Fang Chen noticed that the paving stones on the street ahead were ordinary bluestone, nothing like the stones on the street he had just crossed.
He turned at once, only to find that the stones on the street behind him had also become ordinary bluestone.
"What was going on?"
Fang Chen's eyes narrowed. He immediately drew the Floating Immortal Sword lightly across a paving stone behind him.
Sss...
The Floating Immortal Sword sliced through the bluestone in an instant. The sword trembled, and a surge of Spiritual Power poured into Fang Chen's body. It was over a hundred times stronger than the energy he had absorbed when he had cut into the pavement earlier.
Fang Chen knew this was the power he had gained in return for cutting through the bluestone.
"Huh? Why did those special paving stones turn into bluestone?"
The myna bird looked surprised too.
Fang Chen frowned, deeply shaken. Glazed City was far too strange.
Carrying the Floating Immortal Sword, he retraced his steps for several hundred yards, but every stone on the street had become ordinary bluestone.
As he walked, Fang Chen realized that the buildings beside the street were different from those they had seen on their way in.
The myna bird noticed it too. "What we saw earlier may have been some kind of illusion. Or it may have been real, but the street vanished once we crossed it!"
Fang Chen nodded slightly. "Never mind that. Let's head to the center of the city—to Glazed Hall!"
Fang Chen knew Glazed Hall stood in the Core Region of Glazed Ancient City. It was there that Ye Kong had discovered the Nether Flower years ago.
"All right!"
The myna bird nodded and flew onto Fang Chen's shoulder. As it and Fang Chen had crossed that strange