Du Yu found it strange. He distinctly remembered fighting alongside Xingtian in the Yellow Emperor's camp, yet somehow, when he opened his eyes, a tunnel had appeared before him again.
"Am I dreaming again?"
Du Yu had been in this tunnel before. He clearly remembered taking only three steps here, while more than ten hours had passed in reality. It was deeply eerie.
"This place is sinister. I'd better wake up quickly."
Du Yu kept slapping his face until it stung, but he felt no closer to waking up.
"Strange... am I really dreaming?"
Du Yu pinched his thigh with his fingers.
It hurt.
"What...?"
Du Yu stared blankly at his reddened thigh. "All of this is real?"
He raised his head again and looked at the stone door at the end of the tunnel.
Just as when Du Yu had last seen it, the stone door was covered in thick vines, looking as though no one had opened it for thousands of years.
"Where exactly is this?" An ominous feeling rose in Du Yu's heart. It seemed someone had been trying to get him through that door, but as a general rule, the more eager the other party was, the more cautious he needed to be.
So he turned around and looked behind him, hoping to find a way out.
He would have been better off not looking. That one glance gave him an enormous fright.
Behind him was a gigantic spatial vortex.
Although Du Yu had no idea where the vortex had come from, he felt that taking even one step into it would grind him to dust.
"The most urgent thing now is finding a way out... last time, just three steps took that long. This time, I've already been here for several minutes..."
Du Yu looked