The moment Su Jiu and Chu Luohen stepped into the array, it activated. A vast vortex formed beneath their feet, and with a flash, they vanished from where they stood.
For Su Jiu, the sensation of heaven and earth spinning came the instant she entered the array.
Su Jiu tried to control the spiritual qi within her body to form a Protective Shield around herself, only to discover that she could not mobilize even a fraction of it.
It was as though something had suppressed it.
On top of that, the spiritual qi inside this Teleportation Array was exceptionally violent. She even felt as though its raging force would tear her apart.
Waves of stinging pain spread across her skin, and gradually, the smell of blood around her grew stronger.
Su Jiu had no idea how many wounds this violent spiritual qi had cut into her body, nor how much blood she had lost.
It had been a long time since she had experienced such helplessness.
Floating in the teleportation passage, Su Jiu grew increasingly dazed.
Just before she lost consciousness completely, she vaguely sensed someone holding her, and her body no longer seemed to hurt as much as before.
In an unknown corner of the Azure Realm lay a desert, and in that desert stood a small city. It had few inhabitants and suffered from a perennial shortage of water. Young people often ventured out in search of water sources, or with hopes of leaving the city for good.
Those who went searching for water were generally fine. Even if they found none, they could still return safely.
But those who tried to leave this place ultimately died in the vast desert.
Before long, their bodies would be found by people from the city who had gone out