Inside the cave abode, twelve people sat in a circle.
Hongchu spoke first.
"There are twelve of us now, and our strength has mostly recovered. It's time we took the initiative and found the other fellow Daoists."
"The question is how," Qian Ling said with a frown.
"The Hongmeng Universe is too vast. We all learned that during our years in hiding. Hide somewhere deep in Chaos, and even divine thought can't find you."
Cang Xuan nodded.
"That's true. When we scattered back then, we never left any means of contacting each other."
Houtu looked at Zhou Ming.
"Fellow Daoist Zhou Ming, do you have any ideas?"
Zhou Ming was silent for a moment, considering a problem.
Pangu, Taiyi, and the others were veteran Unity Realm cultivators who had spent countless epochs in the Eternal Dao Realm.
They would be no less cautious than he was, and would only hide even deeper.
Trying to find them through a search would be no different from fishing a needle out of the sea.
"Splitting up to search isn't practical," Zhou Ming said.
"We need to make them come out on their own."
Hongchu's eyes lit up.
"You mean spread the word?"
"Yes." Zhou Ming nodded.
"But we can't spread the message directly," Cang Xuan immediately realized.
"Once we announce that we're looking for people, the native cultivators will see it too. They'll be even more eager to find them than we are."
"That's why we need a code phrase," Zhou Ming said.
"A code phrase?"
"Something only those of us from the Eternal Dao Realm can understand."
Approval shone in Taishi's eyes.
"That's a good idea. We all came out of Yuan Chu's inner world, and we have plenty of memories unique to that experience."
"If we use those memories as