After grieving for a long while, Xiu Zun Xing Yuan fumbled inside his robes for a Jade Slip and handed it to Mu Bai.
"I fear I will never return to Eastern Ridge. This Jade Slip records the insights I gained over many years of Array Offering. Please take it to Xing Mu for me, Brother Mu. Xing Mu is my child. All these years, I have owed him so much..."
"Senior, why not take it back yourself? We can set out for Eastern Ridge right now!"
Mu Bai had put away Old Xu's remains, only for Xiu Zun Xing Yuan to begin entrusting him with his final affairs as well.
"We cannot go back. We cannot. The defensive lines between northern Southern Marsh and the Beast Territory were difficult enough to cross already. Now tens of millions of beast soldiers have been stationed there. There is absolutely no way we could cross those defenses!"
"What about crossing the Shuhuan Mountain Range?"
"There is a boundary-protecting grand array there, established jointly by powerful figures from the Venerable Domain and Southern Marsh. Neither Demon Marshals nor even Demon Saints can break it. How do you suppose we could cross that way?"
"I heard there is a human region in the southeastern Beast Territory. Why don't we rally them and return to Eastern Ridge together?"
"That Human Spirit Domain is a haven for humans in the Beast Territory. They even maintain close ties with the Beast Race. I fear the humans there abandoned any intention of leaving the Beast Territory long ago."
"What if we took a route through the Dao Sea?"
"As far as I know, the Southern Marsh Beast Territory is merely one corner of the Beast Race's lands. The depths of the Dao Sea are where demonic beasts truly