Early the next morning, Lin Feng left the inn to gather information in the city. He found a teahouse, ordered a pot of tea, and sat down to listen to the conversations around him. The teahouse was crowded with cultivators, sitting in twos and threes and whispering to one another.
"Have you heard? The Heavenly Demon Sect is expanding," a tall, thin cultivator said quietly, glancing around as though afraid someone might overhear.
"Expanding? Where?" another cultivator, a fat man, asked. He took a sip of tea, his eyes darting about.
"I heard they're expanding south. There's a place down there called the Heavenly Profound Realm. Its Spiritual Energy is thin, but it has a huge population. The Heavenly Demon Sect plans to capture cultivators there and bring them back to refine into Blood Pills. Apparently, the people there barely have any cultivation. They'll be easy to catch."
"The Heavenly Profound Realm? Never heard of it. How many powerful cultivators could a little place like that have? I bet they don't even have a true god."
"There aren't many powerful cultivators, but there are plenty of people. Billions, apparently. The essence blood of billions of people would make quite a few Blood Pills. The Sect Master said we're going all out this time and capturing everyone in the Heavenly Profound Realm."
Lin Feng's heart lurched. The Heavenly Profound Realm? Wasn't that his homeland? The Heavenly Demon Sect was going to target his homeland? His family and friends were all there. Dong Xuan, Lin Man, Lin Chen, Azure Profound True Person, Chen Feng... They were all in the Heavenly Profound Realm. If the Heavenly Demon Sect really went there, what would happen to them?
He paid for his tea, left the teahouse, and continued gathering information in the city. He found