At this moment, Chu Feng and the President of the Martial Commerce Alliance were riding on Qin Jiu's bamboo boat.
They had already arrived at the outskirts of the Ancestral Land of the Immortal Sea Fish Clan.
"Something feels off?"
They had only just drawn near and hadn't yet entered the core area of the Ancestral Land, but the President of the Martial Commerce Alliance had already sensed something wrong.
"Senior, there should have been a barrier here before, right?" Chu Feng asked.
As a Spirit World Master, Chu Feng could tell that this place had originally been sealed off by a barrier.
But now, all of the barriers had vanished. If he hadn't activated his Heavenly Eyes, he wouldn't have been able to discern even traces of where those barriers had been.
Chu Feng figured that the President's confusion was likely about that very barrier.
"Yes. This is the Ancestral Land of the Immortal Sea Fish Clan."
"Because the Immortal Sea once existed here, the spiritual energy of this world is extremely thin — unsuitable for cultivation."
"As a result, there are almost no martial cultivators in this world."
"The Immortal Sea Fish Clan also never established their headquarters here."
"But the Immortal Sea Fish Clan did previously dispatch a large number of powerful experts to station here."
"In fact, the reason the Immortal Sea Fish Clan set up their headquarters in an adjacent world is also because of this place."
These words from the President of the Martial Commerce Alliance revealed just how much importance the Immortal Sea Fish Clan placed on this Ancestral Land.
"Based on my observation, those barriers don't appear to have been destroyed."
"It's more like they were absorbed by some kind of force," Chu Feng said.
"That's bizarre?" the President replied.
"There's one more thing."
"When I parted ways with Little Fish and Brother Shao Yu earlier, I left a positioning talisman on them."
"Under normal circumstances, upon entering this world, I should be able to sense Little Fish and Brother Shao Yu."
"But right now, there's not the slightest response."
"I'm not sure whether they've already left," Chu Feng said.
"They probably have left."
"Don't worry — they're fine. If something bad had happened to them, how could that kind of celestial phenomenon have occurred?"
"No matter how you look at it, that phenomenon was a positive sign."
"I think they likely left because that commotion was too great and would attract the people of the Seven Realms Sacred Palace, so they decided to leave on their own."
The President of the Martial Commerce Alliance sensed Chu Feng's concern and couldn't help but offer these words of reassurance.
"Mm, Senior's reasoning is sound." Chu Feng nodded.
While Chu Feng and the President of the Martial Commerce Alliance conversed, they did not stop making their way forward.
Although they were still quite far away, an immense pit had already appeared within their line of sight.
That pit was where the Immortal Sea had once existed.
It had once been a boundless golden ocean, sacred beyond compare.
Legend held that the Immortal Sea Fish Clan had cultivated here, devouring all of the Immortal Sea's power until the sea itself dried up.
"Sure enough, there's been a change."
At this moment, the President of the Martial Commerce Alliance wore a look of astonishment on her face.
Although the Immortal Sea remained in its dried-up state, there was now a presence emanating from within that boundless pit.
It was a sacred aura.
And it was incredibly dense — even from a great distance, they could feel it.
The last time she had come here, this had been nothing more than a pit, large but otherwise unremarkable.
The sacred aura that could now be sensed from such a great distance had not existed at all before.
"Chu Feng, there's hope! My Heavenly Treasure has hope!" the President of the Martial Commerce Alliance said excitedly to Chu Feng.
"Senior, in which direction is that Heavenly Treasure?" Chu Feng asked.
Originally, Chu Feng had wanted to look for the Immortal Sea Fish Clan members first.
But having arrived so close to the Ancestral Land without seeing a single trace of anyone from the Immortal Sea Fish Clan — and with the positioning talismans on Little Fish and the others showing absolutely no response — Chu Feng felt that the Immortal Sea Fish Clan had truly left this place.
The only lingering question was that this was, after all, their Ancestral Land.
Even if there had been some reason for the previous barriers to be absorbed…