"Please accept my condolences." Jun Lin patted Ruan Hanqiu's shoulder to comfort her.

"Impossible, impossible, it can't be impossible that it's not there!"

Ruan Hanqiu found it hard to accept that Yan'er's soul wasn't inside, so what was the point of his persistence all these years?

"It's really not inside."

Errou examined the World Fragment Orb in her hand and indeed found no trace of any human soul that had ever existed within it.

Junlin shook his head. He was a pitiful person too.

"Let's go, to the next stop."

After saying this, Junlin left the city lord's mansion with Eryan and Errou.

Ruan Hanqiu's two friends looked at her, who was lying on the ground, muttering "it's impossible," with expressions of pity.

They were saddened to see their longtime friends fall to such a state.

Not long after Junlin left, the masked man returned. In fact, he had been worried about the safety of the three and had never left.

Everything that just happened was naturally seen, and in short, it's hard to judge.

But that precious pearl... he also has it in the Daoless Holy Land.

...

"Brother-in-law, do you think that person's soul might have been killed by the demonic beasts inside the pearl because it stayed there for too long, or perhaps it gradually perished over time?" Errou suddenly asked curiously.

She felt sorry for Ruan Hanqiu, who not only failed to stay with the one she loved, but also found all her years of effort to be in vain.

Junlin thought for a moment and said, "Is it possible that he actually doesn't know where his Daoist partner's soul is?"

"Huh?" Errou asked, puzzled. "But he was very certain that it was inside."

Junlin shook his head. "You don't understand. The truth is, his Daoist partner had already died, but he was unwilling to face reality. He happened to obtain this precious pearl, so he kept deceiving himself, fabricating a lie that his Daoist partner's soul was inside the pearl. Eventually, he even believed it himself."

Errou opened her mouth wide in surprise. So that's how it is?

Er Yan looked at Jun Lin with a strange expression and asked, "How do you know so much? Could it be that you did it?"

Junlin shrugged and said, "How could that be? That happened so many years ago. As for why I know so much about it, it's because that's how these kinds of plots are written in novels."

Er Rou pouted. She thought it was true, but it turned out to be something Jun Lin made up. However, it sounded quite reasonable.

"Tch." Er Yan curled his lip and said, "I thought you could go back to the past."

If she could go back in time, the first thing she would do is tell her older brother not to damage the Heavenly Pillar, and then kill every single one of those martial arts immortals!

Unfortunately, this is ultimately just wishful thinking.

"Now that things are settled here, let's hurry to the next place. Once we've collected all the world fragments, we can go rescue our brother."

"Hey, speaking of which, I'm a little curious. Why do we need to collect all the world fragments to save your big brother? It's like you're doing a quest to unlock the final boss." Jun Lin couldn't help but complain.

Er Yan paused for a moment, then shook his head and said, "I'm not quite sure why either. My second sister didn't say. She just told us to take it one step at a time, to find the world fragments first, and that is indeed our mission."

She also wanted to rescue her older brother as soon as possible, but the problem was that Erxi wouldn't let them do that, and instead told them to proceed step by step.

Actually, she also felt it was strange that Erxi was always so unhurried, as if she wasn't in a hurry at all.

"Alright."

Junlin nodded. He didn't actually care; he was just curious, and for him, this was actually a good thing.

With these precious pearls, he would be able to negotiate with the Heavenly Dao of this world. It's just unknown how much merit he could extract from the Heavenly Dao.

The Human Emperor Banner will soon be upgraded to the Human Emperor Banner!

After leaving Coldmist City, Junlin did not immediately head to the location of the second person who possessed the World Fragment Orb.

The system indicated that there was a secret realm formed from fragments of a world, located only a thousand miles away.

This is no different from meat being delivered right to your mouth.

He also wanted to see how this secret realm had turned into a bead.

The distance of a mere thousand miles is not far, and with the scenery changing rapidly as we travel at full speed, we arrived in no time.

This secret realm is very close to Hanyan City and is under the jurisdiction of Hanyan City, or you could say it belongs to the Ruan family.

At the entrance to the secret realm, two men stood guard to prevent unauthorized personnel from entering.

Those in King's Landing are considered irrelevant.

But Junlin didn't care and, with Eryan and Errou, was about to enter the secret realm directly.

The two men guarding the secret realm were taken aback. What did this mean? Were they being treated as if they didn't exist?

How could anyone tolerate this?!

They work for the Ruan family!

The two immediately stepped forward, intending to stop Jun Lin, but in the next instant, they were sent flying by Jun Lin's blow.

"Who do you think you are, daring to stop me?"

Junlin smiled dismissively and walked straight into the secret realm.

The two were momentarily stunned, and remained silent as they watched Junlin enter the secret realm. Well... they'd better just bear with it.

Who told them they were just martial artists at the peak of the ninth realm? They were ants below the level of supreme beings, born to be bullied by supreme beings.

A moment later.

One of the men stood up, rubbed his face, and said, "You continue to guard this place. I'll go and report what happened."

Upon hearing this, the other man immediately became dissatisfied, "Why should you be the one to report? You stay here and watch, can't I go and report?"

"What's the difference between not being buddies?"

"There's no difference, so I'll go report it. You stay here and keep watch, is that alright?"

"That won't do!"

"..."

——

within the secret realm

The scenery before my eyes suddenly changed.

This is a hidden paradise of ice and snow, with rolling mountains stretching as far as the eye can see and everything is white.

Errou seemed to really enjoy this environment.

They skipped and hopped ahead, moving as lightly and gracefully as elves amidst the swirling snowflakes.

Junlin stretched out his hand, and a snowflake landed in his palm, but it did not melt, because the snowflake contained a trace of the power of laws.

Besides the power of laws, there is another inexplicable power.

Although this power was very weak, Junlin, who had mastered many laws, was able to keenly perceive it.

Er Yan held a snowflake the size of a fingernail in his hand, and a faint flame lit up, melting the snowflake.

Then he looked up at the sky and said, "It is chaos. This is indeed a secret realm formed from fragments of the world."

"chaos?"

Junlin felt the inexplicable power contained within the snowflakes.

It was so faint that it could only be detected, and when you tried to touch it, it vanished completely.

Erflame nodded. "Yes, chaos, a power from beyond the world, which people nowadays... call the abyss."