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After waiting a while longer, Chen Lin let out a long sigh. Still no one had emerged.

It seemed neither of them was coming out.

This was the outcome he had least wanted to see, but there was nothing he could do. Worse, he now had no way to tell whether the task ahead had grown harder. He would have to think carefully before trying to use that place as a passage back to the Southern Star Realm.

Chen Lin stared at the Node for a moment, then looked away.

He did not know what had happened inside and dared not enter recklessly to investigate. He told Hua Ruyu to keep watch there, then took Grass off the Spirit Boat to explore the surrounding waters in case any powerful Yaoguai were lurking nearby.

With their Cultivation no longer suppressed, the two of them explored quickly.

They widened their search in successive circles. They sensed no Yaoguai, but found a reef a hundred li away.

Chen Lin descended beneath the sea and placed several Magical Tools for marking their location at different depths. He also hollowed out a small space inside the reef and set up a disposable Teleportation Array Disk.

According to Gou Yushan, the vast majority of the Spirit Demon Realm was ocean. Only one or two places could be called land; the rest were islands of various sizes.

With a sea this vast, it would be difficult to find their way back once they left without something to mark the location.

Next, he and Grass found several more reefs and even a tiny island. After marking them all, they returned to the Spirit Boat.

"Hm?"

Not long after returning to the Spirit Boat, Chen Lin sensed something and looked toward the Node.

Ripples spread across it in wave