Entering the Imperial Academy

Even though the road ahead was treacherous, it did not deter Li Shun from exploring further.

After stopping to observe for a while, Li Shun chose to press on.

Along the way, through Shentu Xin's phantom, he sensed the difference between the flow of time in Great Qian and in the void of the Great Wilderness Ancient Domain.

"The laws here are utterly shattered. There's no single pattern governing their flow. In some areas, time passes almost as it does in Great Qian. Elsewhere, it runs faster or slower. Chaos, through and through."

In this deadly place, where even the concept of time had been torn apart, dangers still more lethal than the eerie threat that had inscribed his past and stripped away his lifespan lurked unseen.

What alarmed Li Shun most were the pitch-black rifts that split open without warning in the void, then closed and vanished in the space of a breath.

If his luck ran out and one of those soundless, wandering rifts grazed or swallowed him, there was no chance to resist. He would vanish in an instant.

He lost all sense of Shentu Xin's phantom.

Even Li Shun could not tell what had happened in that instant.

He could only wait for the puppet to recover, then descend once more to continue exploring.

Fortunately, when the puppet was destroyed, it left behind a trace at that spot, anchoring its location.

The next time he descended, he could appear directly where it had last vanished.

He would not have to start over from Great Qian.

Shentu Xin's phantom had traveled for a long time, yet the Martial World still lay immeasurably far away in his senses.

The vastness of the Primordial Ancient Domain had far exceeded Li Shun's imagination.

"In sheer breadth, it even seems to