The rag picking sister turned out to be a weapon refiner

"Have you seen the map? Is the layout of the continent like this?" Hu Xingtong thought. Since she came to this world, she had never paid much attention to the map of this world. She only relied on the map when playing games in reality and the instructions of the system to find the way. Now that she saw this map and the annotation, she was puzzled.

"I've seen the map before, and it does match this one. However, after seeing the annotation today, I realized something was wrong." Sinan pointed to a note and showed it to Hu Xingtong. "Look here, it says they flew along the border between the East and West Regions, all the way to the sky, and confirmed the authenticity of this map from above."

"Then we went underground and confirmed the existence of the Central Realm. However... it's said here that the Eastern and Western Realms are connected, but the Central Realm is blocked out. The existence of the Central Realm seems both fictional and illusory."

"I don't understand what this means, but I have a clue. Geographically, the East and West Regions are indeed connected, and the mountains are enough for travel. However, there is also a boundary between the East and West Regions. The boundary is like a barrier, enclosing and sealing the East and West Regions. The currently known boundary is the Sihaiyun Mountain in the heart of the Fanyun Sect in the East Region, and the border of the West Region is the location of Jita, the Demon Lord clan."

"As for the other boundaries, those that have been explored seem to be invisible ones..."

While Sinan was explaining, Hu Xingtong was also thinking, if the derived world has a boundary, does that mean that the real world needs to expand the game map, or is it because it is a game that this phenomenon occurs? If so, could the collective suicide of the Tianhun Sect be the awakening of consciousness of the entire sect?

"Xiao Wuzi, is the situation on this map caused by the game?"

[No, that's not the case. The map is set up like this in the game, but because the game creators haven't updated it completely, and the game hasn't been online for long, the player levels are generally not high, so you haven't seen a lot of the content and gameplay. This is set up in the game.]

If the game has this setting, then is the existence of this Central Region real or an undeveloped map?

"Also, there are records here..." Si Nan took some notes from Hu Xingtong's hand, looked at the contents and continued to explain to Hu Xingtong: "Here are records of an elder with the strongest spiritual consciousness and the most powerful spiritual power in the Tianhun Sect, who was also the most powerful person in the world. He used the power of his spiritual consciousness to search for the existence of the Central Region but found that there was no such place. The record of the location of the Central Region was nothing but nothing!"

nothingness?

"Moreover, based on all the evidence, the existence of the Central Region is like a fictitious boundary. There are no living creatures inside..." The record ended here. Sinan and Hu Xingtong fell into deep thought because of this record.

"That's not right. If it is nothingness, then why can we see the situation inside from the sky? The same is true underground?" Hu Xingtong rubbed his chin, analyzing and thinking.

"That's indeed not true. Senior Si Xu also traveled there back then. The information he gave to the world was that it existed, but its range could not be entered from the airspace or underground. However, its outline and interior could be seen from high altitudes and deep underground..." Si Nan agreed while recalling something.

The silence between the two of them was so deep that you could hear a pin drop. Hu Xingtong pondered, searching for all possibilities in his mind. A vague guess emerged in his mind, but it disappeared in an instant...

What is it that can make a space inaccessible, yet still allow one to see roughly...

"Independent space!" The two thought of this possibility almost at the same time.

Hu Xingtong looked at Sinan and analyzed, "If an independent space is needed to isolate a region, then unless this region is different and not as peaceful as it appears, and if only those above the Spirit Transformation Stage can enter, then it means it's too dangerous, or perhaps it's a foreign land. Then, how does this relate to the Tianhun Sect's collective suicide?"

A place that spiritual consciousness cannot reach means that spiritual consciousness will also be threatened. Could it be that someone in the Tianhun Sect saw something?

"Why don't we go up to the fourth floor and take a look?" Sinan collected the files, looked at Hu Xingtong and suggested.

Hearing this, Hu Xingtong came back to his senses, looked at him and nodded. Perhaps there would be a secret room on the fourth floor, and the truth that the two of them wanted to know might be in it.

After the two of them completed the prerequisites for practicing the five books of martial arts, they finally successfully stepped into the fourth floor. However, unlike what they had imagined, the fourth floor was not a study at all, but a gloomy coffin room.

Hu Xingtong noticed that Sinan's Buddhist beads were spinning faster and his steps were also much slower.

Hu Xingtong laughed secretly in his heart. No wonder Sihe liked to play with him. Such a timid little monk was simply the typical representative of being both naive and playful. He was very interesting.

Walking into the neatly arranged coffins, Hu Xingtong touched the material of the coffin lightly. It was made of cold jade stone. The grade and purity were much lower than those he had taken from the Ice Jade Cold Pond before. It was completely not on the same level, but it was indeed enough to be used as a coffin to store the body.

The tops of these coffins were not completely sealed, with half of them leaking out. In addition, a palm-sized soul-nourishing stone was placed at the location where the poison was placed. Different lights flickered inside, and after the scanning eye took a look, it was confirmed that the soul-nourishing stone contained the primordial spirit.

After counting, it was confirmed that there were eleven coffins in total, and all the people were there, no more and no less. The eleven soul-nourishing stones also all... lit up.

Shit! One missing!

Hu Xingtong quickly walked towards the coffin without the Soul-Nourishing Stone. The body inside was still lying peacefully, but the soul inside was gone. Hu Xingtong carefully examined it and confirmed that the Soul-Nourishing Stone was not damaged. Then he looked at Sinan, his face solemn and alert: "A soul is missing. He may have woken up."

Si Nan didn't reply, but his face showed that he had realized the seriousness of the problem. He moved his feet, approached Hu Xingtong a little, and asked in a serious tone: "Leave or..."

"Huh..." Hu Xingtong sighed and sorted out his thoughts. As the two of them walked along, nothing else happened except for the strangeness of the formation. On the contrary, Hu Xingtong always felt that someone was helping him. In this case, perhaps that person had no ill will towards them, and if he didn't show up yet, he might be waiting for something.

"Forget it, let's keep looking for clues. We should figure out their purpose," Hu Xingtong paused for a moment, then spoke again, his voice a bit louder, as if speaking to others. "If the senior in the dark wanted to do something, he should have done it long ago, and wouldn't have hidden himself and attacked from behind. I think this senior must be a good senior who cares about the younger generation..."

Sinan understood what she meant and agreed, "Then he must be a man of both talent and virtue, and highly respected. I am being stingy."