Xun Kun nodded and took out the prayer beads Yun Chen had given him. But the beads showed no reaction at all. He frowned and said,
"Ranxi, can you be sure they were swept in here too?"
After thinking for a moment, Yunxi said,
"I'm eighty percent certain. When the polar gale mutated, it would have affected Nascent Soul Cultivators who hadn't left the mid-ring. Given Yun Chen's temperament, he definitely wouldn't stand idly by. They should have stepped in to save people, which would have brought them closer to the center and increased the chance of being swept in."
"You're right, but the prayer beads aren't reacting now. Where do we even begin looking?
"Also, according to what Han Lian said before, there's a cultivation restriction for entering this Secret Realm. Both our cultivation levels are currently suppressed, which means only cultivators in the Nascent Soul Realm should be able to enter the Misty Snow Region. Yet we were swept in as well. Don't you find that strange?"
Yunxi tugged at her snow-white cloak and said thoughtfully,
"You're right. The Misty Snow Region has a Realm Spirit. Cultivators like us, who don't meet the entry requirements, should have been stopped outside the Secret Realm. Yet both of us got in."
Xun Kun took two steps forward, his eyes flashing as he blurted out,
"Ranxi, do you think evil cultivators comparable to us entered as well? And in order to suppress them, the Realm Spirit swept us in too?"
Yunxi's almond eyes lit up at those words. Perhaps Xun Kun had truly guessed correctly.
"Your speculation makes a great deal of sense. After I fought that late Spirit Transformation stage evil cultivator in the mid-ring, I didn't have time to search his soul before he self-detonated his divine soul without