Although they had come from the Skeleton Desert, and going back might seem no different,
this time, their destination was the desert's most dangerous Death Zone.
Not only was it seldom trodden by humans, it also held all manner of unpredictable dangers.
They were being used as cannon fodder to scout the way!
Whatever danger appeared, they would face it first. They were only prisoners, after all, their miserable lives worth nothing.
Their deaths would be no loss!
The Mara Dynasty had laid its intentions bare-since the remains of a deceased cultivator lay deep in the desert, even without an exact location, sending enough people inside would ensure they found them someday!
But the price would be the lives of thousands of prisoners!
Even taking ten thousand steps back, suppose they actually found the cultivator's ruins.
The fortuitous encounters and legacies would have nothing to do with them.
They would even be silenced for knowing the cultivator's secrets.
In the chaos of dynastic rule, some people's lives counted as lives, while others' did not.
Once the selection was complete, the cultivators surveyed everyone and smiled at them. "Prisoners, your chance to atone through service has arrived-find an ancient ruin for me, and you'll be free!"
Some prisoners who knew nothing of the inside story even had a gleam in their eyes.
But Yi Tao, who knew the truth, wanted to die.
If the Great Li Dynasty's Desert Sky Prison was hell, then this place was the hell within hell!
There was not the slightest chance of surviving!
"There are even two men from Great Li. Did they commit some offense here?"
The cultivator gave Ning Que and Yi Tao a few extra looks.
People from the Great Li Dynasty were exceedingly rare in the Mara Dynasty.
The two sides had