"This was indeed the perfect moment. I could still barely activate this Half-Immortal Artifact Treasure Umbrella."
"But... even if I activated this Half-Immortal Artifact Treasure Umbrella, I feared it still would not be enough to close the spatial passage."
Xuan Jue continued, shaking his head with a soft sigh.
Yun Yan looked tense as he hurriedly asked, "Why?!"
Everyone had poured in so much effort and made so many sacrifices for this final, most crucial step.
If the spatial passage between the two worlds could not be closed, would not everything have been in vain?
"This Half-Immortal Artifact Treasure Umbrella is exceedingly strange. I can sense that deep within it lies a power nearly equal to that of a true Immortal."
"But unless this power is truly refined, there is simply no way to fully unleash the power within the treasure umbrella."
"And if the treasure umbrella's power cannot be fully brought forth, it will not be sufficient to support the complete closure of the spatial passage between the two worlds."
"The Devil Race's hidden attack just now was certainly one reason for the failure. But at its root, it was because the Half-Immortal Artifact's power was not brought to its utmost limit, giving that Demonic Yuan power an opening to exploit."
Faced with Yun Yan's question, Xuan Jue pondered briefly before explaining with helplessness written across his face.
By the end, he let out another heavy sigh.
As one of the Four Sacred Beasts, the Black Tortoise had already lived through long years.
He was not immortal, yet his lifespan still far exceeded that of the vast majority of living beings.
Over the course of his journey, he had witnessed no shortage of strange happenings.
Given the situation before him, he had thought that with his intervention and the