Beyond the Timescape

The thick mist made it impossible to see clearly. It was easy to get lost, difficult to determine one’s position, and hard to follow any set route. This was a world inside of a fresco.

But Xu Qing’s facial expression remained the same as ever. Upon entering the fresco, the feeling he experienced thanks to the mist and fog wasn’t something new to him.

This is like a combination of the characteristics of the second and third worlds. Put precisely... it’s like something in between the second and third worlds, a unique place with a sky inside of a sky. A world inside of a world.

Xu Qing looked down and activated his space-time canon. His thoughts rose to a higher level, and dropped down into the mist, taking his fleshly body with him. He pierced through the mist for a while. The mist thinned, and eventually, it didn’t block his line of sight anymore.

An enormous mountain appeared in front of him. It was pitch black and had no man-made stairs on it. There was no vegetation growing on it, leaving it bare and stark. It was almost like... the spine of this world.

However, there were many warding spell fluctuations pulsing in the mountain. In fact, there were so many that when he tried to put a number on them it wasn’t possible. The warding spells made a terrifying force that would make it impossible to get onto the mountain and climb to its summit unless you had canon.

“This is the place,” the imp said excitedly. “This is the place! Hurry up and get moving, son. My little treasure is on the summit.”

Xu Qing knew that it wouldn’t be easy to change the imp’s speech patterns. After all, he had crushed the jade slip over a hundred times, and no matter how polite the imp got afterward, he would eventually revert to his previous ways.

Xu Qing could only frown and refuse to be bothered by the imp’s annoying and confusing manner of speech. After studying the area below, he took a step forward, and that step propelled him to the foot of the mountain.

“Hmm?” Xu Qing’s eyes glittered as he landed at the foot of the mountain. He had been stepping toward the summit, but some force prevented him, and now here he was at the bottom. What an interesting mountain.

The imp laughed derisively. “This place was my secret hideout. The defenses I left behind have weakened over the years. But if you think you can just go right to the top of the mountain, you’re sadly mistaken. Now hurry up and start climbing. You have space-time canon, so even though you can’t get to the top instantly, you shouldn’t have much trouble going up.”