"Did the changes in the clouds mean that the hidden space was about to vanish?" someone said, voicing his judgment.
Many cultivators had seen a hidden space appear, but few had seen one disappear. After all, once they left a secret realm, no one cared when it vanished.
Even Venerable Jie Mie, who had experienced the secret realm's opening once before, wore a baffled expression at this moment.
Cloudy waves churned like the void itself was collapsing, violent yet utterly silent. The sight alone was horrifying. Terrifying aura spread everywhere, pressing everyone's bodies taut as they all circulated their respective methods to resist it.
Everyone stared at the void, concentrating in silence for a time.
The clouds surged on without pause, showing no sign of dispersing or vanishing.
One day, two days... The turbulent state in the sky continued for seven full days before suddenly weakening and returning to its earlier appearance.
Suddenly, a hazy figure appeared abruptly amid the rolling clouds. It did not plummet rapidly, but instead drifted slowly through the clouds.
The figure gradually became clear. A startled cry suddenly rang out from a mountain peak. "It's Pill Sovereign Qin!"
The voice shattered the silence of nearly a hundred cultivators in the vast area. They began calling out in agreement, hurriedly rising to their feet as they gazed into the distant sky at the suspended figure amid the tumbling clouds.
Qin Fengming swept his gaze over the people below. His eyes suddenly brightened, and with a flash of his body, he landed directly atop a mountain peak below.
"Pill Sovereign Qin, you remained in the hidden space for fifteen years and four months. How did you manage that?" The instant he landed, before Qin Fengming could address the others, an urgent question already rang out across the