"It seems leaving this place won't be as easy as getting in."
A Qin had seized thirty thousand local civilians as sacrifices. After killing them all and extracting their souls into the dried-up digestion pool, no Ghoul Stomach passage opened in the sky above.
"We'll have to wait for Zhang Chen. This was a world left behind by his former main body. A world whose origin has dried up and died can still accommodate so many living creatures. Not to mention that these creatures replenish their spiritual bodies by devouring one another—the stable composition of the air and the green plants still capable of growing are nothing like what a dead world should have. Zhang Chen is likely on his way to uncover the truth."
"Don't you need rest?"
After more than ten consecutive days of travel, the words "without stopping" perfectly described Zhang Chen's journey. Tomie, who had originally remained within Zhang Chen's body, had condensed a physical body outside, yet the three of them had not paused for even a moment.
"No."
Zhang Chen could sustain himself through the independent world operating within his body. Even his daily sleep could be carried out while remaining on horseback.
The journey of more than ten days had also taken Zhang Chen completely beyond the territories occupied by the Three Kingdoms Council and into an uninhabited continental region.
"The closer we get to our destination, the stronger the green plants and simple life signs become. It doesn't resemble a dead world at all. Yet these life signs are unsuitable for biological survival. The composition of the air here is extremely chaotic, as though it is being reconstructed. Otherwise, the Three Kingdoms Council would have settled here long ago."
"Miss Wan Shi, what exactly is the place we're heading to?"
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