After hearing Fire Spirit Child's words, Shen Luo's heart settled for the moment, and he continued swiftly onward.
After traveling another two or three hundred zhang and rounding a bend, he found that the passage ahead suddenly widened to more than twice its former breadth. A blue-green door appeared in one wall, with a plaque hanging above it bearing the words "Golden Stone Pavilion."
The blue-green door was already half open, and fresh marks of a forceful bombardment remained on it. This was probably Che Qingtian's doing; whatever lay inside had surely been plundered already.
Golden Stone Pavilion! Wait, wasn't this one of the places marked on that scroll? Could those doodles actually be a map of the Celestial Pivot Maze? Thoughts flashed like lightning through Shen Luo's mind. Without stopping, he continued flying forward while taking out the scroll to examine it closely.
Originally, he had been unable to make sense of this doodle-like map. But after experiencing the Celestial Pivot Maze's unpredictable passages, looking at it again was an entirely different matter. Weren't those tangled, intersecting routes the maze's many transformations, each laid out in detail on the map?
Could this really be a map of the Celestial Pivot Maze? Shen Luo wondered silently, soon reaching another junction.
Following the markings on the map, he took the road straight ahead.
According to this map, the passage ahead is very long. Once I leave it, two left turns will bring me to another marked location, the Heavenly Craft Hall. Shen Luo compared his surroundings with the map as he advanced swiftly.
The passage was indeed very long. He flew for quite some time before reaching its end, then turned left twice as the map indicated. At the second turn, the passage had not opened, so he followed the route