"Heavenly... Demon?" Transformation Master Wen Yu froze for a moment, then slowly shook his head. "Never heard of it."
The five of them then fell into an eerie silence.
Amid the patter of rain, after a long while, True Immortal Guan Fei spoke up. "A spatial anomaly doesn't necessarily mean a Heavenly Demon can come and go freely, does it?"
Qu Jianlei and the other two all glanced at him, their eyes as though they were looking at an idiot.
Duo Gan truly could not hold back any longer. "Your understanding of Heavenly Demons... is far too shallow!"
Guan Fei and Wen Yu both fell silent. After a while, the Transformation Master said, "This is indeed rather strange. I hadn't considered it before."
"But what does Ridge Lord Qu think might have caused this?"
"I don't know." Qu Jianlei shook his head. "I was just asking."
No one believed that, but since he did not wish to explain, no one wanted to press him.
The group walked through the rain toward the faintly visible Palace. Yet after walking for some time, they had barely gotten any closer.
"Hm?" Qu Jianlei gave a soft snort without speaking, but Duo Gan was not having it. "Wen Yu, is there still something you don't want to tell us?"
Hearing her address him directly by name, Wen Yu knew she was angered, but he was innocent as well. "You mean this distance?"
"Sigh, Fellow Daoist Duo Gan, this is a place of spatial anomalies. There are some situations even I have never encountered."
After three hours, the group finally stopped. They were no longer far from the Palace, but the key was that they could not move any farther forward.
A faint pressure came from ahead. Taking another step would bring them into contact