After Wan Yao'er stepped through the stone doorway, the world before her abruptly changed.
She had expected another great hall beyond the door, or perhaps a deep passageway, but reality far exceeded her expectations-she stood amid a vast expanse of stars.
There was no solid ground beneath her feet, no ceiling above her head. In every direction lay brilliant stars and endless darkness.
Countless stars slowly revolved around her, some large, some small, some bright, some dim. Some emitted a cold, silvery light, others glimmered with a faint blue glow, while several enormous crimson stars hung in the distance like balls of burning flame.
Their light intertwined into a magnificent, mysterious painting of breathtaking beauty.
Wan Yao'er instinctively looked down and discovered that even beneath her feet lay a sea of starlight.
She seemed to stand upon an invisible mirror that reflected the entire starry sky, leaving her unable to distinguish heaven from earth.
"This... what is this place?"
She murmured to herself. Her voice drifted through the empty starry expanse, yet produced no echo, as though swallowed by the boundless void.
No one answered her.
But a piece of information suddenly appeared in her mind, not heard through her ears, but conveyed directly into her consciousness as a thought.
That thought was ancient and majestic, carrying an air of weathered ages, as though it had crossed endless years to reach her from antiquity.
"At last, someone destined for this inheritance has passed the trials I left behind."
Wan Yao'er startled inwardly and instinctively looked around, but saw no one.
"There is no need to search. I am no longer in this world. What you sense now is merely an imprint of a remnant soul I left before passing away, attached to the formations of this Inheritance Hall. When a