The Abyssal Garden: No Room for the Idle

The vast Star River drifted, converged, and slowly spun in the midst.

"There are doors everywhere, billions of them."

Luo Shenfu watched the scene, his mind turbulent.

"And these doors are completely different from those in the corridor we passed through earlier. Although they are located in the Old Days, they exist in their own right."

The darkness around here was not the universal Chaos but all the Old Days.

The great Star River, formed by countless flashing doors, was the only existing thing in this expanse of the Old Days.

"Could this place be the very core of the Dark Zone?"

Luo Shenfu seemed to think of this, shock overwhelming his emotions.

Although everything in sight was just a distant, unapproachable Star River,

Su Qi directly pulled out an astronomical telescope.

"Don't say..."

"It really is."

Luo Shenfu watched as Su Qi set up the device.

How come Daozi has all sorts of strange gadgets?

Meanwhile, Su Qi's gaze had already reached into the Star River.

From afar, it appeared as countless doors connected by numerous points of white light.

Yet, with the astronomical telescope, it seemed... there appeared to be corridors.

Vague figures could be seen moving within.

"It seems we have indeed come to an extraordinary place."

At that moment,

Su Qi suddenly paused,

Because in the center of the vast Star River,

Su Qi saw... a corridor, with someone else setting up an astronomical telescope.

Also looking at him.

"Is that... myself?"

"Intriguing."

Su Qi muttered to himself, "It's only because I am in the midst of these mountains."

The corridor he was walking on was that very central corridor within the Star River.

At that moment,

This corridor also exhibited anomalies.

The footprints he had walked upon were all flickering, though dimmer than before.

And all the densely packed doors along the corridor suddenly burst open.

"Did you notice it?"

"What?"

Su Qi: "The entire corridor is tilting, and it looks like... we are about to be thrown out."

He turned around,

A vortex force from the Star River seemed to drive everything.

The entire Star River was visibly spinning,

Faster and faster towards the center.

Su Qi felt a tremendous pull in this corridor instantaneously, unable to resist, he was flung out!

Su Qi did think of using Spiritual Energy to activate Sequence Ability or to enter the Holy Light Corridor for temporary evasion.

But as soon as he tried, the surrounding Old Days would aggressively close in, relentlessly attempting to annihilate him.

This intense, deadly aura,

Made Su Qi abandon this idea.

The Old Days also had strengths and weaknesses.

Like the Black Rain he had encountered previously.

If one possessed sufficient Spiritual Energy, bathing in it wouldn't pose a problem if one exited before depleting their energy.

The Black Rain expanding into an all-consuming black tide could easily destroy any Low-level Sequencer.

Now,

He was at the core of the spinning Star River, with frighteningly dense Old Days around.

Even though Su Qi now possessed millions in Spiritual Energy level, he had felt it earlier; any action would immediately encounter a lethal backlash.

Meaning,

To linger here within the Old Days for even a moment would consume millions, or more, of Spiritual Energy.

However,

At this very moment, Su Qi was not being devoured by the Old Days.

Because...

Luo Shenfu noticed and stared intently at Su Qi:

"Daozi, why are you glowing?"

Su Qi looked at himself; indeed, a thin layer of luminescent film enveloped him.

"Right, why is that?"

Luo Shenfu briefly stunned,

Then he quickly remembered those footprints; was it the gleaming light from those footprints?

Throughout the journey, all footprints he walked over kept accumulating light points.

Eventually, these light points gathered around his body, forming... this luminescent film, protecting Su Qi from the devouring Old Days.

Luo Shenfu slightly nodded in understanding.

He was just about to explain to Daozi,

"I...."

But Su Qi raised his index finger, "Ah, I've got it."

Luo Shenfu paused,

Indeed, Daozi's judgments had always been extremely precise.

Su Qi paused:

"It is the brilliance of my personality shining."

Luo Shenfu: "..."

Withdrawing his compliment, his judgment was questionable after all.

At this moment,

Su Qi, along with the rotating force of the Star River, was being sucked into the center of the vortex.

Although the speed was extremely fast, with this luminescent layer, Su Qi remained unaffected.

He was swiftly thrown into the heart of the Star River's cluster of doors... that singularity.

And in an instant,

Su Qi was sucked into that singularity.

A sense of weightlessness and multidimensional spatial blur, bizarre dimensional landscapes all appeared one after another.

Though the information was immense, it appeared extremely fast, like... all the scenes in the world combined, played in less than a second.

The next moment,

Su Qi felt he had entered a certain space; the deadly aura of the Old Days was gone.

And he finally felt the sensation of falling.

However,

The fall was swift, after all, he seemed to have been 'thrown' in!

Just as he prepared to open his eyes, using Spiritual Energy to avoid a collision,

"Don't worry..."

At that time, someone hummed lightly and reached out, a force directly stirred towards him.

The next moment,

Su Qi distinctly felt his speed slow.

Su Qi opened his eyes.

Around him, massive chains as large as mountains crisscrossed densely across this space.

Below,

Was a ground formed by innumerable gigantic interlocking chains, densely packed without any gaps.

Simultaneously,

Su Qi also saw the person who had just intervened, a young man with white hair.