Chen Fei glanced around. The Eighth Order Experts who had entered ahead of him had all vanished, presumably scattered by the secret realm's formations.
At the same time, an immense force pressed down on Chen Fei's shoulders. This was a Sky Banning Restriction. He did not deliberately resist it, instead following its force down to the ground.
The Sky Banning Restriction covered the entire secret realm and formed part of its foundational formations. Resisting it was little different from resisting the entire secret realm.
However, if an emergency arose, Chen Fei could forcibly tear an opening in this foundational restriction and soar into the sky.
Chen Fei gazed at the dozens of towering mountains ahead, then suddenly frowned slightly.
Shi Ding'an had said that the cultivators in this secret realm had long since disappeared, leaving no signs of living activity. Yet now, world vital energy was clearly surging around some of the distant mountains.
Only cultivators breaking through the restrictions on those mountains would cause such disturbances.
Have cultivators from other regions entered this place ahead of us?
The thought flashed through Chen Fei's mind. Indeed, nothing remained unchanged forever. After being occupied by the Xuanling Domain for nearly a thousand years, this secret realm had probably revealed traces of itself in other regions of the Void Return Realm.
If the Eighth Order Experts of the Xuanling Domain could enter this secret realm by following those traces, then Eighth Order Experts from other regions could naturally do the same.
Chen Fei swept his gaze over the dozens of peaks and activated the Heavenly Derivation Technique, divining the target most advantageous to him.
Although the heavenly workings of the Void Return Realm were now in chaos, rendering the Heavenly Derivation Technique unable to calculate much, it could still offer some guidance,