"..."
Ah Lan didn't answer. Chen Xin would ask this question every now and then, and she had gone from offering initial comfort, to later telling the truth, to her current silence.
Yes. They couldn't go back.
It had been impossible from the moment the Realm Gate was closed, from the moment the natives of the Lower Realm went mad, trying to kill them to force the gate open and rush to The Other Shore.
They would never return.
The Other Shore Cultivators felt no sense of belonging in the Lower Realm, and the Lower Realm cultivators would not accept them, only treating them as foreign abominations.
It was either live or die.
There was no possibility of coexistence between the two sides.
