Chapter 989: The One Who Fled in Defeat Wasn't Me
Bi Fan studied the area with equal puzzlement. It certainly didn't look like a mountain range; it was more like a primeval forest that no one had set foot in for many years.
Feng Xuanzhi explained, "Spirit Tablet Mountain is the name of a mountain. It lies somewhere in this forest. It got its name because an unparalleled expert once passed away here."
"An unparalleled expert?" Bi Fan's eyes lit up. "What realm?"
Ling Xiaoxiao folded her hands in front of her and answered unhurriedly, "He was at the Emperor Realm back then. Judged by today's standards, he should have been an existence beyond the Wuji God Realm."
"Beyond the Wuji God Realm?" Jin Shanshan and the others stared at her in a daze. "Weren't we told that the Wuji God Realm was the highest cultivation realm? How could there be anything beyond it?"
"Who told you the Wuji God Realm was the highest realm?" She raised an eyebrow and shot back.
"Well..." Jin Shanshan paused. "Isn't that because the cultivation ranks stop at the Wuji God Realm? Could there really be something higher?"
"There is." She lowered her eyes, her voice sinking. "There is. Feng Niang once said she felt her cultivation hadn't truly reached its limit. There must be a higher level beyond the Wuji God Realm!"
Everyone froze, a glimmer of fervor flashing in every pair of eyes.
Every person present was a cultivator of astonishing talent and brilliance. None of them could help yearning for the power of a higher realm.
It was just that, for them now, that level was still painfully far out of reach.
Bi Fan drew a deep breath, steadied himself, then asked curiously, "Did that unparalleled expert pass away beneath Spirit