The method for breaking the Forbidden Ground's restrictions had to do with these remains. According to Zhen'er-who had actually heard it from Su-after the Fire God and the others realized their allotted time was nearly up, they had refined the Earthheart Tower as their burial place. But after so many years of desolate solitude here, they still came to yearn to return to their roots like fallen leaves and be buried in their homeland.
So they had bound the formation to themselves. As long as their bodies were taken out of the Forbidden Ground, its restrictions would naturally break. Once their bodies were taken out of the Divine Fire Domain, the Earthheart Tower's formation would unravel as well, and the nine lords guarding it would perish along with the tower's collapse.
That was why Shi Chun truly had not understood what Zhen'er was thinking before. Who would dare help her break the formation without extraordinary abilities? It would have been stranger if Situ Gu had kept his word.
He also could not understand what the deceased masters inside the tower had been thinking. If they wanted their souls to return home, why create such terrifyingly powerful beings to guard their tombs? With those horrors guarding them, they had effectively cut off nearly every possibility of returning.
If outsiders had not been afraid of those terrifying beings, these deceased masters would probably have returned to their homeland long ago.
These deceased masters had understood worldly affairs, after all, and had not intended to ask for help without compensation. Before dying, they had used a secret art to inscribe their cultivation methods on the bones inside their bodies. As long as their remains survived, so would their methods. Anyone who failed to treasure their remains could forget about easily obtaining those cultivation