The Lord of the Forbidden Zone stared at Meng Chuan. His gentle, scholarly air faded, and galaxies surged in his eyes as universes were born and destroyed.
The sky shattered. Stars shifted, and Heaven and Earth seemed ready to overturn.
"What do you mean by that, fellow daoist?" the Lord of the Forbidden Zone asked gravely.
"Exactly what I said." Meng Chuan's expression did not change. He might be only a Venerable, but he was a Venerable who feared no power, who never bent or broke, whose will was iron!
Even with an Immortal King before him, no one could make him feel the slightest fear.
He feared no crushing of bone or flesh, so long as he could leave his honor unstained in the Mortal Realm!
That was how tough he was, got it?
"Would you like to set foot in that place again one day, fellow daoist? To finish what you could not finish back then and uncover every secret?" Meng Chuan said plainly.
The Lord of the Forbidden Zone gave Meng Chuan a long look, then grew calm again.
"It seems you already know how I came to be like this."
"I've guessed some of it." Meng Chuan nodded. "Whether in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, the Immortal Domain, or the Foreign Realm, it would be difficult to reduce a Giant like you to this state."
"And you said all eight of your disciples took a road that could only lead to death, with no chance of survival. The answer is clear enough."
"You must have crossed the Dam and entered the Boundary Sea, encountered a formidable enemy there, then returned in defeat."
Meng Chuan's reasoning was sound, without the slightest flaw.
From what Meng Chuan had observed lately, and from the Lord of the Forbidden