Elder Yun smiled faintly. "Yes. We find it strange too. With our aptitude, we never dared dream of reaching this level of cultivation. Yet here we are at Late Saint. At this rate, even becoming Quasi-Emperors might be possible!"
"Exactly!"
Li Yanshan and Wu Qingfeng nodded. They had tremendous confidence in their cultivation now.
Looking at Elder Yun and the others, Fang Chen could not help marveling inwardly. That Heavenly Thunder that struck them back then really was mysterious!
Fang Chen could not help dwelling on it.
Just then, Li Yanshan said to Fang Chen, "Fang Chen, there's something I need to tell you. Something strange seems to have happened in the Bamboo Grove on Dog Head Ridge!"
"What sort of strange thing?" Fang Chen asked him.
"Come with us," Li Yanshan said.
With that, Li Yanshan, Elder Yun, and Wu Qingfeng flew toward the Bamboo Grove on Dog Head Ridge.
When they reached it, Fang Chen felt a dense wave of Spiritual Qi wash over him even before he entered. This was the Bamboo Grove where the Medicine-Brewing Old Farmer opened a Spatial Passage each time to send him digging for bamboo shoots. It was his first visit since joining the meals held by those Manifestations of his.
As Fang Chen looked at the Bamboo Grove, it seemed different from what he remembered. When he had dug for shoots, a towering Golden Bamboo had stood inside it. But the bamboo before him rose only about ten zhang. There was no sign of the Golden Bamboo that stood over a thousand zhang tall.
"Let's go in," Li Yanshan told Fang Chen, then walked into the Bamboo Grove.
Fang Chen followed them in. The moment he crossed the threshold, he felt as if he had entered another space. The bamboo abruptly