Recovery and Coincidence (Two Chapters Combined)

Lin Li slowly opened his eyes, and what greeted his vision was the azure-blue sky.

At the edge of the horizon, the setting sun hung low, its vibrant red glow not only painting the greater part of the azure sky in brilliant colors, but also dyeing every cloud in the heavens with vivid hues.

Clumps of clouds drifted gently, looking as though they possessed not an ounce of weight.

Borne along by the breath of the wind, the clouds journeyed at leisure down their own paths.

Lin Li stared blankly at the sky, and suddenly he drew in a sharp breath.

"Hiss..."

"So cold!"

Recovering his senses, Lin Li scrambled hastily up from the ground.

The crystal-clear Heavenly Pond appeared before his eyes, and a single step forward would plunge him straight into the pool.

Looking around, the ground was blanketed in pure white snow, while mist swirled in the distance.

"I'm out?!!!"

The place where Lin Li currently found himself was the very entrance through which he had initially entered the Ruins Space.

He had originally intended to return by the same path, but he never expected to emerge all at once—this was quite unexpected.

Yet as Lin Li carefully recalled the events that transpired before he lost consciousness, feelings of lingering fear inevitably stirred within his heart.

At the time, when the abnormal condition arose and his body became paralyzed, the realization that he could enter the Mysterious Small Island at any moment had immediately relaxed his tense nerves.

The subsequent events, however, had caught Lin Li off guard, causing him to lose consciousness in an instant. If an enemy had wielded such a method, his little life would already be forfeit.

*I must take this lesson to heart! If that fellow inside the Golden Gate had pulled