"With this much Zhen Xuan power, at this purity, covering such an absurdly vast area... the Ten Thousand Corpses Old Devil has really spared no expense."
"Hiss—those Arcane Corpses are no easy opponents. With them blocking the way, getting back to Canglan Continent will be troublesome."
"Look, the Ninth Abyss Venerable and the others are back."
As the three Righteous Path Great Venerables spoke, the Ninth Abyss Venerable and Venerable Lingyue returned from the Soul Law Land.
They brought back the battered remains of three Mystic Insight Arcane Corpses they had slain.
Even among the Righteous Path's Great Venerables, the Ninth Abyss Venerable and Venerable Lingyue were outstanding fighters. Both had reached the Mystic Insight Late Stage, so dealing with these returned-from-the-dead Escape Dao cultivators had posed no great problem.
But judging by their expressions, the situation inside the spatial passage was far from promising.
After rejoining their three comrades, the Ninth Abyss Venerable wasted no words. "This route is impassable. Forcing our way through will only summon more Arcane Corpses. We have just two choices: wait for the battle between the peak experts to end, or open a new path ourselves."
"Well..."
The other three fell silent. They exchanged glances, helplessness flickering in their eyes.
Naturally, they did not want to sit here and wait, but digging a new route to the Lower Realm was easier said than done.
They had only recently finished an exhausting battle against the Demon Sect's Great Venerables. Even if they rested and recovered to full strength, the task would still be extraordinarily difficult.
Of the eight passages leading from the Outrealm to Canglan Continent, four had survived from several thousand years ago. The other four had been opened by later cultivators.
The two newest passages had been opened under Zhuang Xuanji's leadership, through