At this moment, the Mist Palace was not much different overall from when it had first appeared. Smoke Mist flowed through it, and statues stood everywhere. Some were solid as iron, some lifelike, while others shifted with the flowing Smoke Mist, gathering and dispersing in an instant, each different yet alike.
Ronan was very familiar with most of the relatively clear figures in the palace. After all, they were things he had experienced himself.
Of course, there were exceptions. For example, the mass of shadow that had just gathered into shape, faintly revealing streams of dark flame within, corresponded to the Blood Prison King in the material world, whose very essence had already decayed. The connection was becoming clearer and clearer.
Ronan's gaze lingered on it for a moment before finally moving away.
All sorts of such figures appeared throughout the vast, open palace, unobstructed by any pillars. Some were even part of what supported the palace itself.
For example, the Magneto-Optical Mica, which had already assimilated with the Smoke Mist, constantly changing in size and scale while faintly echoing its real counterpart beyond.
Ronan had not been able to create such a rare object with the foundation of a Great Monarch merely by relying on the Fantasy School's materials. The examination process when he obtained the relevant permissions for the External Neuron, his extraordinary experience at the Relay Station, and the origin of this palace were all necessary elements.
The so-called origin of the palace was the monumental work Ronan had found in the External Neuron Database: the Lord of Zhanhe's Configuration, Faith and the Great Limit—the rational reconstruction of the historical evolution from "Obscurity" to "Dawn": the Magneto-Optical Mica section.
Ronan could not understand the writing within it. Even now that he had begun learning Ceremonial Ancient Script,