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"Boom boom boom—"

With wisps of black air, the colossal hand, like Mount Tai bearing down, shot towards Lin Zichen.

The hand moved with incredible speed, quickly catching up to the fleeing Lin Zichen.

Lin Zichen knew he couldn't escape in a conventional way.

So, without hesitation, he used his Biometric Attributes [Burrowing Instinct] to escape underground.

The sound of soil and stone shattering rose.

In one moment, Lin Zichen was on the surface, and the next, he had burrowed into the ground, disappearing without a trace.

Almost at the same instant he disappeared.

The black-aired gigantic hand smashed down onto the ground, sending soil flying and debris scattering, creating clouds of dust.

When the hand lifted,

The ground had a new, over ten-meter-deep, giant palm crater.

Around the crater, terrifyingly large cracks spread far and wide.

This showed just how terrifying the power of that strike was.

If it had landed accurately, it could have crushed a Rare Level creature to death without any trouble.

"How did he do that?"

A voice of confusion transmitted through the black mist.

No sooner had these words fallen than a sinister man over three meters tall stepped out from the mist, his face filled with disbelief as he looked down at the palm crater.

More precisely, he was gazing at the bottomless cavern at the center of the crater.

This bottomless cavern was the one Lin Zichen had just dug out.

He had created it in less than a second.

The speed was so fast it was inconceivable.

...

Deep below the surface,

Lin Zichen kept digging deeper, not daring to stop for even a moment.

Even though [Danger Perception] had ceased, he dared not let his guard down.

In Origin Land, mighty beings were legion, and no one knew if these beings had means to shield against [Danger Perception].

100 meters...

200 meters...

300 meters...

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Lin Zichen had the impression that he might have broken through something.

He wanted to stop and see what had happened.

But as soon as he stopped, before he could even begin to survey his surroundings,

Suddenly, the tough earth in front of him rippled like water, forming a huge whirlpool that sucked him right in.

...

God knows how much time passed.

It seemed like a few seconds.

Perhaps a few minutes.

It could have even been several hours.

When Lin Zichen opened his eyes again, he found himself in front of a colossal palace.

This massive palace was submerged in water, yet the floor and walls were bereft of any seaweed, as if it had only just been flooded.

"What place is this, after all?"

With a hint of curiosity and trepidation, Lin Zichen kept sending out spiritual power to probe the environment inside the palace.

But after probing for a while, he detected nothing.

Around the palace seemed to be covered by a transparent, gigantic membrane that blocked his spiritual power from entering.

Just as Lin Zichen was contemplating whether to venture into the palace to explore——

"Creak——"

A heavy sound of a door opening echoed.

The palace door opened.

Seeing this, Lin Zichen instantly tensed, ready to flee at the first sign of danger.

However, to his surprise, when the palace doors opened, the person who walked out was a face he knew all too well—Shen Qinghan.

"Han Han, how come you're here?"

Lin Zichen was able to transmit his voice through water, his face full of confusion as he gazed at Shen Qinghan inside the palace, failing to understand why she would be in this place.

Shen Qinghan used the same method to transmit her voice through water: "I don't know, I was just running on the battlefield, and suddenly I was pulled in here."

Pulled in?

Lin Zichen felt a chill, asking, "Who pulled you in?"

"I don't know."

Shen Qinghan shook her head, then continued, "I was running with Instructor Lan and the others when suddenly I felt water under my feet, and then everything went dark, and I found myself here."

Water under her feet?

Lin Zichen was very sensitive to the word "water."

From birth to now, Shen Qinghan had always been synonymous with the character "water."

He suspected that Shen Qinghan's appearance here might have something to do with her Special Physique.

Wait, something doesn't add up.

The soiled girl is here because of her special physique.

But me? How did I end up here?

Seeing the confusion on Lin Zichen's face, Shen Qinghan explained as if she could read minds: "I am the one who pulled you into this place."

The soiled girl pulled me in?

Lin Zichen was surprised and hurriedly asked, "How did you manage that?"

Shen Qinghan answered, "I can control anything inside the palace. I saw something that looked like a Teleportation Array and tried to see if I could teleport you here, and then it worked."

Her words were casual, but to Lin Zichen, they were shockingly profound.

Could the soiled girl actually control this palace?

What was her relationship to this palace?

Was she the owner of the palace in a past life?

Does she have a remnant soul of the palace's owner within her?

Did she receive a legacy from the palace's owner?

A myriad of possibilities flashed through Lin Zichen's mind, but none he was sure of.

He knew that pondering was futile and quickly shifted his attention to surveying the interior of the palace.

Through the open doors, he saw the palace interior was more bare than he imagined, with barely a few pieces of furniture, resembling a newly painted house without decorations.

"Lin Zi, come inside quickly, don't just stand out there looking in, it's very safe inside the palace," Shen Qinghan urged, seeing Lin Zichen stationary outside, only scanning the palace interior with his eyes from the doorway.

Upon hearing this, Lin Zichen did not hesitate; he promptly swam into the palace.

Inside the palace,

Lin Zichen discovered the interior was even more empty than he had assumed, with virtually nothing inside.

Source: Webnovel.com, updated by Aunomay Read