Xue Kui realized that the fragrance hadn't returned, and began to wonder whether they were still trapped.
Hearing Xue Kui's words, Chen Changan furrowed his brow.
After a moment's thought, he said, "We should have escaped the predicament."
"The same trick can't fool me twice."
"Perhaps once we realized something was wrong with the fragrance, it disappeared."
"In other words, the fragrance never existed in the first place."
"It was simply a form of mental interference."
"Once it could no longer interfere with us, we naturally stopped noticing it."
Hearing Chen Changan's explanation, Mu Yunyao and Xue Kui both breathed a sigh of relief.
It had to be said: although they seemed not to have encountered any particularly great dangers on their journey, that was all because Chen Changan was with them.
Without Chen Changan, Mu Yunyao and Xue Kui probably wouldn't have been able to take a single step forward after encountering the Golden-Footed Sky-Swallowing Dragon.
"Although the Nine Deaths Dusk Land isn't as harsh as the rumors make it out to be, it's certainly a perilous place."
"Still, it seems we haven't encountered its true dangers yet."
"I remember that someone at the Saint Emperor Realm once died here."
If a Saint Emperor had died here, that meant there had to be someone within the Nine Deaths Dusk Land powerful enough to kill one.
"There's something I don't understand. What exactly is in the Nine Deaths Dusk Land?"
"Why would people come here even though they know it's dangerous?"
"What is it that draws them here?" Chen Changan asked curiously.
No one would venture into a dangerous place for no reason. There had to be something irresistible drawing them in. Yet since entering this place, Chen Changan hadn't found anything worth coming here for.
"Legend has it that