Without water, the Temporal Vengeance moved almost entirely by traveling over the bodies of the ghosts.
That showed they were still somewhat useful.
But Liu Zhi had had an easy time entering this place from outside the space. Now that he was trying to find his way back, he couldn't find the exit at all.
On top of that, enormous space walls, like falling boulders, occasionally crashed down from the sky, blocking his path forward. He had to keep changing course carefully to prevent the Temporal Vengeance from being crushed by them.
After several such maneuvers, Liu Zhi felt that he was moving more and more slowly, and getting farther and farther from the passage out.
Anxious, Liu Zhi considered using an ability like spatial teleportation to escape several times. But whenever he thought of what the Plane Consciousness had said, he had to force himself to abandon the idea.
Just then, Liu Zhi felt as if he had sensed something.
He turned to look back toward the place he had come from. It was where the silver machine had been.
Liu Zhi didn't know why he had looked that way. After thinking it over, his eyes suddenly lit up.
He seemed to have left the lightning core there.
Liu Zhi regretted it, but it was too late to go back for the lightning core. He could only give up on such a valuable item.
But just as Liu Zhi was about to turn and flee, he saw a golden arm wreathed in lightning tear through space and reach down from above.
The arm looked much like an ordinary person's, but for some reason, Liu Zhi had needed both hands to lift the lightning core, while that figure simply reached out and picked it up.
Then Liu Zhi seemed to