Lu Ye slowly woke in the darkness, immediately feeling the pain from his wounds. Beside him came heavy breathing—it was Amber.
He opened his eyes and took in his surroundings.
He was in a dark, deep passageway. Wind wailed past his ears. The passage was not sealed off; it was open at both ends.
Realizing this, Lu Ye immediately understood that he was still within Sky-Rending Gorge.
He did not know how long he had been unconscious, but it could not have been too long. Amber had not carried him through Sky-Rending Gorge, so it seemed something had gone wrong.
The Ten-Part Map had marked it clearly: Sky-Rending Gorge was an extremely complex stretch of terrain.
Upon entering Sky-Rending Gorge, it was initially nothing more than an ordinary canyon, with somewhat steeper ground on either side. But farther in, isolated peaks split the canyon apart. One path became two, then two became four, four became eight...
In the end, there were dozens of paths within Sky-Rending Gorge. Moreover, those paths were not entirely isolated. The bases of the peaks separating them were riddled with passageways running through to the other side, allowing travel back and forth between the various paths.
The endlessly branching routes and the countless passageways connecting them formed an enormous natural maze deep within Sky-Rending Gorge.
That was why Lu Ye had chosen to pass through Sky-Rending Gorge. In such complicated terrain, unless one was a cultivator who had spent years roaming this place, it would be difficult to get one's bearings.
But he possessed the costly Ten-Part Map. With the map in hand, he did not need to worry about getting lost. As long as he followed its directions, he could pass through Sky-Rending Gorge.
He simply had not expected to encounter an unforeseen upheaval outside