Chapter 154: Panic

At this moment, he could no longer take another step forward.

Even though he had sensed the endless opportunities hidden within the Little Mountain Village, could he truly continue onward?

Or, rather, did he still dare to?

That place was a forbidden zone...

“Could this be the burial ground of some Immortal Lord? How could it possess such terrifying power?”

He could not stop his entire body from trembling.

“Who are you? What are you doing here?”

Suddenly, an old man’s voice sounded beside Elder Chen Sang.

Uncle Liu held a cane in his hand and frowned as he looked at the stranger before him.

Chen Sang had no idea when another person had appeared at his side. If this had happened in front of an enemy, he would have been killed long ago!

His heart leaped violently as he turned to look.

It was merely a perfectly ordinary old man, holding what appeared to be an ordinary cane.

But Elder Chen Sang needed only one glance.

Fear instantly welled up in his heart. He could sense an incomparably terrifying aura emanating from that cane!

He was finished!

This man had walked out of the forbidden land.

For a moment, Elder Chen Sang felt certain that his life was over.

He even turned around instinctively, intending to flee without stopping for so much as a moment.

The Forbidden Great Land appeared peaceful on ordinary days, but no one knew how many powerful figures lay dormant within it. They rarely emerged.

Whenever one of them did come out, it meant that some catastrophe was bound to follow!

But Elder Chen Sang was already frightened half to death.

How could he possibly dare remain there?

Wind seemed to gather beneath his feet as Elder Chen Sang fled, moving even faster than when he had arrived.

He did not merely escape from the Little Mountain Village; he did not dare linger in the vicinity for even an instant.

He pushed his spatial arts to their utmost limit!

In an instant, he arrived in the Northern Wasteland.

Upon reaching the Northern Wasteland, Elder Chen Sang did not pause. With a forceful step, he plunged directly into the boundary between realms and left the Tianwu Realm in the blink of an eye.

Only after the white mist before his eyes dispersed and his vision finally cleared did Elder Chen Sang let out a long sigh of relief.

He looked at the Tianwu Realm, now far behind him, and fear still lingered in his eyes.

“That nearly scared me to death. I finally escaped from that forbidden land!”

For a brief moment, Chen Sang even felt incredibly fortunate.

Had he been a little later, he might never have escaped the Tianwu Realm.

“I’m not going anywhere near the Tianwu Realm again. I have to hurry and report this to the branch headquarters! That forbidden zone in the Tianwu Realm must not be disturbed recklessly.”

With that thought, Chen Sang turned and rushed toward the branch headquarters in the Diwen Realm.

...

At that moment, at the entrance to the Little Mountain Village, Uncle Liu stood alone in the wind, utterly bewildered.

He did not even know why the other man had run away.

What was wrong with these people?

Was he really that frightening? Why did everyone flee the moment they saw him?

“That man definitely wasn’t a good person. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have sneaked into our village, and then tried to escape after I caught him!”

After thinking it over, Uncle Liu half-reclined in his grand master’s chair. He leisurely poured himself a cup of tea, then settled back and enjoyed it to the fullest.

...

About a day later, Chen Sang finally arrived in the Diwen Realm.

Only now did the terror he felt toward the forbidden land finally subside.

He hurried to the branch headquarters.

When all the elders there heard the news, they promptly rushed to the main hall and waited.

“Elder Chen Sang has already returned?”

“He came back so quickly! That’s wonderful. It seems the situation over there can’t have been too serious.”

“Indeed. Elder Chen Sang possesses a spatial secret art. As long as he wishes to leave, it should be impossible for anyone to keep him there!”

The crowd spoke one after another.

The master of the Diwen Realm branch also nodded, a satisfied smile appearing on his face.

He opened his mouth and asked, “How is Elder Chen Sang? What exactly is the situation over there?”

Chen Sang’s face was deathly pale. Upon hearing the branch master’s question, his expression darkened immediately.

“Branch Master! Where is Shen Bing?”

When Shen Bing heard Elder Chen Sang call his name, he immediately stepped out from behind the gathered elders.

“Elder Chen Sang, your disciple is here. What are your instructions?”

In only a few days, the branch had used a special method to restore Shen Bing’s body completely.

That was the power of immortals.

So long as one’s soul remained intact, even if the body had been reduced to ashes, it could be restored to life once more!

Yet Shen Bing had barely finished speaking when Chen Sang struck him across the face.

“Ah!”

A shriek rang out.

Shen Bing’s body vanished in an instant.

After only two days, he had once again been reduced to a remnant soul.

It was truly pitiful.

“What are you doing, Chen Sang?”

“Elder Chen Sang, why did you suddenly attack him?”

Everyone present was utterly stunned.

No one could understand why Elder Chen Sang had acted so violently.

“Chen Sang! What exactly happened?”

The branch master of the Diwen Realm, Yang Dingyan, furrowed his brows.

Chen Sang was consumed by rage. The moment he opened his mouth, fury spilled from his words.

“Don’t ask! It’s all because of this useless fool! If it weren’t for him, I would never have nearly died in the Tianwu Realm!”

The moment they heard this, everyone’s expression became grim.

What had Chen Sang just said?

He had nearly died in the Tianwu Realm?

What had happened there?

No one could believe it.

“The Tianwu Realm conceals a terrifying forbidden zone!”

Chen Sang immediately spoke those words.

The noisy hall fell silent at once.

Less than three seconds later, it erupted into fierce discussion once again.

Chen Sang had said it was a forbidden zone!

What exactly did this mean?

“That’s absolutely impossible! The Tianwu Realm is merely a lower realm. How could a tiny lower realm possibly contain a forbidden zone?”

“That is a place that can exist only in the Immortal Realm!”

“Elder Chen Sang, you must have mistaken it for something else...”

No one believed what Chen Sang was saying.

They voiced their disagreement one after another.

These people had all come from the Immortal Realm, so they naturally understood what a forbidden zone represented.

If there truly was a forbidden land within the Tianwu Realm, then it would be hopeless—not only for people like them, but perhaps even a Golden Immortal would be powerless before it.

“Explain everything in detail. What exactly happened?”

Yang Dingyan’s face was equally grave.

If the Tianwu Realm truly contained a forbidden zone, then they were finished.

“I, Chen Sang, would never tell a lie!”

“You have no idea. In a mere few days, the Tianwu Realm’s rank rose directly to the level of a Celestial Immortal realm!”

“When I arrived in Southern Yi of the Tianwu Realm, I personally saw the forbidden Little Mountain Village!”

“No. That was not a little mountain village. It was a forbidden land!”