"After all these years, there are still ownerless Blessed Grotto-Heavens?" Lu Zheng asked.
Shen Ying shook her head. "They might not be ownerless Blessed Grotto-Heavens. Unless it is a force like White Cloud Temple or Phoenix Mountain, if an ordinary small force obtained a Blessed Grotto-Heaven, they would not shout about it until everyone under heaven knew."
No matter how orderly a place was, it could not withstand desperadoes willing to risk their lives.
Lu Zheng understood. So in truth, many Blessed Grotto-Heavens and minor Secret Realms were secrets each family kept tucked away at the bottom of their chests.
Take Chicken Cry Temple. If the entire temple had not been wiped out and the Demonic Beast exposed itself, who would have imagined that a mere county-level force possessed a minor Secret Realm?
Even White Cloud Temple—everyone only knew that it had the White Cloud Grotto-Heaven, but apart from its disciples, no one else had ever entered it. They did not even know whether it was located on the Back Mountain of White Cloud Mountain.
"The Cloud Palace Treasure Mirror can see scenes within Blessed Grotto-Heavens." Shen Ying thought for a moment. "But Lao Yue's was only a minor Secret Realm back then. The more spiritual energy a Blessed Grotto-Heaven contains, the harder it is to investigate."
Lu Zheng nodded. "That is why I did not speak too absolutely. Besides, given the status of the Directorate of Astronomy and the Demon Suppression Division, how could they possibly lack a magical treasure capable of finding people through a Blessed Grotto-Heaven?"
"They might truly not have one."
Si Lingxi suddenly appeared beside them. "Although the Central Plains dynasty governed a vast territory, its inheritance only spans a few hundred years. Even if it inherited part of the previous dynasty's strength, when it