Something was strange!
Concealing his tracks, Li Su moved forward silently. After traveling roughly five hundred li, he had already entered deep into the Taotie Scripture's range of activity.
He had originally planned to observe the area and gather intelligence, especially on the nearby points where the "aftershocks" intensified or weakened.
Instead, he was surprised to discover that there were quite a lot of people here. It was not only the top sects from the various provinces—there were also plenty of small and mid-sized sects from Li Province, as well as independent cultivators. Along the way, he had spotted quite a few.
What puzzled Li Su was that they were all heading almost straight toward the depths. On his way here, he had encountered no shortage of people.
Counting them up, there were nearly two hundred.
That greatly surprised Li Su. After all, only a little over a thousand people had entered the entire secret realm. Given the terrifying size of the realm, encountering even one person within a thousand-li radius would already be quite fortunate. Most of the time, one might not meet anyone even after traveling two or three thousand li. It was like releasing a thousand fish fry into a vast ocean. If not for the broad range of movement available to Golden Core cultivators, it would be perfectly normal to go an entire lifetime without encountering another person.
The number of people was already rather strange.
What were the small and mid-sized sects and those independent cultivators doing here? Even Yin Spirit great medicines were incomparably troublesome for them, let alone a scripture even more formidable than a Yang Spirit great medicine.
Were they merely here to watch the excitement? That was even harder to understand.
Disciples of top sects were not monkeys for people to