No one knew how long she had fallen before light finally appeared ahead, and the vast, boundless underground world entered her sight.
At the heart of its depths,
stood the ten-thousand-zhang-tall monument bearing the true intent of the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist, a monument she had once read about in the Chi Family's records.
Yet unlike the descriptions in those records, the colossal stele now flowed all over with a hazy black-and-white radiance.
The patterns on its surface no longer moved slowly. Instead, they "pulsed" in an indescribable rhythm, like a heartbeat!
Thump!
Thump... thump...
With every "pulse," an even more powerful true-intent Dao rhythm spread outward, sweeping through the entire space!
Yet what truly made Chi Xuan's delicate body tremble and her pupils contract to their limit was not the altered giant stele.
It was the faint sight beyond the stele, in the deepest reaches shrouded by dense mist formed from countless gathered Dao patterns...
A scene.
There seemed to be a passage connecting to another world. Through the haze, she could make out the vague phantom of an ancient cave entrance, seemingly linked to different times, spaces, and reincarnations, rising and falling before her eyes.
Only, a membranous barrier lay between them.
At its end, strands of immortal light drifted within the gateway.
And what seemed to block those myriad phenomena was another "stone stele," hidden behind the true-intent monument of the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist.
The distance was too great, the field too complex, the immortal light too brilliant, and the fog too dense. Chi Xuan could not clearly see the words inscribed upon that stele.
Yet between the two steles, she caught sight of a faint "light source" that she could not make out clearly, but which emitted an unfamiliar yet strangely familiar aura