The group stayed in the formation for only half a day before most of them left.
Only Qu Jianlei and Jin Ge remained inside, forcing themselves to endure three full days.
When the two of them came out, they saw only three True Venerables—one from the Heartless Dao, Qingkong, and Han Wei.
So after those three had come out, they had gone straight into the Abode to enter seclusion.
This really had nothing to do with whether they liked being clean or not. That decaying aura truly could corrode the soul.
In fact, how could it have been only those three? Qu Jianlei and Jin Ge were having a hard time bearing it too.
When those three appeared two days later, the five of them also entered the Abode.
Another five days passed before everyone finally regrouped completely. Han Li even felt that Qu Jianlei and Jin Ge had not cleaned themselves thoroughly.
"That's death energy, plain and simple. If you come out this soon, what happens to your Dao Path in the future?"
Qu Jianlei answered in a low voice, "It's already been condensed together. I have some other guesses and want to study it."
Jin Ge spread his hands and offered no further explanation. After all, there were True Venerables from another domain beside them.
"Guesses?" True Venerable Xiaoyou looked at True Venerable Qu in surprise, then curled her lip. Who knew what she was thinking.
But clearly, she had no fondness for that aura of dead silence and decay. It was hard to say whether she would end up hating everything connected to it too.
The True Venerable from the Heartless Dao, however, asked, "May I ask... what guesses? Can you tell us?"
This time, Qu Jianlei answered very straightforwardly. "It involves certain secrets. I can't say!"