When Xu Fan opened his eyes again, everything around him had changed.
The luxurious living room and his familiar family had all vanished.
In their place stretched an endless expanse of barren land.
Almost instinctively, Xu Fan fully unleashed his Observation Haki.
He searched for threats that might be lurking in the shadows.
"Looks like I've returned to the forbidden land."
Xu Fan murmured softly.
After all, the Mysterious Voice had once mentioned that after defeating Nurarihyon, a Demon King-level being, the forbidden land that had descended upon the human world would not disappear.
All contestants who had been transported to Blue Star would return to the forbidden land once again.
However...
Although his reunion with his family had been brief, Xu Fan was already satisfied.
Because of his status as a forbidden land contestant, his family had received the country's care and were living rather well.
To him, that was undoubtedly a good thing.
Very soon...
Xia Yi.
Ren Jiutian.
Carlotta.
As well as Xu Fan's pet, the Female Snow Wolf.
All of them were sent back to the forbidden land by that mysterious force, and Xu Fan detected them with his Observation Haki.
At the same time...
Aside from those familiar life signatures.
Two other life signatures caught Xu Fan's attention.
The auras of those two creatures were far stronger than ordinary ferocious beasts, and they felt very familiar to him.
They were roughly two or three hundred meters away.
Behind a hill.
That was why Xu Fan could only sense their presence through Observation Haki without seeing them directly.
"If I'm not mistaken, they should be Sautan and Sylvie."
Xu Fan recalled the time before they returned to Blue Star.
He and the others had formed a party with Sylvie and Sautan, two Forbidden Land Natives, to