By the time night fell, Xu Huo had finally reached the end of the Nine Divine Paths, which was also the center of the city. Although the gray fog made it impossible to see the city as a whole from any vantage point, the fragments of time he had revisited showed that the city was laid out in a circle. The Nine Divine Paths, where the entrances were located, stood directly in front of the central temple. They fanned out, broad at the outer edge and narrowing toward the center, ending at the temple.
All nine avenues gradually converged in front of the central temple, but the temple was large enough that the area in front of it didn't feel crowded. In addition, it dwarfed the rows of connected temples lining the Nine Divine Paths.
To a person, the temples along the Nine Divine Paths looked like palace buildings of modest height. The central temple, by contrast, seemed to have been built with the ambition of becoming the tallest structure in the world. It was impossibly immense. Of course, floating cities existed in the game worlds, so there was no absolute limit to how tall a building on the ground could be. But the central temple was shrouded in fog, which only magnified the oppressive impression of its towering height.
The central temple's entrance consisted of nine gates, each set farther back than the one beside it. The central gate stood farthest forward and was the largest of the nine. The other eight were arranged in four pairs on either side. Judging from the descriptions Xu Huo had heard in the time fragments, the entire front of the temple bulged outward.
Even standing right at the entrance, he couldn't take in the gates in their entirety. The visible sections of