Evan Lin strode forward and stepped into the mist.
Yvette Ye walked beside him, showing no hesitation.
The moment his body was completely wrapped in mist, Evan immediately sensed the chaotic currents swirling around him, as if his whole body was plunging into boundless fog.
Everything around him was a sea of white, thick mist swirling densely at his side.
He was falling—his body kept sinking downward.
Evan didn’t resist the force pulling him down, nor did he close his eyes like the others. Instead, he kept them open, carefully watching his surroundings as he fell.
Though it was all mist, this fog itself was actually the channel leading into the pocket world.
A channel opens and closes, so there should be traces left by the pocket world’s owner.
But even after his body reached the very bottom and everything around him suddenly shifted—landing him on a vast, tender green lawn—Evan hadn’t found any clues in that channel.
"Are you guys okay?"
On the other side, Kevin Qin and the others had already gathered together. They walked over, looking at Evan Lin and Yvette Ye.
Previously, Moonshade members had sometimes vanished suddenly when entering the gate of the Mysterious Ruins.
It was rare, but once someone disappeared, they could never be found again.
"We're fine."
Yvette Ye shook her head, but instead looked at Evan Lin with a hint of worry. She couldn’t shake the feeling that something about him had changed since just now. “Did you notice anything?”
Yvette asked, but Evan didn’t answer—he just frowned and stared at everything in front of him.
What met his eyes was a seemingly endless lawn, blue sky overhead dotted with a few white clouds—but not many, and there wasn’t the slightest breeze.
It looked like a vast pocket world, but everywhere he turned, the lawn stretched on forever, with nothing else in sight.
"I just have this indescribable feeling," he said.
Evan thought for a moment. He couldn’t really define what kind of feeling it was—it seemed familiar, but he was certain he’d never been here before.
"Maybe it's just my first time in the Mysterious Ruins—I'm not used to it yet."
Kevin Qin looked at Evan Lin. "This is Mysterious Ruins No. 3. Every Mysterious Ruins has a different environment. In places like this, you need to be extra careful."
"To us, the Mysterious Ruins are places built from all kinds of formation arrays. Like, you see grass everywhere now, but once you go deeper, everything around you will start to change."
Kevin Qin assumed Evan was here for the first time and just not used to it yet, so he kept explaining.
"Want to take a break?"
Jenna Jiang glanced at Evan Lin and spoke up as well.
Even though she’d had all sorts of opinions about him before, now that they were inside the Mysterious Ruins, everyone from Moonshade stuck together—that was the basic rule.
Evan Lin shook his head. He focused inward, sensing everything in this pocket world—but the spiritual qi was almost zero.
"That can’t be right. If the spiritual qi was zero, this pocket world should have collapsed long ago—it couldn’t possibly still exist."
Evan pondered in his heart: "Spiritual qi—where is the source of spiritual qi for this pocket world?"