A deceased Chosen One does not return directly to their original world. The moment he was killed by Jiang Qiu's punch, the Soul of [Gold]—also known as Yu Ri of the Western Church—returned to his original body, suspended in the Void Realm.
He was in the Void, surrounded by nothingness. He could not perceive the passage of time or sense any movement through space. It was as if he had arrived in a crevice ignored by all the Great Realms.
This was the Void, a place recorded in the ancient texts that the Western Church had translated from various ruins.
Each Secret Realm was, in truth, its own world. Some Secret Realms could even lead to the same world, just to different locations. At the edges of these worlds lay the Void, which blocked the connection between them.
So-called "Secret Realm traversing" could be understood as crossing bridges over the Void. What Secret Realm Experts excelled at was building these bridges or altering their endpoints.
