Chapter 436

Chapter 436: Since We’re Already Here
The Xi Men Clan did not rely on only Xi Men Wu Ji as its outstanding descendant. Otherwise they would never have let him risk death by going to Godsfall Land to fight for that tiny sliver of hope.

Xi Men Wu Ji said coldly: “Those few guys only know how to throw their weight around at home. If they dare to come, I will make sure they never return.”

After throwing out this harsh line, Xi Men Wu Ji’s face grew even uglier.

Bei Ming Yan knew when to stop. She sensibly changed the topic, and the cold, tense air between them slowly eased.

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Godsfall Land was not a complete planet. It was a strange place that floated outside the starry sky, made up of countless land fragments.

Each land fragment had a different size and shape and was scattered in a messy way. Some hidden or obvious passages linked them to one another.

Outside Godsfall Land lay a faint layer of gray mist that blocked divine sense from the outside world, so all anyone could see was a blur of chaos.

A loud, piercing horn suddenly rang out.

A huge starship slowly docked at the outer edge of Godsfall Land. Hearing the horn, cultivators flew out one after another.

They stood in the air and looked at the chaotic world ahead with different expressions.

Yu Zhao and Jin Yuan stood side by side, staring at Godsfall Land without blinking. A strange excitement was brewing in Yu Zhao’s chest.

Her freedom seemed to be within reach.

Jin Yuan’s voice sounded in Yu Zhao’s ear: “When are you planning to leave?”

Yu Zhao’s face did not change. She only answered with four words: “See how it goes.”

Godsfall Land was a place she had never set foot in before. She could not make any real plan and could only stay on guard and respond to things as they came.

Jin Yuan said: “At any critical moment, I will help you.”

Yu Zhao only smiled and did not answer.

At that moment, a deep voice sounded again from the starship: “At noon on the first and fifteenth day of every month, a starship will dock at Godsfall Land. Any cultivators who wish to return may come at that time to board the ship.”

After the voice echoed three times, the starship turned and sailed back the way it had come.

Some impatient cultivators could not wait and rushed straight into Godsfall Land. When the others saw that, they hurried after them, afraid to fall behind.

In an instant, the sky was full of dense human figures.

Jin Yuan said in an unhurried voice: “The last time I rode a starship here, there were also this many people entering Godsfall Land. But when I took the starship back, there were fewer than a hundred cultivators left on board.”

Her pace was calm, but her words made people feel a chill for no reason.

The starships from Sacred Wood Star to Godsfall Land had no fixed schedule. As soon as a ship was full, it set off.

On average, a starship reached Godsfall Land every two days, carrying more than a thousand cultivators each time.

But very few people came back. It was easy to guess where their final resting place was.

Jin Yuan raised a brow and looked at Feng Jiusi and the others: “You still have a chance to regret it now.”

Feng Jiusi said calmly: “Once the piece is placed, there is no regret.”

He was clearly answering Jin Yuan, but his eyes were fixed on Yu Zhao, full of deep emotion.

Yu Zhao cooperated very well and lowered her head.

Huo Shao Yan and Tu Xiao had still been a bit hesitant, but when they heard Feng Jiusi’s words, both of them made up their minds at once.

The first was thinking: [I can’t let you steal all the spotlight.] The second held onto some vague little scheme he could not even describe.

Shui Qiu Bai gave the final word: “Since we’re already here.”

No one could refuse those four words.

So the group also sped up and flew toward Godsfall Land.

Jin Yuan said: “Even though you all know this, I still have to remind you again. Inside Godsfall Land, besides the space rifts and gang wind that may appear at any time, you must guard against a kind of ferocious beast that feeds on Nascent Souls.

“They come and go without a trace, have no visible form, and have especially keen senses of smell. So inside Godsfall Land you must not get hurt, and you must never bleed. Once you bleed, you will draw them over. Even a Great Luo Golden Immortal would find it hard to escape death.”

Jin Yuan shared her experience in full detail, and everyone kept nodding as they listened.

Soon, they reached the edge of the mist. Once they passed through the mist, the mysterious Godsfall Land lay beyond.

The few of them exchanged a look, and the next moment, their bodies sank into the gray mist.

In an instant, a strong strange feeling washed over them.

Yu Zhao felt as if a pair of eyes was examining her from the inside out, laying all her secrets bare.

She looked around by instinct and found that she could no longer see Jin Yuan, Feng Jiusi, or the others who had entered the gray mist with her.

All around her was nothing but thick gray mist.

She froze for a moment, forced down the urge to shout, and kept flying forward.

To avoid any sudden accident, she did not fly very fast, but other than herself, she did not see a second human figure around her.

After an hour, the mist finally grew thinner, and the vague outline of a landmass appeared ahead.

Joy rose in Yu Zhao’s heart, and she sped up. Just as she was about to break through the mist, she heard the sounds of fierce fighting.

She stopped at once, hid herself in the mist, and looked out.

On a barren stretch of land below, seven or eight cultivators whose cultivation levels she could not see through were locked in a fierce battle.

Their magical artifacts flew everywhere, and all kinds of lights burst out in every direction.

Among them, a bald, burly man with his upper body bare threw a punch that made a string of thunder-like booms every time it landed.

After watching for a while, Yu Zhao could see the situation on the field more clearly. The bald man and the young woman holding a bell at his side were on the same team. The other six were split into two groups, and they seemed to be fighting over a magical artifact that was half buried in the ground.

She was too far away to see what the magical artifact looked like, but from how ruthless their moves were, with every strike aimed to kill, it was clearly not something she had any right to covet.

She gave up the thought and stayed hidden in the mist, using the time to think about where the others might have gone.

Jin Yuan had never said anything about the team being scattered after entering Godsfall Land. Judging from how well those people worked together, they also did not seem like people who had just met after entering Godsfall Land.

So under normal conditions, teams entering Godsfall Land would not be split up, yet she had somehow been cut away from her group.

Although this was a good thing for Yu Zhao, sudden changes like this always made people uneasy.

While she was still thinking, the fight in front of her suddenly changed.

One short man slipped for a moment and exposed a flaw. The bald man seized it and smashed a punch into the short man’s right arm.

The man’s arm turned straight into powder, leaving only the ragged wound to show it had ever been there.

The short man let out a scream and hurried backward. His eyes filled with hate.

His two teammates quickly closed in around him.

Just as the three were about to come together, the short man’s dantian suddenly exploded from the inside. He did not even have time to react before his body fell from the sky like a shooting star.

The other two were shocked and were about to go check on him when their vision went black, and they lost consciousness.

Bang! Bang! The two bodies, hollowed out around the abdomen, dropped from the sky one after another.

The remaining cultivators on the field all turned pale at the sight.

Someone shouted in panic: “It’s the ferocious beasts! The ferocious beasts are here!”

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