The labyrinth was utterly silent. Apart from Luo Zheng's own footsteps, not a sound could be heard.
At first, Luo Zheng walked briskly through it, but once he realized how vast the labyrinth was, he pushed off lightly with his toes and began racing through it.
Yet the labyrinth's sheer size still exceeded Luo Zheng's imagination. Even after weaving through it for an entire day and night, he still saw no end.
Not until the third day...
Luo Zheng followed a pitch-black passage to its end. After he rounded a corner, the passage ahead suddenly changed.
Wisps of multicolored light shimmered on the walls to either side.
"Are these... fragments of time?"
Luo Zheng sensed a powerful aura of Time Law from the walls, identical to the one in the Sea of Time.
He lightly tapped the fragments on the wall and found nothing unusual.
But as Luo Zheng continued forward, a faint, gentle sound of breathing reached his ears.
"Hoo... sss..."
It was as though someone was sleeping in the labyrinth.
And the sound echoed right beside Luo Zheng's ears, as though its source was extremely close.
Luo Zheng's brows furrowed slightly. He raced along the passage, intent on finding the source of that breathing.
But even after he rushed several thousand zhang ahead, the breathing still drifted beside his ears. It felt as though the sound remained right next to him, despite how far he had clearly traveled.
Though Luo Zheng found it eerie, he steeled himself and pressed on.
Mingwei sat atop the divine realm, gazing up at its boundless expanse.
Countless times, she had longed for her days on Li Mountain...
Yet after breaking free of that prison, she had only grown more melancholy.
*Once we break through the divine realm, we should be able