After all the Immortals had received pills that could temporarily ward off poison and departed, some of them also handed me materials they had collected. Among them were messages left behind by people of old and rubbings of the stone stele patterns. I exchanged treasures for them one by one, then had them continue gathering more items.
I did not leave immediately. Instead, I stayed where I was and began studying the information left behind by those from the past. After piecing it together bit by bit, I indeed gained some useful insights—for example, there was an area that could not be affected by the spatial grand array, and somewhere in the rear mountain was a secret passage leading straight into the sect. Someone had even found blueprints for some of the basic facilities built when the sect was established, as well as a restoration map of the Cloud Dream Immortal Sect.
These precious materials gave me considerable convenience. Of course, they had little to do with the spatial grand array. I still had to rack my brains to decipher the spatial grand array and reach the very core of the entire sect.
I took out the first materials left by those from the past. After looking through them for quite some time, I discovered that their owner had died from a lack of spiritual energy. The helplessness and misery recorded day after day until the end were extraordinarily torturous to read, but that was not what I was looking for. I discovered that one page actually mentioned that he had encountered the Grand Elder of the Prosperous Age Alliance who had entered Cloud Dream Immortal Mountain earlier.
According to the record, this Grand Elder of the Prosperous Age Alliance had been the most formidable among those who had remained