Just as everyone was listening with rapt interest, their bachelor-in-chief woke up.
"You all seem to be having quite a good time?"
The disciples immediately fell silent, standing to one side as meek as quails without uttering a word.
The Family Head rubbed his forehead, glanced at the still-open doors, and said coldly, "Let's go."
There was no other way out now.
The instant after Su Jiu stepped into the darkness, a brightly illuminated palace hall appeared before her.
She soon turned back toward the direction she had come from, only to discover that there was nothing there except a painting.
The painting depicted precisely the forest Su Jiu had just passed through, except that there was no palace in it. The scene ended at the path paved with spirit stones.
Su Jiu could not help marveling inwardly. So the so-called Inner Perimeter of the Hongsheng Heavenly Road was actually just a space within a painting scroll?
No wonder she had sensed spatial distortion at the entrance...
The Outer Perimeter was a gap within a spatial rift, and the Inner Perimeter was a painting scroll connected to the palace. What wonders, then, filled the palace itself?
Su Jiu looked around and discovered that the palace, which had appeared square from outside, was circular within.
Although it was bright here, there were no candles anywhere. Instead, luminous mineral stones embedded in the walls created this brilliantly lit scene.
Suddenly, the image on the stone wall flickered, and a person appeared before her.
"Junior Granduncle?"
A trace of surprise also flashed through Chu Luohen's eyes when he saw Su Jiu.
"You... entered this place much earlier than I did?"
Su Jiu shook her head. "Not that much earlier, but I did arrive a dozen or so breaths before you, Junior Granduncle."