Chen Lin fell silent for a moment after hearing Jin Wanshan's request.
Then he sighed softly.
"Passing along a message is no problem, but it depends on whether I get the chance. I can barely protect myself. I don't even know whether I'll survive after getting out."
With that said,
he looked at the other man and asked, "We've known each other for quite a while, but I still don't know where you're from, Brother Jin. Is it the boundary realm corresponding to the Star Ruins?"
"The Star Ruins?"
Jin Wanshan shook his head.
"The so-called Star Ruins should be the space formed after the Exquisite Sect's destruction, right? I'm not from there. I come from a place called the Long Spike Star Domain."
Chen Lin immediately grew interested.
"Could you tell me about the situation there?"
Since it wasn't the cultivation world corresponding to the Star Ruins, it had to be beyond the so-called sky rift. He wondered whether it fell under the same Heavenly Dao.
"What's there to tell?"
Jin Wanshan took a sip of wine.
"Cultivation worlds are all much the same, really. The only differences are the forms life takes and the cultivation systems. The law of the strong devouring the weak never changes."
"What about the Heavenly Dao?"
Chen Lin immediately pressed him.
"What's the Heavenly Dao like where you're from? And what about the ascension trial? Do the cultivators there participate?"
"Of course we participate in the ascension trial."
Jin Wanshan took another sip of wine and smacked his lips.
"It's Outer Heaven's selection tournament. No cultivation region can stay out of it."
"However,"
"since Outer Heaven's Sovereign Lord disappeared, its control over the various domains has weakened. Quite a few major factions and super experts have ways to exempt themselves from the rules'