Standing on the island, He Ao looked up at the suspended desert above, most of which was already covered in ice and snow.
Yes, he had returned again, back to this connection point space.
The passage on the right, entering it leads into the connection point space.
And the passage on the left, too.
That deep sea area was not a fork in the road, but a path split into two, both passages leading to this connection point space.
This was a trap specially 'prepared' for He Ao by the behind-the-scenes Divine Being.
Just now when he entered, the passage on the left spread out like a folding space net trying to catch He Ao, deliberately misleading him into 'thinking' he was on the 'right' path.
Once he was fully inside, he realized there was no direct passage to the Ice and Snow Core.
Previously, he thought the connection point space and Ice and Snow Core were connected at a fork, but in fact, this connection point space was between the Frozen Sea and the Ice and Snow Core.