Coming to the Phoenix Spirit Realm had long been part of Ye Zhen's plan.
The Phoenix Spirit Realm would be the final stop in Ye Zhen's quest to perfect his heart, as well as the final stop for his Human Realm Scroll and Battlefield Scroll.
In Ye Zhen's plan, after this journey to the Phoenix Spirit Realm, no matter what, he would end his current cultivation and tempering of the heart, and break through his present realm.
In truth, whether going to the Yizhi Sand Sea or heading to the Yellow Sand Divine Domain to rescue people, they had also been part of Ye Zhen's tempering of the heart before this breakthrough.
He sought to make his spiritual realm even more complete, to leave no flaw whatsoever in his state of mind.
Then Ye Zhen would undertake this immensely important breakthrough.
Within the Yellow Sand Divine Domain, his Fourth Senior Sister Lu Man Ge's Mystic Gate Clone, the Nine-tailed Celestial Fox, had answered many of Ye Zhen's questions, yet only left him with even more doubts.
Ye Zhen had wanted to ask more, but his Fourth Senior Sister Lu Man Ge tore through space and departed, so Ye Zhen left as well.
At that point, the Yellow Sand Divine Domain was completely unsealed.
For now, this Yellow Sand Divine Domain of the Yizhi Sand Sea Divine Hall had become an ownerless object.
Moreover, the Yellow Sand Divine Domain possessed extraordinary power.
Though it was not a Xiantian Spiritual Treasure, it had followed several aspects of the Great Zhou's Nation-Stabilizing Dragon Sparrow Saber's path. Bolstered by the human-path faith of the Yizhi Sand Sea's sandfolk, its power had long surpassed that of ordinary Xiantian Spiritual Treasures.
Yet when he left the Yizhi Sand Sea, Ye Zhen did not hesitate to return