Zhang Chen passed through the passage between worlds. Without the specialized mechanical instruments used to reinforce and stabilize the passage from the human world to the prison realm, his body was annihilated and torn apart on a massive scale, leaving only several chunks of flesh to land in an icy cave.
However, methods that did not harm the soul posed no great threat to Zhang Chen.
The flesh gathered together and rapidly regenerated into Zhang Chen's form. This cave was precisely the place Zhang Chen had arrived at long ago, when he, Gu Chen, Uncle Shark, and the now-deceased Chen Feng had first entered an independent world as part of the vanguard.
"What a coincidence? This is actually the Di Realm cave from our first arrival. How could such a coincidence be possible? Someone must be controlling this deliberately. The others must have arrived in different locations as well. And Yu Ming told me through voice transmission earlier that he would designate a meeting place. Why hasn't there been any word yet?"
Zhang Chen reached out and touched the cold cave wall. His expression suddenly tightened as he used two fingers to pull a small white slip of paper from a crack in the rock. Yet the instant he took hold of it, a pricking sensation came from the fingers touching the paper, drawing out a portion of Zhang Chen's blood. There was no danger. It seemed to be merely a means of verifying the holder's identity.
But once the slip of paper lay in Zhang Chen's hand, the blank surface slowly began to reveal itself through the blood that had just been drawn. There was no written message. Instead, the extracted blood formed a miniature map, with a red X marked near its lower-right corner.
Zhang Chen had no