``` [Year 8,851,731, in order to resolve the issue in the Extreme Emotion Zone, all parties moved swiftly and found a way to purchase a "Forbidden Passage Stone" from someone from Taiming Yuwan Heaven.]
[The strength of a Forbidden Passage Stone was related to how long it had been placed. This one had been acquired in exchange for a Sixth-ring Dao Pill and could be considered one of the finest, but you still could not determine whether it would be effective...]
[Year 8,851,738, several years passed. Fortunately, the Forbidden Passage Stone truly began to take effect. Placed near the passage you had found, it gradually weakened the passage's aura until it vanished without a trace.]
[Year 8,851,954, roughly two hundred years after the passage disappeared, the situation in the Extreme Emotion Zone had stopped spreading further even without a supreme treasure suppressing it. However, the area that had already spread did not shrink back either.]
[The Extreme Emotion Zone's failure to recede could not help but stir a trace of worry within you. Thinking of the sorrowful influence from beyond the passage, you always felt that this problem would not be so easily resolved.]
[The facts proved your concern correct. Not long after the hidden spatial passage had been removed, in a region of the Extreme West Land that had originally been close to the Extreme Emotion Zone, a group of acquired Stone Spirits all felt a wave of sorrow rise within them at the same time...]
[Year 8,875,143, the Stone Spirits' abnormality affected an extremely small area. Other than you, most people felt that the anomaly in the Extreme Emotion Zone had basically been resolved and thus relaxed their vigilance.]
[Even though you specifically told Xue Que to pay closer attention, warning him that the matter was very likely