Zuan was somewhat puzzled. His cultivation technique clearly came from the Yin Shang Secret Realm and was a inherited technique of the Shang Dynasty royal family. It shouldn't have anything to do with the existence described in it.
However, the name of the cultivation technique happens to contain the characters "饕餮" (Taotie).
In the blink of an eye, the war priest's cultivation was completely absorbed. Zu An felt his body full of energy, and his cultivation progress bar directly broke through level 75. At that moment, he even had a feeling that even if Zhao Hao was in his prime, he would not need to use so many tricks as in the secret realm to defeat him fair and square.
The war priest's entire body seemed to have been drained, and he could no longer float in the air, falling directly to the ground.
At the same time, its body, which was over ten meters tall, shrank rapidly until it was only the size of a cow.
It crashed heavily to the ground, groaning and barely breathing.
Zaun completely destroyed it, even using the Hundred Cries mental attack and the Tai'a Sword's domain of power to utterly break its defenses.
This allowed Daji to use her Heavenly Demon Enchanting Voice on it.
During this time, he refined various pills to greatly improve Daji's strength, but there was still a huge level gap between her and the war priest. Even though Zuan had done so much before, he might not succeed. Zuan was just trying it out casually.
But perhaps because the war priest was terrified by the name of Taotie, he was in a state of extreme fear and actually fell under the spell of Daji's Demonic Voice.
Sensing the murky look in his eyes, Zu'an quickly seized the opportunity to ask, "What did you mean when you mentioned earlier that you couldn't come to this world at your full strength?"
The war priest's face showed a struggle, but Daji's eyes shone brightly. Her fingers gently plucked the pipa, and a series of captivating melodies rang out. Her eyes then became cloudy again: "Every world has its own world will, instinctively rejecting existences that are not of its own world."
"It's fine for weak beings to enter; it won't affect the balance of that world. But for powerful beings, there are restrictions on entering. Generally, powerful beings can't enter such a world in their physical form; they can only find a representative in that world or enter through projection..."
Upon hearing the explanation, Zuan nodded in agreement. Many secret realms often impose restrictions on the strength of those who enter. This is why many sects and academies tend to send their younger generation of students into secret realms, because if someone is too strong, they will be rejected by the secret realm and will not be able to enter at all.
As for the projection it mentioned, Zaun thought of some legendary miracles, wondering if this was the case.
"Then why did you come in in your original form?" Zuan then asked.
“That’s because there’s something wrong with this world,” the war priest replied.
Upon hearing this, Zu'an and the other two were all startled: "What's wrong?"
"Many, many years ago, a powerful being discovered this new world and even broke through the barrier of this world. However, for some unknown reason, he failed, was seriously injured, and was sealed away. But he spread the coordinates of this world. Some time ago, we obtained these coordinates, so we all came here to try our luck."
Zuan thought of the sealed place of the demon race, wondering which predecessor in this world had sealed it.
"Was the sealed land on the demon race's side also part of yours?" Zu An asked in a deep voice.
"We do come from the same world, but it's hard to say we're all together. Everyone has their own ideas and forces. Some of us tried to enter this world through the spatial rift left by that powerful being, but we were met with fierce resistance from the local inhabitants. Because of the existence of the world barrier, we can't unleash our true strength. In addition, the inhabitants are numerous and powerful, which has made our progress relatively slow."
Zuan thought it must be referring to the sealed land of the demon race.
"The rest of us tried to find other paths to infiltrate this world. Eventually, we discovered that some spaces in this world, called secret realms, can create small spatial rifts, perhaps left over from that great war. As more and more of us infiltrate this world, its barriers will completely shatter, and then we can descend upon it at will. Unfortunately, I just arrived and ran into you..."
Zuan's heart sank: "How many more spatial rifts are there? How many of you have successfully crossed them?"
There are countless hidden realms in this world; they are truly impossible to guard against.
If such a creature were to invade this world, the entire world would be doomed.
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