Meanwhile, back in Xia City.
Yi Tian handed Wei Yuan the token awarded for founding the city and asked him to return to Great Xia and bring Jiang Che to the Myriad Races Battlefield.
Jiang Yuan Shuang and Ling Hua set off to search for Chu Chen and Ling Luo. If those two leaders really had gone missing, the consequences for Great Xia would be severe.
That left only Bai Qiu Li, Zhou Mo Yao, and Wan Jiang to head to the coordinates of the ruins awarded for founding the city.
For Bai Qiu Li, however, it was simply a matter of retracing her steps...
"That's right, this is the place. It's still the same barrier."
Sword Spirit Chao also took the lead, stepping into the barrier and looking around. She found that nothing had changed since they left.
Clearly, the Bloodfire Inferno Race had not returned. That was good news.
"Strange. I don't see any ruins around here."
"If the ruins were visible, we'd have found them the first time we came."
Zhou Mo Yao immediately released her vast mental power to probe the area within the barrier. Suddenly, she exclaimed in delight:
"Here! There's a hollow space underground!"
Everyone gathered where Zhou Mo Yao pointed, at a stretch of the valley floor that looked incredibly solid.
Wan Jiang tried knocking on the ground twice, then decisively slammed his fist into it!
Boom!
The valley floor cracked open. Beneath it lay a cold, shadowy chasm-a Sword Mound formed from countless broken swords!
Countless blades jutted haphazardly from the depths, like a forest of sharp edges.
"Wow!" Sword Spirit Chao cheered. "No wonder this place drew me in so strongly back then!"
"Let's hurry down and take a look!" Bai Qiu Li eagerly leaped down as well!
The air was