"According to what Mingzhao and Xunyi said, that place was indeed the Spirit Clan's sacred ground — the place where the Spirit Clan used to reside. But so many people had seen the sacred ground before, and yet no one had ever been able to enter it. It's truly beyond me how Mingzhao and Xunyi actually managed to get inside."
Speaking to this point, Chu Youyuan turned to Chu Feng and said, "Chu Feng, since you were also swept into the vortex, didn't you encounter anything unusual?"
At that moment, Chu Feng hesitated slightly, but when he thought about everything Chu Youyuan had done for him, he chose to trust Chu Youyuan and tell the truth.
"I entered the Yuanhai Divine Mountain," Chu Feng said.
"You actually entered the Yuanhai Divine Mountain?" Upon hearing this, even Chu Youyuan was visibly shocked.
"But the Yuanhai Divine Mountain was far too dangerous, so I left very quickly," Chu Feng said.
"Incredible." Chu Youyuan's eyes were filled with wonder.
"I also have a friend named Wang Qiang. He was the one who appeared inside the Void Divine Tree, and he even carved words on the tree," Chu Feng said.
"That actually happened..." The shock in Chu Youyuan's eyes deepened further, and he fell into deep thought. It was only after a long pause that he slowly spoke again.
"The vortexes inside the Stairway to Heaven appear very rarely. Even when they do appear, they wouldn't possess that kind of power."
"The vortex you encountered was absolutely no ordinary vortex." Chu Youyuan said this with complete certainty.
In truth, Chu Youyuan didn't even need to say it — Chu Feng had long harbored the same suspicion.
Perhaps someone had been secretly helping them. Otherwise, how could it possibly be such a coincidence that every single one of them had been sent to the Great Thousand Upper Realm, to a sacred ground that even the Chu Heavenly Clan's members could not cultivate in?
But who could possess such tremendous power? Someone who knew every legendary ruin in the entire Great Thousand Upper Realm like the back of their hand — and who could casually send people inside them, no less?
After all, these were places that even the Chu Heavenly Clan was powerless against.
"Do you still remember the location of that valley?" After a moment of silence, Chu Youyuan asked Ying Mingzhao and Zi Xunyi.
"We remember," Ying Mingzhao and Zi Xunyi answered in unison.
"Then let's head there right now," Chu Youyuan said.
And so, Chu Feng and the others set off toward the valley's location as Ying Mingzhao remembered it.
The truth was, Ying Mingzhao and Zi Xunyi knew almost nothing about the terrain of the Great Thousand Upper Realm.
But Chu Youyuan knew it well. All they had to do was provide a few clues, and he would immediately determine exactly where it was and what lay there.
As a result, their journey went very smoothly.
Moreover, with a Venerable-realm expert like Chu Youyuan leading the way, their speed was remarkably fast.
In just a few short days, they arrived at a vast plain.
It was a plain with no sign of human presence whatsoever — one could easily call it barren.
"Is this the place?" Chu Youyuan asked.
"This is it. This is definitely the place," Ying Mingzhao said with absolute certainty, pointing ahead. "When we came out before, we emerged from right over there. But after we got out, we couldn't find a way back in, because from here, there was absolutely no trace of that valley."
"Of course you wouldn't find it. After all, it is the Spirit Clan's sacred ground," Chu Youyuan said.
"Chu Feng, let's search for it together. But don't set your hopes too high — the Spirit Clan's sacred ground was always capable of moving."
"It may have already left this plain entirely," Chu Youyuan said.