Chen Qing's figure flickered. As the Great Void Escape Technique circulated, he reached the Inner Perimeter after several flashes.
Even the ground beneath his feet had changed. No longer was it the rough brickwork of the Outer Perimeter; it was paved with Mysterious Jade, offering a glimpse of the Ancient Kingdom's former prosperity.
As far as the eye could see, towers and palaces rose from the ground.
Yet this land of bygone splendor now radiated danger at every turn.
Chen Qing slowly spread out his divine sense.
Entirely unlike the Outer Perimeter, the Inner Perimeter held several times fewer people.
Of the occasional auras that swept past, eight or nine out of ten belonged to Grandmaster Realm cultivators. The weakest were at least First-Turn Grandmasters, while Third-Turn and Fourth-Turn auras were common enough. Everyone proceeded with extreme caution, keeping far apart from one another, afraid of triggering the surrounding restrictions or clashing with experts from other factions.
The rare few True Origin Realm auras all belonged to tense-faced cultivators, clearly hoping to strike it rich with a small gamble and pick up some overlooked treasures in the Inner Perimeter.
But such people were fewer than one in a hundred. After all, the Inner Perimeter was far more dangerous than the Outer Perimeter.
Chen Qing's divine sense swept over a broken wall.
Only an extremely faint restriction remained upon that wall, emitting a sharp and fierce aura.
The two True Origin Realm experts from the Nineteen Kingdoms of the Western Regions had still been a yard away from the broken wall when they were struck by the restriction's lingering force. Before they could even let out half a scream, they turned into puddles of bloody pulp.
It truly is more dangerous than the Outer Perimeter.
Chen Qing thought to himself, but