Since you could not yet determine when the next qi surge would occur, you did not intend to simply wait after arriving in the Xing Qi Great Mountain Region.
Although setting out to find the others hidden within the Xing Qi Great Mountain Region seemed like a good plan as well, you chose another method instead: using Ye Chen as bait while refining the two Time Soul Pearls in your possession.
You would have to refine them sooner or later. Doing so now made exquisite use of your time without affecting your efforts to lure others out.
Of course, there was another reason. The two people you had killed were no ordinary figures, and you were quite interested in what useful information you might obtain from them.
In the 1,638,197th year, your forty-sixth year in the Time Ancestral Land, four years passed, yet you had not finished refining even one Time Soul Pearl. During this time, although Ye Chen had behaved rather brazenly, he unexpectedly suffered no attacks.
Perhaps those hiding in the shadows were exceedingly cautious, or perhaps everyone in the area where you were staying happened to be too busy to care about Ye Chen. This left you somewhat disappointed.
After four years, however, you finally welcomed your first "qi surge" in the Xing Qi Great Mountain Region. Though it was a small-scale qi surge, it still showed you why the Xing Qi Great Mountain Region was so renowned.
During the two months of the qi surge, even if you had no intention of gathering the unknown qi that shot up from the mountain peaks, you still felt refreshed and clear-eyed. If you engaged in comprehension in this state, whatever you did would yield twice the result with half the effort, far better than taking Comprehension Pills of