Chen Lin looked toward the Thatch Cottage.
There was nothing special about it. It was just a simple thatched hut, and not a very large one.
It looked as though it had been built from wheat straw.
With the hut so small, Chen Lin seriously doubted there could be a statue inside.
Of course.
The statue might also be small, or the interior might conceal a world of its own.
Although he felt an urgent need to act, Chen Lin showed ample patience. Rather than explore immediately, he hid beside the valley entrance and observed in silence.
"Hm?"
As he waited,
Chen Lin suddenly looked up in astonishment.
He discovered that the "sun," which had been hanging high overhead earlier, was now sinking toward one side.
The sky was also beginning to darken.
The temperature, the color of the light, and other things were changing as well.
The sight shook Chen Lin deeply.
This was not an innate plane, after all, but merely a Grotto-Heaven Treasure. In principle, it should not have had a cycle of sun and moon.
Even its light should have come from the treasure releasing its own energy.
When he had first seen the sun overhead, he had assumed it was merely decorative.
But now,
it seemed to be more than decoration. Some method must have been used to reproduce the changes of a real sun exactly.
Chen Lin focused his senses.
The astonishment in his eyes deepened. He could actually sense the presence of laws within that sun!
Light, flame, stars.
He could sense several such laws emanating from it.
Although he had yet to master the law of light or the law of stars, his long years refining starlight stones had given him some understanding of both.
He simply already possessed many laws and