Originally, Huo Hai truly had not wanted to enter the southeast. He understood it himself—once he entered, both the Giantwood Sect's Mu Family and Azure Sky Palace would be searching for him. Now that Azure Sky Palace had fully intervened, things would definitely become very troublesome.
Although Huo Hai had yet to reach the Twelfth-Heaven Spirit Venerable, as long as no Spirit Saint made a move, no one could do anything to him. More importantly, he had reasons he had no choice but to go to the Southeastern Region. First of all, the Southeastern Region was under the Giantwood Sect's control, and its environment was exceptionally suitable for growing Spirit Medicine. Other than the Central Region, only the Southeastern Region had the greatest quantity of Spirit Medicine.
If he wanted to find the Spirit Medicine needed to refine Heaven-Seizing Pills in the future and improve his own laws, Huo Hai could only go to the Southeastern Region. He was unfamiliar with the other regions. If he rashly searched for Spirit Medicine there, he had no idea whether he would find any—or offend even more people.
Besides, he was most familiar with the Southeastern Region. If Huo Hai wanted to find Spirit Marrow, he also had to search through these places in the Southeastern Region. Especially those dangerous areas he had not dared enter before—now, he would not need to waste time investigating them.
Huo Hai himself knew of places where he would definitely obtain quite a bit of Spirit Marrow on this trip. Of course, those two reasons alone were not enough to make him risk sneaking into the Southeastern Region. There was another reason: the special ruin he had discovered back then. That ruin was filled with flame power, and his strength at the time had been insufficient to