Doing something made it possible to briefly forget the boredom of waiting.
The strange tales were soon finished. Fortunately, the Cangyun Valley cultivators roaming outside had brought back more stories. Big Head Tiger's hearing had finally recovered, though he still looked lazy and drowsy. Perhaps Fierce Beasts spent most of their time dozing aside from hunting.
More high-level Cangyun Valley cultivators began wandering around the gorge, deliberately or otherwise.
It was rather helpless, really. Within the bounds of their own sect, there were places they could not enter. Paper could not wrap up fire; before long, this scandal would spread throughout the surrounding region and become dinner-table gossip.
They did not wish to approach, yet had no choice but to come.
They and their predecessors were like drowning people tossed about in floodwaters, struggling desperately and holding on. The upper realm was the straw before them.
Had they not suffered losses and feared the tiger demon's ferocity, they would already have gathered outside the secret realm to await the arrivals from the upper realm. They could not tell whether the mysterious Little Girl was lying. Better to believe it existed than to believe it did not. What if it was true? The ancient secret realm hidden within the secret realm was anything but ordinary. It surely concealed a great secret, perhaps even an opportunity for ascension.
Bai Yujun directly ignored the surrounding gazes.
Whether they were there or not would not alter what was about to happen. Even if a butterfly flapped its wings and caused an effect, Bai Yujun could effortlessly turn it back onto its original track and correct any unexpected deviation.
The feeling of being able to see the future was wonderful. Time was like a river of stardust stretching endlessly onward through darkness, vast and flowing,