"Okay, thank you for your time, Senior." Grey thanked the Immortal Lady quickly. What if she got offended by how many questions he was asking and decided to slap him out of existence? "Now please revert the time back. I'm sure others will notice the fact that time is frozen in Nova City, especially those Tiger Claw Gang bunch in the Outer Ring."
"Don't worry about it." The Immortal Lady said with a yawn. "No one will sense it or even know that time was ever stopped."
"Senior, I'm sure stopping time is spending a lot of energy. I believe we should end this conversation here today and revert time back." Grey said cautiously.
"That's not an issue either." The Immortal Lady had an arrogant look on her face. "Someone at my level doesn't even need to spend an ounce of energy to bend the natural flow of the world, let alone a small portion of it. I can keep the time here frozen forever if I want to, and nobody will ever notice it either."
"…" Grey was shaken. Turns out, this Senior was more powerful than he expected. And it looked like this Senior didn't plan on letting him leave just yet.
"Okay, now that I've revealed information to you, it's your turn now." The Immortal Lady said. "How are you fine after having heavenly tribulation in your system? No—how did you even come in contact with it?"
"I was struck by lightning when I was transforming into an evolver." Grey revealed. "I just used a special technique to contain the heavenly tribulation from that to study it later." Of course, there were no techniques here. It was purely just his Nexus energy surpassing it. It could do nothing to him as long as the energy of perfection existed.
"Struck by lightning?" The Immortal Lady had a flabbergasted expression on her face. "You—how are you already undergoing heavenly tribulation while being only a 1st Rank Evolver? What did you do to provoke the all-powerful Heaven?!"
"I wonder." Grey said with a helpless smile. He couldn't just reveal the fact that it was because he did something that could essentially be considered the biggest taboo in Heaven's book of taboos.
"You don't even cultivate a Primordial Evolutionary Path. Just a martial artist. Then how…?" The more she tried to make sense of Grey, the more confusing it became.
"No, you're not a martial artist." She suddenly narrowed her eyes as she examined Grey closely. "You give off True Energy from your body, but it feels like an imitation."
Grey's heart skipped a beat, but he tried not to show anything on his face.
"Are you really a martial artist?" The Immortal Lady asked suspiciously. "The fact your energy actually negated my probing also makes it hard for me to believe that it's True Energy."
"I'm sorry." Grey sighed and spoke. "Please don't ask anything about my evolutionary path. It cannot be revealed to anyone at all cost."
"Fine." The Immortal Lady nodded. "Since you don't want to talk about your evolutionary path, then it's fine. I won't ask you any further."
Grey nodded silently. This Senior was surprisingly understanding. He thought higher level beings would be extremely unreasonable and assertive.
"One last question, and I hope you answer this truthfully." The Immortal Lady said. "Are you an ally to this world?"
The Immortal Lady asked with a light flashing in her eyes. "I've encountered many special people like you in my long life, and in the end, all of them fell to the darkness. The Abyss. Becoming the very thing that they sought to destroy."
"The Abyss?" A shocked expression appeared on Grey's face. "Senior, are you talking about 'The Abyss'? The corruption fields?"
"You know about the Abyss?" The Immortal Lady was even more shocked. "The information about the Abyss definitely isn't something people in this world know about. It's so tightly sealed, Eterna didn't allow any information about it to leak." She looked at Grey as if waiting for an answer.
"I saw someone creating a corruption field in the Outer Ring last week." Grey spoke. "I don't exactly know how he managed to create a corruption field, but it did happen, and when I entered the corruption field, I was able to sense the abyssal energy from the Necro Star before it fused with the cosmic energy of the world and created the corruption energy."
"What? Create a corruption field?" The Immortal Lady's eyes became deathly cold when she heard this. "It looks like the Abyss has already made direct contact with the Blue Star's people."
"The situation is worse than I thought." A grim look appeared on her face.
"Senior, what exactly is the Abyss? Is it a different world?" Grey had his own theories, and he decided to ask it directly.
"You could call it that." The Immortal Lady said. "It's best to not have more knowledge of the Abyss. The more knowledge you have about it, the more chances of 'It' getting to you. Just thinking about the Abyss alone is more than enough for 'It' to notice you."
"…" Grey's eyes flashed with a grim light when he heard this.
"Just know that—The Abyss. It's your worst enemy. Countless die in the starry sky each day under the abominations emerging from the Abyss. It's the one true evil that will never stop until it has completely swallowed our world. The corruption fields are a way for them to steal the energy of our world for their own use while also slowly corrupting planets."
"They are world conquerors who will never stop until they completely wipe out everyone in our world. Everyone you know, everyone you don't."
"That's a lot of information." Grey said with a speechless smile. "I knew that the Abyss was an extremely evil place, but I didn't expect it to be this bad."
"This planet will also get swallowed." The Immortal Lady said as she shook her head. "I believe it is already too late. The Abyss's beings have already come in contact with humans of this world, with them creating corruption fields. It won't be long before the world becomes corrupted enough and a higher level being descends into this world from the Abyss."
"There are certain conditions for a higher level being from the Abyss to cross over due to the world consciousness constantly suppressing the Abyss, but once a world becomes corrupted, the barrier becomes easier to break."