Lu Chen's gaze shifted slightly.
Tuoba Shan looked at him and said in a deep voice, "An elder of my Barbarian King Sect has been there before. He said that deep within the valley, there is a fissure leading to who knows where. Deathly aura constantly pours out from it, and that presence... is exactly like the Undead Monarch of legend."
Lu Chen fell silent for a moment, then asked, "What about those remnants of the Ten Thousand Gu Sect?"
Tuoba Shan snorted coldly. "Those bastards are entrenched around the outskirts of Netherworld Valley, guarding the entrance and refusing to let anyone in. Who knows what they're waiting for? In any case, they've been guarding it for nearly two months."
Two months.
Lu Chen silently calculated.
Two months ago was precisely when he had suppressed the Undead Monarch's incarnation in the Azure Dragon Secret Realm.
At that time, a wisp of the Undead Monarch's remnant soul had escaped and possessed Li Hansong. The incarnation in the Northern Frontier ruins had also nearly awakened completely.
And now, this ruin in the Southern Frontier was stirring once more...
Could there be some connection between them?
He looked at Tuoba Shan. "Brother Tuoba, how much do you know about that ruin?"
Tuoba Shan thought for a moment and said, "I don't know much either. I only heard the elders say that the place was a battlefield in ancient times, where many people died. Later, for some unknown reason, it caught the Undead Monarch's attention, and he left a mark there. The reason the Ten Thousand Gu Sect was able to gain a foothold in the Southern Frontier was because they had ties to the Undead Monarch."
He lifted his bowl and took a drink before continuing, "Over the years, the Ten Thousand Gu