Bad thoughts circled endlessly in his mind, making him increasingly anxious.
At the very least, after spreading out his divine soul, he could not find any sign of living people. The familiar figures from the past—Feng Xuewu of the Feng family, Zhang Yingruo of the Zhang family, and Gu Mingyue, whom he missed—were all beyond the range of his divine soul.
There were only three possibilities.
First, the people of the Great Wilderness had already been slaughtered clean by the demon beasts. Naturally, he would find no one.
Second, the people he sought truly lay outside the range covered by his divine soul, in another direction.
Third, all these people had been captured by the demon beasts. Their true qi had been completely sealed, their auras unable to leak out. Combined with restrictions such as formations and prohibitions, his broad divine soul coverage could not immediately locate them. Only a careful search might uncover them.
Almost subconsciously, Yang Chen believed that everyone in the Great Wilderness was already dead. After all, the Jin Family's fate made it impossible for him not to think in the worst direction.
Yet he would not give up even the slightest shred of hope.
What if the people in the Great Wilderness were not dead, but merely under control?
Thinking of this, Yang Chen could not help growing tense. He wanted to try, to carefully spread out his divine soul and search every inch of the area. Even if there was only the faintest hope, he wanted to seize it.
Thus, his divine soul spread forth, advancing inch by inch, searching inch by inch. It was an exceedingly exhausting task, yet Yang Chen had no choice but to do it.
Heaven did not disappoint those with determination. After half a day of searching, Yang Chen's