At this moment, Yue Ling was chatting animatedly with the Old Monk Yiku and Song Yuwei, discussing what kind of house she envisioned for herself.
But suddenly, she felt a gentle force surge through her.
"Hm? This feeling?"
Yue Ling's expression shifted. The force was clearly flowing in from the outside, yet to her, it felt as though it had erupted from within her Dantian, spreading across her entire body.
Her whole body was filled with an incredibly comfortable sensation, as if every discomfort she had ever felt was being thoroughly washed away under the cleansing of that force.
Even her mind became remarkably clear.
Then, she discovered that a tremendously powerful force had appeared within her Dantian.
"Master, I… my Dantian."
Sensing something wrong, Yue Ling hurriedly turned to Old Monk Yiku and Song Yuwei for help.
When the two of them saw the strange look on Yue Ling's face, they rushed over to examine her Dantian.
"Yue Ling, could it be that you've—?"
But upon inspecting it, both of their faces lit up with joy.
They found that Yue Ling's Dantian was completely intact — restored to a state that was practically brand new.
And within this Dantian, there lurked a power that defied explanation. It was very likely some form of bloodline power.
"Master, what's happening to me?"
"I feel as though a force inside me has awakened. It's… merging with me," Yue Ling said.
"Yue Ling, you're a genius! You're a genius, do you understand?"
"That venomous woman harmed you, but by some twist of fate, it may have awakened your true bloodline."
Song Yuwei was visibly emotional — something quite rare for her.
She had felt such heartache for Yue Ling before, and it was precisely because of that that she was now so stirred by Yue Ling's transformation.
She was not the only one. Old Monk Yiku felt the same.
They had already inspected the situation and found that the Dantian was perfectly compatible with Yue Ling, as though the power had always been dormant within her body, only now finally awakening.
So they both agreed that this was Yue Ling's own power — one that had remained asleep for some reason, and only stirred when her Dantian was destroyed.
This power had not only rebuilt Yue Ling's Dantian, but with it residing inside her, even if Yue Ling had to start cultivating from scratch, her future achievements would undoubtedly be far greater than before.
But what they did not know was that not far away, high in the sky, the young woman known as Ling'er was watching them with a slight smile on her lips.
"So this is what it feels like to do good without taking credit. Not bad at all."
With those words, Ling'er shifted and vanished, having already left the valley.
But then again, this young woman named Ling'er never would have guessed that her brief appearance had allowed Chu Feng to notice a certain clue.
Chu Feng had been staring at that stone with no leads at all, his head starting to ache from the effort.
But the very instant Ling'er walked out, the stone displayed a subtle change.
That change made everything click for Chu Feng.
Perhaps he could use his barrier bloodline instead of the barrier formation's power to activate the method for breaking formations, and attempt to crack the stone.
This approach might be useless against a normal barrier formation, but against an abnormal barrier formation or a treasure, it could very well work.
And when Chu Feng tried this method, it actually worked.
The stone, which had been incomparably hard, became as permeable as water under the combined effect of Chu Feng's barrier bloodline and the formation-breaking technique he had comprehended from Yue Ling's ancestor. He passed right through it.
Chu Feng walked forward and soon entered the breathtaking cave within.
"Wow, Chu Feng, you've struck it rich!"
"This place doesn't look ordinary at all!"
Just from the cave's arrangement, Her Majesty the Queen was already screaming with excitement, even more thrilled than Chu Feng himself.
And who could blame her? No matter how you looked at it, this place was far from ordinary.
So Chu Feng quickly moved forward, and as he passed through the cave, the magnificent world beyond immediately appeared before his eyes.
"This looks like someone lives here?"
Upon seeing that stunning world, Dan Dan grew alert.
But Chu Feng couldn't care less about that — he had been utterly captivated by the starry sky high above.
The countless stars had gathered into nine great rivers of light, like a complete map of the vast Martial Cultivation World, suspended right above his head.
And upon one of those rivers of light, an enormous phantom figure had appeared, enshrouding the river beneath it.
It was neither fully human nor fully beast, its precise form impossible to discern — only a rough outline could be made out.
Its sheer size was staggering. Even a world capable of holding hundreds of millions of beings would be nothing more than a speck of dust before it.
Judging by the position of the rivers of light, Chu Feng believed that this was very likely the Seven Realms River of Stars.
"Dan Dan, what do you think that is?" Chu Feng asked.
At this moment, not only was his heart shaken by the colossal phantom that covered the river of stars, but he could also sense that the phantom seemed to contain a certain power, representing some kind of deeper meaning.
"Chu Feng, never mind that for now. I get the feeling someone lives here — it doesn't seem like ruins."
"Be careful. Hide yourself first, and don't release your perception or Mental Power. If you want to observe, use only your Heaven's Eye," Dan Dan cautioned.
"Got it."
After Dan Dan's reminder, Chu Feng pulled himself free of the shock that the starry sky had wrought. He concealed his body and began using his Heaven's Eye to observe.
Although the place was breathtaking, the palace structures were not sealed by any barrier formation, so Chu Feng's Heaven's Eye could easily see inside.