The crowd witnessed an inconceivable scene: the heavens and earth seemed to transform into a blank sheet of paper, the Hanging Island on the Star Belt, along with Tie, turned into black lines on that sheet, resembling a cartoon-style ink painting.
No, it wasn't just Tie and those Hanging Islands—even Xiangdong had become a figure within the ink painting.
What distinguished this from a real ink painting was that the entities within still lived, still moved.
However, their movement within the ink painting was different from the outside world; it appeared restricted to a two-dimensional plane.
Tie hurled a punch at Xiangdong. His figure rushed straight toward Xiangdong across the ink painting scroll, while Xiangdong effortlessly leapt over Tie's head.
Their fight resembled two shadow puppets shifting on cloth—a battle confined to forward, backward, left, and right movements, stripped of any spatial depth. Even their attacks were flattened.
