Bridge Realm

"Things were precious because they were rare!" Lin Xiaosu said. "If you like food from that world, elder, why not find a way in and taste every kind of delicacy?"

"Young man, do you not know this basic fact, or are you taking me for an ignorant old fool?" Old Zhang said. "Apart from your Litian Tribe, which Inner-Earth Outsider can enter that world? Which one would dare?"

"Oh?" Lin Xiaosu said. "I grew up in that world and know nothing about this place. Could you explain how it all works, elder?"

He held out his hand. In it were three more bags of food.

This time, he had gone all out. He even brought out a large bag of spicy beef, one of his own favorites.

Old Zhang tried a piece of each snack, looking utterly enraptured every time, and began telling Lin Xiaosu...

Strange tales and hidden secrets poured out like a tide. For all Lin Xiaosu's unmatched breadth of knowledge, the flood of startling revelations left him reeling, scarcely knowing where he was.

This realm was called the Bridge Realm.

It was not, in fact, the true Inner-Earth World.

It was merely a bridge between two worlds.

In that respect, it was much like Kun Cang.

Both were transitional zones.

Kun Cang lay between the mortal world and the Primordial Ancient World, and within it were traces of the Primordial World.

The Bridge Realm lay between the mortal world and the Inner-Earth Great World, and within it were traces of the Inner-Earth Outsiders.

Both were only transitional realms. Both held traces of another world, and both had their shackles.

Kun Cang's shackle was this: those who had reached the Kun Cang Enlightened Realm could not wield Enlightened Realm power once they left Kun Cang for the mortal