Because, at some point...
The Life Token had stopped sensing any trace of a true spirit.
The only reason it had not shattered was that it could no longer sense any fluctuations from its owner!
Only when the Heavenly Gate Sect Leader arrived here...
Did a faint crack appear in the center of the Life Token.
Crack! Crack!
Then the entire Life Token silently crumbled to dust, slowly spilling through his fingers.
At the sight...
Every elder from the Heavenly Gate Forbidden Land turned deathly pale.
Was that really the reason? It was utterly absurd!
Just then, the Heavenly Gate Sect Leader suddenly sensed something and glanced into the distance.
On the other side of the great hall...
Numerous senior figures from the Mystic Withered Forbidden Land were kneeling on the floor.
In the outside world, every one of them held dominion over billions of living beings.
Among them, two old men sitting silently with their eyes closed were forbidden land Old Ancestors who had entered the Transcendence Realm many years ago!
Yet now they all knelt upright below the dais, their faces filled with undisguisable terror.
...No way.
The Heavenly Gate Sect Leader's heart suddenly began pounding.
He slowly followed the direction in which they were kneeling toward the dais, and his pupils contracted to pinpoints!
A young man in purple robes sat there.
His expression was calm, one hand propping up the side of his face as he looked down at everyone in the hall.
There was clearly no astonishing aura flowing around him.
Yet the mere sight of that face left the Heavenly Gate Sect Leader's mind utterly blank!
Ye Li...
It really was Ye Li!!!
"Impossible..."
The Heavenly Gate Sect Leader's face was drained of blood.
Everything he had just said began echoing endlessly through his