They had reaped a bountiful harvest along the way: Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Yellow Bamboo, swarms of Profound Yellow Earth-Vein Serpents, and even a rare mutated exotic insect.
Such heavenly treasures and rare exotic insects were things ordinary cultivators might never encounter in their entire lives.
Yet Xu Changqing felt little relief. Instead, his heart grew increasingly heavy.
What he truly wanted to find was that enormous human face, the sign of either the Lord of Binding's awakening or the Defiled-Earth God's reincarnation. Yet it had never appeared from beginning to end.
One had to know that the depth where Nü Tu and Qiansui currently stood was already a forbidden zone of the Dongting Immortal Sect. Even the sect's upper echelon rarely set foot here.
By all reason, if the Lord of Binding truly had stirred, or if the Defiled-Earth God had truly reincarnated, there should have been traces to follow at such a depth.
But now, aside from the strange gigantic flower bud, the densely packed Earth Qi condensation points, and these heavenly treasures and exotic insects, there were no other abnormalities.
Xu Changqing muttered inwardly, If it is neither the Lord of Binding awakening nor the Defiled-Earth God reincarnating, then what exactly is the hidden danger beneath the Dongting Immortal Sect?
Such frequent disturbances in the Earth Vein could not possibly have appeared out of thin air.
Though that gigantic flower bud was strange, it might not have been capable of stirring the entire Earth Vein by itself.
After pondering for a moment, Xu Changqing spoke through Xu Qiansui's mouth. "Nü Tu, you were formed from an Earth Spirit Root and are the most sensitive to Earth Qi.
"During this journey deep into the Earth Vein, aside from the Mysterious Yellow Bamboo and the Earth-Vein Teng, have you sensed any