No one knew whether the two really had business to attend to or were deliberately waiting for Huo Hai, but they actually stopped and started all along the way. A journey that was not particularly far took them a full week.
Given their speed, they should have reached this distance in at most a day. Huo Hai no longer knew what to say. Hidden by Little Butterfly, he used the Core-Embracing Art to conceal his aura while continuously drawing on the Starstone Wall to deduce all kinds of knowledge concerning Spirit Formations, steadily perfecting himself.
The more one studied Spirit Formations, the more one discovered their extraordinary mysteries. Especially after gaining control over Laws and gradually integrating Law Patterns into the Spirit Formations themselves, Huo Hai discovered even more marvelous aspects.
Unfortunately, Huo Hai was only a Spirit Saint. He had merely grasped the Laws and could not understand their true essence. Thus, he could only work on the surface, but fortunately, this still allowed him to master Spirit Formations more quickly.
A week later, the two finally arrived at the place they had come for. "I didn't expect there to be no one here. Hmm, there seem to be traces of battle. They were cleaned up very thoroughly, but for them to appear here is highly unreasonable." Huo Hai sensed the area. The battle traces seemed to have been left long ago.
Yet these traces were extremely chaotic. Such marks could appear in many places, but chaos on this scale seemed possible only on some vast ancient battlefields. Something was wrong here.
After thinking for a moment, Huo Hai understood. Someone had probably discovered this passage before, and after those people came here, they were killed by the Ironwood Sect. Perhaps even the Giantwood Sect had acted. The traces