Inside the cave abode, twelve people sat in a circle.
Hongchu spoke first.
"There are twelve of us now, and our strength has more or less recovered. It's time we took the initiative and found the others."
"The question is how," Qianling said with a frown.
"The Primordial Universe is too vast. We all learned that during our years in hiding. Anyone can tuck themselves away in the Depths of Chaos, somewhere even divine sense can't reach."
Cangxuan nodded.
"That's true. When we scattered back then, we never left any means of contacting one another."
Houtu looked at Zhou Ming.
"Fellow Daoist Zhou Ming, do you have any ideas?"
Zhou Ming fell silent for a moment, considering a problem.
Pangu, Taiyi, and the others were veteran Unity Realm cultivators who had spent countless epochs in the Eternal Dao Realm.
They would be no less cautious than he was, and would only have hidden themselves even deeper.
Trying to find them by searching was no different from fishing a needle out of the ocean.
"Splitting up to search isn't practical," Zhou Ming said.
"We need to make them reveal themselves."
Hongchu's eyes lit up.
"You mean spread the word?"
"Yes." Zhou Ming nodded.
"But we can't spread it openly," Cangxuan immediately realized.
"Once we put out word that we're looking for people, the native cultivators will see it too. Then they'll be even more eager to find them than we are."
"That's why we need a code phrase," Zhou Ming said.
"A code phrase?"
"Something only those of us from the Eternal Dao Realm will understand."
Approval shone in Taishi's eyes.
"That's a good idea. We all came out of Yuan Chu's Inner World, and we share plenty of memories unique to that experience."
"If we use those memories as a