"Could there be a hidden grotto-heaven? If I hadn't mastered a means of probing the void and happened to place a test Waymarker there, I really would never have noticed it!"
He could find nothing in the physical world, and he had ruled out interference from mighty cultivators at Core Formation or above. The most likely explanation he had previously conjectured was now all but confirmed.
Li Chen suspected that the unknown grotto-heaven might have existed for a very long time. The vague rumors that had circulated back then, claiming that an Immortal Cave Abode or an Immortal Mountain blessed land lay here, were closely connected to it.
However, the Golden Sun Gate members who had come to investigate back then had lacked the resources to search the entire region. Guided primarily by the root veins of spiritual energy, they had considered their mission complete after discovering Broad Cloud Peak and happily returned to report their success.
Had they continued investigating, they would probably have discovered Heavenly Dragon Peak and the spirit peak root vein beneath Sufang City as well.
But searching far and wide cost time and money. No one with nothing better to do would decide to dig for treasure and spontaneously thrust a shovel into the ground beneath their feet.
There had to be circulating information, or guidance from geomancy or divination, to give them a basis for doing so.
Even the Mei Family of the Everflow Merchants' Association had abandoned the search after spending over a hundred million, choosing instead to concentrate on developing Heavenly Dragon Peak. Ordinary people were even less likely to uncover it.
Li Chen's discovery of the anomaly this time could be called an inevitability hidden within chance. Having already mastered the relevant Cosmic Dao techniques, he had used multiple sets of