"It's the Glazed Ancient City! We finally found it!"
The sight of the imposing Ancient City ahead lifted Fang Chen's spirits. He immediately sped toward it.
Before long, Fang Chen reached the gates of the Glazed Ancient City.
But when they came within roughly a hundred zhang of the city, they found their way blocked by a nine-colored Barrier.
Fang Chen frowned. He remembered encountering no Barrier at all when he had approached the Glazed Ancient City years ago.
Yet now a nine-colored Barrier stood around it.
With the Barrier in the way, they could not see what lay beyond it.
Seeing Fang Chen frown, the myna bird could not help asking, "What's wrong?"
"There was no nine-colored Barrier when I came here before!" Fang Chen said.
The myna bird studied the Barrier. "Maybe it doesn't stop people with low Cultivation. Maybe it only targets those with high Cultivation!"
Fang Chen nodded slightly. That seemed quite possible, though the Barrier might also have appeared after he left. The Barbaric Continent had changed so much; the revival of Spiritual Qi might have restored these Barriers.
He activated the Reincarnation Eye Secret Technique and examined the nine-colored Barrier closely. It looked powerful, but he found many flaws in it. He could not tell whether they had always been there or had appeared when time caused its Dao Patterns to fall away.
He walked up to the Barrier, opened a passage through it, and led the myna bird and Little Crane across.
Once through, Fang Chen felt no noticeable change in the Spatial Suppression Force around them.
He looked up at the gates of the Glazed Ancient City. They were shut tight.
Fang Chen paused again. This was not what he had seen on his first visit. Back then, a powerful force had