Gu Shanhai initially thought this world was targeted by the Abyss, with the entire world being pulled into the endless depths.
But then he thought again, in his previous life when this world was opened, it was already ten thousand years later, meaning that this world had never been swallowed by the Abyss, and instead was doing just fine, without any issues.
Moreover, the endless Abyss wouldn't be so tasteless. If it really set its sights on a world, it wouldn't invade like this; it would completely devour it.
"Could it be that a certain rebel faction got a hold of some things from the Abyss?"
The endless Abyss, being a vast existence, naturally tends to cast out all sorts of random things from time to time, just like those Plane Merchants, who are essentially proxies or agents of certain major forces.