The matter of the realm passage ultimately came to nothing. No one knew where the four missing Great Ascension cultivators had gone. The only thing certain was that all four of them were still alive.
As for the imperial family, they had not appeared again since the incident. Some guessed that they were planning something in secret, but no one knew exactly what they were doing.
Lin Chuan, however, knew some of the details. Zhongchuan Jin had already relayed the imperial family's movements to him through a secret technique. Yet after reading the intelligence, Lin Chuan merely laughed it off, because they were planning to secretly activate an ancient teleportation array and head to the West Creek Continent to find the [Akatsuki] organization.
"Hmph, go ahead. Even if you turn the West Creek Continent upside down, you still won't find us!" Lin Chuan sneered.
Compared to the imperial family's petty schemes in the shadows, Lin Chuan had more important matters to attend to—continuing to expand his space.
Because it required an enormous amount of spiritual energy to sustain it, Lin Chuan needed the power of the continent's companion divine beasts if he wanted to develop his other spaces. Relatively speaking, the Jade Butterfly of the West Creek Continent had already done him quite a favor. Now, he could use the White Lotus's power to improve his own strength.
Within the abyss corridor of the forbidden region in the Land of Wood, Lin Chuan silently appeared in midair. A spatial black hole slowly opened behind him like a gaping maw, beginning to devour the surrounding spiritual energy.
Since he did not want to make too much of a commotion and be discovered, Lin Chuan controlled the rate at which the spiritual energy flowed in this time, keeping it relatively steady. Although