No one knew what Qin Fengming had experienced in that short span of time. Even he himself seemed unaware of what had really happened just now.
However, just as Qin Fengming entered that cave and appeared within another Sumeru Space, taking steps forward as hurricanes that blotted out the heavens and earth surged skyward, Fairy Ruo Jing, who had been staring intently at the scroll, suddenly underwent a drastic change of expression.
Astonishment was the sole emotion revealed in the eyes of the Mahayana female cultivator at that moment.
In that short span of time, Fairy Ruo Jing's astonished expression had appeared several times already—more often than it had appeared on the female cultivator's face over countless years combined.
And now, the astonishment on Fairy Ruo Jing's face was far more intense than when she had first seen Qin Fengming standing at the cave entrance.
Following Fairy Ruo Jing's gaze, one would see that a dense layer of rippling light had now appeared on the scroll before her.
That layer of rippling light was extremely strange, as though a layer of clear water had surfaced atop the scroll. Amid the surging waves, strands of tiny sigils, almost invisible to the naked eye, emerged within the water.
The sigils flickered one after another, like slender, living soft-bodied worms tumbling and swimming through the waves.
Previously, Fairy Ruo Jing had been able to clearly see the various points of light within the Sumeru painting, but now, hidden beneath the water, they had become invisible.
Such a sudden change naturally made it impossible for Fairy Ruo Jing, who controlled and refined this scroll, to remain calm.
She had personally entered the painting's Sumeru Space before. Although she had been unable to control that Sumeru Space, as the person who controlled the scroll, she