Lan Yue held a golden stone, staring slack-jawed at the vast swath of dense black fog before her.
But wasn't something wrong here? There had only been a single golden stone on the top floor of the Tower of the Abyss. Before she had even found the inheritance, another teleportation vortex had appeared.
Lan Yue had instinctively assumed that the teleportation vortex would take her to the Legacy Grounds, just as the female lead had been taken to a separate space to receive the Heaven-Witch Race's inheritance.
She had indeed arrived in an unfamiliar space, but wasn't something off? The map in the upper right corner had changed too. It looked as though she had arrived in Devil Race territory.
Lan Yue shook the golden stone in her hand, hoping it would tell her what had happened. But the golden stone seemed to sense the Nine-Story Formation Pagoda and shot into it with a whoosh, disappearing from sight.
With her last hope shattered, she could only stare at the black groundhog that had popped out of the earth, while it stared back at her.
A moment later, the groundhog shrieked and took off running, as though it had seen some peerless villain.
Lan Yue: "..."
"System, buddy, hurry up and tell me what happened! How did we suddenly switch maps?"
"Wasn't the Tower Spirit of the Tower of the Abyss supposed to send me to receive the inheritance? How could a Tower Spirit from the Central Sacred Land deceive me?"
After emerging, the system sensed its surroundings and paused.
"The Tower of the Abyss did not deceive you. You have already obtained the Central Sacred Land's inheritance. The Devil Race caused this disturbance. They planted a Teleportation Array there."
Hearing the system's confirmation, Lan Yue was utterly astonished. When had