While they feasted, Yun Bing asked, "Zhang Lie, are the rumors true? Will you really build a kingdom of Limit in the third realm?"

If Zhang Lie were to do so, it would surely cause a great disturbance in the third realm, as well as in the second.

Zhang Lie contemplated Yun Bing's question for a moment. "You've already asked this, haven't you?"

Chu Feng replied, "We'd like to confirm it again."

"You can understand it that way, I suppose—but it won't take the form of a kingdom."

Building a new kingdom wasn't one of Zhang Lie's primary objectives, but rather a side effect of what he did want to accomplish—finding all the scraps of the map he had been collecting for so long.

The most straightforward way of doing so was to take down all...