Inside Spirit Crane Space!
Ye Kong's gaze swept over the remains and fragments piled at the base of the barrier. His fists slowly clenched. "Were these all cultivators who tried to make their way back to the Barbaric Ancient Region?"
Fang Chen walked up to a relatively intact skeleton and crouched. He reached out and gently touched the broken piece of armor on its chest.
The armor had decayed until it resembled dried tree bark. The moment his fingertip touched it, it crumbled soundlessly into gray powder that drifted away in the Chaos Currents.
He stood, his voice low and grave. "This person had reached the Great Emperor Realm. He tried to go back, but the barrier's Law power crushed him to death as he crossed it!"
Fang Chen then walked to another skeleton. It had an exceptionally burly human frame and still gripped a broken Giant Axe. A dark red stain remained on the blade—the trace of some kind of spirit blood that had dried long ago.
His gaze settled on the broken axe. "The blade bears marks from repeated strikes against the barrier. He must have tried to force his way through, but exhausted his strength and died!"
"Why is there another barrier here?"
Inside Spirit Crane Space, the Myna bird could not help speaking up.
Great Emperor Huo Li looked at the enormous barrier stretching across Fang Chen's path. "This must be the work of the World Will. To stop anyone from returning upstream with the secrets of the Land of Ending, it placed a massive barrier on the route back!"
The Glazed Immortal King's expression turned grave. "No wonder no one has made it back alive from the Land of Ending to the Barbaric Ancient Region all these years. The way back was sealed off by