Su Shi'er shifted his gaze and turned to look at True Person Tianheng again.
The latter wore a grave expression. "My friend, you and I already agreed before coming here.
"I will work with Fellow Daoist Xuan Ye to stabilize this entrance. Should anything change outside, we will also find a way to send you word.
"What happens within the Immortal Ruins can only be entrusted to you!"
By the end, True Person Tianheng looked straight at Su Shi'er, his expression more solemn than ever before.
Su Shi'er drew a deep breath.
"Rest assured, Senior. This junior will certainly do his utmost!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Su Shi'er hesitated no longer and turned, rushing straight toward the spatial rift ahead.
At the very instant his figure entered the spatial rift, the obscure alien force that had lain dormant deep within Su Shi'er's heart meridian gave a faint tremor.
The change vanished in a flash, so swift that Su Shi'er had no time to think further.
The next moment.
The surrounding spatial power surged in from every direction like raging waves.
Under the impact of that overwhelming force, Su Shi'er's body began spinning wildly beyond his control.
Who knew how much time passed? When the spatial ripples around him finally subsided, Su Shi'er's feet touched solid ground once more.
Before him stood a ruined city shrouded in grayish-white mist.
Not a trace of human presence could be seen within the city. Only nine grayish-white stone pillars, identical to the Nine-Pillar Killing Array outside, soared straight into the clouds.
A long-dried corpse hung from the surface of each stone pillar. Even from afar, one could sense the chilling aura radiating from every corpse.
Su Shi'er was no stranger to this aura.
He had once felt it from Shen Miaoyin's immortal