After Piao Ling agreed to go to the North Profound Realm with Fairy Meng Shang and the others, Su Ying and the other girls were overjoyed. The sisters chatted and laughed together, making a lovely sight amid the tense construction of their stronghold.
For now, let us set aside the strongholds being built in the North Profound Realm and the various Eastern Lands realms, and turn to Lei Zhan and the others.
When the two-thousand-year limit was up, the members of the Heaven, Earth, and Yellow Alliances emerged from the secret realm as well. Si Kong Xuan and the others looked at one another, all wearing puzzled expressions. Holding the Nine-Colored Jade Slip, Illusion Dream Fairy murmured, "Those people with Ling Tian actually didn't go collect the Yin Yang Bagua Plate. Could it be that they also figured out that collecting it would cause the Lord of the Universe to announce their location? To avoid exposing their whereabouts, did he decide not to claim the Bagua Plate?"
Long ago, Si Kong Xuan and the others had deduced that collecting the Yin Yang Bagua Plate would reveal their location. They had deliberately refrained from collecting it so that once Ling Tian and the others did, they would be able to learn where they were.
"Maybe that fellow Ling Tian can't bear to give up the chance to cultivate in the secret realm, and plans to go to the center of the Primordial Battlefield after the realm closes," Bai Lu said. "Let's wait a little longer. We should have an answer within a few dozen or a hundred years."
"Exactly. The realms in the North Profound Realm are extremely impoverished. They wouldn't give up a treasure as precious as the Yin Yang Bagua Plate," Tan Tai Chang Feng said, his expression certain.