Yan Bing was the first to step into the barrier. Ya En and the others followed.

As Lu Ning passed through the barrier, he clearly felt a familiar force sweep across his body.

This power felt very close to Lu Ning, but after thinking about it for a long time, he realized that he seemed to have never encountered this power before.

Lu Ning frowned, and after thinking about it for a long time, he still couldn't figure it out, so he simply stopped thinking about it.

After passing through the barrier, the scene before Lu Ning's eyes changed.

It was a wilderness, shrouded in thick fog, though much thinner than the fog outside the barrier.

"The feeling here... it's a bit like being in a fog zone. The concentration of mental pollution is about the level of a medium-sized fog."

Osiris's somewhat surprised voice rang out.

Beside Lu Ning, the three of them, including Ya En, looked around in surprise.

As saints, they had explored many mists on Earth, and their first reaction upon entering this area was that they felt as if they had entered a misty region.

However, they had all entered from areas on Earth without fog, so the concentration of mental pollution was higher.

Now, they are entering the fog zone from the fog, and the concentration of mental pollution has actually decreased.

As the concentration of mental pollution decreased, the mental corruption they suffered from naturally became much milder, which also made their complexions look much better than before.

Lu Ning had the same feeling; in fact, the surrounding environment was quite different from the area outside the barrier.

Beyond the barrier, the mist had no concept of land; the ground beneath their feet was also a layer of mist.

After passing through the barrier, they were now standing in a wilderness, a true wilderness.

Yan Bing calmly said, "This is the Misty Wasteland, located outside the Exile City-State, and is the outermost edge of the Ruins of Return. Once we enter through the barrier, we will randomly appear in any location within the Misty Wasteland."

Lu Ning and the other three nodded.

Aisalind asked with some curiosity, "So we're going to that exiled city-state now?"

"Um."

Yan Bing glanced around before looking behind him.

When everyone saw Yan Bing looking behind them, they also turned to look in that direction.

When they saw what was behind them, everyone stared wide-eyed in astonishment.

At the edge of the wilderness, in an area whose location they didn't know how far away, a pale stone pillar rose into the sky.

The stone pillar is so tall that it disappears into the mist above the wasteland, with only its top barely visible.

From the top of the stone pillar, pale light burst forth, forming a pale light curtain that spread in all directions, creating an enormous light curtain that enveloped the entire sky.

"This is..." Everyone stared wide-eyed, looking at the stone tower and the pale light curtain with some surprise.

"This light screen... seems to be a barrier from the Ruins of Return?" Yaen asked in surprise.

Yan Bing nodded: "Yes, the exiles call it the Tower of Ruins, or the Pale Tower. The barrier of the Ruins Land is formed by the Tower of Ruins."

Osiris asked with some surprise, "Was this Tower of Ruins also built by the exiles? Such a tall stone tower, and able to condense such a powerful defensive barrier in the mist, must have taken a lot of effort, right?"

Osiris asked himself the same question.

Could humanity, by pooling the strength of their entire race, build such a stone tower?

Ultimately, Osiris felt it wasn't realistic.

After all, this stone tower has too many functions.

You must know this place is shrouded in mist!

The light emitted by the stone tower can form a defensive barrier in the mist, and it has existed to this day.

Even a demigod couldn't do something like that, right?

Osiris found it hard to believe that these exiles could build such a stone tower.

However, Yan Bing's words surprised Osiris, Yann, and the others.

"The Tower of Ruins was not built by the exiles."

Everyone was taken aback.

"Not built by exiles?" Yern was somewhat surprised. "Then who built this stone tower? Could it be a relic left behind by those evil gods?"

Aishalin and Osiris were also incredulous, and even Lu Ning couldn't understand it.

Yan Bing shook his head: "As far as I know, the Tower of Ruins already existed when the first group of exiles arrived here. It was because of the barrier of the Tower of Ruins that a relatively stable area was formed, allowing the first group of exiles to survive here. Afterwards, more and more exiles came here, forming the current exile city-state."

Yan Bing paused for a moment before speaking, "As for who exactly built the Tower of Return to Nothingness, even the first batch of exiles weren't entirely sure. However... everyone believes that the Tower of Return to Nothingness was built by some great being."

"This great being could not bear to see cosmic civilizations destroyed by the mist, so it built this Ruins of Return. Therefore, many exiles worship that great being."

"Because of the pale screen released by the Tower of Ruins, the exiles also called that great being the 'Pale Savior,' and the Tower of Ruins was also called the Pale Tower."

Ya'en and Lu Ning exchanged glances.

They never expected that there would be such a saying in this land of ruins.

"So, is there really a Pale Savior?" Lu Ning asked, looking at the stone pillar with some curiosity.

Yan Bing shook his head: "I don't know, maybe yes, maybe no."

At this point, Yan Bing glanced at Lu Ning, opened her mouth, but ultimately didn't say anything more.

“Why don’t we go to the exiled city-state and find out?” Osiris said, showing his eagerness.

He asked with some curiosity, "By the way, can we enter the Tower of Ruins?"

Yan Bing nodded: "Yes, the Tower of Ruins has many strange functions. Without the Tower of Ruins, civilization could not exist for long in such an environment."

Everyone was quite curious about the strange abilities Yan Bing mentioned, but Yan Bing suggested that they should see for themselves.

So, the group headed towards the location of the Tower of Ruins.

The exile city-state was built around the Tower of Ruins, and the direction in which the Tower of Ruins is located is the direction in which the exiles are located.

However, after walking only a few steps, Lu Ning and the others saw two rather ferocious monsters charging towards them across the wilderness.

The two monsters exuded an aura comparable to that of high-level Awakened Beings. Their bodies were covered in tentacles; one had four legs but no head, while the other had six legs and a head resembling that of a giant feline, though its body was quite distorted.

"A calamity beast? Or a mutated being?"

Upon seeing the two monsters, Yann and his companions were somewhat surprised.

They never expected that there were monsters here.

They originally thought that only exiles lived here.

Just then, the two monsters were frozen and then shattered.

No one was surprised by this; it was obviously Yan Bing who did it.

However, the next moment, everyone showed surprise.

Because the shattered monster corpse suddenly turned into a twisted white mist that gradually dissipated, and a portion of the white mist gathered in the center, turning into a piece of pale crystal.