“The Great Maelstrom?” Matters from back in the empire felt quite distant in Qianye’s mind. The only impression he had of the Great Maelstrom was the showdown back at Indomitable. All accidents that followed originated from that one moment.

Qianye remembered that the entrance to the Great Maelstrom wasn’t in the neutral lands, and that there was a limit to its opening time. It was because of the limited quota for the Great Maelstrom that the younger generation of the Empire and Evernight were fighting it out back in Indomitable.

Song Zining understood Qianye’s puzzlement. He immediately drew a map of the neutral lands and the major continents on the paper and slowly rotated it. “You know that our world is revolving constantly, right?”

This was common knowledge. Qianye had learned about it back in Yellow Springs but he didn’t understand it very well.

Song Zining continued, “We still have no idea what kind of world the Great Maelstrom is. All we know is that the realm inside is drastically different compared to our own, and hence,...