating from Silver Moon City, sparking fine, black-and-red bolts of lightning.
The Black Flame Forest before them was completely different from other areas of the Divine Domain. The giant trees, which should have had a gilded sheen, were now pitch-black. A viscous Dark Energy seeped from the cracked bark, as if the trees' very blood had been tainted.
