She let out a long exhale, watching him step into the giant mouth of Chi Wen, then took a stride into the black teleportation array. She slowly retreated to the shore and sat cross-legged with her eyes closed.
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Yuan Hou emerged from the water, ascending the steps one by one.
The place where he appeared was surprisingly a shallow pond, its banks constructed from fine stones, and the pond's bottom etched with subtle arrays. Influenced by these arrays, the water swallowed by Chi Wen only swirled to the edge of the pond and never overflowed.
This place was peculiar; it was unexpectedly a highland, and the pond's water cascaded down the highland's edge, forming a waterfall over twenty meters high.
To his surprise, he emerged at the highest point of this inner palace, standing in place for a moment before stepping forward leisurely.
Beneath the waterfall, the deep pool branched into a dense network of waterways, almost covering the entire inner palace.
