They had never imagined that Xiao Bai harbored such a world-shaking secret.
"A higher-dimensional world?"
Wan Jianyi looked at her, his eyes filled with confusion.
"What kind of place is that?"
"I don't know."
Xiao Bai looked at him and slowly shook her head.
"My bloodline memories are incomplete."
"I only know that it is a sacred land countless times more powerful than our world."
"Our ancestors were merely the lowliest race of divine envoys there."
"They were responsible for relaying information to the Heavenly Emperor and guarding the spatial nodes that connected different worlds."
Her words were filled with reverence.
Li Xiaoyu and the others were shaken to their core upon hearing this.
They had never imagined that beyond the world they knew, there existed such an unimaginable higher-dimensional world.
Still less had they imagined that the Heavenly Emperor, whom they had once revered so deeply, was actually one of the supreme powers from that world.
"Then Kunlun..."
Li Xiaoyu looked at her, hope flashing in his eyes.
"Do you know where it actually is?"
"I don't know."
Xiao Bai looked at him and shook her head again.
"My bloodline memories contain no record of Kunlun's exact location."
"I only know that it is a demi-plane independent of our world."
"A sacred land that only those acknowledged by the Heavenly Emperor may enter."
Li Xiaoyu turned his gaze once more to the enormous star map in midair, formed from light and runes.
"This star map is our only clue to finding Kunlun."
"As long as we can fully decipher it, we will surely find the path to that sacred land."
Once again, they pushed their Cultivation to the limit and immersed their minds in deciphering the vast star map.
Time slowly passed amid the suffocating wait.
One day, two