At this moment Lin Yi said to Guderian:

"I heard the reason you were trapped here was to guard a palace."

"Is that true?"

Guderian nodded and said:

"It’s true!"

"Please, Clan Leader, come with me."

With that, Guderian led Lin Yi, under the illumination of the green light curtain, through the ruins of a stretch of buildings, all the way to a huge palace deeper in that still looked relatively intact.

Lin Yi looked at the plaque hanging on the palace and his body was struck as if by lightning, frozen on the spot.

At the same time, Ai Wen, standing to the side, read it out curiously:

"Lingxiao Hall? That name sounds so familiar."

"Isn’t ’Lingxiao Hall’ the place where the Jade Emperor resides in Journey to the West?"

Staring at the great hall before her, filled with supreme majesty and solemnity, Ai Wen asked in bafflement:

"Why would it appear here? That’s so strange."

At this time Zhang Xinying noticed:

"The writing on it..."

Only then did Ai Wen react—right now they were still inside the game.

And the script of Rafam Continent was nothing like what was in front of her.

Looking at the three vigorous traditional characters from Hua Country, Ai Wen covered her mouth in shock and said:

"You’re right!"

"Why would the script of our Hua Country appear here?"

Sure enough, in the next moment Guderian looked at them in surprise:

"You can read the characters up there?"

Only then did Zhang Xinying and Ai Wen glance at each other, both taken aback.

Compared to the two girls’ surprise, Lin Yi’s heart at this moment was surging like a raging storm.

In Lin Yi’s mind now, this was far more than just three traditional characters.

Looking at those three flowing, dragon-like strokes, Lin Yi suddenly felt a sense of familiarity, the same sensation he’d had during the final round of the Divine Son selection on the Nine Nether Continent.

Because these three characters and the four characters "Vast Righteous Qi" on the plaque of the hall he’d been in during that final round should have been written by the same person.

Whether in style or in the aura they exuded, they were almost identical.

To say they weren’t written by the same person—Lin Yi wouldn’t believe it even if it killed him.

When Lin Yi first learned the origin of the [Unknown Dark Hall], he’d thought this place was a ruin left behind by some high-level beings from another plane.

But now, it seemed things were far from as simple as he had imagined.

With the appearance of "Lingxiao Palace", a faint, indistinct line suddenly flashed through Lin Yi’s mind.

This line spanned between Rafam Continent and the Nine Nether Continent, and the script used even implicated a blue planet deep within the universe.

At this moment, the Soul Body of the Elda Sword Saint appeared under Lin Yi’s control.

As soon as Elda appeared, he let out a soft "huh" toward the plaque Lin Yi was pointing at.

Then Elda told Lin Yi something that shocked him to the core:

"How come there is also Gonggong’s lingering aura on this plaque?"

Elda’s words were exactly as Lin Yi had suspected.

This plaque, like the one he had seen on the Nine Nether Continent before, should have been made by Gonggong of the Divine Race.

If this were confirmed, then this magnificent [palace] before them would inevitably have countless ties to the vanished Divine Race.

Thinking of this, Lin Yi’s curiosity about this Divine Hall grew even stronger.

Just as he lifted his foot to step onto the stairs, Guderian suddenly spoke:

"Wait a moment."

And just then, Lin Yi’s other foot had already stepped onto the White Jade-like steps:

"You, you..."

Guderian looked at Lin Yi. Although her expression couldn’t be clearly seen, the shock in her voice could not be concealed.

Lin Yi was puzzled:

"Is there a problem?"

Guderian stared at Lin Yi in disbelief, but instead of answering immediately, she copied Lin Yi and tried to place one foot on the steps.

Yet, as if something was blocking her at the boundary between the ground and the White Jade steps, her foot hovered in midair, unable to move an inch further.

Guderian spoke again:

"For these thousands of years, it’s been as if there were a Barrier here preventing us from getting close."

"To this day, we still don’t know what’s inside."

"We’ve been curious about it for thousands of years."

"At the same time, we suspect that if we want to leave this place, the answer should be inside."

Then Guderian looked at Lin Yi, her emotions surging:

"It seems the answer here is about to be revealed."

At such a moment, when anyone is about to unravel a mystery that has lingered for millennia, it’s hard not to be shocked.

At the same time, Guderian and all the clansmen here who had turned into Bone Dragons probably all hoped that, before the end of their existence, they could go back to Dragon Island, where they once lived, and take a look.

Ai Wen then stepped forward in amazement and tried to step onto that White Jade stair, but in the next instant her foot kicked an invisible wall, and her face twisted with pain:

"Hiss~ that hurts!"

Unwilling to accept it, Ai Wen reached out and felt around; sure enough, as soon as her hand stretched forward it touched an unseen wall:

"There really is a wall."

Zhang Xinying also walked up curiously; she was no exception and was likewise blocked by an invisible wall.

It wasn’t just them—even the Jade Qilin couldn’t enter in the slightest.

However, at this moment everyone was focused on that invisible Barrier and failed to notice the trace of oddness that flashed across the face of the Jade Qilin, Ian.

It felt as if it knew something, yet wasn’t entirely sure.

After everyone had tried and found that they couldn’t pass through the Barrier, Lin Yi was left deeply puzzled:

"Why can I?"

Lin Yi carefully stepped onto the dust-free White Jade-like steps, and just as his eyes saw, he wasn’t affected in any way.

Looking at the tightly closed red-lacquered doors, Lin Yi turned his head and said to Zhang Xinying and the others:

"Wait here for me and wait for my signal."

Zhang Xinying couldn’t help but say:

"Be careful."

Lin Yi smiled faintly and said:

"Don’t worry, I’ll be fine."

From his rebirth until now, the dangers and strange events Lin Yi had experienced were beyond counting.

Now, when facing the unknown, there was no longer any fear in Lin Yi’s heart—only curiosity about the truth and a desire to explore.

Because he needed to find the real reason for his rebirth.

Although the system old man had already told him that his rebirth was entirely his handiwork,

after everything he had gone through, Lin Yi no longer believed his rebirth could be that simple.

Vaguely, Lin Yi could sense that his rebirth seemed to be inextricably linked to the vanished Divine Race.

Another thing was that Lin Yi wanted to find out his true identity—what exactly he was.

From the time he could remember, Lin Yi had already been living in an orphanage.

Why was everything before that a complete blank?

Lost in thought, Lin Yi had already reached out and pushed at the solemn and mysterious doors:

"Hm?"

But in the next moment, to everyone’s surprise, even when Lin Yi used all his strength he still couldn’t move the doors in the slightest.

Just as Lin Yi was puzzled by this, a rusty iron token flew out of his backpack on its own.

The instant he saw that iron token, Lin Yi recognized the thing he’d never managed to figure out the use of:

"The Alliance Order!"