Han Li only felt a gray mist all around, and then suddenly felt empty beneath him. He couldn't help but stumble forward, his steps faltering at first, then regaining their solidity.

He felt as if he had passed through a layer of hazy miasma, and before he knew it, he had appeared in another space entirely.

He rubbed his aching temples, and his blurred vision slowly cleared, allowing him to see the moss on the stone slab floor.

Straightening up, Han Li looked around and found that he was alone. Jin Tong, Qu Ling, and Lu Yuqing had not followed him in. He frowned and sighed softly.

He never expected that he would be reunited with the Gold Devouring Immortal Jin Tong, from whom he had been separated for so many years, in such a situation. Although there was not much verbal communication, Jin Tong had stepped forward to save his life in a moment of crisis, warming his heart for no reason.

After all, since arriving in the True Immortal Realm, he had encountered the same deceit and infighting as in the Human Realm and the Spirit Realm. Except for the fox demon Liu Le'er when he first entered the Spirit寰界, he had not felt such genuine concern from anyone in so many years.

Of course, this was also related to the fact that he had always regarded Jin Tong as half his child.

Clearly, Jin Tong must have obtained some kind of opportunity in the past two thousand years, and his strength had greatly increased. He could even confront a late-stage Gold Immortal expert for so long. However, Han Li knew in his heart that he was no match for Qu Ling. This woman had many tricks up her sleeve, and her control over the power of laws was far beyond his own, not to mention that strange Profound Gourd.

Now, he could only hope that Jin Tong would be able to turn danger into safety, even if it meant temporarily surrendering. Judging from the previous situation, Jin Tong seemed to have been taken as a spiritual pet by this Qu Ling before.

If anything were to happen to Jin Tong, he would find Qu Ling one day after he advanced to the Gold Immortal realm and make her pay the price she deserved.

As for Lu Yuqing, he had felt that there was something strange about her for some time, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.

However, she was just a casual acquaintance. Entering the Underworld Cold Immortal Mansion this time was a cooperative relationship, so there wasn't much friendship between them. Although she had provoked Qu Ling mainly because of him, she had chosen to follow him in order to seek greater opportunities, so such risks were naturally unavoidable.

Now that he had been inexplicably sucked in here, he could only let her fend for herself in the face of Qu Ling's anger.

Han Li temporarily put aside the thoughts in his mind, and his eyes turned, scanning the surroundings.

Upon closer inspection, he found himself in an old mansion courtyard. All around were dilapidated courtyard walls and collapsed houses, covered with dark green moss and weeds. It was unknown how long they had been abandoned.

However, when his gaze turned to the back of the courtyard, his brow couldn't help but twitch, and a hint of doubt flashed in his eyes.

He saw that on the upper right corner of the not-so-tall house behind him, roof tiles were suspended in the air, appearing to be collapsing. It looked as if they were being imprisoned by some invisible force, still maintaining the state of collapse.

Han Li's mind stirred, and a flash of blue light appeared in his eyes. He released his divine sense and probed upwards.

After a long while, his figure silently leaped up and landed on the ridge of the roof. He reached out and gently grabbed a black tile suspended in the air, while the other tiles and ridge rubble remained in place, unaffected.

Surprised, Han Li, standing on the high ridge of the roof, looked out beyond the courtyard. All he could see were dilapidated and collapsed houses, dense ruins stretching for dozens of miles in all directions.

Among these buildings, strange scenes like the one in this courtyard were everywhere. Although the damaged pavilions and towers had broken into countless pieces, they had not scattered on the ground. It was as if they had been frozen at the moment of collapse, maintaining a state of suspended dust.

After a moment of contemplation, Han Li slowly closed his eyes, and a vast sea of divine sense spread out around him.

This area was different from the previous red soil wasteland. The divine sense was not restricted in any way and could be probed at will.

However, after only a moment, his eyes suddenly opened, the blue light in his pupils completely disappeared, and his expression became somewhat strange.

"What exactly is this..." He pondered for a long time, but was unable to say anything.

The area of this region was truly beyond his expectations. His divine sense had only spread out slightly, and he had already scanned the entire area. It was only about a hundred miles in radius, and at the end of his divine sense, there were only spatial barriers.

According to common sense, his ability to enter this place meant that it was not completely isolated from the outside world. At the very least, there should be a weak point in space. As long as he found it, he could break through the spatial barrier and return to the original area when necessary.

However, after a thorough exploration with his divine sense, he did not find any places with large spatial fluctuations or unstable spatial barriers.

Han Li frowned, made a hand seal, and a burst of golden light gushed out from behind him. The Mantra Treasure Wheel slowly emerged from it.

As the movements in his hand changed, the dozen or so translucent time Dao patterns on the Mantra Treasure Wheel lit up one after another, and the huge golden eye suspended in the center began to rotate, shooting out golden rays of light as if they were tangible.

Since he could not detect any restrictions, formations, or hidden space entrances with his divine sense, Han Li had no choice but to use the Eye of Truth to investigate.

He flew into the air, urging the golden giant eye, and focused his gaze on the center of the courtyard where he first appeared.

Under the golden light, the courtyard stone slabs were empty, without any abnormalities.

Han Li slowly moved his gaze, from the ground stone slabs to the stone table in the courtyard, then to the withered tree by the wall, and then to the side rooms on both sides. Everything was peaceful, without any changes.

It was not until the gaze of the Eye of Truth moved to the house that maintained the state of collapse that a slight change occurred in the hazy golden light. The collapsing roof there actually returned to its original state under a surging golden light.

"Oh, strange! Could it be that this house actually contains the power of the Law of Time?" Han Li raised his eyebrows and was surprised.

Before he could step forward to investigate carefully, the phantom of the house that had just been repaired began to flicker frequently, and the image could not be stabilized.

Han Li put away the Mantra Treasure Wheel and landed in front of the main hall. First, he checked the entire outer side of the main hall, and then he carefully searched inside the main hall for a while, but he did not find anything that contained the power of the Law of Time.

"That's strange, could it be because the power of the Law of Time contained within it is too weak to be detected? That shouldn't be the case." Han Li was filled with doubts and muttered to himself.

After pondering for a moment, a flash of light appeared in his eyes, and the Mantra Treasure Wheel reappeared. His figure floated up and left the courtyard, flying towards other areas.

Looking down from the high altitude, the buildings in this area were dilapidated, but the overall distribution was very regular, basically the same as the layout of markets and neighborhoods in secular cities. Therefore, Han Li divided the entire city into areas for exploration based on the crisscrossing roads.

Starting from the outer workshops on the east side, he went all the way west, conducting a more detailed inspection of some buildings that maintained a state of collapse along the way. Each time he used the Eye of Truth to investigate, it could vaguely reflect the image of the original intact state, but they were all like the previous mansion, unable to stabilize.

It seemed that in this entire city, there were faint fluctuations of the Law of Time everywhere, but they did not reach a level that could be sensed.

In less than half a day, Han Li had thoroughly investigated the market areas in the four major areas of the southeast, northwest, but the results were all fruitless.

By evening, the sun on the edge of the sky gradually turned fiery red and began to set towards the western mountains.

In the south of the city, in a desolate garden mansion overgrown with weeds, stood a nine-story black wooden tower. The tower was covered with scorch marks and severely tilted to one side, looking as if it would collapse at any moment.

Han Li held onto the iron frame at the top of the tower with one hand, stood on the black tiles at the top of the tower, and looked out at the distant sunset.

Beside him stood Crab Daoren, dressed in a yellow robe, with a calm expression and no emotion on his face.

"Crab Daoyou, is there anything special about the layout of this city?" Han Li asked, his eyes slightly narrowed.

"Although the area distribution of this city is in accordance with the Nine Palaces numerology, it is only the standard regulation for the construction of ordinary cities. At least from the surface, there is nothing special about it. As for whether there are any special arrangements hidden in the dark, we can't see anything just by looking like this." Crab Daoren shook his head and said.

"Since that's the case, then I'll have to trouble Crab Daoyou to investigate and see if there are any hidden mechanisms or formations." Han Li said after pondering for a moment after hearing this.

Crab Daoren nodded silently, his figure flashed from the wooden tower and disappeared without a trace.

Han Li watched the afterglow of the setting sun gradually disappear, his eyes suddenly flashed, and his whole person turned into a stream of azure light, shooting out.

However, only an instant later, a loud bang suddenly came from the high altitude!

In the void at the edge of the city, an azure light suddenly flashed, and an azure figure was heavily bounced back by an invisible barrier and fell down.

The figure was naturally none other than Han Li.

However, before he could crash to the ground, the azure light on his body suddenly brightened, and he rushed straight towards another direction again...

Time flies, and several days have passed.

In a private garden in the center of this ruined city, there is a lush forest of weeds. The forest is scattered with jagged rocks as tall as humans, their color is dark and their surface is covered with slippery moss.

On the winding road in the forest, two figures, one azure and one yellow, walked side by side towards the center of the forest.

"There are many secret room restrictions in the city, but most of them are very shallow and not worth exploring at all. Only this place is a little different. Whether it's the layout of the forest or the secret pattern, it seems extraordinary." Crab Daoren said while leading the way.

"If Crab Daoyou calls it extraordinary, then this place is very likely to be the exit of the secret realm..." Hearing this, a look of expectation flashed in Han Li's eyes.