The palace was shrouded in gloom.
It was so vast, and the daylight here so dim, that even with light filtering through countless holes in the ceiling, the interior was still not bright, despite what could be seen through the crack in the door.
Pei Ling released his Spiritual Sense and swept it across the entire palace. The interior should originally have been furnished with quite a few things.
Many of them still retained traces of spiritual energy.
But now, almost nothing remained intact. Numerous tables and chairs had been smashed to pieces, their wreckage strewn across the floor.
The place looked so battered that it seemed to have been looted more than once.
He inspected it bit by bit. After detecting no problems, he once again sent the puppets and Vengeful Souls inside to investigate.
Once inside, the puppets and Vengeful Souls wandered back and forth through the hall, occasionally stepping on or passing through objects. After a while, nothing unusual had happened.
Only then did Pei Ling cautiously enter the hall.
But the moment he stepped inside, a heavy "bang" sounded behind him. The massive doors slammed shut!
At the same time, blood-red lines lit up across the surrounding walls, ceiling, and floor. The formation activated in an instant, sealing off every way in or out.
Pei Ling frowned and quickly surveyed his surroundings.
In the dim hall, thick dust covered everything, and traces of smashing and wreckage could be seen everywhere.
It was as if chaos had broken out here many times.
Farther inside, right beside the walls, stood all sorts of black statues.
On closer inspection, they were the same as the figures carved on the doors—all were foreign races.
Pei Ling immediately thought of the rows of pitch-black stone statues outside Senior Sister Li's Chao