Ye Lin caught a faint scent of blood lingering in the air. It seemed Yin Wuxie had left it behind—he must have been injured while gathering these Meteor Star Stones.
Otherwise, he could not possibly have taken only a little.
Just as Ye Lin remained fully on guard against these disgusting creatures, he noticed something strange: they bore not the slightest hostility toward him.
To confirm it once more, Ye Lin deliberately approached one of the disgusting creatures. Not only did it not harm him, it instead kept far away from him.
It had no intention of attacking whatsoever.
Seeing such a strange phenomenon, Ye Lin turned his gaze toward the mysterious stone at his waist. The most likely culprit behind this was the mysterious stone hanging from his waist.
"These creatures seem to loathe this stone. And both this stone and these creatures came from beyond the heavens. So what exactly is out there beyond the heavens?"
At that moment, Ye Lin sank into thought.
What exactly lay beyond the heavens? He had once investigated this world. Above the sky, there were nine layers of clouds in total, and the layer visible to the eye was the first.
As long as one was in the Golden Core Realm, one could reach this layer. But to reach the second layer, one needed to be a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator.
And with his current strength, he could only step into the fifth layer. Above that, there were immensely powerful gale winds, making it impossible to advance any farther.
By that calculation, to set foot beyond the heavens with one's own cultivation, one had to at least be an Earth Immortal.
And now there was the matter of the Ascension Gate. Beyond it lay the land beyond the heavens—or the mysterious Immortal