A Startling Turn on the Journey Home, Supreme Interception, Devil Palace Interrogation, Surging Undercurrents

Before the words had faded, the Command Flags in the three men's hands suddenly began burning on their own!

"What?!" Gou Hui cried out.

Three blood-red runes emerged from the ashes of the burned Command Flags and slowly sank into their brows. Qin Wang felt his soul tremble, sensing an incomparably terrifying pulling force in the unseen void—this secret realm was rejecting them!

"So that's it." Zhang Youren smiled bitterly. "Someone forcibly opened the secret realm and triggered its self-protection mechanism. All outsiders are being expelled."

The earth began to collapse, and the cracks in the sky widened ever further. Qin Wang cast one last glance toward Curse Lake and faintly heard the furious shriek of the Nine Heavens Profound Lady.

"Go!"

The figures of the three gradually blurred. In the final instant before they were completely teleported away, Qin Wang clearly saw that the giant hand blotting out the sky had already reached more than halfway into the secret realm. In its palm was, astonishingly, a cold vertical eye!

Before the dizzying sensation of warped space had faded, Qin Wang and the other two had already crashed heavily onto hard ground. The blinding sunlight made Qin Wang squint instinctively, while Gou Hui's pained groan sounded beside him.

"The outskirts of Slanting Moon Three Stars Cave?" Zhang Youren pushed himself up, and his expression suddenly changed drastically. "No! This isn't the Earth Immortal Realm at all!"

Qin Wang abruptly looked up. All around them stretched a barren wasteland, crimson earth extending to the horizon, while three blood-red suns hung high in the sky. Even more terrifyingly, the Magic Power within their bodies vanished like clay oxen sinking into the sea; they could not mobilize a shred of it.

"A forbidden magic land." Qin Wang gritted his teeth, suddenly noticing that