"Is it only the few of you? Where are the others?" Tong Zhongqiu looked at Feng Xiupu and Wei Yantao, his brow furrowing slightly.
Some time ago, when the secret realm had failed to open normally, Tong Zhongqiu had already learned of it. At the time, however, he had not paid it much mind.
The greatest possibility behind the secret realm's change was that the Divine Flame Sect was causing trouble, and a newly born Second Order Secret Realm could accommodate at most Early Stage Aperture Refining Realm cultivators.
Given the number of Early Stage Aperture Refining Realm cultivators from the various sects within the secret realm, the Divine Flame Sect could not possibly stir up much of a storm.
But just now, the emergence of that Joint Aperture Realm aura had directly alarmed the people from every sect waiting outside the secret realm. It had also alarmed Tong Zhongqiu.
"Something happened at Half-Bottle Mountain!"
Feng Xiupu relayed Chen Fei's words. The matter itself was not complicated; what was complicated was only the Ghost City and the Joint Aperture Realm expert who had suddenly appeared.
Thus, when Chen Fei had explained these matters to Feng Xiupu, he had not concealed anything. Feng Xiupu naturally recounted everything exactly as it had happened.
After hearing Feng Xiupu's account, Tong Zhongqiu's brow did not relax. Instead, it furrowed even more deeply. He could tell that Feng Xiupu was not lying, and there was no need to lie about such a matter.
This secret realm's rise from the first order to the second had been full of strange twists from the start. A Ghost City seemed capable of explaining some of it. As for that unfamiliar Joint Aperture Realm cultivator, Tong Zhongqiu thought of another possibility.
This Ghost City was connected to a region