Like being stuck between two worlds?
Hearing Xuan Che say this, Yu Sheng's heart stirred. "Yes, yes, that's exactly how it feels!"
Then he immediately realized something. "Wait, you know what's going on here?!"
"I've never seen it before." Xuan Che shook his head, then suddenly changed tack. "However, I once heard my Grand Uncle-Master mention some strange and bizarre things he encountered while traveling in his younger days. One of them reminded me of what's happening in this room."
Yu Sheng immediately became interested. "Tell me about it."
Xuan Che thought for a moment before slowly beginning. "My Grand Uncle-Master said that, in his early years of seeking the Dao, he traveled across the Star River. Because the Immortal Boat malfunctioned, he accidentally arrived at an unnamed 'desolate planet.' That planet wasn't marked on any navigation charts, and there were no beacons or stations established by any civilization nearby. Yet the space around the planet was filled with strange howling sounds—what people outside call 'electromagnetic whistling.' To repair the Immortal Boat, my Grand Uncle-Master had no choice but to make an emergency landing on that desolate planet. That was when he encountered many thoroughly bizarre phenomena.
"He said the planet's surface was devoid of life, but countless black boulders stood there. Each one was a thousand zhang tall and several hundred zhang wide and long, like countless stone steles as tall as mountains, arranged in neat rows across the ground. Between the boulders, he could see dried-up river valleys and cliffs, with stone pillars of all sizes lying among them. And whether they were the mountain-high steles or the fallen pillars, they had clearly been made by human hands...
"He made an emergency landing atop one of the giant stone steles. The landing site was on the side of