"That... that is my secret..." Zhang Jie said somewhat unwillingly.
"This is this Xiao's secret too!" Xiao Hua replied with a grin.
"Fine!" Zhang Jie said helplessly. She did not pursue the matter further and instead asked, "How did you feel after using that witchcraft?"
"Earlier, this Xiao felt as though I could barely catch my breath, but now I can move somewhat freely!" Xiao Hua did not conceal it and replied, "Moreover, this Xiao feels that even beneath this Heaven and Earth restriction, the witchcraft can still wield forty percent of its power!"
"Oh, so that's how it is!" Zhang Jie understood and nodded. "I was wondering why the restrictions in the Wumeng Mountain Range were so strange. So they are methods of soul cultivators. Could it be that the Lost Land holds treasures of soul cultivators, and the soul cultivators wanted to prevent others from going there to search for them?"
"Probably not..." Xiao Hua answered offhandedly, but after speaking those four words, he suddenly came to his senses. Changing his tune, he smiled. "How could there possibly be an existence in this part of the Wumeng Mountain Range that surpasses the laws of the Yilin Continent? Yet the restriction before us appears even more formidable than the Heaven and Earth Laws. It is unlikely to be the work of soul cultivator shamans! And think about it—could the Wumeng Mountain Range possibly end here? There may well be soul cultivators on the other side of Broken Blade Ridge too. There is no reason for soul cultivator shamans to split their own lineage in two, is there?"
"What you say makes perfect sense!" Zhang Jie pondered for a moment, then still nodded. "But there is something I do not understand. I feel there is something suspicious about this restrictive