"What happened to her?" Chu Feng asked.
"You've probably heard some things about Yue'er. While I was away, she didn't have an easy time within the clan. Families are like that — I'm sure you've experienced something similar in the Chu Heavenly Clan."
"Later, to make it up to her, the clan gave her a chance — a chance to enter our clan's cultivation formation."
"That formation opens once every thirty years, and each time it opens, only one junior is permitted to enter."
"Do you know why Li Anzhi has been putting off entering the Ancestral Martial Cultivation Realm? He's been waiting for that formation to open."
"The benefits that cultivation formation can bestow upon a junior are far beyond what the Ancestral Martial Cultivation Realm could ever offer."
"It's just that Yue'er entered that formation some time ago. By all accounts, she should have emerged long before now, but she still hasn't. I'm worried something has happened to her," Li Ruochu said.
"Is there anything I can do to help her?" Chu Feng asked.
"To be precise, right now only you can help her," Li Ruochu replied.
"While the formation is closed, no one else can enter it at all. The only exception is a junior under a hundred years of age who possesses Holy-level barrier power — only then is there a chance to enter the formation."
"Perhaps it's heaven's will. I never expected that when I saw you again, you would already be a Holy-cloak Spirit World Master. Even though it's only an Insect-pattern Holy Cloak, you should have a chance to enter that formation. If even you can't get in, then Yue'er's safety will be entirely in her own hands," Li Ruochu said.
"Does that mean the longer she waits, the more danger she's in?" Chu Feng asked.
"Yes." Li Ruochu nodded.
"Hss—" Upon hearing this, Chu Feng drew in a sharp breath, his expression troubled.
He naturally wanted to save Li Yue'er. Having entered numerous formations before, Chu Feng knew full well that failing to exit a formation within its time limit meant facing a fatal risk.
However, Bai Liluo had been captured by that so-called Black-Furred Ghost. Although Chu Feng would rescue Bai Liluo by winning first place among the Ancestral Martial Ten Stars, he had no idea how things stood with her right now.
Going straight to save Li Yue'er and leaving Bai Liluo aside — Chu Feng couldn't bring himself to do that.
But the longer Li Yue'er waited, the greater the danger, and Chu Feng had no time to waste.
He was caught in an impossible dilemma.
"Young friend Chu Feng, may I come in?" Just then, the voice of the Heavenly Clan's head suddenly came from outside.
Chu Feng did not respond immediately. Instead, he looked toward Li Ruochu, and only after she nodded did he reply.
Subsequently, the Heavenly Clan's head entered together with Wu Ming Xingyun.
The moment the door opened, Chu Feng saw that a great number of the Heavenly Clan's supreme experts were standing outside. Even by appearances alone, it was clear that their standing within the clan was extraordinary.