"Perhaps I was making a mountain out of a molehill."
Within the lush green space before him, Zhang Qingyuan looked somewhat embarrassed.
He had thought he had triggered some hidden mechanism and been directly transported out of the Divine Wood Secret Realm, causing the harvest of this trip to go down the drain.
Yet unexpectedly, this was merely their method of summoning him.
That made sense too.
His mind had gone dull for a moment, driving itself into a dead end.
Who said that if someone wished to receive you, they had to open the door and let you walk in?
If they could directly shift someone out of the Divine Wood Secret Realm and pull them before themselves, was that difficult?
Zhang Qingyuan lowered his head and stood obediently where he was,
looking every bit like a model student.
Ahead,
within the verdant space, a hazy figure whose true appearance was obscured as though by clouds and mist sat coiled in front of him. The light around it seemed to have fallen into silence.
Profound,
mysterious!
Even without seeing it with his own eyes, merely Perceiving the Aura around him allowed him to sense an immensity vast as the ocean, as boundless and endless as the starry sky of the universe!
At that moment,
he perceived a gaze that seemed to descend from beyond the nine heavens upon him.
It made him feel as though there was not the slightest concealment,
as if every secret in the depths of his heart had been seen through.
Zhang Qingyuan remained perfectly still.
Before such an existence,
even Daoist Ming Shui, his cheap master at the Cave True Level whom Zhang Qingyuan had faced before, was far inferior by comparison!
Though he did not know what realm the other party was in,