Outside the World Solidifying Chaos Origin Array.
In the hours after Sun Liuliu left the Sword Ruins, quite a few Soul Masters emerged one after another. Some hid their faces, while others had no wish to speak to anyone. After returning to the present world through the Primal Chaos Array, they each chose a suitable Teleportation Array and left this place on their own.
After them, however, no further ripples came from the Primal Chaos Array.
By noon on the final day before the Hundred Valleys Sword Ruins closed, not another person had emerged.
Amid such an atmosphere, the Soul Masters waiting densely all around grew ever more anxious.
Among them were powerful factions such as the Illusory Willow Sect and the Heavenly Thunder Sword Sect. Not a single fellow disciple they had sent into the Sword Ruins had returned even now.
"Light the incense!"
As the shout of a white-bearded old man outside the Primal Chaos Array rang out, everyone present tensed.
This was the rule whenever a Domain Realm was about to close.
The incense to be lit was Dragon Head Exorcising Incense. It was one meter long and burned for nine quarters of an hour. Once it burned out, the realm would close.
By then, anyone unable to emerge from the Domain Realm, dead or alive, would vanish into the void along with it.
"Wait a moment!"
An old man leading the Illusory Willow Sect stepped forward and stopped the Sacred Domain Saint Sect elder responsible for lighting the incense.
"Yong Ye Honored One, what is the meaning of this?" The Saint Sect elder frowned, stroking his grizzled beard as he looked at the Illusory Willow Sect group with evident displeasure.
Yong Ye Honored One respectfully bowed, then pleaded, "My sect's disciples have yet to return. Could