"Dangerous?" Su Yang couldn’t help being puzzled. "What’s so dangerous about those places? Haven’t those Saint Emperors already lost their power?"

"The danger isn’t those Saint Emperors..." Lin Yuan took a deep breath and said in a low voice, "The real danger is those places themselves..."

"Those places?" Su Yang was astonished. Could there really be some hidden peril in those places?

"Those places can be said to be forbidden zones within this Land of Chaos." Lin Yuan said, "When people first entered the Land of Chaos, they also went to those places. But in those places, they encountered some very particular situations, and quite a few people mysteriously disappeared. No matter how people searched there, they just couldn’t find those missing ones; on the contrary, many of those who went in to search also vanished in bizarre ways. So those places gradually came to be regarded as forbidden zones. The people living in this Land of Chaos who understand the situation there basically won’t casually head to those places. Because even up to now, no one knows what exactly the danger in those places is."

"Even up to now, you still haven’t managed to find anything?" Su Yang asked in surprise.

"That’s right!" Lin Yuan nodded. "We’ve never been able to find it out."

"Is it because the people going to investigate are too weak?" Su Yang asked curiously.

Lin Yuan shook his head. "It’s not that the investigators are too weak. In fact, the Demon Beast Clan and the Human Clan once joined forces to investigate this matter. The two races combined sent out many experts to look into it, but in the end they came back with nothing. Quite a few of those experts also vanished mysteriously. So some people say it’s not that the truth can’t be found, but that anyone who discovers the reason might die on the spot and never make it back!"

Su Yang’s heart gave a jolt. Just what kind of crisis was hidden in those places, to cause things like this? Even the powerful experts jointly dispatched by the Demon Beast Clan and the Human Clan had been unable to uncover what was going on. Just how terrifying was the danger in those places?

"Then how did those places end up becoming where the Saint Emperors who’ve lost their power are settled?" Su Yang asked, puzzled.

Lin Yuan said in a low voice, "Those Saint Emperors who’ve lost their power are basically abandoned Saint Emperors. Either they were betrayed, or their crimes were heinous—anyway, someone definitely doesn’t want them to ever recover. But killing a Saint Emperor is not an easy task in itself, and it consumes a great deal of power. So someone thought of this method: throw these powerless Saint Emperors into those forbidden zones, trap them there completely, or let them mysteriously disappear there. That way, there’s no need to worry about them regaining their strength and coming back for revenge or the like."

"At first, only a few people did this. Later on, more and more people started using this method. In the end, it simply turned into an industry. Several groups of specialized people took on the job of collecting those powerless Saint Emperors, charging a certain fee, and sending them to those places. So now, in this main trunk, you actually rarely see such powerless Saint Emperors; most of them have been sent into those forbidden zones."

"Since those are forbidden zones, people still dare to do this?" Su Yang asked in surprise. "They send those Saint Emperors into the forbidden zones and aren’t afraid of danger?"

"Uh..." Lin Yuan said, "In fact, the danger in those places is a matter of probability. People once calculated that among those who go there, out of ten people, there might not even be one who encounters danger. In other words, the probability of running into danger isn’t that high. But in this main trunk, having no Spiritual Source is what’s truly terrifying. For Spiritual Source, many people will risk their lives to fight and rob. The danger of robbing Spiritual Source is much higher than the probability of danger in the forbidden zones, so naturally there are some people who are willing to take the gamble. After all, if you escort a hundred powerless Saint Emperors to a forbidden zone in one trip, that’s no small income!"

Enlightenment dawned on Su Yang, and at the same time he felt a surge of emotion. In this Land of Chaos, these Saint Emperors who could stir up wind and rain outside were living like the lowest-level laborers; it really made one sigh. No wonder the Bright City Lord and the others had always wanted to open up one last pure land for the Human Clan—they truly couldn’t bear to see the strong of the Human Clan living like this!

Lin Yuan glanced at Su Yang and said in a low voice, "Brother Tianxiang, you... you really mean to go to those places? The chance of running into danger may not be high, but once you really do run into it, then... then it will..."

Lin Yuan didn’t finish his sentence, but his meaning was perfectly clear. Once you encountered that danger, you were as good as dead. Even though Su Yang and his companions weren’t weak, the experts the Demon Beast Clan and Human Clan had once sent out together—whether in numbers or in strength—far surpassed Su Yang’s group. Under those circumstances, Su Yang and the others heading into those forbidden zones was no different from courting death.

Su Yang was doing his own calculations inwardly. Although there were many branches here, finding two thousand Saint Emperors was no easy task. When he’d come in earlier, he had walked such a long way and had only encountered just over a hundred of those Saint Emperors.

If he wanted to gather two thousand, he had no idea how far he would have to travel. In truth, traveling inside here was also extremely dangerous. In this branch, there were still quite a few Saint Emperors looking for ways to rob others of their Spiritual Source!

Under such circumstances, it might as well be better to make a trip to those forbidden zones. Any random forbidden zone would be enough for Su Yang to gather two thousand people.

Besides, most of the Saint Emperors trapped in the forbidden zones were already despairing, just waiting for death. They had no idea how long they’d been confined there. If Su Yang could rescue them, they would at least be deeply grateful to him, and that was extremely important as well.

Moreover, deep down Su Yang truly wanted to investigate those forbidden zones, to see what exactly the danger there was.

As the saying goes, when something is too abnormal, there must be something strange behind it. For those forbidden zones to be so abnormal, there definitely had to be something odd about them.

Su Yang actually wasn’t worried about encountering danger himself. He possessed the Illusion of Devouring the World. According to what those people said, this was the Heaven Slayer Illusion—who could possibly contend against a Heaven Slayer? 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

Furthermore, Su Yang’s bones were so tough that ordinary people simply couldn’t kill him. Even if he did encounter danger, it wouldn’t amount to much in Su Yang’s eyes.

But given how strange those places were, there might very well be some secret hidden there. If Su Yang went to investigate, he might be able to figure out a few things, and that was precisely what he urgently needed right now.

So, after pondering for a while, Su Yang nodded straightforwardly. "It’s decided then. We’ll make a trip to those forbidden zones!"