The apothecary owner slowly continued, “This place is a result of rules set by several Fusion cultivators. However, arrays have a Life Gate and a Death Gate, for the heavenly law always leaves a sliver of hope. As such, the rules formulated here must encompass a path to survival.

“That said, those Fusion cultivators wouldn’t be willing to let anyone leave, so they created this specious rule, aligning with their interests while adhering to the heavenly law’s principle to leave a glimmer of hope.”

Lu Yang resisted the impulse to cuss and continued writing: Then how do we kill the town mayor?

The apothecary owner replied, "You can’t kill him. The town mayor is undying. How would you even kill him?"

Meng Jingzhou clenched his fists; in his heart, he was cursing the bunch of Fusion cultivators who set those rules. You might as well not stipulate twenty-one...