Just as Bai Xiaotian and Yuan Qiu were completely bewildered, a layer of vivid red light suddenly lit up on the giant red flower before them. It spread from the flower's body like a layer of glowing liquid, surging outward in all directions.
Wherever it passed, flowing light flickered across the ground, and rings of circular runes rose from the earth, their range continuously expanding outward. In the blink of an eye, they had spread over a thousand zhang.
Then, amid a burst of dazzling red light, Shen Luo and the others instinctively shut their eyes.
When they opened them again, the surroundings had shifted completely, and they found themselves in an entirely different world.
Shen Luo frowned slightly and swept his gaze around. He soon discovered that the giant red flower had vanished completely, while the ancient trees around them, tangled with vines, had grown even more lush.
Through the gaps between the ancient trees, Shen Luo immediately spotted a mountain village ahead, half-hidden among the woods, with curling cooking smoke and misty white fog drifting about it.
"Shen Luo, how did you do that?" Bai Xiaotian asked after staring blankly for quite a while.
Yuan Qiu also looked over, his face full of confusion.
The method Shen Luo had used to activate the giant flower's Restriction clearly had not been a technique for breaking Restrictions. It seemed more like he had known how to activate it all along. But if he had known, why had he not done so from the beginning?
"Well... I usually read quite a few miscellaneous books. I followed a method recorded in one of them, and I never expected it to work," Shen Luo said with an awkward laugh, brushing the matter aside.
Naturally, he could not tell the two of them that