After confirming that he had indeed only returned to the hidden space in the basement, Xia De once again chanted the incantation and touched the statue's base, returning to the white mist. This place was too similar to the white mist area after passing through the Gate of Time.
"Since stepping in the Time Corridor allows one to directly enter past times, what would happen if I were to step randomly in the so-called Space Labyrinth instead of following the marked paths? Would I be torn apart by a chaotic spatial flow?"
Xia De didn't have the courage to do that yet. He thought for a moment and summoned his brass Destiny Ring. Immediately, his skin began to crack inch by inch, and golden light traces shone beneath the cracks. The area opened by the time key, named the Time Corridor, also exhibited this phenomenon.
"Sure enough, the effect of Divine Radiance can also be manifested here."
Suddenly, he looked up, and the divine light seemed to awaken something within the thick mist. The white mist flowed around him, and he heard whispers coming from afar. When he tried to listen carefully, he could only discern that it was countless people praying.
He quickly walked to the signpost, ready to leave at any moment, but all he heard was a murmur in his ear:
【The figure of the cracks of origin watches you.】
【Offer a piece of white stone crystal or a drop of Divinity to connect to another spatial signpost in a specified direction.】
"Indeed, the power of the fallen Ancient Gods is almost omnipresent, but Divinity cannot be taken away."
Xia De, standing in the white mist, immediately shook his head. Although he wanted to know the secret, Divinity was more important.
He had never heard of "white stone crystal," which seemed to be a mineral, and it wasn't in the textbooks he had obtained.
The current problem wasn't the method of activating the teleportation, but the white mist area he was currently in. This mist and the white mist that appeared after the time key was activated could not be unrelated.
"Can you feel any other information?"
【Only this much for now.】
The woman's voice murmured in his ear. Xia De looked up at the strange white mist around him that he couldn't penetrate at all:
"Since the Time Ancient God, Father of Infinite Trees, has the 'Time Corridor,' and the Space Ancient God, cracks of origin, has the 'Space Labyrinth,' do other fallen Ancient Gods also have such spaces? For example, does the Balance Ancient God, 'hanged judge,' mentioned by Annette, also have one? What is the meaning of the existence of such spaces?"
He received no answer. These secrets required him to find the answers himself.
The space containing the two-headed Ancient God statue certainly wasn't naturally formed, but the builder was completely unknown.
And who the last person was to enter the hidden space in the basement and touch this Ancient God statue was impossible to ascertain. Without the "Divine Radiance" state and the special "other me," it would be impossible to obtain the information Xia De knew. Therefore, he didn't have to worry about other people knowing the secret here.
Carrying immense doubts, he left the "Space Labyrinth" in the white mist and returned to the circular space where the statue was located. Xia De became increasingly confused by the secrets of this world.
His eyes scanned the miscellaneous items around this circular space. After thinking for a moment, he squatted down and carefully sorted through the pile of things. Unfortunately, even though a statue of the Space Ancient God stood here, the mighty power of time had destroyed mortal objects. Most of these items, definitely centuries old, were rusted and decayed.
The stacked books had completely turned into trash, and metal tools of unknown purpose were badly rusted. The only useful item Xia De found while sorting through these things was a rolled-up parchment.
This piece of parchment seemed completely unaffected by time. Xia De repeatedly confirmed that it was not a relic but just an ordinary item before unrolling it. The parchment was intact, but the ink on it was very faint. It seemed the paper was special, but the ink was ordinary.
It took Xia De some effort to clearly read the three lines of text on it. "Text Comprehension" allowed him to understand the meaning on his own:
【common era 1520, Twelfth Survey Log.】
【Confirmed discovery of the Ancient God 'cracks of origin' statue. The statue is suspected to link to the "Time Labyrinth" entrance. The activation method is not yet known.】
【The location of the "birthing room" left by the Creation Ancient God needs further confirmation. Please reply as soon as possible.】
There was no signature. The person who wrote these words did not leave their identity information. But from the date 1520, this was a relic from three hundred years ago. And three hundred years ago, this house in Saint Delan Square seemed not even to have been built yet.
He murmured to himself:
"Was there some accident? This information was left here and not taken away... 'Birthing room'? Have I heard of this place before?"
Xia De's memory was quite good. On the night the two professors "visited" his home, he had seen a lot of information in "Short Rat" Peter's letter. Among them, it was mentioned that the other powerful illegal organization, Blood Spirit School, which had originally promised to help Mercury Blood, had limited support for the Silver-Eyed One because they were busy with the "birthing room" matter in the New World.
"Interesting."
Xia De rolled up the parchment and put it aside:
"The secret that Ancient Gods left behind special spaces is not unknown to everyone. Since ancient organizations know about it, do the Orthodox Church and the Three Great Arcane Academies also know?"
But even if he knew about the "birthing room," a special place suspected to be equivalent to the "Time Corridor" and "Space Labyrinth," Xia De could do nothing about it. The clues about the "birthing room" were currently in the New World, a place he couldn't reach, and there was no need for him to concern himself with such matters.
Aside from the rotten books and metal items, after carefully searching through the "junk," he unexpectedly found about a dozen glass reagent bottles under some brown rotten cloth. The style of the reagent bottles was old, and each had the same symbol on its bottom.
The main part of the symbol was an equilateral triangle, with each of its three corners connected to a small circle. Inside the triangle was a winged human.
"What is this symbol?"
Although he didn't understand it, he wrote it down for now, as someone surely would.
Most of the bottles contained potions of various colors, but even magical potions had an expiration date. It seemed the potions might also be three hundred years old, and definitely not drinkable.
He did not take these strange potions and the rolled parchment with him, but left them there, in case he wasn't home one day and a curious cat destroyed them.
After inspecting these miscellaneous items, he finally left the basement with the kerosene lamp, declaring that tonight's "exploration" activity had temporarily come to an end.
Regarding the hidden space with the Ancient God "cracks of origin" statue, Xia De could do nothing until he obtained "white stone crystal." But the space behind the hidden wall was valuable. Since even the Church couldn't find this place, it was an excellent spot to hide items.
Although Xia De didn't have anything to hide at the moment, he would surely have an opportunity to use it in the future.
Thinking of this, he stopped and turned his head to look at the wall:
"Speaking of which, people from three hundred years ago, wouldn't they have had the same idea, placing that pile of things here, only to never return... Hiss~ Is that a bit ominous...?"