Little Sister's explanation was very much on point, but Han Li's expression grew even heavier. "What kind of existence could kill two True Monarchs?"
"They might have been seeking death themselves," Qu Jianlei said thoughtfully. "I mean no disrespect to the dead."
"Oh?" Little Sister and Han Li both grew interested. "Go on?"
"Half of it is instinct," Qu Jianlei replied in a deep voice. "And also... once those two made a move, could the Silent Zone really have held?"
For a Silent Zone that True Monarchs like these could freely enter and leave, compressing it intact would have been rather difficult, but destroying it would have been much easier.
Han Li thought for a moment before speaking. "This Silent Zone... could it have been created by the two of them fighting?"
This was not nitpicking, but a reasonable line of inference.
"Even if that was the case, then why would they have fought it out?" Qu Jianlei asked in return. "What were they trying to do?"
"I understand," Han Li said, proving himself a worthy Dao Companion. "No wonder, for that one... this place was Middle-Lower Ominous!"
Little Sister also reacted. "Those two... it's more likely they were War Shamans, trying to break through to the Body-Integration Realm?"
"A very reasonable guess," Qu Jianlei replied in a deep voice. "Perhaps they also wanted to break the High-Dimensional Barrier!"
"That's very likely," Han Li agreed. "And they already carved out a passage like this."
Little Sister fell silent. After a while, she let out a soft sigh. "With the combat strength of those two, they still fell short at the last step..."
She could look down on Crystal Ancestor, but War Shamans were different. In a fight against a Cultivator of the same level, either side could lose.
And the