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After an unknown amount of time, Chen Xi and his companion were surrounded by absolute darkness.

The thick, inky darkness completely swallowed up vision; even when you brought your hand close to your eyes, you couldn't make out the outline of your fingertips.

suddenly!

A faint light shone from below!

This scene is simply unbelievable.

Although the two had lost their visual reference, their bodies were falling uncontrollably. They were sinking deeper into the darkness, not surfacing. So where did this faint light that could penetrate the extreme darkness come from?

This counterintuitive sight made Chen Xi and Yang Wei both stare intently downwards.

"architecture?"

A gasp of amazement escaped Chen Xi's throat, and the increasingly clear halo of light was reflected in his eyes.

The light source just now was the enormous creation that lies beneath the dark seabed.

This building is so bizarre that it completely deviates from the realm of human aesthetics and structure.

Without a regular arrangement of beams and columns, or familiar brickwork, only the vaguely outlined contours and staggered layout can barely be called "architecture".

It seems to have grown naturally from the depths of the sea, or perhaps it was meticulously sculpted by some unimaginable force.

The massive pillar, gleaming with a warm, pearly sheen, pierced the darkness. Its surface was covered with intricate yet mysterious patterns, shimmering with an almost imperceptible luster in the dim light.

Between the columns are undulating arched domes of unknown material, with countless slender attachments hanging from the edges, resembling coral but more translucent, swaying gently with the water flow and refracting tiny particles of light.

What's most striking is its scale.

The entrance, barely visible, was comparable to the gates of the Black Tower, wide enough to allow several human castles to pass side by side, every detail exuding a magnificent aura "beyond human capabilities".

Chen Xin was certain that this place was definitely not something a creature of his size could have built.

Those enormous components, with their unusually wide spacing, seem designed for some colossal, towering creature, lying silently on this desolate seabed, exuding an air of mystery and majesty, isolated from the world.

"A safe zone." Chen Xi's eyes instinctively deepened. "I never expected there to be a safe zone hidden beneath the jelly sea."

If he were currently at the third level of cultivation, encountering a safe zone would undoubtedly be fantastic news.

However, he is only at level II at this moment, so he will not encounter misfortune, but he may encounter danger!

"Clatter".

With a soft thud as their feet touched the ground, Chen Xi and his companion stood firmly in this "giant city".

Or rather, they had no choice but to settle in this enormous city.

When the light first appeared, the giant city looked relatively small.

As the two continued to fall, they were shocked to realize that the entire area beneath the Jelly Sea seemed to be covered by this giant city, whose area was comparable to that of the Jelly Sea itself.

silence.

This was Chen Xi's first feeling after landing.

This is not surprising, as Lu Xitong once said that the Black Tower world is truly vast and sparsely populated.

Its land area remains a mystery to this day; no one has ever reached the boundary of the Black Tower, even though from the outside it appears to be only the width of a mountain.

"Boss, what do we do now?" Yang Wei asked instinctively.

Chen Xi raised her hand, her gaze fixed on the distance, and replied instantly, "Let's go over there. When we were sinking just now, I think I saw something familiar."

"Familiar?" Yang Wei murmured, finding it hard to believe that something Chen Xi had seen before would appear in such a place.

Without asking any further questions, he mindlessly followed in Chen Xi's footsteps.

......

......

The Reverse World, near the Upper City area.

"Lin Fan!" Wang Qingqing suddenly exclaimed excitedly, her voice filled with barely suppressed joy, "I know! We definitely chose the right path!"

"The fact that we can see the Black Tower means we've found our way home! Going up to the city was definitely the right direction; your auspicious date was truly amazing!"

Wang Qingqing's words seemed to express the feelings of everyone, and the people in the team all showed relieved smiles at this moment.

All the hardships and suffering along the way seemed to find solace at this moment.

Only Lin Fan remained expressionless, with a slight frown on his brow.

"What's wrong, Lin Fan? You look terrible. If you can't hold on, don't force yourself."

The last sentence was whispered in Lin Fan's ear.

It wasn't that she was being deliberately mysterious; she simply knew that she couldn't say a man was "impotent."

"It's not a problem with the Grand Void Rhythm," Lin Fan said seriously, "but rather, there's something wrong with this black tower!"

"When I saw the Black Tower, my first reaction was the same as yours, so I didn't stop at all, and instead sped up a little."

"Huh?" Wang Qingqing was taken aback. "Didn't you stop the moment you saw the Black Tower?"

Lin Fan shook his head:

"After seeing the Black Tower, I led you a little further. Because of the cold, you all kept your heads down and huddled up, so it's normal that you didn't notice the Black Tower appearing."

"It was precisely because I walked this much that I discovered a crucial problem: this black tower does not possess the characteristic of 'perpetual equidistant' distance."

"Under normal circumstances, the Black Tower should maintain a fixed distance from us, whether we approach or move away."

"But during that stretch of road, as I continued to move forward, the black tower was slowly moving away from us. In other words, we are now moving in the opposite direction from the black tower!"

"Could you be mistaken?" someone couldn't help but question. "After all, we've only walked this short distance; it should be difficult to discern the difference in distance, right?"

Lin Fan shook his head again, his tone resolute: "In the past, I might not have been able to guarantee it, but now it's different. I see it very clearly, there's no mistake, this black tower is not eternally equidistant!"

In other words, it's not the "lighthouse" that guides us home!

These words were like a bucket of cold water, instantly extinguishing the joy that had just ignited in the team. Everyone's enthusiasm immediately waned, and the scene fell into a deathly silence for a few seconds.

The silence was broken by an ordinary male voice: "Um... Teacher Lin Fan..."

The man who spoke was named Assam. He was of medium build, neither fat nor thin, and wore black-rimmed glasses. He had an unremarkable appearance.

"A" is a very rare surname, which is why Lin Fan remembered his name, but the two have not spoken a word to each other so far.

Assam and Lin Fan were not familiar with each other, and given Lin Fan's status in the team, Assam used the versatile suffix "teacher" to show respect.

"What did you discover?" Lin Fan asked, without showing any arrogance despite his special abilities.

"I haven't found anything," Assam said somewhat hesitantly. "But I have a question: why did you say the Black Tower is 'eternally equidistant'?"

"Isn't the Black Tower always in the same location? It's just that its doors are always closed, so we can't get in, and even missiles can't break through. Isn't that common sense?"

Assam's words plunged the entire room into a deathly silence.

Lin Fan stared at him and slowly asked, "You said the Black Tower is fixed in one location. Where is that location?"

"Jujing City!" Assam answered without hesitation, "Our Great Xia Kingdom's capital, the Black Tower has always been there, is there any mistake?"

"Are you sure the capital of the Great Xia Kingdom is called Jujing City, and not Shangjing City?" Lin Fan's voice carried a hint of seriousness that was barely perceptible.

"I'm sure!" Assam looked puzzled, not understanding why Lin Fan would specifically confirm something that the whole world knew.

Lin Fan gasped, looking at the bewildered Assam with a complex expression in his eyes, and murmured softly:

"I think I've discovered something incredibly serious!"