Heiress Unmasked: Shaking the World With Geomancy novel Chapter 2331

With the help of the golden light barrier, Shannon and the group maneuvered through the thick darkness. Even Albany dared not float on its own and clung onto Shannon's back instead.

It shuddered, saying, "This is it… This is the taste of the illusion barrier earlier, except that it's a hundred times worse here…"

It only swallowed a trace of the lingering illusion fog that had clung to the edge of the domain, and even that was nearly intolerable, let alone the fact that they were now standing right in the heart of it.

Lexie remarked, "I thought Vlad's core malice had been thoroughly stripped away. How is the Alternate Divine Power's domain this corrupted, still?"

What a pitch-black domain this was. Not just on the surface, but it was solid evil through and through.

Since having a domain of her own, Shannon had read extensively about various mind domains. She learned that every domain's original form reflected the inner self and the nature of its owner's power.

Her domain was shaped not only by her tenth tail power but also by the power of the Dragon Vein. Hence, it mirrored the vastness of mountains and rivers, and the essence of nature.

So, why was the Alternate Divine Power's domain like… this?

With questions in her heart, Shannon suddenly heard Albany weakly mutter behind her, "This place isn't corrupted by Vlad's malice."

The black smoke it had first absorbed was indeed born from Vlad's fragmented malice, yet no matter how much of that it had consumed, it had never felt the same sickening discomfort as it just had.

Therefore, Albany was certain that the corruption wasn't caused by Vlad's malice.

His theory only puzzled Lexie. "If not corruption from malice, then it can't possibly be this dark because it's his nature, right?"

Just as she finished asking, Shannon suddenly paused in her steps. The others followed her gaze and saw a faint glimmer of light emerging from the darkness ahead.

She was about to suggest they try to find a way to bring it out, but Shannon surmised, "If I'm right, this sapling… is the true form of the Alternate Divine Power."

She could feel it somewhere deep within that the Might of the Divine Power resonated with the sapling. The enlightened answer left her mouth before she could stop it, as if spoken by instinct.

Even if she didn't fully understand why, she felt deep in her subconscious that she had seen this sapling before.

If all the instincts Shannon had felt since entering the Alternate Divine Power's domain were right, perhaps she already understood why its domain had decayed into such a corrupted form.

"The catastrophes in the alternate world hadn't been suppressed by the Might of the Divine Power… From the start, they'd been completely absorbed into this domain."

The suffocating darkness that filled every inch of its domain wasn't born of malice but calamity itself.