Restrictions

To Chen Lin's surprise, Hundred Flowers Fairy had barely approached the Node when she was bounced back!

Her shadowy form wavered several times before it steadied.

She stared at the Space Ripple, startled and uncertain. Then she seemed to realize something, and her expression darkened.

Chen Lin had thought of the same possibility. He immediately called Gou Yushan over.

"Your turn. Try it!"

Gou Yushan asked no questions. Once Chen Lin placed the token inside the ripple, he leaped toward the Node.

He was bounced back as well.

Unable to use a flying Spell, he dropped straight onto a branch below.

Chen Lin then had Grass and Hua Ruyu try.

Both passed through the Energy Seal and entered the Space Node without hindrance.

That confirmed his suspicion.

Hundred Flowers Fairy, however, was less certain. "Fellow Daoist Chen, what does this mean?"

She did not know Grass and Hua Ruyu were Nightmare Realm Creatures, much less about their mysterious Contracts with Chen Lin, so their ability to enter the Node astonished her.

Chen Lin offered a vague explanation. "They're both my Contract Servants. You could consider them part of me. The token must be restricted to whoever obtained it and cannot be shared."

Hundred Flowers Fairy glanced at Grass and Hua Ruyu in surprise, then nodded grimly. "I think so too. It seems we can't rely on anyone else to get out. We'll have to fight for our lives ourselves."

Gou Yushan's expression darkened further as he listened.

He was the weakest of them. Hundred Flowers Fairy might be only a Remnant Soul, but she seemed to possess some Secret Method that left her far from weak in the Nightmare Realm. Her resistance to Nightmare Qi Erosion alone showed as much.

And he knew his own limits. If the next War