No sooner had the words fallen than war drums sounded. Bolts of Nine Heavens Li Fire Divine Thunder descended from the clouds and struck the empty desert.
Amid the violent explosions, ripples spread through the air. A blue gateway gradually emerged, like a lake standing upright.
"Charge in!"
Elder Yu bellowed. Clearly, he was in command here.
At his shout, his Dependent Immortals, including Yuan Feng, obeyed first and rushed into the blue light.
With someone leading the way, the other True Immortals cast aside their reservations and charged through the gateway.
"Come on. I'll take you inside to see this Forbidden Ground for yourselves!"
Only after Elder Yu had led You Mengde and the others through the gateway aboard a Nine Heavens Li Fire Cloud did he speak.
One step through the gateway, and they were in another world. Much like the barren desert outside, wasteland stretched in every direction.
But unlike the deathly stillness outside, this Forbidden Ground was teeming with activity.
Undead of every kind had gathered there: zombies, vengeful spirits, liches, and Dark Knights mounted on skeletal horses.
The most numerous were the Skeleton Soldiers, armed with rusted swords and other weapons. They massed beside the gateway in numbers vast enough to form a Skeleton Sea, hoping to block the invaders' arrival.
Several Skeleton Dragons flew overhead, golden flames dancing in their eye sockets. They roared in fury, "Damned Immortals! Even though our world has been reduced to this, you still won't leave us alone?"
No one paid their roars any heed. A flash of sword light swept across the sky and struck the screeching Skeleton Dragon down.
"So this is a ruined world that escaped the Ancient Heavenly Court back then?"
In ancient times, the Eastern Glory World had not yet split apart, and it