With Bai Huo leading the way, everyone soon reached the top of the Spirit Realm Bell Tower.
This towering structure floating in the void had now recovered from its former distortion in space-time. The dark shadows that had once covered the entire tower had also completely faded after the God-Slaying Sword was removed. Ancient runes, intricate and mysterious, once again showed across its surface. Pale golden and red divine script covered the tower, causing the bizarre structure to radiate a constant, faint glow in the darkness.
The top of the tower, however, had been destroyed in the God-Slaying War ten thousand years ago. Although the Spirit Realm Bell Tower was the best-preserved of the many structures in Corpus Space, that was only relative. Under the God-slaying War, nothing could remain truly intact. After the tower's spire was blasted apart, the hall that had originally stood at the summit became a semi-open upper platform, while the shattered building fragments floated all around it like an asteroid belt.
Hao Ren landed on the platform at the top of the tower and looked around. Countless irregular chunks of broken stone floated around the platform's edge, while overhead stretched that vast starry sky that could be seen but never reached. The place felt almost like standing in the middle of the universe. He lightly stamped his foot and sensed that the gravity here was less than one-third of normal, and somewhat skewed in direction.
"Look, there's nothing here." Bai Huo landed beside Hao Ren and pointed around them. "Only broken walls and ruins. Be careful of those shadows floating in the air. They can suddenly produce gravity storms. Get too close, and you might be flung away—or crushed to the ground, unable to move."
Ten meters away, Lily had been pinned to the ground