As the spiritual pressure dispersed, shaking away the ice and snow, Li Xin sensed it and opened his eyes.
"You're back? How was it?" he asked immediately.
"That's about enough. Let's keep going. After we get to the third projection layer, follow the patterns. I've already memorized their locations." Qin Che smiled and pointed to his head.
Li Xin was overjoyed, and the two got up and began to travel forward.
Although he was exhausted from this training, Qin Che still managed to recover a significant amount of spiritual energy.
He and Li Xin moved forward together, both moving very quickly. Before long, they climbed up to the third layer of the projected world.
The glacier on the cliff is vast and magnificent.
A blizzard is raging here.
Qin Che understood that if they continued forward, they would still see the aircraft that the ancient sages had crashed, but this time, they had found a route.
Having experienced the same scene,
First, he saw the aircraft crash, then he followed the ancient sages all the way forward. After they left the area marked by the patterns, Qin Che stopped following them and changed direction.
"Go this way."
Are you sure you remember?
Don't worry.
Li Xin dared not tell Qin Che what he had discovered in the recording, for fear that it might affect Qin Che's memory and cause some deviation.
He decided to wait until he left this projected world before making any decisions.
Sure enough, following Qin Che's method and proceeding along the old path, they found ancient patterns marking their route.
Li Xin became increasingly surprised as he looked at it.
Did Qin Che really see the ruins of the empire underground?
What's going on?
But now is not the time to talk. Let's get out of here first.
The pattern is very complex, winding and twisting, but it keeps appearing and never breaks off.
Qin Che followed the ruins he had discovered underground in the Black Tide, sometimes turning and sometimes retreating, following the patterns and orientations within the ruins.
Neither of them used any displacement abilities; they relied on walking to reach the finish line.
Until they looked up and saw the first ruins of the empire.
Existing on the ice plains, and in the real world, the ruins of an empire!
"You've made it out." Qin Che was overjoyed and smiled happily.
Li Xin was deeply shocked. Looking up, he saw a building that was half-buried, like a sentry post.
There is some kind of observation platform structure at the top, but the things that should be placed there in the core equipment group are missing.
Qin Che frowned: "Buried."
"Hmm, the door is underground. Should we dig it open?"
Qin Che shook his head: "Let's take a look first."
The two observed from outside for a while.
This building is quite large. Relying on his master's perception, Qin Che saw the various traces left on the observation platform.
"We can confirm that some kind of natural psionic stone was once used here. This stone is the psionic core." Qin Che touched the surface of the ruins with his hand.
The building's floor and walls were covered with a thin layer of ice.
Seeing this, Li Xin used his molecular slash to make two cuts on the ground.
There were two swishing sounds!
The hard ice layer stirred up countless ice fragments, scattering powder everywhere, breaking the ice and stone together.
The main entrance was at the very bottom, but the two did not go through the door. Instead, they entered through the wall that Li Xin had cut with his men's swords.
Suddenly, a wave of warmth hit me.
"Heating?"
Both of them were taken aback, exchanged a glance, and showed surprise on each other's faces.
Here, it's warm like spring, nothing has changed, and time seems to stand still.
The warehouse on the second basement floor was stocked with a large amount of grain and ripe fruit, while the studio on the first basement floor still had brand-new book pages.
The fireplace on the first floor was still burning, the charcoal was hot and red, and flames were roaring.
From the outside, there was no movement at all, and the chimney wasn't smoking.
Qin Che frowned; this was truly astonishing.
Could it be that the space inside this building is a different space from the ice field outside?
Did this cause both temperature and existence to be severed?
“If the Empire is skilled in space technology, the projection world they built, as well as the appearances in this building, can demonstrate the maturity of their technology…” Li Xin said.
Qin Che nodded.
He saw a kitchen, a bathroom, and a bedroom—everything a building could have.
Qin Che was utterly shocked.
“But it seems like nobody lives here,” he said.
Li Xin also agreed: "It gives me the feeling that the people living there suddenly disappeared."
The two looked at each other again, and saw in each other's eyes what they wanted to say.
"This is the empire's calamity... Now I suspect that their fall came from psionic energy, and they were also destroyed by psionic energy."
The two continued downhill.
I saw an electronic map in the studio.
This map is still functioning, and it's unclear where its energy comes from.
Wasn't the psionic stone already taken away?
Could there be energy underground?
The location of this observation post is marked on the map.
"This is……"
Qin Che's pupils contracted slightly.
Li Xin was also deeply shocked.
For the first time, they saw the entirety of the First Northern Empire!
...
This map seems to depict another world.
This was not the China that Qin Che knew; the space seemed to have been expanded, and the original map seemed to have been folded up.
It is much broader.
The major cities of Linli are located within the territory of the empire.
Qin Che stared greedily at the map, wanting to memorize everything on it.
They had an imperial capital called Yujing.
In the far north, there is a vast stretch of the Great Wall, which is named the Supreme Cliff.
"Look, this outpost we're in is located at the very southernmost point. What's it called?"
“Hunter's outpost,” Qin Che replied.
The Imperials and the Lingbi people used the same script, although their script was more ancient and complex, but this did not prevent them from being recognized.
Qin Che understood.
To fully enter the empire's territory, they must enter the first city in the south of the empire, Bow City.
Enter Bow City from here
It will take thousands more kilometers.
There was no way around it; the empire was simply too vast.
It's surprisingly large.
It's as if the entire north has tripled in size.
Qin Che announced, "It seems we have left the projection world. The projection world is the gate to the empire, the key. We have passed through this gate and finally arrived at the southernmost end of the imperial ruins..."
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