After hearing Lian Yue's words, everyone was stunned. Then their expressions turned grave. They knew what it would mean if the Phoenix Soul Fruit had really hidden inside a space built by the Outer Realm Cultivators, just as Lian Yue had said. They also had no doubts that the Phoenix Soul Fruit could do such a thing.
It made sense. The Enlightenment Sacred Tree could come and go freely within You Hun Realm, so the Phoenix Soul Fruit could do the same—even inside a space built by those Outer Realm Cultivators.
The space built by the Outer Realm Cultivators was quite unusual. It had already fused with the Small World inside Beast Soul Valley, and that Small World had in turn fused with the entire God Realm. In other words, attacking that space meant attacking the God Realm. According to the Young Leader, even he couldn't break through it. Though a dozen or even several dozen Quasi-Sage experts working together could destroy that space, doing so would also destroy the Small World inside Beast Soul Valley.
Destroying the Small World inside Beast Soul Valley would also destroy the Phoenix Soul Fruit. That was something the people of the God Realm didn't want to see.
It made sense. The Phoenix Soul Fruit was far too precious for them to let it be destroyed. That meant they couldn't attack the dimensional space together, and without attacking it, they had no way to deal with the Phoenix Soul Fruit hiding inside. It was a dead end—in other words, the people of the God Realm had no chance of capturing the Phoenix Soul Fruit.
That possibility was exactly why Ling Tian and the others looked so grave.
"Damn it. If the Phoenix Soul Fruit really is hidden inside a space built by the Outer