Huang Mei said, "It started out true, then turned false. But if someone was faking things to cover up a secret, that would make sense. Of the seven divine weapons, not a single one was real? That proves they had invested quite a bit, too."
Huang Mei's explanation did make the whole thing seem more plausible.
Xu Yi immediately took Huang Mei out of the Four-Colored Seal Space. Sure enough, the round lump had not transformed into the weapon spirit Huang Mei had described.
"Damn it, not even one of them was the real thing." Xu Yi grimaced, his mood sour.
Huang Mei said, "Even if this thing isn't a weapon spirit, it's pretty close. Nothing else needs saying: it can't even be broken down by the Four-Colored Seal Space, which is proof enough of its value."
Xu Yi shook his head. "No matter how precious it is, what use is it to me if it isn't a weapon spirit?"
Huang Mei said, "All right, go on and stew over it, kid. But I think we should keep following the lead we just found, whether it's real or not. That's better than wandering around like headless flies."
Xu Yi was silent for a moment, then said, "Of course we're going to keep following it. This time, we're not messing around with anything fake. We're going straight for the big one."
With that, he sat cross-legged and released his perception. It spread across a hundred miles in an instant. This time, he didn't limit it to that range and stop; instead, he kept extending it outward. The expansion was extremely slow, but there was no doubt it was working.
After a full two hours, Xu Yi's perception had expanded to a radius of three thousand miles.
His face was deathly pale,