Beneath the soft glow, everyone recounted their experiences one by one.
Most of them had been scattered apart, though some had happened to gather together. Phantom Shadow and Shuixian, for instance, had entered the same Stronghold, while Su Wan and Chong Yue had been acting together all along.
However, they had all remained active only around the outskirts of the battlefield. Though they had sensed the changes at the center of their respective battlefields, they did not know the specifics. Over the past few days, they had all been in seclusion, striving to break into the Dao Realm, and had rarely left their places of cultivation.
Once everyone had finished, Lu Ye began recounting what had happened on his side. To avoid sounding too earth-shattering, he selected only what could be said and concealed the parts that could not.
After a moment, Purple Extreme nodded slightly. "It seems it was just as I thought."
"What did Fellow Daoist Purple Extreme notice?" Chong Yue asked.
Purple Extreme said, "When we were first captured by the Ghost Sedan, everyone assumed it would take us to the Star Abyss. Yet in truth, it sent us to the Mechanical Armor Starry Sky instead. That was truly perplexing."
Though he and Purple Extreme were not exactly on good terms, this question was also something Lu Ye had been unable to understand.
Why had the Ghost Sedan not sent them to the Star Abyss at first, only to bring them here the second time?
"Also, according to what you all just said, abnormalities appeared across the various battlefields at almost the same time, and then the Ghost Sedan appeared and gathered the eight of us." Purple Extreme spoke slowly, his voice low. "Furthermore, the abnormalities on those battlefields should have been caused by the expansion of