Thousands of Paths

When Meng Chao shone his searchlight down on the thousands of paths that were as complicated as a three-dimensional maze, he was surprised to find that there was a faint, elusive scarlet afterimage jumping and floating on every path. 

The scarlet afterimages split into two, and from two, they split into four, and from four into eight. Like vague lightning bolts, they kept splitting and replicating themselves exponentially. Finally, they surrounded the entire maze and formed a three-dimensional network of an even larger scale.

In fact, when Meng Chao's line of sight penetrated the several hundred overlapping paths and shot into the depths of the black fog, he could vaguely see red sparks that shone stubbornly like candles in the wind. 

"But how is this possible?" Meng Chao muttered to himself. 

The scarlet afterimages were the footprints left behind by Lei Zongchao, the Martial God.