Su Qi had already arrived outside the room.

As soon as he stepped out, Su Qi looked up.

The space outside the room was filled with… all sorts of rotating gears adorned with various patterns.

And surrounding him,

were maze-like corridors, with the white walls of the passages smooth and bright, forking off into more than a dozen branches.

"Now the main action is… to find the doors of the other rooms."

Su Qi gently touched each of the many passages with his finger, his expression somewhat serious.

Luo Shenfu paused slightly, observing Su Qi's gestures, and seemed to detect a chaotic disorder within the sweeping motions, although he did not sense the presence of Spiritual Energy, Su Qi's lips appeared as if murmuring something with unique significance.

He paused slightly, "Daozi, are you using traits or some other special abilities to probe?"

Having reached this place, one had to be cautious with every step.

He had seen too many geniuses, supernovas, each not only with immense strength but also at the pinnacle in terms of cunning, calculations, and the like. In short, their every move had its significance, and every action contained underlying thoughts.

And Daozi doing so was fine too.

"No."

Su Qi paused, then slowly stopped his finger amidst the chaos on one of the paths:

"I'm using 'eeny, meeny, miny, moe.'"

"This one it is."

"?"

Luo Shenfu was a bit dumbfounded, watching Su Qi stride confidently toward that corridor.

He took a deep breath and quietly consoled himself.

Daozi… is indeed a little different, and stepping back ten thousand paces, to act as one's heart desires… is also a form of great wisdom…

After Su Qi entered, what followed were winding, encircling pure white walls, occasionally spotting… framed paintings or other carvings on the walls, but they could not be touched or damaged.

Only to be observed.

And the contents above were mostly indescribable, eerie things, veiled in mist, black and white.

Although the place here looked different from what he had imagined.

However,

No matter how the imagery and rules for clearing here changed, how they presented themselves.

Su Qi believed, this was the final threshold leading to the Final Land.

At the same time,

Su Qi also constantly monitored the [Pollution Value] within his line of sight.

It had been fluctuating around four hundred, especially since he didn't know how many people had entered this door after the Dark Zone was opened.

The fluctuations became even more intense.

"It seems the outside world has officially started, and it's intense, and someone here must have touched upon new doors."

Su Qi quickly found a door.

This door… bore an air of innocence with doodled patterns on it, seeming like a pure and innocuous door, yet it always gave Su Qi a terrifyingly abnormal vibe.

"Lord Venerable Yi Jue."

The five followers said softly, "Please take this."

They summoned forth the Dark Scripture in unison, the scripture floating in the air, rapidly flipping through pages, and soon from within, a… heart fell out.

"What's this?"

Su Qi paused.

"The Rotten Heart." The followers grasped it and handed it to Su Qi, "Everything here will affect the Descent of the Abyss Power, and when it's completely decayed, the Dark Power of the Abyss will surge like a flood."

Understood.

The Abyss also had a set of methods to judge the Pollution Value.

And the standard in the Present World was… the World Tree Withered Leaf, the decayed leaves also indicating the Pollution Value.

These three characters, they were not just a mere set of numbers, each point representing earth-shattering changes.

So,

Before arrival, the best way to reduce the Pollution Value was to weaken and eliminate as much of the Abyss Power as possible.

And while Su Qi stood by the door, caressing a key in his hand, he was not in a hurry to insert it.

"What's the matter?"

Luo Shenfu inquired.

"I want to do an experiment."

Su Qi pulled out a white key and inserted it into the lock, and the door opened in response. After inserting the key, it could not be pulled out, seemingly acknowledged as consumed.

And standing in the doorway, looking inside… there was a misty layer of water vapor, like the iridescent film of bubbles when blowing them, covering the surface.

"See if you can enter."

The followers nodded; at this moment, they carried no keys.

And when they approached the film, about to step inside, suddenly… they were enveloped by a lethal, dangerous aura!

As if the moment they forcefully entered, they would encounter something terrible!

"Lord Yi Jue, it is impossible, I felt as if a hand gripped my heart just now."

Su Qi paused, "That figures, such flaws shouldn't exist."

He handed to each of them a white key, "You go in first and wait for me."

"Yes."

The followers didn't refuse. As long as the main objectives weren't affected, they typically wouldn't reject the Venerable's commands.

After all,

Every Venerable they served now could possibly carry... the power of Lord Evil God.

Su Qi watched them enter one by one.

With the door open, the film did not reject them this time, but their keys were consumed as they stepped through, transforming into white light.

"So, your experiment was… a bit too presumptuous." Luo Shenfu shook his head, "It's unlikely that there will be many flaws here, with all its otherworldly rules of a very high order."

"I, as the soul of a Demigod, also feel... suppressed, controlled."

Luo Shenfu proceeded to seriously analyze as well, since Daozi acted on a whim, as a Daoist Guardian he naturally couldn't slack off and had to be more vigilant, assisting Daozi in assessing the situation.