Starting as the heir of a marquis's mansion, I gained access to a summoning system.

They rested there for two hours.

Wu Wudi's injuries were more serious than they appeared.

The three drops of Primordial God and Demon Marrow in his body were fighting against his own martial will. On the surface, only his Qi Sea was churning, but his internal meridians were being corroded with countless tiny holes.

Yan Fei applied bone-protecting ointment to his wounds and fed him two pills to nourish his meridians, which barely managed to suppress the injury.

Dongfang Weiwo sat outside the bone cave, spreading the map of Lu Moshen on his lap.

The gray-white mist in the Myriad Star Domain was partially dispersed by the Marrow Fire, allowing a clear view of the surrounding mountains and terrain.

The dotted line on the map extending from the Wangchuan Bridge passes through the gray mist, the Bone Plain, and the Shattered Bone Sea, then suddenly turns back, extending along an irregular trajectory in the direction they came from, and finally stops at a small dot marked "Corridor".

Beside the corridor, Lu Moshen wrote two sentences in extremely small characters.

"There is no way to return to the Void; you must enter from the old place. There is no Void in the Myriad Star Domain. The Void is a gap between two realms, half in the Myriad Star Domain and half in the Heavenly Martial Realm. You must enter from the Heavenly Martial Realm, not from the Myriad Star Domain."

Dongfang Weiwu's finger touched the "corridor".

"We have to go back," he said.

He looked up in the direction he had come from. In the gray-white mist, the teleportation array of the River of Oblivion had long since shattered into countless patterns of light, but the core of the Return Token had not disappeared.

His bone domain perception could detect that at the place where they fell, there was still an extremely thin, dark blue beam of light flickering, which was the last remnant of the Wangchuan Bridge array eye.

"Go back?" Chuan Ying's expression changed slightly upon hearing this. The hidden injuries in his meridians were not yet fully under control, and in his current state, he might not be able to withstand crossing the boundary again.

"The Return Token is a coordinate system."

Dongfang Wei said, "It has locked onto the coordinates of Tianxuan, Tianwu, and Wanxingyu. Demon God Lü has made it into a teleportation array, not a one-way one. Once the way in is opened, the way back is also open. What we need is not the teleportation array, but to find the receiving point on the Tianwu Continent side."

He looked at Lin Xiaoman.

"The corridor. It's not for people to walk through, it's for blood to walk through."

Lin Xiaoman looked down at the blood-stained lines on her left arm.

"The Demon God Lu said I am the key," she said softly. "Perhaps opening the loop still requires my blood."

She rolled up her sleeve, revealing her left arm covered in bloody welts.

The patterns were different from those on the Wangchuan Bridge; they were no longer simply blue, but rather a dark gold tinged with blue, like metal growing on vines.

The lines extended all the way to the wound on the palm. The wound had not closed, and the edges were turned up to reveal extremely fine dark gold threads, as if something was about to crawl out from the depths of the wound.

"At the Bridge of Oblivion, my blood activated the array," she said, "but back then, the blood flowed passively. Now..."

She hesitated for a moment, but then said it anyway.

"Now I can feel my blood searching for its direction. It wants to flow somewhere, but not in the Myriad Star Domain. It wants to flow in the Heavenly Martial Realm."

Dongfang Weiwo held her hand.

"Then let's go home."

The remnants of the Return Journey Order are more active than expected.

They spent half an hour finding the traces of the crash site.

The pale blue beam of light was only as thick as a finger, like a flame that could be extinguished at any moment, swaying gently in the gray-white mist.

But when Dongfang Weiwo approached, the beam of light brightened noticeably, as if it had sensed the key seal in his dantian.

"The array marks are still there, but the energy is insufficient." Yan Fei squatted down beside the array marks to observe. "Transferring across the boundary requires a massive amount of energy. With these remnants, we can't even transmit a person's body back."

Upon hearing this, Wu Wudi plunged the broken half of his sword into the ground.

"Then let me do it," he said, a dark golden light flickering in his chest—the three drops of marrow fluid within him colliding with his martial will. "I have some of that thing's marrow fluid on me; would just one drop be enough?"

Dongfang Weiwo shook his head: "Not enough. The energy transmitted through the boundary must originate from the same source as the laws of space. Marrow fluid is the power of bone and blood, which cannot fill the core of the array."

"Then what about the remnant of your Return Token?"

"You can give it a try."

Dongfang Weiwo summoned the key seal from his Qi Sea, and a dark gold longsword condensed in his palm.

The 999 ancient array patterns on the sword resonated with the dark blue pillar of light. The array patterns, which had been suppressed by the key seal for 30 years, were slowly nourished by the Heavenly Martial Yuan Qi and began to expand again.

But he knew that wasn't enough.

The core of the Return Token transformed into light upon shattering, scattering into the gray-white mist of the Myriad Star Domain. Unless this light can be reassembled, it is impossible to open the return path.

Lin Xiaoman suddenly walked towards the array marks.

Her footsteps were light, yet carried a strange rhythm.

With each step he took, the blood-red markings on his left arm brightened a little more. When he reached the front of the array marks, his entire left arm was glowing, the light almost in sync with the array marks' dark blue color.

"I'm not here to give it energy."

She said, raising her right hand to the wound on her left arm, "I'm here to tell it it's time to open the door."

She dripped the blood from her left hand into the array scar.

No drops fell.

The blood droplet hovered above the array marks, solidified and not dissipating, like a dark red bead.

The eerie blue light within the array was drawn to the drop of blood. Countless scattered points of light from the gray-white mist emerged from the air, gathering from all directions like fireflies and merging into the drop of blood.

The blood droplets are swelling.

From one drop to two drops, three drops, and then a small puddle.

It hovered in the air, rotating, and gradually unfolded into a ring of light curtain interwoven with dark red and dark blue.

On the other side of the light curtain, there is wind.

It was the wind of the Tianwu Continent, carrying the scent of bamboo leaves and earth.

"The door is open." Lin Xiaoman's voice was a little weak, and her face was even paler than before. "I can only hold this position for a short time, everyone please come through quickly."

Dongfang Weiwo took a step to her side and half-supported, half-carried her towards the light screen.

"Swallows fly, Eagles fly, Martial Invincible, keep up!"

He didn't look back, and leaped into the light curtain.

The moment the air of the Tianwu Continent rushed into his lungs, Dongfang Weiwo almost lost his balance.

It wasn't dizziness, it was a difference in gravity. The gravity in the Myriad Star Domain was chaotic, sometimes light and sometimes heavy, and it took him a long time to get used to it. Now that he was back in Tianwu, the normal gravity was making him lose his balance.

He grabbed a tree beside him to steady himself.

Look around.

This is not the River of Oblivion.

The Bridge of Oblivion is a cliff of bones, barren of everything around it. But here lies a dense, primeval forest, so thick it blocks out the sky. The trees are over a hundred feet tall, so thick that several people would need to encircle them, and the light filtering through the branches and leaves is a pale purple. The soil is dark brown, so soft that your feet sink in underfoot, and the air is filled with a rich, earthy scent.

Lin Xiaoman leaned against him, struggling to open her eyes wide.

"Where is this?"

Dongfang Weiwo took out a map. The corridor was located on the Tianwu Continent, but exactly where?

Lu Moshen's map only marked the route from Qingzhu Town to Wangchuan Bridge, and did not show the entirety of the Tianwu Continent. He could only search for familiar auras through his bone domain perception, but found that there was not a single skeletal structure within a ten-mile radius that he recognized.

It was all huge animal bones.

Countless gigantic animal skeletons lay buried in the forest, under the trees, and in the soil. Each skeleton was several to over ten feet long, with a robust structure and horns or fangs on its skull. They were scattered throughout the dense forest, as if they had experienced some tragic escape.

Yan Fei and Chuan Ying emerged from the light screen one after the other. Wu Wudi was the last to step out. He grabbed back and forcefully tore the light screen apart. A large number of dark blue light spots exploded from the shattered light screen and disappeared into the surrounding ground.

"Young Master," Yan Fei looked around, "Where is this place?"

Dongfang Weiwo looked at the map and then at the dense forest around him.

"The Forest of Ten Thousand Beasts," he said slowly, "the territory of the Mountain of Ten Thousand Beasts."

He had heard of the Mountain of Ten Thousand Beasts.

That was the largest wild region on the southeastern outskirts of the Tianwu Continent. Wan Renyue, the deputy mountain master of Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain, was in the early stage of the Reincarnation Realm and one of the three giants of the Bone Hunter Alliance. They had fought against Wan Renyue many times in the Bone Changing Manor, the White Bone Wasteland, and the Su Luo Forbidden Land, but the main gate of Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain had never been entered.

They had actually landed deep within the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain.

"How far is it from here to Huan Gu Zhuang?" Chuan Ying asked.

Dongfang Weiwo looked at the map and estimated the situation, his expression turning slightly grim.

"It's at least a ten-day journey, not counting the ferocious beasts in this forest that might hinder us."

Before the words were finished, a deep roar suddenly came from the distant woods.

The voice carried a chilling coldness that pierced to the bone, causing the nearby trees to tremble.

Above the dark purple sky, countless enormous flying shadows swept through the treetops, converging in their direction.

Wu Wudi spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva.

"So even the beasts here can smell the marrow."

Dongfang Weiwo looked up and saw more than ten giant birds, all black, circling overhead. Each bird had wingspans of several meters and its eyes were scarlet.

Their claws gleamed with a metallic sheen in the dark purple light, like ten scimitars suspended in the air.

"The patrolling beasts of Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain," he said, his dark gold longsword already in hand. "We were discovered as soon as we returned."

Lin Xiaoman grabbed his sleeve.

"Eastern." Her voice suddenly turned serious. "My blood is still flowing. It... is coming for me. The blood of the guardian is a great tonic for them."

No sooner had she finished speaking than a series of wolf howls echoed through the woods, approaching from all directions, their sheer number sending chills down one's spine.

"That's good." Wu Wudi slung the broken sword over his shoulder, his right eye slightly narrowed. "It's delivered right to my doorstep, perfect for replenishing my strength."

Dongfang Weiwo looked around, the aura of a divine and demonic skeleton surging within him. He suddenly realized something.

The sect leader of the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain has never shown his face in the previous conflicts.

None of the major powers in the southeast of the Tianwu Continent, including the Undying Hall, the Reincarnation Hall, the Black Scale Merchant Guild, and the Blood Bone Sect, have ever seen the true face of the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts.

And they are now standing right on the heart of the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain.

"Don't attack yet." He raised his hand to stop Wu Wudi. "The number of ferocious beasts here is not right. It's not just those flying in the sky; there are many more in the forest. They haven't attacked immediately; they're waiting for orders."

He looked up into the depths of the tree canopy, where a faint aura was hidden in the dark purple light. If his divine and demonic skeleton hadn't been extremely sensitive to changes in aura, he wouldn't have been able to detect it at all.

"Now that we've arrived at Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain, we should at least meet our master," Dongfang Weiwo said loudly. "Even the Bone-Eating Beasts of Ten Thousand Ren Mountain have had their horns cut off, and this is how you treat your guests?"

The woods fell silent for a moment.

Then, a soft, feminine voice rang out from all directions at the same time, as if every leaf in the forest was laughing along.

"The only one in the East. Just as arrogant as the rumors say."

The dark purple light of the sky suddenly dimmed. Deep within the canopy, the dense branches twisted and turned like living things, forming a huge platform dozens of feet above the ground.

A man dressed in a dark green robe sat on the platform, holding a small, snow-white beast in his hand.

His face was young and handsome, but there were several deep wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, and his pupils were vertical.

He looked at Lin Xiaoman, and unconsciously licked his lips.

"The descendant of the guardian of the signpost is actually alive. Back then, Demon God Lu lied to me, saying that her lineage had long since died out."

Dongfang Weiwo's eyes turned cold.

"Who are you?"

The man in fine clothes stood up from the platform, and the small white beast jumped down from his palm. When it landed, its four legs thundered, causing the earth to crack.

"Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain, Wan Wujiu."

He smiled and said, "Thirty years ago, I also walked across that Bridge of Oblivion."