Every drop of water in the Sea of Suffering contained its own heaven and earth, its own world.
Sometimes, there was nothing inside, only desolation and deathly silence. At other times, danger lurked everywhere, and terrifying creatures even roamed within.
When Qi Zhen's Spiritual Energy was nearly depleted, it was Lin Fan's turn to activate the Paper Figure Puppet and scout ahead.
Whenever they encountered a small world containing an array, the sole remaining cultivator from the Ghost Array Palace would step in to break it. Whenever they encountered a space ravaged by poisonous gas, the two cultivators from the Myriad Poison Palace would deal with it.
Everyone worked together, and the journey was dangerous but uneventful.
The flying ship roared as it tore through the sky, revealing a wasteland ahead.
The Gobi stretched endlessly. The air was thick with desolation and annihilation, while the vague outlines of strange creature skeletons occasionally surfaced in the distance.
Qi Zhen surveyed the surroundings and sighed. "Looks like our luck is pretty good. This is a barren small world. There shouldn't be much danger."
While manipulating the Paper Figures to scout ahead, Lin Fan said, "I hope so."
He felt that everything was going far too smoothly.
In just half a day, the group had already crossed dozens of small worlds.
At that moment, Lin Fan sensed something and looked ahead.
Several hundred miles away, several white dots were flying across the boundless Gobi. Each one drifted in a strange, erratic manner. They were none other than the several scouting Paper Figures Lin Fan controlled.
Suddenly, the foremost Paper Figure began to tremble violently before collapsing into pieces.
Immediately afterward, several more Paper Figures exploded one after another.
Several blurry scenes were quickly transmitted back into Lin Fan's mind.
At the far end