Beyond the doorway, there was no passage or underground structure as they had imagined.
The moment Lin Jin and the others stepped through, the space around them changed.
Hum!
When their vision returned to normal, an entirely different world lay before them.
The sky was gray, without a sun or moon, and they could not even sense any clear passage of time.
The earth was shattered, with enormous landmasses floating in the void.
In the distance.
A mountain range stretching for an unknown number of kilometers had been severed down the middle. The break was perfectly smooth, as though some force had sliced it apart directly through space.
Stranger still, everything here remained frozen at the moment of its destruction.
Shattered boulders hung in midair, half-collapsed buildings stood motionless, and they could even see a ripple of energy lingering in the void, undissipated after who knew how many years.
"Has time stopped here?" Mo Yuan looked up and around.
As someone who controlled a time ability, he had immediately noticed the abnormality here.
Lin Jin shook his head. "Time hasn't stopped."
He extended his hand, and a tiny stone floating before him slowly settled into his palm.
"Time is still flowing. It's just that many of the rule states here have been preserved."
Mo Yuan's pupils contracted slightly.
To preserve the rule states of an entire region for thousands of years.
Such a feat was already far beyond their imagination.
They continued forward, and soon more and more anomalies appeared before them.
A stretch of space on their left resembled a shattered mirror, with the same building existing in dozens of different positions at once.
On their right, an ancient tree a hundred meters tall stood quietly, half its branches and leaves lush and green, brimming with life.
Yet its