"My Queen, how long will that take?"
Chu Feng was thrilled. If he could possess battle power four tiers above his own at the first-tier Half God level, that would be equivalent to a fifth-tier Half God. That was simply too heaven-defying.
Even Chu Feng found it unbelievable.
After all, Half Gods were in a completely different realm from Martial Emperors — they couldn't even be compared.
"The Queen herself doesn't know either, but she'll break through this restriction sooner or later," Egg replied with a sweet smile. Though her smile was adorable, it carried absolute confidence.
"Hehe, having Egg at my back really does feel great." Chu Feng chuckled along.
The Queen's cultivation had once again surpassed his, and she had once again become his backer. Rather than feeling inferior, Chu Feng felt happy about it. He wanted to grow stronger, and he wanted the Queen to grow stronger too.
"Save the flattery. There are too many powerful experts here for me to back you up. You'll have to rely on yourself," Egg said. "Now then, what are your plans going forward?" She was quite concerned about Chu Feng's next move — after all, his current enemy was far more difficult to deal with than the Situ Spirit Gate.
"The Situ Spirit Gate has been dealt with, but there are still no leads on the Immortal Slaughter. And I clearly can't take on the Dao of Pills Immortal Sect head-on right now."
"I'll go check out the Ancient Realm first." As he spoke, Chu Feng projected his consciousness back to his main body and took out the Ancient Realm invitation.
He then noticed that while the countdown on the invitation was still ticking down, the designated location had changed.
"This thing — why does it keep changing?" Chu Feng was somewhat surprised.
"Who cares? As long as it's real, it shouldn't lead us astray," Egg said.
"True enough." Chu Feng immediately set off, following the location marked on the Ancient Realm invitation.
As it turned out, the location kept shifting, forcing Chu Feng to travel ceaselessly and adjust his route over and over again.
When the time was nearly up, Chu Feng finally arrived at a mortal world within the Totem Galaxy.
"It won't change again, will it?"
Watching the countdown on the invitation rapidly approach zero, Chu Feng knew that if the location shifted to yet another world, there was no way he'd make it in time.
"Hm?"
But the moment Chu Feng stepped out of the teleportation formation, before he even had a chance to take in his surroundings, another figure emerged from the portal behind him.
Chu Feng recognized him at a glance — this was none other than the disciple of the Grand Elder Guest Minister of the current Totem Dragon Clan, Bai Yunqing.
"So I run into him again. Did he receive an Ancient Realm invitation too?" Chu Feng found this rather unexpected.
Bai Yunqing, for his part, was brimming with confidence. After appearing, he surveyed his surroundings.
Whoosh—
He flicked open the fan in his hand, and the corners of his mouth curved upward.
"I, Bai Yunqing, shall make my name known to all today."
With that, he immediately shot off, flying toward the southwest.
"Is something wrong with that guy? What name is he going to make for himself?" Egg was baffled, and even the onlookers stared at Bai Yunqing as though he were an idiot.
Following the direction Bai Yunqing had flown, one could see an enormous floating palace hovering far off in the sky. The palace wasn't physically present — it was merely a phantom projection — but it was colossal, hanging in the sky like a celestial phenomenon.
Everyone in this world could see it clearly. Even those with weak cultivation could perceive it.
Before the palace stood a massive stone stele, also a phantom, yet so enormous that its inscriptions were perfectly legible despite the vast distance.
On the stele were only two words: Ancient Realm!
"So he got an invitation too," Chu Feng said.
"So what if he did? The Ancient Realm isn't part of the Totem Dragon Clan. And since the invitation's location keeps changing, there probably aren't that many people who can even watch, right?" Egg said. "Even if he does something, nobody will know about it."
Chu Feng, however, turned his gaze to the teleportation formation.
At that moment, light was continuously flickering from the portal as person after person stepped out.
Representatives of all manner of factions were arriving, their cultivation generally quite formidable — they clearly weren't locals of this mortal world. And among every faction, there were invariably some younger generation members who, like Bai Yunqing, caught sight of the Ancient Realm's palace and immediately shot off toward it, their destination obvious.
"Hold on, something's not right. Why are they all heading straight for the Ancient Realm?"
"Could it be that all of them received Ancient Realm invitations too?"
"The Ancient Realm invited this many people?" Egg's beautiful eyes widened as she sensed that something was amiss.
"Not sure. Whatever — let's go take a look and find out." With that, Chu Feng immediately set off, flying toward the Ancient Realm.
Before long, Chu Feng arrived beneath the phantom projection of the Ancient Realm.
There, an ancient gate stood amidst a stretch of dense forest. The gate was made of wood and looked quite dilapidated, but it was massive. The tall trees in the surrounding jungle reached several hundred meters in height, yet beneath that wooden gate, they looked like nothing more than a patch of grass.
The gate had no supports of any kind — it was simply a freestanding doorway, standing there in midair. On the gate were carved four words: Entrance to the Ancient Realm.
Gathered around the gate were people from various factions, and among them was Bai Yunqing.
More people continued to arrive by the minute.
While the crowd wasn't enormous, it already numbered in the hundreds of thousands and was still growing.
Though most were locals of this mortal world who had simply come to watch the spectacle, there were also outsiders present. Some of the people from various factions seemed to know one another, and the elders were conversing among themselves. From their discussion, Chu Feng learned that the Ancient Realm had indeed invited a great number of people this time. What was different from the past, however, was that this time, only the younger generation had been invited.
Previously, invitations had rarely imposed any age restrictions.
This was unusual. Not only had they restricted the age, but more importantly, the Ancient Realm seldom invited so many people all at once.
Because it was so abnormal, some even suspected that a few of the invitations might be fake. But the invited guests were mostly prominent figures — they wouldn't be the type to forge fake invitations.
In short, the people of the Totem Galaxy all found this highly suspicious.