Tian Chuan's body had been stretched so far that it took quite a while to draw itself back into human form.
He returned to That Door, his expression turning utterly grim.
The exit of this passage had been blasted to pieces. Countless cracks stretched from the front all the way to the back, and the entire passage had been destroyed.
"Was this a hidden trap laid long ago?" Tian Chuan asked coldly.
Only the Four Spirits Sect—or perhaps only some members of the Human Spirit Sect—knew of this secret passage to the Main World.
For someone to have tampered with this passage meant that there had to be a traitor in the Four Spirits Sect, perhaps even within the Human Spirit Sect itself.
This lent further weight to Luo Zheng's words.
"We're so close to the Profound Measurement World here. Senior Tian Chuan, could you leave directly through the sky?" Luo Zheng asked, pointing upward.
Looking up from Yuqing Heaven, the Profound Measurement World seemed so close that one could almost reach out and touch it.
Tian Chuan glared at Luo Zheng. "Unless you're courting death, don't take that route."
Tian Chuan and his companions had set up the force field hovering above Yuqing Heaven themselves, so he naturally knew its power.
"In that case, I'm afraid you can only head for the Road to the Heavens, Senior Tian Chuan," Luo Zheng suggested.
"I know that, of course," Tian Chuan replied.
The destroyed route on the Clear Heavenly Platform was a secret passage the builders had deliberately left behind, while the Road to the Heavens was the proper route from the chaos world to the Profound Measurement World. With the secret passage unusable, he would naturally have to take the proper route.
"But as far as I know, the Road