I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
Chapter 472 - 472 471. Congratulations on being born_1

Chapter 472: 471. Congratulations on being born_1 Chapter 472: 471. Congratulations on being born_1 “Congratulations on being born.”

Feng Yu watched as Lu Ban gradually turned into a mist of grey and bandages; her body began to heal, returning to its original form. Then, a gust of sandstorm swept over Feng Yu’s body, wrapping it and transforming her into a creature similar to the Bandaged People.

“The air here contains strong toxins, so strong that even cockroaches from Earth would struggle to survive more than five seconds.”

Feng Yu stretched out her hand as if to caress the grey-white mist.

“The structure of this fog is not made of molecules known to humans but is composed of some sort of flowing, wriggling particles. By resonating with the grey fog, the inhabitant here can control it, absorbing these particles and integrating them into their body. The earliest Jeramaidian lifeforms were primitive insects, which continuously devoured, evolved, fused, and upgraded until a variety of animals appeared. Only when the Jeramaidians were born did true civilization emerge in this place.”

The visibility in the grey fog was extremely low, with nothing visible beyond two meters; further out lay pitch darkness, without sunlight or sky, the whole world shrouded in a chaotic ambiguity.

“There are two main differences between Jeramaidians and the common creatures here. First is the bandages on their bodies. This condensed fog tissue not only has a stronger organizational structure than that of other fog creatures but also makes Jeramaidians exceptionally sensitive, allowing them to perceive the world around them.”

Listening to Feng Yu, Lu Ban calmed his mind, and soon, he could visualize the scenery around in his mind’s eye.

This was a plain, covered in dense fog that enveloped the entire ground. There were no visible plants to the naked eye, though some fog gathered near the ground, shifting in density and forming shapes akin to those made by moving animals.

Lu Ban could sense the composition of this grey fog, and he quickly had a thought.

This was air polluted.

The pollution mentioned here wasn’t like carbon emissions or excess sulfur; instead, the air was “Contaminated.” The air in Misty City was like a living creature, entering the body with every breath, gradually Corroding the lungs, various bodily organs, and ultimately causing Mutation in living beings.

Lu Ban did not know what this world was like initially, but clearly, Pollution descended upon this place from its inception, altering the course of the entire world thereafter.

If He Dao and Night Country were ordinary worlds that fell piece by piece due to the invasion of Pollution, then Misty City was clearly a mudflower blooming from Pollution itself.

It also made sense of the composition of the creatures here.

The denser the creature, the more fog it contained, and the stronger its Pollution.

And in the Foreign Domain, only Pollution could fight against Pollution.

“Listen.”

Feng Yu suddenly grabbed Lu Ban.

Lu Ban listened carefully and could feel the vibrations within the grey fog.

The entire land began to tremble.

It was a long, whale-like singing sound, a deep bellow. Through the grey fog vision, Lu Ban could see something fluttering in the sky hundreds of kilometers away.

He could only see a massive shadow stirring the grey fog slowly, sparking a storm big enough to cover the entirety of Jiangcheng. The presence of that entity made the fog restless and turbulent, smashing numerous nearby soaring creatures to smithereens, reducing them to the most basic particles.

In the sky, hundreds of kilometers away, a catastrophe unfolded in silence.

“That’s quite a fish,” Lu Ban remarked, but Feng Yu laughed.

“What you’re seeing is not a fish.”

She pointed into the void.

“That’s just its fin,” she said.

It was only then that Lu Ban realized, somehow, daylight had broken.

The casual movement that could plunge an entire city into catastrophe was merely the fin of this gigantic creature. Its body, vast and sky-obscuring, plunged the entire region into darkness.

As the other left, Lu Ban felt the surroundings lighten a bit. More grey mist creatures emerged from their hiding, making the land teem with “vitality.”

“The earth’s crust here is very thin, possibly thinner than the moon’s, but the atmosphere is thick, exceeding 8,000 kilometers, which is over the standard for Earth. The Jeramaidians’ cities are located above the clouds,” Feng Yu said as she began to float.

“I haven’t spent much time in this foreign domain and only know a few major cities. The one closest to us should be the Primordial Cloud Sea, one of the first cities established by the Jeramaidians. It’s about a thousand kilometers away; we should get there after a flight of that length.”

Lu Ban followed Feng Yu’s steps and levitated. He found that moving through this mist felt effortless, like a fish in water, and he was extremely fast, soon breaking the sound barrier.

For the Bandaged People, their movement is more like a process of engulfment, absorbing the mist ahead by contact and jetting out the grey mist from behind. The speed of the whole process depended on how quickly they engulfed the mist. Therefore, the more powerful the Bandaged Person, the faster their speed and strength.

Of course, Lu Ban had no way to determine exactly how the physical rules worked here, but he felt that universal principles probably didn’t differ much in this world.

They flew for a while, with Lu Ban lacking any reference for time and unsure of how long it had been when he finally sensed a massive barrier ahead.

To call it a barrier was really just to say it was a thicker patch of grey mist.

The mist formed a colossal city. Outside the city, countless Bandaged People circled, while inside, just in the area that Lu Ban could sense, there were more than hundreds of thousands of Bandaged People.

And that was just the tip of the iceberg.

If so many Bandaged People chose to invade other foreign domains, leveraging their toxic mist and their combat abilities within it, a world like Lu Ban’s would struggle to resist. If any survived, a large proportion would die unluckily.

This was not Lu Ban’s paranoia; it was something that had already happened.

Lu Ban thought they should get a taste of the amusement park themselves.

When they got within a few kilometers of the city, Lu Ban and Feng Yu stopped.

Bandaged People occasionally passed by, but nobody paid any attention to them.

Lu Ban pulled out the [Mysterious Amusement Park] from within himself.

In an instant, the amusement park expanded rapidly, forming a cloud city enshrouded in mist with a three-dimensional structure.

Lu Ban entered the amusement park and saw that here the staff had also taken on appearances similar to the Bandaged People. As for the Time Worms, they too had become some sort of benign and endearing creatures surrounded by grey mist.

Because weirdness is the rule, and the rule doesn’t rely on any form of manifestation, when the weirdness arrived in this foreign domain, it quickly adapted to the local ecology, turning into a playground for Misty City.

Lu Ban and Feng Yu came out of the amusement park. They didn’t stay there to wait for the catch because, according to the amusement park’s features, it would attract others to come and play.

All they needed to do was wander around this world and wait for the harvest to come.