Even San San, who had "seen it all," found Eldest Senior Brother's idea astonishing. He wanted to change the very form of power in a world without Spiritual Energy and cultivate Spiritual Energy from nothing.
Ye Chuqi had no idea what Eldest Senior Brother had done or how far he had gotten. Judging by the way power worked in this world now, though, he had not succeeded. At least, in all her time here, she had never sensed any Spiritual Energy.
Even the shells were merely the result of years of exposure. Whatever had changed in them had not reached the point of altering the nature of power itself.
Ye Chuqi suddenly thought of the people from Kabu Continent. They called the strange power they possessed "Spiritual Power." Was that connected to Eldest Senior Brother? Perhaps they had learned of his experiments on Demon Beasts but never obtained the right method. Without true Spiritual Power as a foundation, they could not grasp its mysteries. Of course their efforts had led to something bizarre.
The Lu Family's origins were inextricably tied to Eldest Senior Brother. That meant Kabu Continent's strange cultivation methods were surely tied to the Lu Family as well.
Ye Chuqi had left the matter of the Lost Forest to Ye Qinglan while she dealt with her studies and graduation assessment. She had only heard occasional updates from him. After they left the Lost Forest, they had lost all trace of the people from Kabu Continent. It was as if their encounter at the forest's edge had been an illusion, as if those Formations had nothing to do with them. Every lead had gone cold.
Ye Qinglan had kept investigating the "city" underground, committing enormous time and manpower to it. In the end, he confirmed that a city did