Unlike when he had been stranded on Faelun Continent years ago, when Saine's frail constitution had caused him to lose consciousness completely despite being wrapped in the Spider Queen's Divine Power Spider Silk and drift with the current through the Space-Time Channel, this time was different.
The special passage into which Saine and Gongsun Wudi had fallen was clearly more orderly yet more perilous than the one that had led to Faelun Continent, but this time, Saine endured the entire journey and remained conscious throughout.
This was thanks to Saine's successful body tempering, as well as the Combined Fortress Group, which bore at least half of the pressure for him.
As for the other half, Gongsun Wudi shared it with him.
Of course, there was also the Twelve-Winged Angel Fumila, who had remained fused with Saine the entire time.
This was truly a miserable journey. Within that Gray Passage whose end was unknown, Saine and Gongsun Wudi remained for 127 years and 6 months.
Saine's timekeeping within it was precise down to the second.
However, he believed he still had not determined the full length of that Space-Time Channel.
Because until the very end, Saine and the others had not reached the passage's terminus. Instead, upon discovering an intact "door" during their passage, they had immediately poured all their strength into rushing through it.
They had no choice but to rush in. At the time, Saine's consciousness was already hazy. Gongsun Wudi appeared to be in better condition than he was, but neither of them knew how much longer they could hold on.
Rather than continue drifting deeper into the passage and hand their fate over to the unknown, Saine preferred to make decisions he would not regret while he was still lucid.
It was a peculiar energy law passage