With a thunderous boom, the entire carpet instantly shattered into pieces, turning into shards of ice that scattered in every direction.
As the ice shards were moved away one by one, Ye Tian still found nothing.
Could my judgment have been wrong...? Ye Tian was somewhat dazed. The deduction he had thought could not possibly be wrong now seemed to contain some flaws.
"The ceiling?" As he pondered, Ye Tian turned his gaze back to the ceiling he had previously set aside.
The ceiling now appeared somewhat brighter. Ye Tian suddenly spotted a rune etched upon it, bearing faint patterns!
Had the carpet not shattered into ice shards, and had those shards not reflected enough light to brighten the ceiling slightly, Ye Tian likely would never have noticed those runes.
"That really does seem to be a rune... but City of Familiars can't fly at all, can it?" Jiang Yun asked, looking doubtfully at the rather excited Ye Tian.
Ye Tian shook his head, yet continued searching the carpet for clues. Seeing this, Jiang Yun naturally joined him in moving aside the ice shards.
Finally, at a spot that formed a perfect diagonal with the rune above, Ye Tian found something like a mirror that emitted a dim light.
This object had been covered in dust by the carpet. Once the carpet was removed, it happened to shine upon the rune on the ceiling.
Under the dim light, the rune continuously shifted and intertwined, eventually forming a stream of light that pointed directly at the ground.
With no time to lose, the two hurried into the Teleportation Array. In the blink of an eye, they left that strange second layer and arrived at the third layer of the City of Familiars.
This third layer was utterly different in style from