In the Breath-Nourishing Dao, above Black Marsh Plain.
"Why haven't you entered the blessed land to explore, fellow Daoist?"
True Person Lie Yu looked at Sangji and smiled. "Why don't the two of us go in together?"
Sangji pressed his palms together and said, "Please do not try to persuade me further, benefactor. My heart is uneasy, as though my White Bone Heart were warning me. Today is not a suitable day to venture into danger..." Ordinarily, with a blessed land cutting everything off, even warning spells cast by those who entered would struggle to take effect.
Even if those Dao Foundation cultivators had lit soul lamps, dying inside a grotto-heaven or blessed land could cause the lamps to go out late—or fail to go out at all... After all, grotto-heavens and blessed lands sealed off the void. They could even block the Secret Treasury Domain's Empowerment Method. That was no laughing matter.
Thus, Sangji should have known nothing of what was happening inside the blessed land, yet he still firmly refused. "I never gamble, and so I never lose..."
"Very well. I shall go ahead, then. Please wait here, Dharma King..."
"We cannot let the investment of ten thousand cultivators go to waste, can we?"
True Person Lie Yu laughed heartily and stepped into the Earth-Submerging Blessed Land.
Once inside, his expression instantly grew exceedingly grave, and he took out a jade talisman.
Mystical power circulated across the talisman, actually opening a doorway directly.
True Person Lie Yu pushed the door open and entered a bronze palace.
Darkness surrounded him, lit only by bronze palace lamps.
"Greetings, Sect Master!"
True Person Lie Yu bowed toward the head of the bronze palace.
A figure abruptly appeared in the darkness, where thick mist had originally gathered.
He was very tall, wore