Start in Terra, immortal

As we all know, the shortest distance between two points is a line segment.

To fly directly from the Temple of Balance in Ionia to Demacia, the shortest route requires passing through Noxian territory.

On a hilltop in Noxus, the trio sat atop the mountain, gazing down at the city below.

"That's where Noxus's capital is located, and what we're seeing here should be the tallest building in the capital—the Immortal Fortress."

Zhao Xin pointed to the landmark building in the distance and explained to the two of them, especially Yun Ana.

"Before I entered the spiritual realm, this place was once the territory of Saan Uzur. I never imagined that such a vast empire would collapse in just a thousand years," Yunana sighed.

"Perhaps it is precisely because it is a remnant of Saan Uzur that its tyranny remains unchanged. It worships strength and expands its territory at all costs, bringing war and disaster to many surrounding countries and cities."

Zhao Xin was filled with countless thoughts, as if he were seeing again the days when he fought in the Noxian gladiator arena.

"Master Kennen said that this country is also the culprit behind the current split within the Order of the Balance. Even the Fist of Shadow has left the Order of the Balance." As the Fist of Shadow from a thousand years ago, she understood the immense impact required to force a Fist of Shadow who had made a vow to break away from the Order of the Balance.

The two chatted enthusiastically, while Rosso closed his eyes and sensed the world around him.

After leaving Ionia, Rosso was able to clearly perceive that the boundary between the material and spiritual realms had become distinct.

Entering the spiritual realm in Noxus is significantly more difficult than in Ionia. For example, what takes an instant in Ionia takes two instants in Noxus.

Unbeknownst to the two, Rosso had already entered Noxus's spiritual realm.

What came into view was a vast, desolate wasteland. "Desolate" wasn't quite the right word, though, because the wasteland was teeming with resentful, wandering souls, densely packed like wild grasses.

"All of them are souls controlled by magic? Who is so wicked?" Rosso was kind-hearted and couldn't bear to see so many souls suffer, so he waved his hand and absorbed all the bound spirits into the spirit world.

"Such a large number at once, I hope Charon can manage it." As the elder brother of the underworld, Rosso believed that Charon was capable of handling these souls.

"Who dares to trespass into the empire of Mordekaiser, the lord of the underworld?"

The angry voices grew louder as they approached.

A suit of moving armor, carrying a mace, also appeared on the plain.

"This set of equipment seems to be suitable as materials for the gate to the spirit world in this world?" Rosso thought to himself, and the armor and mace appeared before him.

By infusing it with energy and spiritual matter from the spirit world, Rosso, referencing Charon's spirit gate, began to reshape it.

"You! How dare you! Ah~" Rosso heard the scream from within the armor. The moment the armor appeared, Rosso saw countless resentful thoughts entwined around it. There was even a peculiar mark.

Realizing that the soul within the armor was the culprit behind those binding spirits, Rosso prepared to proceed directly with the construction of the Spirit Gate.

That's perfect, it saves us the trouble of finding the gatekeeper; we can just let the gate collect the soul itself.

As the door took shape, the original armored soul inside was shattered.

Rosso inscribed a magic circle on the door, anchoring the teleportation point inside the door to the spirit world, and casually erased the excess consciousness in his soul, leaving only the blank soul essence, imprinting the door's responsibilities into the soul essence.

During the cleansing of Mordekaiser's soul, the special mark that had been placed on the soul was also washed away, and a howl that sounded like a wolf but not a sheep was heard.

"There's no one left, no, there's no soul left. Clean it up, modify the environment, and this will be the boundary of the Spirit Realm Rune Land." Rosso stretched out his hand and directly opened the newly created Spirit Realm gate, sweeping away all the spiritual matter in this spiritual realm.

Then, a large amount of energy and spiritual matter with the aura of the spirit world were released from the gate to the spirit world.

The once gloomy sky became bright, and the desolate and decaying environment was transformed into one surrounded by mountains and rivers, with lush forests.

"This is the style of the spirit world!" After finishing the job, Rosso was quite satisfied with the newly renovated spirit world boundary.

"This kind of ownerless spiritual world is really suitable as a dividing line. I should pay attention to such worlds in the future."

Emerging from the realm of the spiritual, Rosso was riding high.

This journey into the spiritual realm not only yielded a large number of souls and liberated countless bound spirits, but also expanded the spiritual realm's territory—a win-win-win situation!

"Life is getting better and better!"

Just as things were getting exciting, Rosso suddenly sensed a chilling malice. Then, Zhao Xin's warning rang out: "Something's coming!"

"I sensed a similar figure... but the mark has vanished."

"Should we tear him to pieces?"

"No, wolf, he is the agent of others. We only need to return to our prey."

"I'm hungry! I'm going to hunt them down!"

"Dear wolf, please be patient!"

The masked sheep spirit and wolf spirit approached and talked until they stopped not too close to Rosso.

"Unknown death, please return our prey," the sheep spirit politely requested.

"Just snatch it back!" Wolf Spirit grinned.

"Leave. The life and death of this land are for us to decide. Your scythe cannot reap the wheat fields of Runeterra."

"Zhao Xin, you guys step aside, I'll talk to them." To avoid any further complications, Rosso decided to get to the point quickly.

By the time the sheep and wolves realized what was happening, Rosso was already in front of them.

"Are you sure? Don't you want to explain those binding spirits?" Rosso released the spirit world gate and stood in front of the sheep and the wolf.

"And what do you mean by 'your prey'? Are you referring to this door?"

As the embodiment of death in Runeterra, they shouldn't have feelings of fear, yet Kindred felt fear before this door.

Go in, you'll die!

The concept of death already exists in the current spirit world, but a corresponding concept god has not yet been born.

Local death leads to another world, where one either assimilates into the death of that other world or is assimilated by the death of that other world; there is no third possibility.

The death authority in the spirit world is far stronger than that in Runeterra. Not to mention the being before us, who seems to be an avatar of death from another world.

"Sheep, I, my teeth are good, it seems, it seems to be trembling."

Yang Ling didn't speak, but simply gripped the short bow in her hand tightly.

"Wolf, it's time for us to find our next prey."

"Sheep, I... I don't think I'm hungry anymore!"

Just as they had come, the sheep spirit and the wolf spirit talked as they went.

"Is that... the legendary Twin Reapers—Kindred?"

Seeing the sheep and wolf walk away, Zhao Xin immediately rushed over.

Yun Ana arrived late. "There are many rumors about them, but I never expected that the legendary Grim Reaper would be a sheep and a wolf."

"They are merely the embodiment of death in your eyes; they do not actually have a physical form. It is different people who have given them different forms."

In Rosso's eyes, Kindred was more like a mask. The mask passed through, assimilated, and took away the soul. All the so-called Lamb Spirit's arrows and Wolf Spirit's bites were nothing more than illusions left behind by people on their deathbeds.

It was these illusions that led Kindred to begin wandering the human world in the form they manifested.

"Have you rested enough? If you have, let's set off. The people blocking our way have left now."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Xin nodded and assumed a certain posture.

Yun Ana skillfully jumped onto Zhao Xin's sturdy back and continued her journey towards Demacia.