It hovered above the stone platform.
The palm-sized fragment seemed to contain endless space within it.
Its surface had a matte azure texture, like the reflection of a realm.
Zong Shen glanced at it but did not step forward to collect it immediately.
Instead, he silently activated [Sand Stasis].
Yes, there was a spatial paradox trap here as well.
He could no longer be bothered to fuss around with it.
Anything Time Stop could solve, he would simply deal with directly.
Ripples of stopped time spread out, disrupting the operation of the paradox trap.
Only then did he reach out and grasp the fragment in his hand.
[Ding]
[Obtained: Lost Desert Fragments (Special)]
The notification appeared, and the fragment trembled endlessly in his palm.
Without another word, Zong Shen stuffed it straight into his Storage Grid, lest something else go wrong.
Ruins were damn profitable—so Zong Shen declared.
He had already gone numb from all these messy spatial traps.
If he had not possessed plenty of high-tier temporal-type wondrous items, he truly would have found it impossible to move even a step in this place.
With that in mind, he decided to keep everything simple.
Relying on the suppressive effect of temporal power, he would try to secure all the fragments in one go.
With the first fragment obtained, the rest became much easier.
The layered spaces resembled endlessly repeating mirror images.
At the very depths of those spaces, a stone coffin lay silently.
Masses of decayed, withered bones had piled up around the stone coffin like mountains.
Yet not a single bone could reach within ten meters of it.
It had sunk here for tens of thousands of years.
Even time itself seemed to have left no trace in the depths of these layered spaces.
Suddenly, the