The Ruins of Return! A forbidden zone for humans? Lin Yuan: My hunting ground!

Guixu.

When Lin Yuan's finger pointed at that patch of pure pitch-black area that seemed capable of devouring everything...

In the entire command center, every sound, every breath, and every heartbeat was drained away in that single instant.

Time seemed to freeze.

The color on Qin Pojun's face drained away rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

His single eye stared fixedly at Lin Yuan's finger, his pupil shrinking into a dangerous pinprick!

Every single Colonel behind him felt as if a cold current from the Arctic had blown straight over them, leaving them chilled from head to toe.

"Your... Your Excellency..."

Qin Pojun's lips trembled uncontrollably, and the voice he produced was as dry as two pieces of sandpaper rubbing together.

"Do... Do you know... what that place is?"

Lin Yuan withdrew his finger and gave him a flat look.

"Guixu."

Two words.

Yet they were like two ten-thousand-ton hammers slamming hard against the hearts of everyone present!

He knew!

He actually knew that code name!

"No! You don't know!"

Qin Pojun practically roared it out; he had lost his composure, completely lost it!

He lunged toward the map and pointed at the pitch-black area, his finger trembling violently from the force.

"Your Excellency! This is no place for jokes!"

"We call it 'Guixu' not because it's dangerous! But because... there is nothing there!"

"No intelligence! No data! No energy readings!"

"Every probe we've sent out, whether mechanical or biological, loses connection the moment it approaches the boundary of that area! It's as if they are wiped directly from this world!"

"Once... once there was a King-Sealing Expert of the Tuotai Realm who didn't believe in the legends and wanted to go in to investigate..."

Qin Pojun's voice carried a hint of Fear that came from the depths of his Soul.

"He went in."

"And then, he never came out again."

"Not even a single scream or a distress signal was transmitted back!"

"That place isn't a forbidden zone! It is nothingness! It is a place of absolute void where even death is devoured!"

Qin Pojun finished his explanation almost in a snarl.

The entire command center fell into a deathly silence.

Panic was written all over the faces of the officers.

A King-Sealing Expert!

Those were true big shots who had stepped into the Tuotai Realm and could obtain a title within the Human Alliance!

Even such a being went in and was like a pebble thrown into the ocean, without even a single bubble rising to the surface?!

Could anyone actually go to this place?!

This simply wasn't a place that could be conquered with courage and strength!

However.

Faced with Qin Pojun's near-breakdown and the room full of horrified gazes.

Lin Yuan's face remained as calm as ever, unchanged for ten thousand years.

He just asked a question indifferently.

"Even such experts were willing to go in."

"Doesn't that prove that the 'firewood' inside is of very high quality?"

"..."

"..."

Firewood?

High quality?

Boom!

This sentence was more lethal than any previous "accidentally broke through"!

Qin Pojun was completely stunned.

He stared blankly at Lin Yuan, his mind completely blank, unable to comprehend the logic of those words.

The Colonels behind him were collectively petrified, their mouths hanging open so wide their jaws were nearly dislocated.

We're talking to you about life and death, about the void, about how even King-Sealing Experts never return.

And you... you're concerned about the quality of the firewood?

At this moment.

They finally understood one thing deeply, from the very core of their Souls.

They and Lin Yuan were simply not in the same dimension.

The land of death in their eyes.

In Lin Yuan's view, might really just be a fuel depot.

"Sigh..."

After a long time, Qin Pojun let out a long sigh filled with a sense of powerlessness.

He gave up.

He knew that no matter what he said, it would be useless.

Advising a god not to go for a stroll in his own chosen backyard?

How ridiculous.

He turned abruptly, and the last trace of worry and Fear in his single eye was replaced by a resolute madness!

"Someone, come!"

He roared toward the door.

"Yes! General!"

Two guards rushed in.

"Activate 'Armory-0' clearance!"

"Bring out our Longxiang Army's only 'Zhulong' class individual assault ship!"

"Strip all the conventional weapon modules inside! Replace them with the highest specification energy storage units and life support Systems!"

"One hour! I only have one hour! If you can't do it, you two can bring me your heads!"

Zhulong class!

Hearing this name, the sound of people sucking in cold air echoed through the command center once again.

That was the top-tier individual craft created by the Dragon Country's Supreme Academy of Sciences with all their effort!

In the entire Dragon Country, there were only three!

They were truly national treasures!

Now, Qin Pojun was actually going to bring it out to serve as Lin Yuan's transportation?

And he even had all the weapons stripped to be replaced with energy blocks?

This... "Yes! Mission guaranteed!"

The guards did not hesitate for a second; they saluted, turned, and sprinted away.

Qin Pojun turned back, looked at Lin Yuan, and took a deep breath.

"Your Excellency, we have no intelligence regarding Guixu."

"The only thing we can do is prepare... a way home for you."

His voice was incredibly solemn.

Lin Yuan glanced at him and did not refuse.

"Good."

...One hour later.

Inside a secret hangar in the deepest part of Demon Suppressing Pass.

An assault ship with a streamlined body, covered in dark gold dragon-scale armor, and full of sci-fi and violent aesthetics, was quietly hovering on the launch platform.

It was the Zhulong.

Lin Yuan's figure appeared at the hangar entrance.

He didn't bring anything.

He was still wearing that simple combat suit.

Step by step, he walked up the boarding ramp.

At the moment he was about to enter the cockpit, he stopped and looked back.

Qin Pojun and all the high-ranking officers of the Longxiang Army stood in the distance, solemnly giving him the highest military salute.

Lin Yuan's gaze swept across their faces.

Finally, he said one thing.

"Wait for my return."

After saying that, he turned and walked into the cockpit.

The hatch slowly closed.

Buzz—

A low engine startup sound, like a dragon's roar, rang out.

The next second.

Boom!

The Zhulong assault ship turned into a golden stream of light and instantly disappeared into the horizon.

Leaving Qin Pojun and the others behind, maintaining their saluting posture for a long time.

"Damn it..."

After a long while, Qin Pojun finally lowered his hand and cursed fiercely.

"You better come back, you bastard!"

...The Zhulong's speed surpassed all existing human aircraft.

It performed short-distance jumps through space one after another.

The scenery outside the window had long since turned into a blurred band of flowing light and color.

Several hours later.

An ear-piercing alarm suddenly blared inside the cockpit.

[Warning! Strong energy distortion field detected ahead! Space structure is highly unstable!]

[Warning! All detection Systems failing! All external signals interrupted!]

[Warning! Entering unknown area!]

Lin Yuan opened his eyes.

He looked ahead through the viewport.

It was a scene that could not be described with words.

It wasn't darkness, nor was it a void.

It was a pure 'nothingness'.

It was as if space, time, matter, and energy—everything—had been brought to a full stop there.

That was the boundary of Guixu.

Lin Yuan opened the hatch directly.

He took one step out.

Stepping into that absolute forbidden zone that could even devour King-Sealing Experts!

The moment he stepped in.

Behind him, all the lights on the Zhulong assault ship, which represented the pinnacle of human technology, were instantly extinguished.

Then, like a sand sculpture being weathered away, it silently turned into the most primitive cosmic dust.

While Lin Yuan just quietly floated in this 'nothingness'.

He felt the terrifying power around him trying to decompose him, erase him, and return him to nothingness.

Yet, a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

"The firewood here is indeed different."

No sooner had he spoken.

In the 'nothingness' before him, a massive shadow as black as ink suddenly condensed into shape!

It was a monster over a thousand meters long, shaped like a centipede but with countless pale arms growing from it!

It had no eyes, but every inch of its carapace emitted a Monarch-level aura of despair and terror!

Sss—!

It let out a silent roar and lunged toward Lin Yuan!

Lin Yuan looked at it and shook his head.

"Too noisy."

He extended a finger.

At his fingertip, a wisp of Chaos gray-gold gas, only as thick as a strand of hair, flashed and vanished.

Puff.

A soft sound.

That terrifying Monarch-level monster was instantly pierced from head to tail.

Then, in mid-air, it violently disintegrated!

It turned into a torrent of the purest energy, massive enough to burst a city, and Lin Yuan opened his mouth to take a light breath.

He swallowed it all into his stomach.

Lin Yuan closed his eyes, savoring the moment.

"Hmm."

"The appetizer is not bad."

He opened his eyes and looked deeper into Guixu, into that endless, deathly silent void.