"Someone once bombarded this place with power capable of shattering the void!"
Li Ling and the others walked among shattered walls and ruins. Though they were already very close to the Inner Garden, they had instead lost their bearings.
Countless twisted paths now lay before them, leading to unknown destinations.
Tracing them revealed that some were hollows in the Space Dao formed by inward collapses, some were chaotic places connected to the void beyond, and others linked to different gardens and courtyards within the Immortal Abode.
Thus, Li Ling and the others watched the column of smoke serving as their landmark shift between near and far, constantly appearing in different directions.
This confused everyone's sense of direction. Even divine abilities such as the Time-Knowing Art and Earth-Recognition Art seemed to have lost their effect.
Yet through continual investigation, they still approached their ultimate destination step by step.
This fragmented spatial structure appeared chaotic, but clear patterns could actually be followed. Most importantly, the center of the battle had suffered greater destruction, leaving smaller hollows. Some places had even become pure nothingness, beyond the reach of ordinary people.
Places slightly farther away retained more complete structures.
Furthermore, those void rifts had their own directions of propagation. Finding several rifts often allowed them to trace backward to the original point of impact, then follow their distribution to locate a path to the Inner Garden.
In this way, near and far, inside and outside, could be clearly distinguished.
During this process, they passed through the palace grounds and discovered some unusual things.
Before a dilapidated ruin, Li Ling stopped and gazed thoughtfully at an enormous relief with half of it broken off.
"Husband, what are you looking at?"
Mu Qingsi had followed closely behind him throughout the journey, keeping watch. Mentally fatigued herself,