"Lord Zuo Xiwen!"
At the sight of the tiny man, Chen Lin was both startled and delighted.
The man was the Observer of Three Rooms and could enter and leave the River of Destiny at will. He surely knew where the exit was.
"The River of Rules isn't somewhere you can simply force your way out of. To roam freely, you need the ability to disregard rules. You're still far from that, so don't let it go to your head."
Zuo Xiwen's tone returned to normal.
Chen Lin immediately adopted a receptive attitude.
"You're right, my lord. I was merely curious and wanted to see what lay outside. I had no other intentions."
"Good."
Zuo Xiwen nodded.
But Chen Lin immediately asked another question.
"My lord, if I can't leave the River of Rules that way, what must I do to return to reality?"
This was his greatest concern.
His earlier experiments had shown that, to return to reality, he had to go back through the node he had emerged from. In that case, even if he reached the Star Ruins, he would have no way to leave the River of Destiny.
"That's simple."
Zuo Xiwen smiled.
"It's just like changing your departure point between realms within This Realm. All you need to do is find a node in the river. But be careful not to enter someone else's domain. That amounts to a provocation and almost always ends in a fight to the death."
Understanding dawned on Chen Lin.
Daidaidong had told him about this method. Since it worked in the Star Ruins too, he had nothing to worry about.
As for accidentally intruding into someone else's domain...
That was unlikely.
A node leading to an occupied domain felt different from an ordinary, unclaimed node.
He could tell them