Revelation of the Way of Heaven

In response to the middle-aged man's question, Qin Xiaochuan replied frankly, "I don't understand what you mean."

"I'll make you understand," the other person said curtly. Just as Qin Xiaochuan was wondering what the other person meant, the middle-aged man took something out of his pocket.

The thing was about five centimeters tall and looked a lot like a Japanese matryoshka doll. Its shape was that of a gluttonous, pot-bellied demon, and its head was the same demon face that had attacked the two men earlier. After the middle-aged man took out the matryoshka doll, he whispered a spell to it.

Qin Xiaochuan didn't know what the other party wanted to do, but he was sure it wasn't anything good. He had to be on guard. After the middle-aged man finished chanting the incantation, the wooden doll began to grow bigger and bigger, eventually becoming almost as tall as a person. At the same time, the gluttonous ghost's big mouth suddenly opened, revealing a gray vortex inside.

The moment the gray vortex appeared, Qin Xiaochuan felt a powerful force pulling him into it.

Encountering this bizarre phenomenon, he was truly shocked and horrified. He couldn't care less about anything else at the moment and quickly formed several hand seals, sending a huge fireball hurtling towards the wooden nesting doll.

But just as the fireball reached the matryoshka doll, before it could explode, it was sucked into the gray vortex, and he and Guo Shiyi were involuntarily thrown into it.

Just as he was about to be completely sucked into the vortex, his left hand was suddenly grabbed, and his momentum was immediately stopped. He turned around and saw Guo Shiyi, who was holding a vine tightly in her other hand. The other end of the vine was wrapped around a stone pillar in the hall.

Although their bodies had temporarily stopped, the attraction did not disappear. In fact, the closer they got to the gray vortex, the stronger the attraction became, and it was pulling their bodies desperately. Soon, Qin Xiaochuan began to feel a tearing pain in his shoulders, as if his arms were about to be torn apart.

Seeing that they were deadlocked, the middle-aged man frowned, waved his hand, and an ice blade slashed through the air, breaking the vines tied to the stone pillar.

The next moment, the two had no choice but to feel a sudden darkness before their eyes, along with a tense feeling of sudden weightlessness. Their minds became chaotic, and when they came to their senses, they were lying in a strange space.

Qin Xiaochuan immediately turned over and looked at Guo Shiyi next to him. She seemed to still be in a confused state, her eyes were tightly closed, and her two delicate willow-leaf eyebrows were completely furrowed together. She looked very uncomfortable, probably caused by the weightlessness she had just experienced.

"Are you alright?" he asked softly, her expression looking very worrying.

Perhaps it was because she heard Qin Xiaochuan's voice that she finally came to her senses, and her furrowed brows gradually relaxed. After a few seconds, she opened her eyes.

Her bright black eyes darted around in their sockets, then she frowned and asked, "Where is this place?"

"have no idea."

All Qin Xiaochuan could see was white water vapor; there was nothing else in sight.

The only saving grace was that it wasn't completely dark, and I had no idea where the light source came from; it seemed as if light was coming from all directions.

Qin Xiaochuan only remembered that they were drawn in by the gray vortex mentioned by the matryoshka doll. Could this be the space inside the matryoshka doll? But the space here is too big, completely disproportionate to the size of the matryoshka doll. He slapped his head in disbelief.

Qin Xiaochuan knew that thinking too much was pointless, so he decided to find out more about the situation here and see if there was any chance to get out.

Just as he was about to stand up, he realized that Guo Shiyi's right hand was still holding his left hand. He was too embarrassed to just pull his hand away and leave, so he had no choice but to continue sitting and wait for her to take her hand away on her own.

This made him unable to resist focusing all his attention on her palm. Her hand was so soft that it felt like it didn't exist in his hand. Instead, he felt an unreal sensation, a warm sensation that made his heart beat faster immediately.

Qin Xiaochuan felt his face getting hot, but he quickly turned his head to the side, afraid that Guo Shiyi would notice something was wrong. He couldn't help but think to himself, "It's so strange, why do I suddenly have this feeling? I didn't have it at the beginning."

After a while, Guo Shiyi had probably gotten used to her surroundings and was about to sit up when she realized that her hand was still in Qin Xiaochuan's. She gently let go of his hand. Her movements were very light and careful. If Qin Xiaochuan hadn't been focusing all his attention on his hand, he definitely wouldn't have noticed what was happening.

Qin Xiaochuan felt his heart start pounding again, but he didn't dare to turn around and look at her. He pretended not to notice her at all and kept looking around at his surroundings. When she stood up from the ground, he hurriedly withdrew his hand and got up from the ground as well.

Even at this moment, he still felt a strange sensation in his hands, and a sense of inexplicable loss filled his heart.

He and Guo Shiyi groped their way around the space, but they stopped after only two steps because their hands had touched the boundary of the space.

The boundary resembles an arc-shaped wall, and it also feels like wood, at least to the touch.

The walls were white, and their outlines were indistinguishable in the white mist unless you touched them.

They felt their way forward along the curved wall and quickly circled the entire space. It was only two or three square meters in size, and it seemed to be inside the middle-aged man's nesting doll.

It has to be said that this nesting doll is truly amazing. It was only half the size of a palm at first, but it has such a large space inside. I wonder what the nesting doll looks like now. Has it also become half the size of a palm again, like in the myths and novels? If so, wouldn't this nesting doll be equivalent to a real-life version of the Purple Gold Gourd?

Qin Xiaochuan was puzzled for a moment, then continued to think about the middle-aged man's behavior, unable to understand why the other party wanted to arrest him.

This problem is impossible to figure out for the time being; they have too few clues. The priority now is to find a way to leave this place. So he activated his Heavenly Eye again and looked outside the Matryoshka doll to see if the middle-aged man was nearby.

But the result disappointed him. He didn't know what material the dolls were made of, and his vision was blocked by the surrounding walls. His third eye's field of vision was limited to this space of less than three square meters.

Of course, he did gain something, or more accurately, he made a discovery, and a terrible one at that, because he discovered that the air around him and Guo Shiyi was filled with spiritual energy, and that this spiritual energy was flowing from their bodies into the surrounding walls.

This nesting doll is actually absorbing their spiritual energy!

This is absolutely terrible. Regardless of what the middle-aged man's purpose is, if they allow all the spiritual energy in their bodies to be absorbed, they will only face certain death.

He told Guo Shiyi about his discovery, and she quickly realized that her spiritual power was being lost.

"Find a way to break this damn thing." Guo Shiyi frowned, speaking decisively.

Qin Xiaochuan naturally had no objection; this was their only option at the moment. He told Guo Shiyi to step aside, then immediately formed several hand seals, and a dark red fireball roared towards the wall in front of them.

The fireball approached the wall instantly. Just then, the white wall, which had felt smooth to the touch, suddenly trembled. A gray vortex reappeared in front of the fireball. The gray vortex spun rapidly, and the fireball, which hadn't had time to explode, slowly seeped into the vortex along its rotation.

In just a few seconds, the fireball was completely absorbed by the wall, the vortex on the wall disappeared, and the wall returned to its original state.

Without leaving a trace.