Reincarnation Peak.
Under immense pressure, Lin Fan took a full three days to reach the summit, but this was already several times faster than on his first visit.
At the summit, he pushed open the Light Gate and entered the familiar Small World. A golden river came into view-the source of the Yellow Springs River.
Compared with the waters downstream, the golden liquid here was clearer and purer, dazzling like several suns.
"Where did that damned dog run off to?" Lin Fan wondered. Puppy had reached the summit before him, but was now nowhere to be seen.
He searched along the Yellow Springs River. Hazy white mist filled the surroundings, lending this place an air of sanctity.
There was no denying how extraordinary this place was. It lived up to being somewhere an Immortal King had stayed; even in the barren Lower Realm, it remained suffused with the resonance of the Dao.
The essence of heaven and earth was especially dense, hardly seeming to belong to the Eight Regions at all. The laws here were complete, comparable to those of the Reincarnation Land.
"Huh? When did a palace appear on the other side?" Lin Fan stood beside the terrifying Yellow Springs River and gazed across in surprise.
He remembered that on his last visit, laws had interwoven there, and chaos qi had submerged everything, making it impossible to see clearly.
Now, inexplicably, a palace stood there, ancient and grand!
In truth, rather than a palace, it looked more like a structure hollowed out of an enormous rock, its exterior black as ink.
"Could this have something to do with that damned dog?" Lin Fan wondered suspiciously.
Not far away, a radiant Rainbow Bridge spanned the Yellow Springs River, leading straight into the black palace.
Lin Fan tested it, making sure