Qu Jianlei nodded slightly. "There should be another reason, but these people... don't know enough."
"How about trying to contact someone in the Foundation Establishment Realm?" Paranoid suggested. "Some secrets may only be known by the Old Ancestors."
"I agree with that," Jing Yuexin supported his idea. "The key question is... how do we make contact?"
If they approached them openly, once the local natives learned that there were worlds beyond this one, it was hard to imagine what kind of fervor would erupt.
Moreover, there were nearly a hundred thousand natives here. What if some of them developed other ideas after learning this? First One often said not to test human nature, and the same applied to Cultivators' human nature! But if they searched souls, not only would it be easy to expose themselves, they might also become entangled in a Great Expert's karma.
"Then we can only take a risk and gamble," Little Snake said grimly, his tongue flicking in and out.
"Foundation Establishment cultivators can lord it over others here? Heh, they've occupied positions beyond their worth for far too long. It's time they paid a price!"
Jing Yuexin glanced at him in surprise. "You really aren't worried about encountering a Great Expert's karma?"
Jiao Daoren merely said coldly, "All I know is that if we don't make a choice soon, we'll die and vanish in this world."
"From the first day I began cultivating, I was never afraid of death. But if I had a choice, I wouldn't want to die in a foreign land."
Before, he had had no choice. Now that there might be an opportunity, how could he give it up? "Then let's play big," Yi He said in support. "You're worried about karma, but the two of us... heh."
It wasn't that