It was not exactly "missing" because Li Yao had been dizzy ever since he "landed" from the sky, and he did not really see what the inside of the "entrance" looked like.
However, according to Li Linghai's experience and Blackstar the Great's memory pieces, there should be such a perfect mercury ball inside the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum that was hanging high in the sky like an eternal moon. The Supreme Emperor built bases around the "entrance" in the past, and so did Li Linghai, who had always stationed his camp right below the entrance. Therefore, Li Yao should've been able to see it from the coordinates that he entered.
Of course, the exact coordinates of the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum were in the depths of the four-dimensional space, and its entrance was intermittently visible in the three-dimensional universe. Chances were that it had already "disappeared" from the three-dimensional universe at this moment.
But the possibility was slim. According to Li Linghai, the harsher the astronomical environment outside, the larger the crack that was torn in the three-dimensional universe would be, and the more stable the entrance of the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum would be and the longer it would last.
This time, they had calculated the coordinates of the entrance almost before the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum was opened. How could it be closed so quickly?
"What's going on exactly? Why is it different from Li Linghai's and Wuying Qi's exploration experience in every aspect? If there is no exit, will I and the entire exploration fleet have to be locked in this godforsaken place for decades until the next entrance appears in the three-dimensional universe?"
Li Yao was sweating hard.
Even though the environment here was very suitable for the survival of human beings, and it was not difficult for the experts to survive in this place for decades, it was still too absurd to seal all the elites of the Pangu universe in this place for decades.
"There must be a way out. Let me see what this place is exactly!"
Li Yao made up his mind and stored the ragged Colossus back into his Cosmos Ring. Then, he leaped to the sky.
"Jiji! Jiji! Jiji!"
Despite Little Black's round head and adorable appearance, it had shown up in the form of 'Black Wing' for decades and was one of the fastest flying swords in the Star Glory Federation. Naturally, it was not a problem for Little Black to fly in the sky. It simply turned into a streak of blackness and enshrouded Li Yao, accelerating at the highest speed and breaking through the clouds.
A thousand meters, two thousand meters, three thousand meters, five thousand meters!
Li Yao accelerated nonstop. The ground below his feet gradually became blurry. The green forests, the blue oceans, and the red mountains were clearly separated, like a chessboard.
Li Yao wondered if he would break out of the atmosphere or even the clouds if he would see the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum below his feet clearly.
Or perhaps, he would touch an invisible barrier, just like most of the fragment worlds.
But what happened next was something he never expected.
When the ground and the ocean below his feet were covered by the dense clouds, and the brilliant starry sky was about to appear above his head, he suddenly felt that the magnetic field of the universe was reversed. He felt that his head was heavy, and his feet were light. He had been leaping upward, but he was falling downward at an accelerated speed.
"What the hell?"
Li Yao's pupils constricted violently. He saw that the clouds above his head were separated, revealing the land that was exactly the same as the one below his feet a moment ago!
Yes. He remembered the boundary of the coast, the wilderness, the forest, and the mountains very clearly. Judging from the shape of the boundary, it was exactly the land that he had set off to escape from!
How — how was it possible? He had been leaping upward. Why was he falling downward? He had set off from this land. Why had he returned to this place after rushing at a high speed?
Floating in midair, Li Yao stared at the ground more than a thousand meters below his feet in a trance.
Taking a deep breath, he gritted his teeth and changed his direction. He flew toward the sky again, going back the way he had come.
As he expected, after flying for about half a minute, the magnetic field of the universe was reversed again. The gravity that came from below his feet suddenly came from above his head. He turned from 'leaping into the sky' to 'falling from the sky', and he was still on the land that he was familiar with.
"…"
Li Yao was dazed for a moment. Then, he flew toward the horizon as fast as he could. While flying, he observed the land and drew a map of the place.
If the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum was a planet, judging from the gravity and the natural environment, its mass and radius should be similar to that of the capital planet or the Heaven's Origin Planet, but it should be no more than twice the size of the capital planet or the Heaven's Origin Planet.
With Li Yao's current Cultivation, it was more than easy for him to circle around such a planet.
However, a weird thing happened again.
Li Yao had clearly observed that the land and the ocean here had tiny curves, which made it look like the surface of a planet. However, when he set off from the east coast of the continent, crossed the continent, the west coast, and the vast ocean, he definitely did not circle around the planet. He did not even circle a quarter of the planet before he returned to the starting point!
The magnetic field here was too chaotic for him to tell the directions. However, assuming that the journey just now was in an 'east-west direction', it was the same for the 'north-south direction'. Li Yao had intended to look for the 'South Pole' and the 'North Pole', but he was back to the starting point again after a moment of dizziness.
"Fine. If it weren't for the strong spiritual and magnetic interference that affected my brain, the Crystal Suit, and Little Black's navigation system, it would've been the legendary 'Ghost Hits the Wall'."
Li Yao thought for a moment. "Or, to put it in a more sophisticated way, it could've been the concepts of 'space folding' or 'space twisting'. Somebody intentionally disrupted the space here and set up an inescapable maze. Well, it's perfectly normal that it was used as a shield for the control hub of the black wall."
The problem was that it was not like that when Li Linghai and Wuying Qi explored this place last time.
At that time, the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum was no different from the regular world fragments. They both had fuzzy boundaries and a very stable, harmless, and honest structure.
Could it be that something, a factor, or even … a certain "person" had activated a certain system or a certain defense measure deep inside the mausoleum?
Whatever it was, it gave Li Yao a bad feeling.
"No wonder Ding Ling Dong and the rest of them did not come back to me after the forward base was established. It was because the space here was twisted, and they couldn't find a way out."
Li Yao continued thinking. "However, was it only 'space' that was twisted?"
During his exploration, Li Yao had taken a lot of high-resolution pictures and collected tremendous climate and magnetic field data.
The gift that he received from the "lightning life" not long ago gave him an ability to perceive and understand magnetic fields that was ten thousand times keener than carrier pigeons. He could infer a lot of things from the traces of the anomalies of the magnetic field.
Li Yao noticed that not only one climate system was working in the tiny, enclosed world, but also dozens of different environments.
The place where he landed at the beginning was indeed peaceful and pleasant.
However, there were also some places where heavy snow was swirling in the air, freezing everything within a thousand miles.
In some other places, including the depths of the ocean, volcanoes were erupting, and tectonic plates were moving intensely.
What was weird was that no matter how drastic the climate and geological changes were, they did not affect the neighboring areas that were right next to them at all. Even if they were only a hundred meters away from each other, the volcanoes were erupting and shaking on this side, while the icebergs on the other side were still white and unmoving.
"This is impossible."
Li Yao inputted all the climate data that he collected into his brain and ran complicated calculations. Finally, he came up with an absurd conclusion. "The environment in this world is almost like the different stages of a planet after it was born. The most obvious difference is the content of the various components in the air. Some areas are like the stage when the planet was just born and filled with fatal poisonous gas. Some places have too much oxygen, like the primeval stage when the plants were just born. Some places have normal air, which is the most perfect stage of a habitable planet.
"But … But isn't the fluidity of air the strongest? The atmosphere here has obvious convection. How can the air on one side belong to a primitive planet, the air on the other side belong to a desolate planet, and the air on the other side belong to a modern planet? It … It doesn't make sense at all! "
Li Yao couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he racked his brains.
He made bold assumptions and carefully verified them. In the beginning, he imagined that there was some invisible barrier in the air that isolated the air in different areas, creating different "laboratories".
But the air was easy to explain, but what about the drastic changes in the magnetic field? What about the discontinuity of the crustal movement? What kind of barrier could cause the earth to shake a hundred meters away, but be calm within a hundred meters?
Furthermore, such an assumption was too simple and crude. It didn't seem to match the exquisiteness, perfection, and shock that the Blackwall Maker had created at the entrance and exit.
This was what humans did, not what a super civilization that could create a "black wall" did.
"What kind of place is this? I feel like I'm on a different planet every minute!"
Li Yao mumbled to himself.
Then, his entire body stiffened, and he shivered coldly.
That's right, different planets. The seemingly perfect world in front of him was like the product of a hundred different planets mixed together!
"Is … Is it possible?"
Li Yao asked himself softly. "Cutting the 'space' that originated from a hundred different planets like cutting a cake and then piecing them together without leaving any trace of a 'seam'?
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