Hao Ren stood amid the ruins of an old, dilapidated palace. The collapsed corridor pillars and shattered palace walls gradually overlapped with fragments of the scenes in his memory. At first, he had only confirmed that the palace's style matched what he had seen in the Golden Disc's illusion, proving that these palaces were buildings from the Founding Star. But as his memories grew clearer, he realized the situation was far more complicated than that.
He looked at the spot beneath his feet, then raised his head to examine the two decorative pillars nearest him. A horrifying realization struck him: he was standing in exactly the same place as in the illusion from the past, without the slightest difference!
Hao Ren turned around and saw a completely collapsed wall behind him. Beyond it lay an endless expanse of dark space. He remembered clearly that when he had entered the God Slayer illusion, this very wall had slowly collapsed before his eyes.
"Hao Ren?" Vivian noticed the change in his gaze and asked with concern, "What's wrong?"
"When I entered the illusion back then, I was standing here. It was this palace, and up ahead..." Hao Ren looked toward the distance. His heart stirred, and he broke into a run. "The place where the Goddess was assassinated is up ahead!"
The scarred decorative pillars, crooked and fractured relief walls, and towering palace Door leaves swept rapidly behind him like phantoms. Hao Ren sprinted toward the direction from his memories. In that instant, it was as if he had returned to the scene from the God Slayer illusion. The empty, ruined palace filled again with the fierce Guardian Giants battling, the splendid and mighty traitorous children who had turned against their mother, the blazing flames, and the building fragments continuously collapsing from