Arrival at the Dead Soul Mountain Range

After the Amethyst Winged Lion King carried Li Changqing into the Black-Corner Region, Li Changqing took out Protector Wu's soul.

Protector Wu was extremely weak, almost at the point of dissipating.

Startled, Li Changqing hurriedly took out a pill that restored Soul Force.

If Protector Wu died, he would have to find another Hall of Souls Protector to lead the way.

The moment Li Changqing brought out the pill, intense longing filled Protector Wu's eyes, like parched earth greeting a long-awaited rain.

"Want it?"

"Yes, yes, yes! Please, give it to me!" Protector Wu's voice was feeble, but it brimmed with desperate yearning.

"Take me to a Hall of Souls Branch Hall. It must have at least one of your Venerable Elders stationed there. Lead me there, and the pill is yours."

As he spoke, the pill danced between Li Changqing's fingers, drawing Protector Wu's gaze wherever it went.

Protector Wu was torn. The locations of the Hall of Souls' Branch Halls were closely guarded secrets, especially those with a Dou Zun stationed there. Outsiders knew nothing of them.

If he revealed one to an outsider, death would count as mercy. More likely, the higher-ups would punish him with agony worse than death.

But if he refused to lead the way now, his soul would dissipate. He would truly die.

Clinging to a shred of hope, Protector Wu said:

"Senior, I'm only a lowly Earth-Grade Protector of the Hall of Souls. I know a few ordinary Branch Halls guarded by Dou Zong, but I don't know where any Earth-Grade Branch Hall guarded by a Dou Zun expert is."

Li Changqing chuckled. He did not believe a word Protector Wu said.

But he had plenty of ways to make Protector Wu talk.

In a place like the Hall of Souls, genuinely