After hearing Zhu Ping'an's explanation, Leng Tianjiao forced down her embarrassment and peered through the crack in the door again.
Sure enough, she saw the Light Orb radiating immense energy.
"It's a Forbidden Fruit!" Leng Tianjiao exclaimed.
"What's a Forbidden Fruit?" Zhu Ping'an asked, puzzled.
Leng Tianjiao's expression turned grave as she explained.
"It's no wonder you don't know. Qingcheng High School definitely wouldn't teach you about this. I only learned about the Forbidden Fruit by chance, from my dad."
"The Forbidden Fruit isn't really a fruit. It's an extremely sinister way to break a seal. You offer up living beings as sacrifices, and once the ritual is complete, a Forbidden Fruit appears. Each time someone absorbs one, the seal weakens a little."
"In other words, the thing sealed away created this Forbidden Fruit to lure people from outside into helping it weaken the seal."
Leng Tianjiao's expression darkened. If she was right, Ye Qingxian had sacrificed the warriors from her Leng Family.
Zhu Ping'an couldn't help freezing for a moment.
A seal?
Did that mean something terrifying was sealed inside Secret Realm Number Thirteen, just like in the Secret Realm of Star Gazing?
"Once a Forbidden Fruit has formed, can it be returned to the seal?" Zhu Ping'an pressed.
"No! Besides, this Forbidden Fruit is already close to breaking apart. Once it does, all that's left is a mass of pure, immense energy." Leng Tianjiao shook her head.
"Damn it, Ye Qingxian, you bastard!"
Zhu Ping'an narrowed his eyes. At last, he understood why the magnetic field outside Secret Realm Number Thirteen was so chaotic. The people who had built the secret realm must have feared that powerful warriors would come in and break the seal.
And if only First-Rank Warriors could enter Secret Realm Number Thirteen, then any