After studying it for a moment, Qin He turned his gaze elsewhere.
At the bridgehead stood a broken boulder, bearing a single remaining character: Three.
The sight left Qin He somewhat dazed.
Because it felt very familiar.
River of Forgetfulness, Naihe Bridge, Three Lives Stone.
The weak-water river before him was called the River of Forgetfulness, the bridge before his eyes was called Naihe Bridge, and this broken stone was called the Three Lives Stone.
Qin He had seen them before, in the Underworld of the Eastern Lands World.
The real Underworld had them, and the fake Underworld masquerading as one had them too.
Only much later did Qin He gradually realize that this was not some cookie-cutter arrangement, but a kind of setup.
He did not know what it was specifically called, so he would call it the "Cycle of Reincarnation Bureau" for now.
For the living to face reincarnation was an omen of extreme ill!
It had not appeared in the diagrams provided by Soul Essence, so this setup did not appear often.
Perhaps it was a gate-blocking setup, perhaps something else.
But that no longer mattered. What mattered was that since he had stumbled into it, he had to break it.
Looking back down the path he had come from, the heavy mist, the mountains layered upon mountains, and the last sliver of light in the sky had all vanished.
Beneath his feet lay cracked nether earth, so empty it seemed boundless.
After pondering for a moment, Qin He stepped onto Naihe Bridge and walked toward the opposite bank, one step at a time.
It was a stone bridge, now riddled with holes and scars. Countless claw marks, blade marks, and horrifying splattered stains remained on it, covering almost the entire bridge.
Before long, Qin He reached