Star Abyss.
At True Person Qingyuan's words, the expressions of those present shifted subtly.
Dugu Yan was the first to land on a platform at the foot of an Inverted Mountain ahead.
She looked around, making sure she sensed no other cultivators nearby.
Only then did she give True Person Qingyuan a slight nod.
He understood and reached out, tapping a finger forward.
Several formation patterns spread silently, enclosing the platform where the five of them stood.
Once the barrier was in place, True Person Qingyuan turned around.
The calm on his face, once as still as an ancient well, had vanished. In its place was a rare gravity.
"Everyone, I used the Star Orbit to examine the flow of spiritual energy within Star Abyss just now and discovered something rather strange."
He held the dark-gold, eight-pointed Star Orbit in his palm. Pointing with his other hand at the bead of light trembling incessantly in its center, he said, "The spiritual energy inside Star Abyss is far more active than it was on my previous visits. Its activity has already gone well beyond the normal range."
He paused, his gaze passing over the others.
"I've entered Star Abyss several times. The most recent was fifty-three years ago. The spiritual energy fluctuated then too, but only slightly. Now, however—"
True Person Qingyuan did not finish, but his unspoken meaning was clear enough.
A thought stirred in Ji Yuan's mind. He quietly circulated his cultivation technique and spread out his Divine Sense, which had reached the Spirit Transformation Middle Stage.
Sure enough, the spiritual energy here was extraordinarily active.
If True Person Qingyuan had not pointed it out, Ji Yuan might even have assumed the spiritual energy here was always this active.
Ji Yuan withdrew his senses. His face betrayed nothing, but