Over the course of that month, the Black Lotus Secret Realm had remained far from peaceful elsewhere as well.
After the prodigies from every side flooded into the secret realm, they searched everywhere for opportunities and treasures. Though each gained something, not a single person found a Heaven-Opening Lotus Seed.
The enormous phantom of the black lotus continued to float in the sky like an unreachable moon. No matter how everyone chased after it, they could not touch it.
Some began to suspect that the black lotus phantom was not the true Heaven-Opening Black Lotus at all.
Others secretly began searching for even more hidden corners of the secret realm.
But no one expected that, within Mistveil Gorge, someone had already obtained a Heaven-Opening Lotus Seed ahead of everyone else and was on the verge of completing a breakthrough.
Yet on this morning, two uninvited guests suddenly appeared outside Mistveil Gorge.
Primeval Devil Saint wore a purple robe and stood outside the gorge with his hands behind his back. His violet eyes shone with an absolute certainty of victory.
Heaven Sin stood beside him, holding a palm-sized Black Lotus Jade Disk in his hand.
The jade disk had been carved entirely from pitch-black jade, shaped like a lotus blossom. Eerie, frigid light flowed across its surface, while a hair-thin needle at its center pointed straight into the depths of Mistveil Gorge, trembling faintly.
"Primeval Devil Saint, it's here!"
Heaven Sin stared feverishly at the jade disk, his voice brimming with excitement. "This rare treasure was refined from a lotus petal of the Heaven-Opening Black Lotus. It can sense the location of Heaven-Opening Lotus Seeds and cannot possibly be wrong. There is definitely a Heaven-Opening Lotus Seed inside Mistveil Gorge!"
The corner of Primeval Devil Saint's mouth rose slightly as he