Barren Heart Island was roughly the same size as Skycloud Island, which the Ye Family had once controlled. Among islands, it was by no means small.
It also had a fourth-tier, mid-grade spirit vein, so quite a few spirit herbs grew on the island.
Most of those herbs, however, were only first or second tier. Very few were third tier or higher.
Through the Soul Pact, Ye Jingcheng knew that all the spirit herbs of third tier and above had ended up in the bellies of the Golden Light Cranes.
The dozen or so nearby islands had suffered the same fate. Only young spirit herb seedlings had escaped disaster.
Thus, by the time Li Shangwu reached the center of the island, he was already trembling with apprehension.
He had teleported over with Ye Jingcheng and had remained beside the teleportation array with Ye Xuefan and Ye Xuecang upon arrival. Only now, after receiving a voice transmission, had he come to Barren Heart Island.
Along the way, he had also noticed that there seemed to be no high-tier spirit herbs on the surrounding islands.
With such a result, never mind the Ye Family—the Li Family themselves might be dissatisfied.
Thus, as soon as he arrived, he took out a jade slip.
"Senior Ye, this is the only jade slip we obtained. We also found that teleportation array while exploring a secret realm. It was that very realm that gave our Li Family the chance to become a Golden Core lineage, and only afterward did we receive the Taiyi Sect's patronage." Li Shangwu dared not conceal anything.
He actually had no idea where the fourth-tier secret realm was.
The Cultivation World contained many hidden secret realms, and every few decades, new secret realms or small worlds would be discovered.
Some of these