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Three months later, Chen Luo finally reached the westernmost edge of this country.

The road had come to an end.

Ahead lay a vast ocean.

Two years later.

The bookstore reopened. When passersby on both sides of the street saw Chen Luo, all of them revealed astonished expressions.

"Shopkeeper Chen is back?"

Over the past two years, Chen Luo had traveled throughout the entire country. He passed through a hundred cities, read a vast number of books, and met countless people. Yet he had not encountered a single Immortal Cultivator. Not only Immortal Cultivators—even among ordinary people, he had not seen one person with a Spirit Root.

This place was like a true Spirit Severed Land.

What unsettled Chen Luo most was that he discovered his body was aging!

Ordinary people would not notice anything over two years, but in the eyes of an Immortal Cultivator at Chen Luo's realm, he could clearly sense every change in his body. This discovery gave Chen Luo a greater sense of urgency.

He had returned to Anning County to find himself a path to survival.

The region outside the Emperor Tomb was definitely not a Spirit Severed Land.

That much could be seen from Kui Shan, whom he had come into contact with before. That man had seen The Outside World beyond the Emperor Tomb and knew many secrets. How could a place that even someone like him had to come to possibly be a land where all life had perished?

There had to be a problem in some link along the way.

After greeting his neighbors, Chen Luo pushed open the door and entered the bookstore. Though he had been gone for half a year, the bookstore was still very clean. Hong Niang and Yun Niang often came over to help clean,