Lord Xuren stared at the sky in horror. From his vantage point, he could see no defensive barrier whatsoever, yet the barrier's strike against Qin Hao as he flew upward had been all too real.
He had witnessed it with his own eyes!
Even Lord Xuren could not help feeling terrified.
What this meant was already plain.
They could not leave this Heaven and Earth Island!
At least, they could not leave Heaven and Earth Island by flying.
Lord Xuren abruptly turned toward the enormous city in the distance, his expression shifting uncertainly.
"So..."
"Is that why this city appeared?"
Lord Xuren's expression darkened.
"That's possible."
"Throughout the ages, everyone who entered this Heaven and Earth Island stayed once they realized they couldn't leave. Naturally, an enormous city formed."
"Among them..."
"There may even be quite a few Ancestral Gods!"
A slightly grave voice rang out.
"If that's the case, we're in serious trouble. I'm afraid we won't be able to... huh? No! Qin Hao, when did you discover me?!"
As Lord Xuren spoke, he suddenly came to his senses. He was actually talking to Qin Hao! His expression changed drastically.
"Swapping the beams and pillars, deceiving heaven to cross the sea."
Without Lord Xuren noticing, Qin Hao had already reached the front of his corpse. He glanced at the Armored Beetle beneath it and nodded. "Anyone else might really have been fooled by you. Unfortunately, you ran into me."
As his words fell, a streak of sword radiance appeared out of thin air before the Armored Beetle and stabbed straight toward it.
Whoosh!
At the same instant, the Armored Beetle transformed into a rainbow streak and vanished, moving several times faster than Lord Xuren had when fleeing.
"So this is a veteran one-star Ancestral God's lifesaving trump card. The