"Is this the place? No?"
Little Pagoda drifted through a forest, muttering to himself.
"Yuan told me it was a black forest. This one's green."
"Life Forbidden Zone, Life Forbidden Zone..."
Little Pagoda vanished from the forest and followed the currents of energy between heaven and earth in another direction.
He was searching for something at Meng Chuan's request.
Of course, Meng Chuan would never treat Little Pagoda like a subordinate and order him around.
But Little Pagoda liked leaving Stone Village to wander about anyway.
As it happened, Meng Chuan had something Little Pagoda could take care of while he roamed.
So he had asked him for the favor.
Before long, Little Pagoda arrived outside a black forest.
It was eerily still. Every tree, blade of grass, and leaf was pitch-black.
No insects chirped, no birds called, and no beasts or flying creatures could be seen.
There was not even the sound of wind. The entire forest lay silent, utterly unlike the world beyond it.
Little Pagoda stopped at its edge.
"This should be it," Little Pagoda said to himself. It matched everything Meng Chuan had told him about the place.
And the energy he sensed from within was entirely worthy of a Forbidden Land.
The Black Forest was a Forbidden Land of Desolate Domain legend, shrouded in mystery. Few people even knew where it was.
Now and then, someone discovered it, and endless legends spread in their wake.
If a Marquis wandered in by mistake, his life would be in grave danger. His chances of coming out alive were slim.
A place that could swallow a Marquis's life had to hold dangers at least on the level of a Venerable. At its most perilous depths, there might even be evils on the level of a Deity.
In the