"Young friend Chu Feng, right now the only person in the entire Martial Holy Land who can contend against the Master of the Dark Hall is Yue Xian. If even Yue Xian falls, there will be no one left who can keep him in check, and the entire Martial Holy Land—aside from within this Gate of Transformations—will have nowhere left untouched."
"Unless the Master of the Dark Hall leaves of his own accord, we absolutely cannot step outside the Gate of Transformations. You should understand this reasoning, so why are you still trying to go out? What exactly do you intend to do?" The Heaven Reaching Immortal asked, thoroughly bewildered.
"I have an elder who is still standing guard at the Eastern Ocean Region's Heavenly Road exit. I cannot simply leave him trapped in a dead-end without lifting a finger." Chu Feng would never forget about the Compass Immortal—the elder who had gone ahead to the Eastern Ocean Region's Heavenly Road entrance, stationed there, waiting for the spatial rift to appear.
"I see." At these words, the Heaven Reaching Immortal's gaze flickered slightly, still hesitating—hesitating over whether or not to let Chu Feng leave.
Whoosh—
But just at that moment, a streak of golden light suddenly appeared in the distance. In the blink of an eye, the golden light arrived right in front of Chu Feng.
The moment he saw that golden light, Chu Feng's eyes lit up, because that golden light was a Golden Flash Bird, and this particular Golden Flash Bird was now circling around him.
That meant this Golden Flash Bird had come looking for him.
Seeing the Golden Flash Bird, Chu Feng's expression immediately turned to joy, because by this point, nearly everyone connected to him who possessed the ability to send a Golden Flash Bird—such a precious messenger bird—was already inside the Gate of Transformations.
But there was one more person who held a Golden Flash Bird that Chu Feng had marked with his own imprint, and that was the Compass Immortal.
Chu Feng took the Golden Flash Bird, and the instant his finger touched its forehead, a stream of information flooded into his mind.
"Young friend Chu Feng, a spatial rift leading to the Eastern Ocean Region has appeared. Come quickly!"
And once that information poured into his mind, a brilliant smile immediately blossomed across Chu Feng's face.
It was indeed the Compass Immortal. The Compass Immortal had waited until the spatial rift appeared—but what Chu Feng hadn't expected was that the Compass Immortal would manage to catch a spatial rift at precisely this critical moment.
As long as the spatial rift was there, Chu Feng would have a chance to return to the Eastern Ocean Region, to return to the Nine Provinces Continent, and to unravel the Emperor's Tomb and the secrets that Qing Xuantian had left behind.
"Heaven itself is lending me a hand." Even Chu Feng, who had never been one to place his faith in the heavens, couldn't help but let out a sigh of gratitude toward the sky.
He had already accepted that when facing the Master of the Dark Hall, their only option was to sit and wait for death, pinning all their hope on Yue Xian.
If Yue Xian could defeat the Master of the Dark Hall, then fine. But if she couldn't, then they would have no choice but to do exactly as the Heaven Reaching Immortal had said—all of them would be forced to stay inside this Gate of Transformations for an extended period, living here until the Master of the Dark Hall had slaughtered every last life in the Martial Holy Land and chosen to leave, at which point they could finally return.
But now, with the appearance of this spatial rift, Chu Feng had been given a second path—a second chance.
Setting aside whether or not Chu Feng could actually obtain anything from the Emperor's Tomb that Qing Xuantian had left behind, simply being able to open that tomb meant he could awaken the four great sacred beasts—the Azure Dragon, Bai Hu, the Vermilion Bird, and Xuan Martial.
If he could find physical bodies for them, they could be restored to their former glory as sacred beasts.
And back in the day, when Qing Xuantian had defeated the Magma Emperor, those four sacred beasts had been instrumental in his victory.
Their cultivation levels were still an unknown. It was entirely possible they had reached the Half Ancestor realm—after all, Qing Xuantian himself had already been that powerful.
Because no one actually knew just how strong Qing Xuantian had been.