Chu Tian stepped into the "Zero Heaven Gate." Behind him, the colossal bronze door slammed shut with a dull boom, completely sealing off the clamor of the myriad worlds.
The sight before him made even a Creation Realm mighty figure like Chu Tian, whose will was as firm as stone, pause in slight astonishment.
There were no traps of mountains of corpses and seas of blood as he had imagined, nor was there a Heavenly Net laid by the Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor.
What met his eyes was an ancient, weathered, yet incomparably flourishing giant city. People streamed through its streets, while the cries of hawkers and children's laughter rang without end. Sunlight spilled across the bluestone pavement, carrying a dazed sense of tranquility and peace.
Yet Chu Tian's keen Creation Realm divine sense instantly detected that something was wrong.
"The flow of time... is completely distorted!"
Chu Tian discovered in horror that though he had stood here for less than three breaths, the scene around him had already passed through the changing of all four seasons, spring departing and autumn arriving! A quarter of an hour outside might have been a hundred years here!
"This is a 'Time Maze City' constructed from the residual power of the Taiyi Balance." The Human Emperor's remnant consciousness spoke within Chu Tian's sea of consciousness, carrying an immensely complicated sorrow. "Chu Tian, be careful. Every street here, every illusion, is the... most agonizing choice experienced by every Human Emperor throughout the ages during their reign."
No sooner had the words fallen than the scene before Chu Tian abruptly changed.
The bustling street instantly became a sea of flames. Countless armies of foreign races were slaughtering Human Race civilians. Upon the city wall stood an ancient Human Emperor clad in golden armor, facing a cruel