As time passed, Li Xuanxiao soon discovered what was special about the Ghost Domain.
Previously, he had only gained a cursory understanding of the Ghost Domain.
During this time, Xue Jian had indirectly revealed to him the Ghost Domain's deep secrets.
He learned that this so-called Ghost Domain was built upon nine secret realms.
Back then, nine Integrated Body Great Talents had sought to evade the great age, refining this place into nine independent yet mutually echoing regions.
The Ghost Domain was among them.
Laws served as locks. Each great talent had contributed a sliver of the power of the fundamental laws they had comprehended, turning them into nine chains of law that spanned heaven and earth.
The nine chains of law used the nine secret realms as anchors, separating their respective regions.
The barrier not only prevented the terrifying existences and excessive netherworld death qi within the Ghost Domain from spilling out.
It also greatly suppressed and warped the Ghost Domain's originally chaotic laws, preventing them from expanding outward normally, while likewise restricting powerful beings outside.
In particular, it prevented those above the Body Integration Realm from entering at will, lest an imbalance of power cause the barrier to collapse.
"So, aside from the Ghost Domain, there are eight other places similar to it?" Li Xuanxiao said thoughtfully.
"That's right. And every hundred years, the Ghost King must meet with the masters of the other eight regions to jointly maintain the barrier."
Xue Jian explained everything to Li Xuanxiao in meticulous detail.
"By my calculations, it's nearly time for another meeting."
"During the hundreds of years the Ghost King was missing, how did you and your sister fool them?" Li Xuanxiao asked again.
"Fortunately, the barrier has not encountered any problems these past few hundred years. In truth, unless