A Millennium of Effort

He had already confirmed the teleportation location, and he had verified the target of this teleportation—the underground labyrinth—more than once.

Yet when the spatial teleportation's power faded, his and Xilos's positions had barely changed. They had merely moved from one expanse of yellow sand to another.

The familiar underground dark city had not appeared. Instead, the dry air around them made Shen Yi particularly uncomfortable.

"Lord Shen Yi, did something go wrong?"

Noticing Shen Yi's grave expression and seeing no sign that he was joking with her, Xilos grew somewhat anxious as well.

The matter of the Seven-Petaled Polo Sha was no trivial one. Once it appeared, it would be even more significant than the Source of Black Mist, enough to shake the entire Shadow World and perhaps even awaken countless ancient monsters sleeping in the Twilight Abyss.

Yet from Shen Yi's demeanor, something had clearly gone wrong.

"I've confirmed this place's coordinates many times, but this isn't the place I came to before."

"Forget it."

"Let's go."

The moment his words fell, Shen Yi and Xilos vanished from the spot.

Immediately afterward, an invisible barrier froze everything around them!

The yellow sand filling the sky solidified in midair like countless yellow fragments of stars, densely suspended in the air without moving.

The howling wind came to a halt. Everything within the space seemed to have been forcibly frozen.

Then—

A withered figure stepped out from a spatial rift, accompanied by three cloaked figures.

"Well? Did we gain anything this time?"

"Hmph! We used the Prison Moon Token and even called the few of us here. If we still failed to keep those audacious little thieves despite risking exposure, then we truly would have lived for two thousand years in vain!"

"Don't celebrate too soon. Wasn't the Seven-Petaled Polo Sha