Li cast a sidelong glance at Moon God, who stood half a step behind him. "These All Things in Creation are indeed interesting." Without waiting for Moon God to respond, he stepped forward.
Shi Lan had been horrified the moment she noticed his movement, but before she could call out to stop him, Li had already taken his first step.
What happened next choked Shi Lan's cry in her throat.
Li's feet stood steadily upon empty air, his entire body seeming to float amid the darkness. It was an astonishing sight. But how was he supposed to take the next step?
At that moment, whether he moved forward or backward, it felt like there was a bottomless abyss before him, while everything on the other side seemed impossibly far away.
"Young Master—" Shi Lan instinctively clung tightly to Li. Li lowered his head and looked into her worried black eyes, then softly reassured her by her ear, "Trust me. It's fine."
With that, Li laughed boldly and strode onward. Yet in everyone's eyes, Li was carrying Shi Lan as he walked through the void, as though he was not traversing a dark path with no visible road ahead, but a broad and open highway.
The other side had seemed distant, but once he walked toward it, he found it was only a few zhang away. When he raised his foot and stepped into the white light, everything before Li's eyes changed. Looking back at the path he had come from, he realized it had merely been inside the great hall all along. The path had always been there.
After setting Shi Lan down, Li looked at Moon God across from him. The expression in her eyes beneath the veil could not be seen clearly, but Li could sense that the