"This feeling?"
Suddenly, the Boundary Artisan's face changed drastically.
On the surface, the Hall of All Beings Equal showed no change whatsoever, but he had detected that the unfathomable power contained within was rapidly draining away.
Finally, everything calmed down.
But the Boundary Artisan himself had become extremely panicked.
He carefully observed, seemingly trying to find some clue, because he could sense that the power within the Hall of All Beings Equal had been reduced to almost nothing.
If one were to compare the Hall of All Beings Equal to a well, with its contained power being the well water, then previously, the water in the Hall's well had been bottomless.
But now, the Hall of All Beings Equal was like a dried-up well.
In the blink of an eye, the Hall had been reduced to nearly an empty shell — though the treasured scrolls within still remained.
But the Hall itself no longer possessed that unfathomable power.
For their most prized treasure to suddenly become like this — anyone would panic.
But no matter how carefully the Boundary Artisan observed, he could not determine the cause. This drove him into a sweat, made it difficult to even breathe, and he felt his entire body go weak and powerless — unable to stand steadily, he could only collapse onto the ground.
"How could this happen?"
"What on earth happened?"
"Could it be related to that creature leaving? No, that can't be — everything was just fine moments ago."
The Boundary Artisan muttered to himself, on the verge of tears.
Suddenly, something occurred to him, and he reached for his chest.
That was where he had been keeping that painting.
That painting was extremely important to him — he knew it contained the true secret of the Hall of All Beings Equal.
And that painting... was the very one he had shown Chu Feng before — the painting from which Chu Feng had glimpsed a coffin.
Now that such a grave upheaval had befallen the Hall, he had no choice but to try and see if he could glean something from that scroll.
But when he felt for it, his already panicked expression grew even more wretched.
Because the painting was gone.
It had vanished without a sound, and he hadn't noticed a thing.
"How can this be?"
The Boundary Artisan felt as though he'd received a devastating blow — this was a tremendous shock to him.
Because the Hall of All Beings Equal was no longer what it once was, and the disappearance of the painting only made him realize that he had completely lost any chance of restoring the Hall.
He... seemed to have been abandoned.
…
Meanwhile, Chu Feng and the others were traveling through an ancient teleportation formation, heading toward the Totem Dragon Clan.
Within the teleportation tunnel, they rode an enormous dragon ship. Its speed boost was tremendous — far faster than Chu Feng's own treasures.
And typically, treasures that could boost one's speed within teleportation tunnels were rather small in size.
For this ship to be both so fast and so enormous — it was a testament to the extraordinary wealth of the Totem Dragon Clan, truly worthy of their status as one of the pinnacle existences in the vast Martial Cultivation World.
But despite being a dragon ship bearing the Totem Dragon Clan's banners, Chu Feng could still sense an aura from a distant era.
This was a relic of ancient times, not something the Totem Dragon Clan had crafted themselves — most likely something they had obtained from ancient ruins.
Because the dragon ship was so large, Chu Feng had his own private room to rest in.
Chu Feng began sorting through the treasures he had plundered from those of the Alchemy Dao Immortal Sect.
"Not bad — the haul this time is pretty decent," Eggy's voice suddenly rang out.
"Eggy, did you break through?" Chu Feng asked quickly.
While he had been sorting through the treasures, Her Majesty had also fully refined all the essences Chu Feng had taken from those of the Alchemy Dao Immortal Sect.
Though he knew that, like himself, Her Majesty required vast quantities of resources for cultivation.
But the essences previously plundered from those of the Alchemy Dao Immortal Sect had been considerable, and Chu Feng guessed that Her Majesty's cultivation should have improved.