"Why would you think that? Why couldn't I be?"
Di Yi did not answer Female Kunpeng's words, but asked this in return.
"You really aren't a Lord of the Forbidden Zone from the Primordial Ancient Realm, though you could still be called a Lord of the Forbidden Zone." Female Kunpeng did not explain. She had fought in the war of the Immortal Ancient Era and knew something about all the forbidden zones in the Primordial Ancient Realm.
Most forbidden zones had originally been territories of the Primordial Ancient Realm, places with special qualities. Over the passage of time, however, Lords of the Forbidden Zone had occupied and developed them, turning them into their own domains, each a realm unto itself.
Of course, there was nothing objectionable about this. After all, those Lords of the Forbidden Zone had all contributed to the Primordial Ancient Realm and had meritorious deeds to their names.
But quite a few forbidden zones had not originally belonged to the Primordial Ancient Realm. Instead, they had come from beyond the world and crashed into the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, much like the Primordial Divine Mountain.
Naturally, forbidden zones of this kind received particular attention, for they were unfathomable and their origins unknown. Ordinarily, they revealed neither mountain nor water, but if one truly ventured inside, even an undying being could meet with disaster.
Compared to the former kind of forbidden zone, however, this latter kind posed no danger in itself. They could be considered ownerless, with no living beings inside, and were more like passages of some sort that seemed to function only at particular times.
Back when Immortal Ancient suffered its crushing defeat and the Foreign Realm's iron cavalry drove straight in, the circumstances had forced her to wage guerrilla warfare. During that time, she