In the middle of the forked road's rock wall, a shadow slid forward at full speed. This was a long road, longer than any road Shadow Play had run before. Her life force was quickly depleting, and as time passes, the amount required to maintain the shadow state was growing.
Once her life force was exhausted, unable to maintain the current state, she might detach from the shadow. However, the rock walls on both sides only had this gap in the middle to pass through, meaning that once she detached from the shadow, she would meet a grim death on the spot.
Time passed second by second, and the life energy slot had reached the red-green gradient part, with the green part almost invisible. Now was the only opportunity to return; she could still return through the gap to the original place. Once she continued forward, unless she detached from the gap before the life force was exhausted to reach the vertical passage Qian Jiangyue pointed out, there was no other outcome.
