The Sword Clan's territory.
Chen Lin and Blind Girl encountered considerable trouble along the way. It took them several days to fly here, only for the sight before them to leave them stunned.
People.
People packed densely together.
There were over a hundred of them, each pierced by a sword and pinned to an enormous stone stele.
However.
Only the stone stele was visible. The swords of varying lengths were all formless, impossible to see under normal circumstances. Even the people pinned there had been rendered formless by some kind of power.
An ordinary cultivator would never have noticed anything amiss.
Chen Lin did not dare advance any farther.
After seeing the scene from a distance, he exchanged a glance with Blind Girl and communicated through Telepathy.
"Was it like this when you came here before?"
"No."
Blind Girl answered immediately.
Then she explained, "This is the Sword Stele. Supposedly, it used to be a place for comprehending the inheritance, but now it's become like this. Something must have changed here."
Chen Lin looked thoughtful at her words.
He asked another question.
"Was the calamity that befell your Heart Realm connected to the Bizarre Kingdom?"
The various phenomena inside the Secret Realm always struck him as somewhat similar to the Nightmare Realm. The influence of rules was too strong.
"It's hard to say, but probably not."
Blind Girl answered after some thought.
"The Heart Realm was no lower in rank than the Bizarre Kingdom. They merely came from different regions of cultivation. Ordinary bizarre rules couldn't do something like this."
"Unless it was a God Realm bizarre creature."
"But after the calamity began, I never saw any bizarre creatures appear. It seemed that an immensely powerful individual had acted, destroying the entire Heart Realm single-handedly."
"Someone even stronger?"
Chen Lin