When Qu Jianlei went into seclusion, he let Bentley and Mu Guang out. As his own people, they served as support for the other Protectors.
Min Ning and Wen Xian had also released their own subordinates—everyone had been kept close at hand to keep word of the other world from leaking out.
And so, in this gloomy, freezing space, tomb-like in every way, a very strange scene appeared.
In one small, semi-enclosed space, there were actually large numbers of living people moving about.
Though this place was sealed off and dull, there were several Abodes here, each with its own inner world.
There were also some cultivators who occasionally flew out of the semi-enclosed space in groups to search the surroundings for opportunities.
Searching for opportunities in a graveyard sounded incredibly boring, but... hadn't several Great Venerables discovered some opportunities earlier?
However, the corrosive nature of this space was truly rather strong. The cultivators who went out to explore could only last for a while before they had no choice but to return.
So this semi-enclosed space also had the qualities of a safe harbor.
It was worth mentioning that the cultivators who went out to explore did not come back entirely empty-handed. From time to time, they were able to bring back strange things.
None of them were especially valuable; otherwise, the True Venerables would have picked them up long ago.
Even so, items that had remained inside the Star Swallowing Beast's belly for who knew how many tens of thousands of years would more or less have something unique about them.
If nothing else, they were definitely corrosion-resistant. The Star Swallowing Beast's digestive fluid... strictly speaking, its rules, were extremely powerful.
As time passed, everyone became increasingly certain that this space was formed from the remains of the