The Winding Road Ahead

Lu Ren's eye twitched slightly as he gradually quickened his pace, keeping level with the rolling, surging mist that swept in like waves and slowly submerged the winding bluestone path.

Heaven knew where he would be dragged if he were swallowed up again.

As he sped along, Lu Ren was rather surprised to discover that aside from its silence and complete lack of living creatures, this road held no danger whatsoever. This so-called Supreme Ancient Road truly seemed to be nothing more than a road. Other than the fact that it appeared to have no support and no trace of unusual power could be sensed, there was nothing remarkable about it.

There were no inscribed runes on the road either. In his eyes, it was utterly ordinary.

Yet no matter how he tested it, aside from being incomparably hard—even he could not damage it in the slightest—there was nothing unusual about it.

But the more that was the case, the less Lu Ren dared to let down his guard. His Hyperdimensional Perception spread out in full, continuously gathering information from the surrounding space and making instant judgments.

What made him even more uncomfortable was that aside from this road and the mist formed from some unknown substance around it, there was neither sky above nor earth below, nor was there any energy or matter remaining within this place.

Lu Ren could not sense energies such as Primal Qi of Heaven and Earth or Essence Qi of the Great Earth. Even the tangled, chaotic energies that permeated the universe were completely absent. The entire space was in a state of emptiness.

Sensing the heat radiating from Ao Li's Dragon Pearl within him, Lu Ren could not help but complain, "This pearl is really underperforming. At this point, I only need half