After walking for a while longer, the roars and shrieks of those monsters began to fall behind Chu Feng, growing fainter and fainter.
Chu Feng knew that he must have already passed through the region where those creatures were sealed.
However, even after the sounds of those monsters had completely faded away, Bai Liluo continued to walk forward at a leisurely pace.
Chu Feng had no idea where she was headed, but he didn't ask either, simply following behind her in silence.
In this manner, after walking for quite some time, Bai Liluo suddenly came to a halt.
"We're here," Bai Liluo said.
"We're here?" Chu Feng was somewhat surprised.
Because this place was still pitch black. The distance he could see was still only ten meters.
Beyond ten meters — nothing but darkness and utter silence.
That silence was eerie, unsettling.
Most importantly, Chu Feng couldn't detect anything that distinguished this place from anywhere else they had passed.
Whoosh— Suddenly, she crouched down. With one hand forming a seal and the other pressing against the ground, Bai Liluo's body began to emit a radiant white light. Once that white glow appeared, everything within a radius of a thousand meters was illuminated as bright as daylight.
Now Chu Feng could see that the place they stood was actually inside a palace.
The ground beneath their feet might have looked like ordinary rock, but the palace walls and the surrounding pillars were all exquisitely crafted — far beyond what an ordinary Spirit World Master could create. Everything within this palace was unbreakable; at least with Chu Feng's current strength, he couldn't make so much as a crack.
This was unmistakably the work of an extraordinarily powerful Spirit World Master.
Crack— But just then, a series of shattering sounds rang out. Chu Feng turned to look, and astonishment flashed across his eyes.
The supposedly indestructible rock beneath their feet had developed cracks — and those cracks were still spreading.
And all of this was Bai Liluo's doing.
Bai Liluo was actually powerful enough to shatter the stone here.
"No, wait."
But soon, Chu Feng realized he had been mistaken.
Although the rock was indeed breaking apart, it was cracking in a very specific pattern — even forming a special formation as it split. This wasn't something Bai Liluo was breaking apart; it was more like some kind of mechanism that she had activated.
Hummm— All at once, streaks of golden light seeped out from within the cracks.
Those rays seemed to possess a life of their own. After emerging, they spiraled and intertwined, weaving together to form an array.
More precisely, it resembled a great gate.
Whoosh— At that moment, the light around Bai Liluo's body shifted once more, and simultaneously the gate began to change. The previously shut doors swung open.
Through this gate, Chu Feng could see that beyond it lay a barrier space.
Inside the barrier space, countless divine beasts roamed — dragons, phoenixes, and all manner of rare and wondrous creatures.
They were vivid and lifelike, as though they truly existed, yet Chu Feng could sense that all of them were manifestations of powerful barrier techniques.
More precisely, they were manifestations of barrier power.
If the path of martial cultivation was the key for warriors to break through to higher realms, then these wondrous beasts born of barrier power were the key for a Spirit World Master to achieve breakthroughs.
To comprehend them was to break through.
"What are you spacing out for? Go on in," Bai Liluo said to Chu Feng.
"You're not coming in?" Chu Feng asked.
"It wouldn't be of any use to me. You go," Bai Liluo replied, then urged him further. "Stop dawdling and get in. Opening this thing takes quite a bit of energy out of me, so don't keep me waiting too long."
"Alright." Seeing this, Chu Feng no longer hesitated. He launched himself forward and soared into the space beyond.
Hummm— The moment Chu Feng entered, the gate behind him closed. He was now sealed inside.