The guard originally weighed only a little over sixty kilograms, but when He Lingchuan caught him, he felt extraordinarily heavy, as though he had caught Jiao Yu.

Fushan Yue had long since told him that ordinary humans could not remain in the Fu Realm for long, or their lives would quickly be in danger. Even cultivators would feel their bodies grow heavy upon their first arrival. Now that He Lingchuan was personally experiencing it, he estimated that the gravity here was more than three times that of the mortal realm.

The guard straightened. “Thank you, Lord He.”

Before entering the eye of the storm, everyone had already placed a rinsing bead in their mouth and pressed it against the inside of their cheek. Only then could they breathe and speak normally.

Otherwise, even cultivators could not hold out for long in the Fu Realm due to the poisonous air.

He Lingchuan looked around. As far as he could see, the land was vast and empty, filled only with mountains, stones, and sand. Every few dozen meters or so, a low clump of plants grew from cracks in the ground. They looked more like tufts of hair than grass, but at the tip of each blade, there was usually a pale white bead.

This was the rinsing bead.

Rinsing bead grass was the only plant that could survive in the Fu Realm. It was said that its seeds had come from the...