After Li Hai finished thinking, a single thought swept across the vast ruins beneath the stone stele.
He inspected the hundreds and thousands of World-Crossing Gates piled within, inside and out, down to the last detail.
The underworld was so vast that reaching the road to heaven by ordinary means would likely be difficult.
He guessed that the group of shamans had most likely reached the Heavenly Dao world through World-Crossing Gates.
So if he could find one of those gates himself, he could save a great deal of effort.
Yet after searching, Li Hai discovered that amid these immense ruins, although there were around a dozen intact World-Crossing Gates that had not been completely damaged and could still be used, these gates basically led to No. 2 (the Asura Realm) or No. 3 (the Beast Realm). There was no sign at all of No. 5 (the Heavenly Dao Realm).
"Haah..."
Li Hai let out a long sigh. "In the end, I still have to rack my brains to find that road to heaven."
As he sighed, his figure flickered, and he abruptly left the desolate ruins, coming to a halt beneath the boundless dark vault.
"According to the records on that stele—"
Looking down at the endless lands of Shandu below, Li Hai pondered, "once a living being from the world of the living enters the underworld, they can only truly enter that world of ghosts by using ghost vision."
Yes, this fact had been plainly recorded in one corner of the stone stele.
It was because of that fragmentary inscription that Li Hai had learned of it.
It turned out that long ago, when the Wuxian Federation's expedition team had first entered the underworld, they had encountered the same situation as him.
No matter where they looked, no