The Forbidden Zone's Trap

In the end.

Several Saint Ascension martial artists who had spent decades at the forbidden zone outpost

were swept up in Mu Qingxue's emotions.

One of them couldn't hold back

and began to cry too.

By the end,

all forty-five of them were crying.

They mourned their lost youth

and the sacrifices they had made.

Long Batian and Mei Youqian stared in shock.

Shi Jiu tugged at Jiang Fu's sleeve and asked guiltily, "Was it wrong of us to tell them the truth like that?"

Jiang Fu scratched Shi Jiu's head, feeling just as guilty. "Even if we hadn't, they'd have found out..."

The New Mist Forbidden Zone had become the Bearded Pirate Crew's second backyard.

Mu Qingxue and the others had guarded it for so many years.

They were bound to go in and see it for themselves.

They would have learned the truth anyway.

Besides, even Xuanyi had admitted it.

The things he had thrown out really were junk nobody wanted in the Heavenfire Great World.

They only seemed precious because this world didn't have them.

In fact,

it wasn't just the Mercyfire Forbidden Zone.

The other five forbidden zones were much the same.

The treasures produced when the forbidden zones first took shape

had long since been stripped bare by the worlds on their other side.

All they tossed over now was useless junk.

It was bait to lure people in.

These things were worthless in the Otherworld.

The reason countless martial artists risked almost certain death for them

was that someone was manipulating everything from behind the scenes.

It was like diamonds.

They weren't worth much,

though they did have plenty of uses.

But with a little maneuvering by those with money, they could be given special meaning

and packaged as priceless treasures.

The things in