If not for the fairy leading the way, Hao Ren felt that even if he wandered around the crystal pillar layer for a hundred years, he would never have found the entrance to the deeper levels.
Because this entrance wasn't physical at all!
Guided by the fairy, the group arrived deep within the crystal jungle, where they found a lake that had already turned into solidified crystal. Before the power of Madness had spread here, this had once been the most vibrant habitat in the crystal jungle, with countless marvelous creatures and active energies gathering here. But now, the lake had seemingly frozen into a single solid crystal, while the empty ground along the shore held nothing but the remains of creatures that had turned into broken crystal fragments.
On the surface of the lake, frozen like a mirror, a beam of light shone over from a distant crystal pillar. It reflected off the lake and slanted upward toward the sky.
That was the road to Earth's core.
"Just follow this road upward!" the fairy said, gesturing animatedly over the holographic projection, her face full of pride. "You have to go upward to reach the Earth's core at the very bottom—aren't fairies' creative talents amazing?"
Hao Ren and his companions were dumbfounded. This was way beyond the issue of creativity, wasn't it? How could something like this even work?
Hao Ren didn't know what the others were thinking, but the first thing that came to mind was the joke about a drunkard climbing upward along the beam of a flashlight. Yet here, propelled by the fairies' unbelievable power, the joke had become reality.
The road to Earth's core really was a beam of light, and it was actually possible to climb upward along it...
"Are you sure we won't fall