Ma Shier’s face was really too large, like a moving painting floating across the sky, nearly scaring Qiu Shiliu’s soul away.

After that large face disappeared, Qiu Shiliu carefully looked at the position where the large face had appeared.

There seemed to be an arc-shaped hole there that could let through light from outside.

Qiu Shiliu thought carefully and seemed to grasp a thread of a clue, so she hurriedly turned around to search for the position where she had just drilled out from.

But there were many fragment-like holes, each separated by great distances, now emitting light like numerous light gates suspended in midair.

So which hole had she actually drilled out from?

In other words… looking out from here, Xuanwu’s body was a series of gates of different shapes?

And those attacks launched at Xuanwu also rushed through the gates, dissipating in this vast space.

She wasn’t a solid entity at all. Everyone’s attacks were just like throwing things into a bottomless pit—naturally, they couldn’t possibly harm Xuanwu in the slightest.

Qiu Shiliu quickly analyzed the current situation with her not-so-clever mind. Since the black areas on Xuanwu’s body weren’t always there but only appeared when she was attacked…

Didn’t this mean… “gates” would continuously appear…?

A space that stretched as far as the eye could see, plus infinitely generated gates—Qiu Shiliu immediately understood her current predicament.

Even if she triggered “Crimson Flames” here, it would merely be a wisp of fireworks flashing through midair, completely unable to cause any harm to Xuanwu.

“What should I do now…?”

Qiu Shiliu felt somewhat anxious. Just as Su Shan had said to her before entering this strange space, they might only have this one chance, and could only send her alone, with all the remaining people responsible for buying her time.

Fortunately, Qiu Shiliu’s anger had fallen far below the standard for spontaneous combustion, so she should still have some time to explore.

Thinking this, she shifted her form in the air, only to discover that she was now difficult to move.

She clearly remembered having moved a distance just now, but when she truly focused her attention on “moving,” she became stuck.

“Even ‘movement’ relies on the subconscious…?”

She stared at a distant gate, channeling her mind, letting her gaze be attracted only to that gate. Then she felt the whooshing sound of wind by her ears, and the gate in her eyes grew larger and larger, as if she were moving rapidly.

But Qiu Shiliu soon discovered a broken tree not far from her side.

That tree was actually following her, rapidly moving toward the distant gate, as if absolutely parallel to her.

Qiu Shiliu’s conviction moved, and she stopped her figure. The tree also stopped advancing, continuing to remain parallel to her.

Then she once again looked toward the distant gate, as if wanting to test this strange space. When she felt her form begin to move again, the tree not far from her also started moving.

When she moved, the tree moved?

“I… think I understand…”

In this strange space, rather than saying she was rapidly moving, it was better to say she was fixed in place while the entire space was moving.

The entire space shifted a distance following her conviction, making that gate appear closer to her.

And that tree, like herself, should be foreign products distinct from this place, so she and the tree were actually stationary—only the space had moved.

“This place is too difficult to understand…” Although Qiu Shiliu’s mind was full of questions, she knew she didn’t have enough time to figure out all the problems. She could only stop worrying about that tree floating in midair and continue moving toward the distance.

While moving, Qiu Shiliu heard some sound appearing on her right side. Turning her head, she saw what seemed to be a gate-like thing in the distance, inside which Luo Shiyi and Ma Shier’s figures seemed to flash past, but that gate was fleeting and unclear.

“Strange…”

Qiu Shiliu felt she was only a step away from madness. After all, in this strange space, she couldn’t even feel gravity. She only felt that she couldn’t complete any actions except turning around, yet the entire space was moving under her conviction.

So it wasn’t she who was moving, but the world that was moving.

In merely the blink of an eye, that distant gate had already flown before her.

Speaking of it as a gate, this thing only looked like an elliptical hole, emitting dim light from within. It should be one of the less conspicuous types among all the gates. The reason she noticed it at first glance was because it was close enough to her.

But when this gate flew before her eyes, Qiu Shiliu once again felt a surge of unknown fear.

After entering through this gate… what would she see?

Would she still be in the “Land of the End”?

She opened her eyes to look at the gate before her and found that it was indeed very dim inside, with some grid-like things vaguely showing their shapes.

She slowly extended her hand, probing into the gate, only to feel a very wonderful sensation coming from the other side of the gate. There was a completely different temperature and humidity from the space she was in, like extending her hand into an air-conditioned room.

She thought carefully for a while, withdrew her hand, then tried to grasp both sides of the elliptical gate and slowly probed her head inside.

In an instant, she felt like she had submerged into warm water, her face feeling a wave of warmth. Then she opened her eyes with slight horror.

She discovered this was just an ordinary housing ruin, the temperature slightly high. What she had seen as grids from outside the gate turned out to be the brick walls of the housing ruin.

This place looked like a rural house from the seventies or eighties. Apart from a stove that could burn loose coal, there wasn’t any decent furniture. Even the cooking stove was piled up with bricks, though it had now collapsed.

Strangely, this building had no door. Everywhere Qiu Shiliu’s gaze reached were walls.

But soon she realized that her current position was the door. It was just that the space here was strange, and she didn’t dare rashly enter the ruin, or she might very likely be unable to find a way back.

Finding no other suspicious places within the ruin, Qiu Shiliu withdrew her head.

If every gate here led to a strange room… what exactly was the relationship to Xuanwu?

Could she really find a method to kill Xuanwu here?

“There are really too many gates…”

Qiu Shiliu furrowed her brow as she surveyed the vast starry sky. Nearby were oddly-shaped gates, while in the distance, countless star seas extended from large to small.

This dazed feeling left Qiu Shiliu momentarily directionless. Time was passing minute by minute outside—what exactly should she do now?

“They’re buying time for me… I absolutely cannot retreat here…”